496 Dogs Rescued from Kennel

How can anyone care for nearly 500 dogs?
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1474297.html

this is nuts! There are so many strays, dogs that are already in rescue shelters that need loving homes, I hope anyone thinking about getting a dog would consider a rescue.

This is a rescue dog and I know I'm prejudiced but I believe one of the prettiest dogs ever!!!!


He wasn't a huge financial investment and we saved his life.


I'm a little passionate about this. I volunteered with the SPCA for nearly 12 years and saw so many loveable dogs find new homes. It was great to see a little boy or girl take home their first pet.

elusive sleep

Why is it when your body is the most tired, your brain wants to stay awake? It is
6am and I have been up since 3:30am. Why is that? A few things on my mind? Who me?

Mom's party Sunday. family coming over Saturday, a wedding to go to Friday, groceries to get for the party, decorations, odds and ends, work challenges, work challenges, work challenges... did I mention work challenges? Home and family frustrations.

I would like a nice long full nights sleep please. Maybe like this...


or this?

Take me out to the Ballgame

This past Tuesday I was the beneficiary of Texas Ranger baseball tickets. And I must say these are some awesome seats. Hubby and I went and at the last minute I got hold of mom and she came too.

My mom is a HUGE Ranger fan. HUGE. She watches nearly every game unless she is otherwise engaged. So taking her was perfect. Mom will be 85 next week and it was amazing to watch her work the crowd!!! She was flirting with the usher and security guard AND got a baseball out of the deal. Too bad this was the only losing game against the Angels of this series.

I really didn't intend to get this shot at this angle of Blaylock.... ok, yest I did.


Here's Mom and where we were sitting. LOVE IT!!!


Marlon Byrd got a homerun that night. Love the pic and the sign in the background.

La Jolla California

Last week I took a quick business trip to southern California, specifically La Jolla. I've been to this area before, a little over ten years ago but this trip was quick and totally different.

I landed on Tuesday and had some time before a business reception started at 6pm so I decided to take a walk and get some exercise. Oh, before I forget, when I left Dallas the forecast for the day was for the temperature at home to hit over 100 degrees. The temp in La Jolla was about 68 lovely breezy cool degrees. So,

On the back of the room map of the hotel was a walking map. Not too far, from what I could tell.... Tennis shoes on, out the door I go.

I follow the map to a gated community and walk through the entrance indicated on the map. Beautiful homes established and new. Multi million dollar homes sitting with views of gorgeous landscapes with the Pacific Ocean in the background. At about a mile and a half, a park road leads down to the beach. There are other walkers, hikers and s few surfers headed up from the bottom so here I go.

This is at the top of the hill.
I say "hill" but after I start off on the walk I realize the incline down to the beach is pretty steep.

Off in the distance is the pacific and I want to sit on the beach!!! So, I keep walking. About halfway down I start realizing that yes, after I get to the bottom I WILL have to walk back up but I am bound to get there.
I finally make it to the bottom and sit and relax and take in the sights.




This is a single house, looks like a resort but nope, it's a house.


The next day while out test driving a couple of new model cars and trucks, I took a little detour over to Torrey Pines Golf Course, home of the 08 US Open. This is a public course and is beautiful.



This is the view from the deck outside of the Pro Shop. Stunning view of the Pacific.

I love to travel and see how gorgeous this country is.

Weekend Lake trip

Ray and I were invited to a friends lake house this weekend for a relaxing fishing trip. Saturday was Ray's birthday and a fishing trip to the lake was perfect. We got in Friday night to a beautiful lake home on the banks of Richland Chambers Lake. After visiting with our host and the two guys (boys!!!) shooting off huge rockets off the boat dock, we hit the sack about midnight and were up at 5 am to go snag us some good ole Texas Hybrid bass.

I remembered to slather on the sunscreen since it only takes me a very short time to become lobster red in the sun and 5 hours on the water would not bode well for this redhead.

I remembered water to stay hydrated.

I remembered an umbrella for the same reason as the sunscreen.

What did I leave back at the house was the new camera. I have no pictures of the fishing part of our trip. Dangit!!!! I have no pictures of our fish. We caught our limit in an hour and a half. It was so much fun. Those fish really fight and my arms were so tired. The guys were so gracious and let me hit the majority of the fish which allows me to say.... I Caught the MOST and the BIGGEST!!!! Woo hooo.

Ray has a picture on his camera, I just have to figure out how to send it to my email.

After we caught our limit our great guide Cory, (Guaranteed Guide Services) gave Ray and Richard a quick lesson on throwing a net to catch bait shad. Yea, that will happen. We headed back to the marina to catch some catfish while our catch was filet'd. We did catch some catfish but the softshell and hardshell turtles were biting as well. It was hysterical to reel in a turtle!!!

After that! it was back to the house and it was only NOON!!!

The boys then got out the jet ski. Now THAT I have pictures of. This jet ski is the fastest they make and it would fly.



Ray cooked burgers and I napped. Home on Sunday and a great weekend.