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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on December 03, 2010, 04:03:58 PM
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Santa Clause parade.
Tonight our town is having a Santa parade – there will be the big guy himself put on a float by the Chamber of Commerce, then businesses and individuals can put in a float too. The library is participating for the first time this year. In the back of a pick-up truck will go our “Red Willow Reader” chair with a guy dressed up as a wood nymph reading a book with a CD playing of different versions of the poem “A Night Before Christmas”. However we had to tell him that the outfit was that of an elf (he is new to the Board – so he also had to be told that the new guy gets to be the elf). Walkers will hand out draw tickets for a gift basket and candy canes. The town stays open late for shopping.
Tomorrow is the “Festival of Trees” – we are putting baking in the for Dance Club sale. People decorate trees that are bid on and sold for charity. Then local groups from the senior’s choir to bell ringers entertain us from the school stage (the whole thing takes place in a school gym). My daughter is dancing in three routines.
Then I need to rush home to sell a puppy from people who are driving all the way up from Lethbridge to get him which is about 12 hours away. That is a long way to go to drive in winter to get a dog especially a dog with only one testicle. I did of course discount.
This is the most Christmassy weekend of the year for me - makes me feel like decorating my BP avatar.
Ho Ho Ho
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Blimey! I'm exhausted just reading all the activities you got line up, where do you get the energy Diane? :D
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Well I don't have a real job so that helps Lucy.
I do put in about 20 -30 hours a week on my dogs, then I do about 20 hours homeschooling my daughter who is having a learning challenge with her reading, then I do about 10 hours a week either driving my kids to activites or waiting for them as we live 13 Km out of town, then a couple of hours for the farm bookwork, then all I need to do is a bit of laundry and meals so I have time to sit on the library board (chair), the Toastmasters (president) and the Dance Club (secretary) - I just applied for a real paying job - doing the bookwork for the grazing association but haven't heard back.
For our last Toastmasters it was "super salesperson" for a fund raising auction. I donated a Kiva calenda and gift certificate, fair trade coffee and local honey from the farmer's market and called it a "make the world better basket" and got the second highest bid of the evening. (Wilma's cabbage rolls, perogies and wine of course got top bids) I was just asked to speak at someone's church on Kiva because of my 2.5 minute sales pitch for the auction.
It just sounds busy because I flit from activity to activty - not really that busy.
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Well I don't have a real job so that helps Lucy.
Snort!! You may not be paid in money for what you do, Diane, but I'm sure you're receiving lots of appreciation, so it all counts as a real job as far as I'm concerned.
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Santa parade went well. It was cold but we walkers who were handing out things were warmer than the float people. Then we library people went out for bowling and pizza. I am warming up to the seasonal festivities.
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Ah, good ol' Yuletide tradition!
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On Lane 6, with a slice of Pepperoni Feast...
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Ah, good ol' Yuletide tradition!
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On Lane 6, with a slice of Pepperoni Feast...
I think the good King preferred Deep Pan, crisp and even.
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A round of applause there, Bill!
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Indeed! Great shout.
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;D
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My, that was clever. ;D
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Every year I laugh at that joke. Really good.
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I'm trying .... very trying, you sarcastic lot. :P
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I actually meant the ;D
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Sorry, Tom. Thank you for the ;D. Congrats for your win in the Christmas competition. I only wish I was able to think of a limerick, let alone a whole poems worth.
I'm still smarting from the loss of the Espace rear window.
In fact, apologies to all (even Peepsie) for my insensitive remark. I'm suffering from a cute inferiority complex at the moment - I need a beer!
Merry xshmas
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Diane,
I was talking to a bloke today whose sister-in-law breeds champion pooches. Apparently she had a dog that just won everything in all states - all it had to do was turn up and it was guaranteed a winner's ribbon. Then someone poisoned its drinking water during a break between rounds and it died. The vet allegedly said to the owner "I'm afraid your dog has been poisoned and there's nothing I can do to save him". It was all very dramatic, but my informant came across as a bit of a tool.
Have you heard of any similar stories in the doggie world over there?
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I don't show Malc. I would like to but would need to hire a handler and get a specialist groomer for terriers and it just costs too much. I have heard of people pulling their dogs so your dog can't get a best in breed, I've heard of breeders not allowing a handler to work for another breeder of the same breed and one lady I bought a dog from had her show dog killed at the show by a boston terrier.
THe breed clubs are quite another thing - impossible to get in unless someone in the club sponsors you - so those in first close off the club to everyone who isn't in their circle. I know they have told people that I am a puppy mill because my customers have told me this (still buy from me) - most of my customers are smart people, teachers, doctors, university people - people who like what I've done on my website - which is important as they have to drive hundreds of miles to get their pups.
I am in the CKC and still could show if I wanted. It sure was a shock to get into breeding and find out just how mean-spirited dog breeders can be.
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My, that was clever. ;D
I meant that too - I thought you had come up with the idea.
THis is what I would have said if I had known it was an old joke:
My, that was clever. ..0
Just so you know for future reference.
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I'd never heard it before either. I laughed, I did.
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It's the way he types 'em
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Pal of mine took his dog to the vets because it had a dry nose.
The vet said "I'm going to have to put him down".
My pal said, "What - because he's got a dry nose?"
The vet said, "No, because he's bloody heavy".