Charlotte's First Cross Country Race

This morning Charlotte raced in her first Cross Country race ever. The race for her group was 3/4 of a mile. She competed against 14 schools and 70 girls. She jumped to the lead within the first 10 yards of the race and just stayed there. One girl challenged her for the lead, but Charlotte just put the coals to it and left her in the dust. She ended up crossing the finish line 20 yards ahead of the second place runner and won the GOLD! Yay Charlotte!

Charlotte Leads From the Beginning


Charlotte at the Finish Line


Charlotte Accepts GOLD at the Podium
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation

I know times are tough, but if you've got a few extra bucks you can spare this is a great charity. Anything helps. They're caring for over 500 families of our greatest fallen heroes. Check out the website...

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Guitar extravaganza!

I know I've posted about Funtwo before, but someone on playlist.com finally upped some of his songs. I put two on my playlist - down close to the end. Check them out.

Cannon Rock is a rock guitar version of Pachelbel's Cannon. It's my all-time favorite song and I can't hear any version of it without getting emotional. There's another version in there played by Jerry C.

Enjoy!

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Our new baby

...well, okay, our new charity case. Meet Gale (like the storm wind). She's a purebred Red Doberman, just a couple of months old. This picture was taken a couple of days ago. She had her ears cropped today and is all bandaged up now.

She gets along well with everyone and loves to swim. She's especially fond of grabbing Rylee's collar and riding around on her back in the pool!

We can't wait for everyone to meet her. She's just as sweet as all the other Dobermans we've had.

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First day of school

We weren't on the ball enough to take pics of the girls on their first day back to school. Luckily our neighbor was thinking ahead and snapped a shot of our girls with her kids at the bus stop.

Charlotte and Klara in the middle with our friends Zach and Maddie flanking them.

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Go here right now!

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com

You won't regret it! Check the 'Awkward Family Pets' tab too! Don't forget to come back and comment on whether you peed your pants or not.

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Old School T-Bucket

I was at Fry's Electronics yesterday and saw this old school T-bucket. Holding true to the jalopy hot rod roots of the 50's there's a lot of homemade goodies on this rig. Check out the hand-made valve covers, copper water pipe breather risers, windshield frame and fuel lines, long-handled shifter, home-spun upholstery, oil lamp tail lights and transverse mounted leaf spring suspension and amateur paint job.

I'm not too partial to the excessively chromed-up T-buckets and Highboys you see these days. It's nice to see some true home garage work. Respect.

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ProFlowers

Peggy was sad that she missed the Mother's Day flowers I got her. They came and went while she was still in the hospital. Today she called ProFlowers and explained the situation. ProFlowers kindly sent her replacement flowers completely free.

That kind of service deserves a reward and the best I can give them is my word-of-blog referral...

Please use ProFlowers when you buy.

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Peggy's Accident

As most of you already know, Peggy was in a very bad crash on the night of May 1st. She was hit on the driver's door by a 27,000 lb tour bus.

Peggy sustained several skull fractures, bleeding and swelling of the brain, sheer damage to her brain, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and torn spleen. She was in a coma for almost two weeks, but is now in rehab and quickly regaining her memory and cognition. She's got a long row to hoe, but doctors and therapists say she is doing very well and expect a 95-99% neurological recovery. Physically she will be great, except for a missing spleen.

Thank you so much to all our family and friends who continue to provide their love, support and prayers.

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Venison Artichoke

I've been reading and hearing about this recipe for a while, but yesterday was my first try. It was DEE-LISH-OUS!! It's my new favorite way to have venison. Peggy liked it a lot too!

I put the recipe up on Sis-Bliss, so if you have some venison to cook up head on over there and get it now!

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