June

Went fast! I've been working diligently on writing some articles. I have been asked to write not only for our fancy's journal, the Journal of the American Cavy Breeders Assoc. but also a little something for Domestic Rabbits. It is difficult to come up with quality topics and then to research them. Although I buy quite a few veterinary books every year which deal with exotics, they still don't have a lot on pigs.

Tonight I went and saw the play Jersey Boys part of the Broadway South series. It was absolutely excellent! You knew all the tunes, the performers were really talented, the fellow who played Frankie Valli even looked like him. If you get a chance to see it when it comes through your neighborhood,, GO! I have to order tickets tomorrow for some of the special ones we would like to see.

I am sure there is more to write about, if I think about it, I'll write more.

May

I turned 55 and am now eligible for Sr discount on coffee at McDonald's. Everything else fades in importance.

April

It's sort of sad, but I can't remember all that much about April. We did have our National Specialty show in Lancaster, PA. I did OK, not fantastic, but right where I should have been given the pigs I had to show. Another fancier and I were Co-Superintendents and we had been working for 5 months getting things lined up. It went well with a few exceptions. Supers are the ones to settle disputes and to enforce the rules. Dealing with people, even those that you have known and shown with for years can sometimes be stressful, especially when you have to issue a ruling that doesn't go in their favor. Oh well, maybe they should be worried about how I feel about them, trying to bend rules etc., instead of me being worried that I hurt our relationship with enforcing the rules that everyone has agreed to abide by when they send in their entry. If that makes any sense. The rest of April must have been pretty uneventful.

Stuff

Not much exciting happening, but I will share the "big" stuff. March- Husband went to Utah skiing, and on one of the days he took sightseeing down near Arches or whereever the hell he was (and it looks like HELL to me- I would get tired of looking at that country in about 3 minutes) he hit a mule deer in the rented car. The process is still ongoing, the rental car place hasn't rec'd all its money from the insurance folks who seem to be dragging their feet and contemplating their colon from the inside. So the rental car folks are like, get this mess straightened out. I refused to deal with it for my husband,, this time I said, the mess is yours and you can talk to the insurance folks. Our local insurance fellow is pretty much worthless, he doesn't handle much except sales, so he turfed husband to a "team leader" who said, yeah, I can see that we were supposed to pay 100% of the claim, but for some reason, we put you down for a 250 buck deductible (thinking we wouldn't notice?- they did that same thing to me earlier this year when we had another comprehensive claim). I told husband, you need to follow this up with the rental folks before they slam your credit card with an unauthorized charge, then you will have that much more of a mess to clean up. I am pretty sure he ignored sound advice since that seems to be his general mode of operations. I tend to call twice, get names and badge numbers when I deal with folks and follow up on any twists and turns. That's enough for now, in a few days I'll catch you up on April.