Kirby's First Veteran Debut

Yesterday I drove 4 hours north to Concord, North Carolina! Thankfully I did not have to leave at the crack of dawn but either way it was a long drive. A few weeks ago I entered Kirby in a Doberman Specialty. It would be his first time entered in a dog show since 2006! While I knew he had not forgotten how to act or what to do, I did think he would be so excited he would not be able to contain himself. This thought turned out to be VERY true. I entered him in the Veteran age group of 7-9 years of age, I was very excited as he will be 9 in February and looks fabulous for an old man. So I arrived in the very cold and blustery state of North Carolina around 1:30pm, the specialty started at 2:00pm so this gave Kirby plenty of time to figure out just exactly where he was. It took him all of 2 minutes! I brought him into the building and I swear my old man was bursting with excitement. He showed beautifully, a little wild but I could not be more proud of him.

I do have to admit that both on the way up there and on the way home, I did break down and cry! Driving all alone just me and him, brought back so many memories. Kirby and I have been all over the Northwest from Washington to California to Nevada to Montana and every where in between. He has been the most loyal friend anyone could ever ask for. I only hope I have been half the friend to him. To be honest I am a little suprised that he is not deaf, after all these years of listening to me sing. LOL!! The tears on the way home were brought on by the thought of what life would be like without him. Somehow that thought just doesn't even seem possible. While I know in reality that someday my life will be without him, I can't help but wish he will always be there. With as much winning as he and I did together those are not my favorite memories of him. I never thought after Queenie passed away that I would ever love a dog as much as I loved her, but Kirby is easily loved that much! He makes me laugh everyday, he is clueless to the idea that the world does not revolve around him. So with each day that passes I try to make sure I give him an extra hug and remind him of how much I love him. I can only hope he knows how much I do love him. He sleeps on our bed every night and makes sure to guard me while Anthony is at work. I often wonder who will fill his shoes when he is gone, for those shoes are so big it may take multiple dogs to do so.

Hurricane IDA

Ok so for the last two days I have confirmed the fact that I WILL NEVER live in Florida!!!! This past weekend it came on the news that Hurricane Ida was going to come ashore on Tuesday. It was also said that Georgia and surrounding states were going to be getting some rain! SOME RAIN, how about hurricane rain from 12:30am Tuesday morning until 3:00am Wednesday morning!!!! The poor dogs are miserable, they cant go outside, we cant go to the park all we can do is clean house and watch movies, which is fine for about 3 hours then we all get restless!! Now today, Wednesday we have 25-30mph winds! My beautiful pecan trees that were changing colors and the leaves were beginning to fall are mostly BARE! My back yard ressembles the Florida Everglades, minus the native wildlife! The wind is blowing so hard it sounds like a train hurling itself right into my house! So agenda for the day, laundry and watch more movies! I will take pictures of my everglades and my very bare, pathetic looking pecan trees! On a positive note all those leaves in my yard.....my landlord is going to clean up! Bless him!! He does all of our mowing and lawn maintence. We are very lucky tenants!

Been a while!

Well it is been sometime since I posted, but we/I have been busy! These past two weeks I have been away at dog shows. Glad that is over, I don't like being away from my hubby, nor my dogs! Also we had Maddie Grace's second birthday, complete with cupcakes, and party hats! Some interesting news on the homefront by the way........ I am pretty sure we are moving to St. Louis, MO!! While I was in Virginia Beach (beautiful place, highly reccommend it as a place to visit!) Anthony called and said that Jaco (who is the chef he works for) was offered a promotion if he transfered to St. Louis. Jaco took the position and told them that he had a person he wanted to bring him too! Soooo......when Jaco got back he told Anthony about his offer as well as Anthony's offer too. This move will also be a promtion for Anthony! I like to think Jaco was not only looking out for Anthony but for me as he knows how much I want to get the HECK out of here!!!! Ultimately I think we will make it to Washington but this is kind of a weird twisted half way move! I never thought I would live in St. Louis, but then again I never thought I would live out here either! This is all not going to take place until after the first of the year, so in the meantime I am going to start going through junk and start throwing away at the speed of light! I DO NOT want to move half of this stuff we have so I am just going to start in our closet and move throughout the house! I WILL SHOW NO MERCY! Some stuff I think I am going to venture out and sell on ebay or craiglist!

We are currently looking at possibly purchasing a house as having 5 dogs, does not make us prime rental candidates! Anthony and I have discussed a plan of living there 2-3 years. Hopefully we can accomplish all of this all before spring comes! I need to garden, I love it and it keeps me sane!!!

Tomorrow I will spending some time at Starbucks using their internet looking for a job for me, housing and costs of moving! I am sure by the end of tomorrow I will be depressed but I will also make sure to post all the pictures I have been meaning to post!

Thank you Vicki for the stuff!! I already planted some stuff that I knew would grow!