The timing is great for the opening of Evan Almighty - North Texas is going to float away. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO sick of the rain! We have had drought conditions for the past few years - so I guess this is a perfect example of getting what one wishes for! We have had more rain this month (twice as much actually) than the whole of last summer (and probably the one before it - but Mr. Weatherman did not mention those statistics). We haven't even been able to mow the backyard for weeks because on the weekends when DH Victor is at home, it rains so much there's standing water and no way to mow. And he gets home too late on weekdays to do it. Finally got bits done the other week (we had grass above the knees) but still didn't get to finish. Although the sidewalk to the front door actually got the hedges trimmed, poison ivy removed, and some tree branches taken off so folks can actually get to the front door. Since we come in through the garage on another side of the house and never use the front door - we didn't notice how overgrown it had become - whoops!
So Gryffyn's Aeyrie has become Mud Central....perhaps even "Waterworld". The outside dogs are getting miserable. We've got some shavings to put in the shelters. Had to bring in the Silken pups from their pens though - it was underwater for the most part.
Housecleaning? Forget it! No point in even attempting to mop the floor - why waste the time when it will get re-dirtied the first time someone walks in from the yard (since the utility room with the dog food is on the other side of it). Much less the mud and bits the housedogs are dragging through after going outside to do their business.
Then there's the morning and evening rush hours during the drive to the old "Ball and chain" called employment. In this damned town (that would be the general Dallas area), if a black cloud passes that even suggests rain, folks drop 20 mph and start crawling on the freeway. There are times I can really relate to road rage incidents!
I will have to look on the bright side though - at least we will likely not have all the huge cracks in the ground all over the yard - the ones inches wide and so deep we can't see the bottom. I am still astounded that no one (dogs or people) has busted a leg running pellmell through the yard (or in my case, walking - I just don't "pellmell" anymore these days) in previous years. And usually by now our grass has turned brown!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Rain Rain, Go Away
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
New Picture of Copper
Nice surprise in my email box today - Pam sent me a photo of Copper (ok....now known as Tripp...but I just can't shake the puppy name we christened him with!) from his debut at a fun match. Copper/Tripp is a Silken Windhound puppy from our December litter out of our sweet Luna. I am going to email her and see how he was received by the AKC folks there.
He's growing up wonderfully!!
Some Link Updates
Trying to catch up on adding links I have saved from various list posts and managed to get several entered at borzoicentral.com. Notable items include:
On the performance page:
- Anne Midgarden's study on the conformation of Borzoi as it relates to speed
- Sighthound Racing Online - internet mag for amateur dog racing enthusiasts (as in LGRA and NOTRA events for Borzoi fanciers)
The most changes came to the Issues page - which lists items related to pet law. This area has grown monumentally because of 'animal rights' (as opposed to welfare) wackos who are trying to eliminate the ownership of any and all pets. One of the more notable links is to PATHWAI, which stands for "People Against Treating Humans Worse than Animals, International". Also added is a link to PetPAC, which is a political action committee spearheaded by Borzoi fancier Bill Hemby (who is, BTW, a super guy I had the pleasure of meeting at the 2006 BCOA National Specialty in Washington). Many of the other new links on the page are the result of the AB 1634 mis-labeled the "Healthy Pets Act" - dog fanciers (and other serious pet owners) know it as the "Pet Extinction Act".
Internet Housekeeping
UGH. What a mess - and such tedious work. Almost as bad as real housework (yuk). Earlier this year I bought more domain names and then got a reseller account with my webhost (United Hosting) since it would end up being cheaper for having multiple domains. Well...I had been ranked so high in Google and other search engines with the borzoi.cc domain - that now I'm really having to work to get the others up there!
So much of today has been spent creating accounts within the Google webmaster tools, submitting URLs and creating Google sitemaps for the Gryffyn's Aeyrie web site (gryffynsaeyrie.com) and the Borzoi Central web site (borzoicentral.com). Also started work with my kinda-new site for highlighting my web-work since I've begun to get more and more interested parties interested in hiring me for webdesign services - so the Design by Gryffyn site is now on its own domain and recently updated.
Saw something about Google-stats (urchin) that I need to delve into a bit as well. Although United does provide analysis software as well.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Well Here Goes
Well....I've finally gone and done a blogging-blogger. I use a Perl blogging program on my kennel site (Gryffyn's Aeyrie) to post show news and such about our dogs that are out working for a living, but I don't really add a lot of personal chatter. So you get the personal chatter here!
Although considering how far behind I am on posting news on my site....I am not sure if I will be able to keep up with this one! Oh well...I guess we will see!!
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