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Punkintown Fair 2010 dates

Amy D — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:48:54 +0000

You absolutely have to LOVE Google Analytics. I mean, where else can one see what keywords their audience is using? And, obviously, somebody out there is looking for the Punkintown Fair dates. Perhaps, I have them. Yep, right there, dangling over my kid’s heads like fly on you-know-what…..You wanna go to the fair with grandma? Well, I want absolute flawlesss lack of whining and crying, and hair pulling and biting FOR JUST ONE WEEK!! Do ya think you can do this? Oh, I just give up!

The dates for this year’s Punkintown Fair are July 29th through the 31st. That’s Thursday through Saturday. Admission is free, but the rides can be pricey! Much better deal to buy the bracelet for around $20 than pay an average of $3 per ride. Parking is free also. It’s just outside of Voorheesville on Rt. 85A across from the Fire Station. It opens late, around 4 or 5ish.

We are expecting to go on Saturday with my mom and my stepdad. It’s fun, not really my thing, but Brenna has a blast. It’s going to be especially hard this year with Rowan because she’s not big enough yet to ride the rides and she’s a little too big for the stroller. It should be challenging to say the least.

Maybe I’ll get drunk and eat lots of fried dough. Now that would be a first! (The drunk part at least…..) See ya there!

~Amy D.

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The corny show picture

Amy D — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:01:58 +0000

Yes, Matt is corny, for lack of a better word. He just had to get a picture done with Duncan and Greta. This was the July 4th show in Bainbridge. Duncan (Ch Marianettes Habitual Vialator) went BOB and Greta went Best Bred-By. Duncan is loved and owned by Marian McShane.

Duncan, Greta's Sire, going BOB and Greta going Best Bred-By in Bainbridge, July 2010

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lovely picture, just a weird concept to me. Maybe I’m the corny one, who knows!

~Amy D.

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Thursday’s Things

Amy D — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:13 +0000

I refer to my daughter’s as Thing One and Thing Two. Just like in the “Cat in the Hat”, they are a whirlwind in my house! Too bad I don’t have a box to put them in when Mom is coming home! That would be too easy, but we have threatened to stick them out in the kennel with the “faucet” (Sinatra) and that usually shuts them up for a minute. Yes, just a minute. Brenna is Thing One and Rowan is Thing Two, also known as “bruiser”, amongst other choice names! Every Thursday I will post some pictures of them. They may not be recent, but you can be guaranteed that there will be Things!

Brenna on her very first day of Kindergarten last September. Hard to believe a whole year has gone by!

Rowan waiting for the bus to come on the first day of school for her sister last year.

~Amy D.

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So who did we breed Polly to?

Amy D — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:34:14 +0000

It’s extremely hard, difficult and frustrating to try to have three people agree on a dog to breed to. Equally and even more hair-pulling (on my and Matt’s part) is having a big, huge prerequisite slapped on it. The one thing hanging over our heads was that this dog HAD to be a shorthair. A shorthair you say? Can’t be that difficult……except that most of the really nice dogs out there are longhair. In fact, I have 2 longhairs that I have access to, but NOOOOOOOOO, can’t have that. We will end up with *gasp* a WHOLE LITTER OF LONGHAIR ST. BERNARDS!! For shame, for shame!

So we embarked on a month long tour of websites and lots of talking with people in the breed that we respect. We didn’t find anything that we liked in the Northeast because, well, that would be TOO easy! Drive to get Polly bred? No, we like our DNA in a brown box please, unmarked if you know what I mean. So we really liked a dog from Kings Mill Kennel in Wisconsin. Matt called Lacey and the conversations ensued. And I’m sure Lacey thinks we are all kinds of weirdo, but Matt always said he wouldn’t breed to a dog that he couldn’t have his hands on. We’ve never seen this dog in person, so it’s killing Matt. He would call her and ask all kinds of questions. At one point, I almost emailed her to ask her to write an essay on his qualities and faults, but I figured that would be a little overboard, so I didn’t. Matt asked her over the phone anyway. Yeah, a little nutso. So, it was agreed upon.

We chose to breed her to Kings Mill Unitas. A very nice smooth male from Wisconsin. His head is beautiful. He’s a big, upstanding dog. He does have a fault, and that’s the fact that he’s a Packers fan. We are big Patriots fans, so, maybe it’s ok, we do have the snow in common, I guess.

Of course, Polly’s cycle did not cooperate very well. She probably surged on Sunday and we couldn’t get the semen in until Tuesday. By then, she was over 10, so there was no point in shipping again. She got one AI on June 29th which makes her due date August 31st. Her section is scheduled for that day with x-rays being done the Friday before. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

~Amy D.

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Brenna with her friend Mollie

Amy D — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:18:26 +0000

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Puppies? Maybe soon…..

Amy D — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:55:52 +0000

So, as the title suggests, we may have puppies soon. We are in the process of breeding Polly now. The three of us have actually agreed on a stud. That, in itself, is stunning, at least. We’ve been through 2 heat cycles of agreeing to disagree. We have combed the USA for the best smooth male we could find with a pedigree that everyone likes. We finally found him…….and you’re gonna have to wait a little bit longer to know who we picked. Why? Oh, just because….I’m a bitch, but y’all knew that! The way I see it is this: Everyone has their own opinion and some people don’t know when to keep that opinion to themselves and sometimes people are hurt by that. Case in point: When I told a member of my family that I was naming Thing Two “Rowan Maeve” (before she was delivered) , I was told that “Rowan” is a boy’s name in Ireland and we should call her “Maeve”. Really? That was not called for. It’s kind of hard to put a name down when you’re actually holding the baby. So, until she has her AI’s (yep, that route again), my lips are sealed. Duck-taped. And glued. For good measure!

Is it Football Season Yet?

~Amy D.

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Greta’s show pic from Mid-Atlantic in March

Amy D — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:06:36 +0000

Greta taking Best Bred-By and Reserve Winner's Bitch at the Middle Atlantic Saint Bernard Club's Specialty Show March 2010

Well, there’s our Greta and her show picture. She is a *tad* better than her mother at taking them. I don’t think she is freaking out with the squeaky toys that the photogs have like Polly use to. She is shown by Matt, that’s the hubby, and that’s Donna Lee, co-breeder of Greta, holding the birdhouse. No, that is not me. I am 34, not old enough to have kids in their 50’s! I was not at that show, and even if I was, I don’t do pictures. I am usually the one behind the camera and I prefer it that way. There is only ONE show picture with me in it, and it’s hanging on my wall and it’s not even my dog that I am showing in it. It’s Polly’s brother, Kozmo. He’s Donna’s dog and she was really hard-up for a handler to show Kozmo under Judge Eddie Lyons in 2007. I volunteered, pregnant and all, to go in the ring. Got a point on him and took one of the worse pictures in the world! I’ll have to scan that in one day for y’all. It’ll make you laugh!

~Amy D.

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