Bought a couple bananas for $1.04 which I paid in cash. When I arrived home I looked quickly at the receipt and then looked again…on the receipt there was a balance of $1.04, under Cash it said $1,041.04, and the change was $1,040.00. Expensive bananas! What a mistake that was!
Do you want to know the story of the Twelve Days of Christmas? I always thought it was the 12 days before Christmas, but in some of the books I’ve read or listened to, they refer to them being after Christmas – which they are! I finally looked it up on the web and if you’re interested in reading about it, do a search on “Twelve Days of Christmas” or go to this web site which I found interesting: http://www.cresourcei.org/cy12days.html
I forgot to mention last month what a big help Kerry was at the registration table for the temperament test held at the National. We had six evaluators working, so I was busy keeping up with them…it was nice to know I didn’t have to worry about what was going on at the table thanks to Kerry.
Also, a big thank you to Amanda and Scott who took me out to dinner at the Texas Steakhouse while we were in Colorado. After we sat down Amanda announced they were buying me dinner for my birthday a month earlier. Hey, I’ll take them late! It was a delicious meal and I really appreciated their thoughtfulness.
New member David Lewis gave a great program last month on grooming. At the end when he was going to demonstrate trimming toenails with a Dremel he asked anyone interested to come up close so they could see – he was surrounded.
Poor Alice Likens! It was her idea (as educational chairman) to have David give this program and then she wasn’t able to attend. A few weeks before she had fallen in the tub and cracked a couple ribs. The good news is she feels she must not have osteoporosis since that was all that happened instead of the bones shattering. But she’s back and at ‘em again and was at the November board meeting.
The shows at Monroe both pulled majors in bitches, but of course I was not lucky enough to win any of them. I didn’t buy a catalogue so can’t give you the winners, except I do remember Carol Sanada’s dog went WD on Sunday and Lynn Harbin’s Ace went RWD from the 9-12 class…not bad. That show has really spread out over the fairgrounds. On Sunday after Shepherds I went over to the obedience building to say “hi” to Pat Beauchamp who was judging there...he was one of our obedience judges at the National in Colorado this year.
When I was ready to leave and backing out of my parking space, this woman was looking at my car really funny. When I pulled forward she said, “I think you have a dead bird in your grill.” I got out to look, and sure enough, there was a poor little bird who had gone into the grill head first and was stuck there…dead, of course. First time I’ve ever had anything like that happen. I didn’t see it come at me and didn’t hear it hit over the noise of the audio book I was listening to.
Alice was at the Monroe show on Saturday and caught a bad cold/flu, whatever, that laid her low for a week or so. She called during the board meeting, though, and said our January program was David Dikeman’s video, “Command Performance”. It is an obedience training tape that is very well done and humorous as well.
We will have club calendars for sale at the December meeting. They are $10 each, all full-color pictures. There are only about 15 left so don’t be left out. If you can’t make it to the meeting and still want a calendar, check with Donna Gonzalez or me to see if we have any left. It is an extra $2 to mail them. Thanks to Sharon for putting them together for us.
Did you know that Washington State is second in the nation in grape production? California is the first. Grapes for all those wines both states produce.
Amanda’s Fritz and Greta won the Halloween costume at Ewetopia this year. Fritz was “Grandma” and Greta was “Little Red Riding Hood”. Greta is carrying her basket of goodies and Amanda commented that her Open training wasn’t a waste of time after all.
We have six applicants for plaques so far for the February meeting. Just make a copy of your AKC certificate for titles your dog earned this past year while you were a member…send the copy to me and that’s all there is to it. All certificates (copies of) have to be turned in by the January club meeting. This year the club will not be engraving your dog’s name on the plaque, just the year and the title. If you want to have your dog’s name engraved on it, you can pay for that (15¢ per letter), or have it done yourself somewhere else. With all the LONG names and titles people have on their dogs, last year it cost almost as much for all the engraving as it did for the plaques.
AARP had a short article about a security system that is a motion sensor with the voice of a German Shepherd which responds to movement with an intensifying series of barks to movement up to 30 feet away.
The club is holding workouts during the winter months at the Soos Creek Kennels on SE 208th (212th where you get of 167) just past 132nd SE. Time is 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Julie Hamasaki is giving handling classes from 7;30 to 8:30 PM, but I understand that class is full already…check with Donna on that and cost of the workouts.
Also read: why do we get mad when politicians lie? That’s how they got elected!
Dues for 2008 are due now and are delinquent after January 1. You have a grace period until the adjournment of the March meeting. After that time, your name will automatically be dropped from the roster if your dues are still unpaid.
Dues are $30 for singles, $45 for a household. You can give them to me at the December or January meetings, or mail them to me at: 11054 S.E. .192nd Street; Renton, Washington 98055.
….and the rat’s tail fell off…..
