Working hard, or lazing around, depends on perspective

I am spending these 3 days working on holiday gifts.  Now, I call it working hard, David on the other hand calls it having fun or lazing around.  See in his opinion its not work.  Work should be doing the dishes, (which I asked him to do so I could play), or vacuuming, which with 4 corgis and a husky mix is vital right now.   I figure that its OK to work hard on something you enjoy doing right?  I mean, is the gift any less done if I do it while watching TV?  Or does that really mean I am spending the weekend enjoying myself?  Oh gosh, how horrible is that? Well no matter anyone elses desires, this weekend they can take care of themselves. I am busy!  Well, except for Magic who will bug me nonstop unless I toss that toy for him.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, do something you enjoy today.   Good luck those of you out showing, I will be watching for show results.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has had a wonderful day. Today I did try to take time to think about what I am thankful for, and there is really quite a bit.  The short list, my family, having jobs even if they are not the ones we all want, my friends who truly are wonderful. And of course the corgis who have made these last few years a terrificly fun time. I hope everyone had a peaceful, joyful day today.

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SAM-e Is having a contest for a daily good mood blogger.  If you have never read the Chickens in the Road blog, please go give it a read.  Suzanne is a fun writer with a great sense of humor and timing and brightens my day daily. Not to mention the wonderful photos, and really great chickens. (Love Syd Vicious) If you like what you read, and I don't see how you wouldn't, please cast a vote or several for Suzanne.

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Thank you to all of you for the congrats and the good wishes over the weekend. I am so happy that Peace is finished, She has represented several first for me, my first litter, my first bred by champion and my first Best in Show. I adore the little Noodle head.

Thankfully my tooth was removed yesterday! I feel so much better, no pain pills today. I do have to say that there is something about the smell of dental work and blood that had the corgi's totally fascinated with my mouth yesterday. I can't tell you how many times I had to push a nose away. But my girls kept me warm and safe on the couch when I got home, I just wish they would have given me a little room, or maybe a corner of the blanket, the couch hogs. Magic on the other hand, was just sure that the day called for a rousing game of tug. Either way, snuggles or play, its a good day with the cardi's! OK, the pain meds were helpful too.....

Peace and the football game

Today we got home from the dog show in plenty of time to watch the football game.  Apparently Peace was tired from her 2 days at the show, she hopped up on my lap, streched out down my legs and took a 2 hour nap.  And if I so much as commented on the game she would lift up her head and give me the stink eye.  What a DIVA she has become. 

Today at the show there were only 3 entered, so to try to keep the one possible point, I left her in the classes.  I tried to show her badly, I let her sniff and romp on the lead, but she still took winners. Thankfully, the judge gave the one lone boy BOB so he got the cross over point.  I would have felt really bad if Diana and Mac hadn't gotten at least one point for the day.  And we got to come home early which I was rather glad for since my sinuses are rather unhappy. I can't wait for my appointment tomoorow. Hopefully once the tooth is gone the penicillan can work on the infection.  If I don't post tomorrow, I am probably asleep.

Happy Belated Birthday to Magic!!

And Sadie, Edward and the rest of the litter.  It must be the tooth because I completely forgot that yesterday was Magics 5th birthday!   Which is really bad, because if I hadnt fallen so totally in love with Magic I probably wouldn't have the rest of the cardi's.  Magic has always been my best boy and we love him dearly.  He has always done anything I have asked of him from weight pulling to dock diving. Just a great dog. 

Just a reminder - this is my novice dog for everything, so even thought we don't yet have higher level titles, they are certainly possibilities. We have accomplished a lot I think, and now that Peace is done in the show ring, all the cardis will be focused on performance.

AKC- CD,  RE (RN,RA), NA, NJP  also his CGC certificate
UKC - UCD, UWP, URO1, FO
NADAC - NAC, NJC, TGN, O-TNN (TNN)
CPE- CL1-F
And he passed his therapy dog test too.

Just so no one thinks he will be deprived for his birthday, today he got a huge new antler piece to chew on and of course his favorite mcdonalds plain CHEESEBURGER!  Just a day late, but he is not holding it against me.

We did it.

Pending AKC approval of course, Peace is now an AKC Champion too.  It was a small cardigan entry today, but she was WB, BOW, BOB.  (Nothing in group, but thats OK) My tooth is worse and the infection has now spread to my sinuses. Yuck. Can't wait for Monday to get this tooth ripped out, because last night I thought about a hammer and chisel...