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Ken and I had a movie weekend this weekend.

It was a lot of fun! Saturday night we went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince — it was a great movie especially if you’re a Harry Potter fan (and we are). We went out to eat beforehand, so didn’t have any popcorn at the movies.

We tried out a new to us restaurant in Belton — Jake’s. Where they had all-you-can-eat fried flounder. It was OK, and we’ll probably go back sometime.

Sunday afternoon we went to see Ice Age 3 — didn’t get to see it in 3D as the theater didn’t offer it, but it was still a really cute movie.

Had a couple of those moments in it where you end up snorting coke everywhere — Ken shushes me when I have those as I have a tendency to belly laugh pretty loud and long…well…it’s funny! You’re supposed to laugh!

This coming weekend is the Greenville dog shows. Big majors in Whippets, so keep your fingers crossed that Ken gets a piece of that action. Nikki needs one more major on her quest for championship and Oscar needs both of his. Winning all 3 days would finish Nikki and get Oscar within one point of finishing.

Might as well dream big, right?

My new boss started today. I’ve met him and we talked briefly, but that’s been the sum total of my contact with him so far.

Guess I should get back to work.

Love to all,

Margaret

Nothing much is on tap for this weekend for us. I’m taking the rescue dog to the Vet Saturday to be checked out – you’ll get the update on that. Other than that, just laundry, taking trash to the dump and all the normal weekend tasks are on the slate.

I need to do toenails and groom Payne and Snoball — I’m afraid I’ve let those get way behind. The toenails shouldn’t take too long to do and I don’t think Snoball is that bad, but Ms. Payne needs a make over.

The weather has been tolerable this past week – in the high 70’s and low 80’s which has been quite pleasant. We’ve had some rain in the late afternoons but no thunderstorms (thank goodness!). Maybe I’ll even find some time to weed my garden…..any bets?

Maybe I’ll get some more reading done — I still have 3 or 4 books to read.

I will be moving my office sometime next week. I’m glad I don’t have much stuff to move. Since we’re getting a real head of IT, they are allocating us some real office space and all 4 of us will actually be close to each other instead of spread out through the building. The new guy starts on the 20th.

That’s about it for now.

Well, I guess I had best go. Have a great weekend and don’t do anything I wouldn’t.

Love to all,

Margaret

Well, I hope you had a great weekend — Ken and I didn’t do much of anything.

Friday of course we had THE LIST of stuff to do. We began by taking Sabrina to the vet to have her staples out, then grabbed a bite to eat and headed for Georgia to pick up Butterfly. Came home, dropped Sabrina and Butterfly off at the house, then headed to Greenwood to run a couple of errands. When we got back home, we discovered that while we were gone someone had gotten into a fight and Aurora had a bite on her head. I gave her an antibiotic and some pain meds, cleaned out the wound and proceeded to feed everyone. She ate, but I kept her crated for the night. By morning her poor head was terribly swollen, so a trip to the vet was in order. He gave me some higher potency antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory. By morning, the swelling was almost gone and she was acting pretty normal.

Sunday we went to see UP — a movie by Pixar animation. It was OK, but I was a little disappointed in it.

Monday was back to work and it was a nice quiet day for a change. My current boss did come by and tell us that we are getting a new boss starting 7/20. I just happen to have met this man and he’s nice, so I have no problems with getting a new boss. Perhaps now I’ll get timely reviews and pay raises — it’s only been 3 years since my last one.

Ken’s worked overtime the last couple of days and emailed me that he’ll be working this Friday as well as next Friday — guess that means the moratorium on overtime is suspended for now. I know he’s happy, but I was getting used to him being home at regular hours and having quality time with him on the weekends. Oh well….that’s life.

The little rescue girl seems to have a vision problem. I’m waiting on permission from the WRAP board to have her taken to a specialist if my regular vet says she should go. I am thinking though that she has PRA which is an inheirited disorder for which there is no cure. If she does have it, she’ll eventually go blind. I know that sounds terrible, but my previous experience with blind dogs is that being blind isn’t so terrible for a dog. They have such great senses of smell and hearing that they manage pretty well without sight as long as you don’t move the furniture too often on them. For now she sees well enough.

Well, I guess I should close this out and get back to work.

Take care!

Love to all,

Margaret

Well, I’ve been terribly remiss in posting this week, so will undoubtedly hear about it from Ma. Sorry Ma!

We took Butterfly to Commerce, GA last Sunday to meet with the owner of the dog she will be mated with. I had the report last night that a successful mating was achieved and we will pick her up either tomorrow or Saturday to await the arrival of the babies. We’re so excited over this breeding! It’s the first litter in nearly 5 years (believe it or not!). Puppies are due 9/2/2009.

We also took in a rescue Whippet last Sunday. She’s a cute little thing who has some separation anxiety which we are working on giving her the tools to overcome. She’s coming along as she’s a pretty smart little cookie. I don’t think she’ll be very hard to place. I have to get her spayed, so she’ll be with us for awhile.

There’s a new photo up over at the Travelin’ Show — caught some Green Anoles in the act! Very steamy photo even if I do say so myself. Finally had a Blue Grosbeak show up at the feeders this week — it’s really late for them to show up I think. They’ve usually already hatched out at least one clutch of eggs and should be working on another clutch as the books say they have 2 or 3 clutches per breeding season. They are such pretty birds!

No shows until the week of the 24th, so nothing to report on that front.

We don’t have much planned for the weekend. The weatherman is calling for thunderstorms, so we will probably stay close to home.

Whatever you do this weekend, take care!

Love to all,

Margaret