Best of the Losers

2009-10-30

I had a lovely time in California! Blue skies, warm temperatures. I've been to CA a few times, but never driven. We took the Interstate 80 route. I've never been through Wyoming, Utah or Nevada, nor seen the California mountains this close up. I was fascinated by the desert, and the beautiful mountain sculptures created by age, rain and wind. However, I do not think I could live 365 days a year looking at all that brown! I couldn't take the summer heat either. Still, I am so very glad to have been able to drive through these states and would do again given the chance. The Great Salt Desert is extremely foreign to these eyes! Loved the drive crossing from Nevada into California at the Donner Pass. I am just a hick at heart, and I love going to places so out of the ordinary for me in this plain jane industrial corner of Indiana.

My BronkieBooBoo was a bad boy, but not as bad as last year or as bad as we anticipated. I am not sure how to embed a link here, so will just post it for now. If anybody wants to give me advice on how to link it, please help!

Go to www.winningdogphotos.com. You can click through the slide show and see the small numbers on the right. Bronco and Me are numbers 52, 58, 59, 64, 65 and 75. My friend M and Rex are numbers 13, 17 and 30. Bronco's mommy is in heat and we are going to breed her to Rex.

Got lots of visiting in. M's significant other P loves to cook and we are all trying to watch our pennies. All of us local people wound up with rooms on the same floor and the same side. We had a huge floor-size balcony on the outside wall. PERFECT for grilling!!!! The only time we ate out was for the Expen$ive banquet that was ok for food but not much fun. You couldn't talk to people across the table it was so noisy. We had a steak dinner sunday night cooked by P with lots of sides for $10 a person. We all had brought beer and booze and pop as a beer in the hotel was $8.50. I never found out what mixed drinks or pop would have been, we had our own!

We had more adrenaline GOING to California and drive straight through to within 150 miles of San Jose. Coming home the following Monday, we left at 10 PM california time from San Francisco (visiting relatives). Drove till sometime the next day thru rain and snow in Wyoming and spent the night in Rawlins. Lovely nice people, we discovered a tiny HOMEMADE Mexican restaurant with delicious food. The next day we made it to Lincoln Nebraska and stopped to visit my relatives overnight, and then on to Iowa to visit M's cousins. We made it home to M's house Thursday around 6:30 or so in the evening. I didn't have my car there so I needed a ride home from Barrington to Valparaiso. Our friends G and W were supposed to pick me up since RockHead was sick. Well by Friday, W was sick so it was Rockhead and G coming to get me. They both of been to M's house NUMEROUS times, but they always have me or W driving or giving directions. THEY GOT LOST!! And then called me for the address for the GPS. Hahahahah! They are getting lots of ragging. Dumb and Dumber......

M and P and I are off to Alabama Wednesday to show dogs in Priceville. Four days of dog shows. We need 2 championship points on Bronco, and 3 points on Bun-Bun and that will finish their championships. We are hoping!!! Last time I went 3 years ago we won just about everything and brought home two champions.

I am still the most contented and happy being at home than I have ever been in my entire life. I have even dropped maybe 6 pounds. (as I sit here and eat cheetos)

It has poured big bad buckets of rain on us all day today. Thank goodness it was in the 60s so it wasn't cold.

YUCK we have to change the time this weekend! I HATE the Fall Back one. It's gonna be soooo dark in the evening. Have to start counting down to Dec 21 when it is the shortest and then it starts back toward the light again.

I hope you can get to the picture website and see me and my dog. I will also get me a flickr account or something so I can post pictures here too. Those of you know me on FB can see some of my ridiculous family pix there and some of my doggies.

Sleeping - Crowing