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Tomorrow is the first day of fall. All I can say is goodbye summer! Although I”m not exactly looking forward to winter, I am not unhappy that the heat of summer is behind me. As I age, heat becomes more and more a factor in my personal comfort.

Evidently my air conditioner thermostat wants to work with me in that respect. Lately, the air has been running pretty hard and our bedroom for example is quite cold. Ken thinks the thermostat is on the blink. If it weren’t for the high light bill, I wouldn’t mind quite so much, but it was pretty tough to swallow this month.

Started the puppies on raw food yesterday. They took to it like little ducks to water! It was amazing to see them get all excited and root around in the puppy pan for their portion. We didn’t give them much as Butterfly is still feeding them WELL and they are little chunks! Then when it was time for Mama to eat, they were trying to take the food out of her mouth 😆 — that was truly a sight to see!

Had some deer in the front yard the other night and there was a buck with the female and her two fawns. He had the weirdest horns I’ve ever seen. They looked more like what you would see on an Antelope as there were no branches to them. They were at least 2′ long, too. I’ve certainly seen young bucks with no branches on their horns but not one with horns this long. Unfortunately my photos are blurry although you can see what I’m talking about well enough in them.

We did not much of anything this weekend – it was rainy and just a good weekend to get in some down time. I know I needed it and think Ken did too. The dummy played golf in the rain Friday — at least he limited it to 9 holes, but still…

I got to play Farm Town enough to advance to the next level, so I’m at level 33 on the one farm and 32 on the other farm. I advanced on one of the Farmville farms too. — I know what a waste of time!

Didn’t hear from Eddie this weekend or either of the Norkett boys, so figure most things should be OK with them.

No calls from work this weekend either.

Quiet

Peace

Ahhhh

I cannot believe how quickly this year is going by! Guess that’s one of the “benefits” of getting older….hmmm

The Kennel club had an event last weekend for Responsible Dog Owner day. Last year’s was a huge success and we were awarded a $1000 from AKC for it. This year was dismal. We did all the right “stuff” as far as preparation and getting people to do demos and set up/tear down, but we were asked to have it in conjunction with an event the Parks and Recreation was having at the water park called “Waggin’ at the Water Park” and they put us on this soccer field that was above and behind the water park. We had maybe a dozen people come up the hill to see what was going on.  Needless to say we didn’t get much of our message out. I hope next year we elect to do another stand-alone event.

This weekend is the Southern Specialty in Atlanta. This is the first year in many that we aren’t going. But I understand. Nikki isn’t mature enough looking and Oscar just doesn’t have what it takes, so Ken didn’t want to go. Maybe next year when Butterfly’s puppies will be ready to make their mark on the world.

Next weekend are back-to-back matches in Greer put on by  the Clemson Kennel Club and Greenville Kennel Clubs. I’ve been asked to judge at both matches, so will be busy all day. I asked Ken to come, but don’t know if he will or not.

Other than that there’s nothing going on for us. We’re just kind of hanging around the house when we’re not working. I guess we need the down time.

Speaking of down time, I have the next couple of weeks “off” from school. I finished this last class (Public Speaking) with a 97.3 average, so my 4.0 overall average is still going strong. Next class up is Business. Only 8 more classes before I graduate with my Associates of Science degree. That will be in March of next year.Then it will be another year before I have qualified for the BS degree. — I should be a champion already of BS, but there you go…….

Gotta run! Love to all

Margaret

Ma reminded me yesterday that I haven’t written anything in this blog for some time now.

I’ve no excuses for that. Just seem to have all my free time sucked up by other things right now. Still, I need to keep this updated regularly, so will endeavor to make time for it.

Ken woke up yesterday all stuffed up and by last night was feeling pretty rough. I did convince him to take some over-the-counter remedy which enabled him to sleep last night but he wasn’t feeling much better this morning.

Eddie’s doing well and is making positive moves to leave the Navy by next year. I know lots of other people who would be sitting back and bewailing their fate, but he’s making me very proud by turning the lemons into lemonade and very tasty lemonade at that! Good job, son!

I got a nice little surprise in the mail yesterday — from South University which is the online college I’m taking courses through. I was chosen to be on the Spring 2009 Dean’s list which means I had a 3.5 or better GPA. Not too shabby for an almost senior citizen 😛  As the Brits would say, I’m quite chuffed.

I posted a status to Facebook yesterday that I was sure would bring my sister out of lurk mode, but failed miserably at that. Even the boys didn’t comment on their Mama’s lack of guts when faced by swimming rodents in the middle of the night. Oh well..such is life.

Guess I need to get back to work. Thanks for reading.

Love to all,

Margaret