TGI ... T??

It's been a long 4 day week!!  Are you sure it's not Friday already ... but, thankfully, tomorrow IS Friday!!  And, tomorrow is our 21st anniversary!!  It's sometimes hard to believe that we have been married 21 years.  We have grown and changed over the years but I can say that I wouldn't change a thing .... okay, maybe I would change a few things if I knew then what I know now!!  Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way, so I am going to say that I will just enjoy where we are at the moment and look forward to the future!!

Happy Anniversary, My Dear!  I love you!!

Really? There are people out there reading this blog?

Wow!  The dashboard told me there were more views of my posts than I ever thought there would be!  Cool.  That makes me want to keep posting!  Thanks to all of you!  Please comment with any questions you might have or just to say Hi!  


Today was another one of those days where I feel like I was super busy but didn't really get anything accomplished!  Oh, well, there is always tomorrow!  And I will be back at it tomorrow!  


Discovered that Panzer has a major "hot spot" on her back leg that is getting infected.  Poor girl!  So, today I called the vets office to get some antibiotics.  It's such a blessing that we have a great relationship with our vet and the techs that work there!  I was able to just call and tell them what was going on and they gave me meds for her!   I need to bring her in the house tonight and clean up the area so she will feel better.  She will be started on antibiotics tonight and I will also spray the area with an antibiotic spray.  She will be feeling better in no time, but will have a hairless back leg for some time!!  Here's hoping her hair grows back fast!!  


Otherwise, the dogs are doing great.  The temps we are having in the 60's & 70's is way to warm for the dogs that still have their winter coat! I keep telling them they should be shedding it out now, but not all of them are listening ... which is probably a good thing because I can't brush them all at the same time!! I have been spending some time every thing brushing a few of them that are starting to look like puffer dogs!!  Some like to get in the pool others stay far away from it.  Several of them like to play in the water as it comes out of the hose!  I have so much fun playing with them!!  Usually we all end up soaking wet!!  


Well, even though we have 24 hours of daylight now, I think we will get headed out to the pens and get cleaning and feeding done!!  


Happy Trails! 
C & T & the Gang

Are you sure it's not Monday again?

Wow!  What a day today!  It was very busy and stressful!  But, we got thru it and will make it another day!  

Happy Memorial Day ...

This "holiday" weekend is always a hard one for me.  As I am sure it is for many others.  Three years ago this weekend, I was traveling across the country with Tom on our trip back home (to Alaska) on the Goldwing motorcycle.  We had traveled to NY for Tom's brothers wedding.  The second night of our trip home, we got a call from my best friends husband telling us that my best friend, Angela, had been killed in a 4-wheeler accident.   She was gone.  I was thousands of miles away and had to make a decision ... do I fly back to Alaska and help with whatever Buddy needed help with or do I stay on the trip with Tom?  After talking to Buddy a few times, I decided to stay on the trip with Tom.  I wanted to make sure he made it back to Alaska safely and I needed time to absorb the news about Ang.  I didn't need to get a call from a trooper or RCMP saying Tom had also had an accident.  By the time we made it home, pretty much everything had been done for Angela.  The only thing left was the memorial service.  Others were planning it and I was asked to help, but really felt left out of the loop.  It was like I was an outsider.  It's been three years. I am over all of that.  I do feel like I have not fully had closure and I am not sure how to make that happen.  I can't see Angela.  This spring while Buddy was moving out of state he gave me so much stuff that was their's or her's and I am reminded every day of how much I miss her.  So, this weekend was a hard one for me.  I miss my best friend and yet I know I need to move on.  She would want me to.  She was our party planner and I was the cook.  We had so much fun putting together the parties and that makes party planning bittersweet for me.  I have learned to enjoy it and find myself wanting to get our group together and have a good time.  I know she would want that to.

I miss you Angela.  I am thankful for the friendship we had and you will always be close to my heart and always in my memories!

Happy Memorial Day to all who have fought for our freedom and to those who are currently fighting for our freedom.

Good day/Bad day

I am not really sure how to explain my day today ... it was a good day with friends coming over for a nice BBQ but I just felt out of sorts today.  I don't feel bad, but I don't feel happy.  I feel like I just can't shake a bad feeling ... don't know why or what but it just is weighing me down.  It's been three years this weekend since my best friend was killed in a 4-wheeler accident and I miss her terribly.  I am sure that is part of this feeling.  I did feel much better and even happy when everyone was here today.  It warms my heart to have friends around!!  


It rained again today but we had some sun too.  The dog pens are looking like mud pits again so we need to get some more shavings to try to get them cleaned up.  Okay, not really sure how to make dirt pens "cleaner" but we will try!  :o)  


We are hoping to get out camping this summer with the first overnight in a few weeks.  It will be nice to get away for a night! I sometimes wish we lived off the grid so we didn't have the distraction of TV, computer, phone, etc all of the time.  Maybe someday!!  :o) 


It's suppose to be a long weekend with Memorial Day being tomorrow, but we are thinking we will go in to the shop tomorrow to get some things done that we just can't seem to find the time to do during a regular week.  No other employees will be there and the phones should be quiet because most of the clients are closed tomorrow too.  It should make for a rather productive short day!!  


Happy trails!  

Wow ... It's 2012!!

Okay, so once again I am going to have to say .... it's been awhile!  :o) I seem to do a decent job of posting here for a while and then it falls off again and I don't post anything for months/years!!  I don't really have much to say,but I am kinda burned out on Facebook and I am wanting to keep posting about our life and alot more about the kennel!  This seems to be the place to do it again.  I don't know if anyone followed this blog in the past or if anyone will follow it now. I am not really sure I care. Oh, sure, I like to have people care about us and our life and the things that happen here, but well, I am just burned out on life and don't really care if anyone knows what is going on.  I feel like I take a step or two forward and then end up taking 5 steps backwards. It seems as though we are never going to get ahead.  We are trying though.

The kennel is still going strong. We have 24 dogs and 2 cats.  The average age of the dogs is now between 7 and 9 years.  It's hard to believe but it's been 6 years since the last litter was born here.  We are trying really, really hard to not get or have puppies.  We really, really need to have the kennel smaller!!  We just don't need all of the dogs we have.  But, we have always said that the dogs we have will always live out their lives with us. We currently have 3 that are 11 going on 12 years old this year.  It's so hard to believe that they are that old.  It's very likely that we will be saying goodbye to some of the old ones in the next few months/years.

Summer is coming here in Alaska.  We are now in our 24 hours of daylight!  I am not really looking forward to the heat of the summer.  I am now having some serious issues with power surges (hot flashes) and the heat is NOT going to help with that! Summer is just a short phase we have to put up with until we get back to the best season ... winter!

We are starting to plan our 25th wedding anniversary trip!!  Whoo hoo!  We are planning to fly to Reno and rent a motorcycle and travel for a week! We enjoyed the motorcycle trip back in 2009 so much that we want to do it again .... well, not that exact trip, but a trip on motorcycle!!