etc.

This is our puppy as he looks now at 6-weeks. This breed changes so much during puppy-hood.

When we get him in July, he should look something like this...

Item #1: Toot, my e-mail account used to inform me when there was a posting on the blog. I have not received these alert e-mails on the last several posts. Can you check the configuration and see if you can make that happen?

Item #2: We will 100% be coming to OH the last week of July. Arriving on or about Wednesday the 29, leaving probably on Sunday August 2. In case you haven't heard, we will be getting a puppy while there. A pembroke welsh corgi who is from Grand Rapids. The breeder will be in Canfield (!) for a corgi show on August 1, and we will make the great puppy exchange then. It will also be kind of fun for us (well, Aaron) to watch a PWCorgi conformation show. I'm also fairly certain that Kevin will not be with us, but my friend Pat will. Tim is going to see if it works into his schedule, too.

Item #3: Taking Aaron to the doc in a few minutes with some nasty rash. Could it be chicken pox?

Item #4: The boys were being so rotten the other night that at 10:00 p.m. I sent them each outside with a bucket and made them scrub some of our bricks. Shut them right up and they've been perfect angels ever since. If any of you come to visit, I suspect that for the next several years we will have the cleanest bricks in the neighborhood, perhaps in the world, and if there are bricks on Saturn, ours will outshine them, too.

Item #5: I've been working too hard this summer. How 'bout you? I'm singing a big recital a week from today, and after that, life will ease just a bit before the school year starts screaming at my back.

Item #6: My boys start school on August 6. Can you believe it?

Item #7: I'm not sure what this trip in July will do to our Thanksgiving trip. At the moment, we're still planning on OH in Nov.

TURKEY TIME

So does that mean we ARE NOT doing the VA thing for Gobble Gobble?
Just want to clarify it we will be Ohio Turkeys or Virginia Turkeys....

Nothing much new on the Dunlavy front. Well, I take that bat, Mr. Pretty Hair stepped on a nail and had to get a tetanus shot. He said he didn't even feel the shot hahahhaha - well, i've never had one, thank goodness, but i've heard they hurt so i think he's full of "cow pie" :)

Taylor has successfully surpassed me in height and the length of her legs. I told her the other day that they go all the way up to her hip, much to my dismay she did not respond with the "they do not" answer that I gave many years ago when someone said that to me.

Well, the only time i get on the blog is when i'm at work so I must get busy.....

Peace Out!!!!!!!!

pastor haggerty

I just wanted to let everyone know that the services today went well. pastor was duly honored and the truth of the hope of the gospel made plain. To let you know also that many many of the ones who were there thru the times that we were inquired about you all and manysent their regards. On another note:as I understand it both Lannings and NJ Shultz's are planning to be here in Ohio for Thanksgiving. if that is not correct please let me know. Whatever the plan and whatever all can do we do enjoy being together whenever we can, even though it is getting harder to schedule everything.. I love you all

Hey Girlies and Burlies!

Just a quickie. I am up for a promotion that would give me a nice raise. I am not the only one, so I need to ace the test. Pls pray for me. My financial empire is crumbling.

Clydesdale sorrow

My clydesdales didnt parade due to lousy rain and thunder. I pouted majorly. At the rain, not the clydedales for staying dry and toasty in their fabulous semi. They are coming to Lock 3 in Akron I think in July. I am not as thrilled because the crowd will be way huge, but I'll give it a shot. All I can say is everyone better respect that they are mine.

What an outrage

Couple Ordered to Stop Holding Bible Study at Home Without Permit
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.
"On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county." David Jones told FOX News.
"We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all," Jones said.
A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited "unlawful use of land," ordering them to either "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit," the couple's attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.
But the major use permit could cost the Jones' thousands of dollars just to have a few friends over.
For David and Mary Jones, it's about more than a question of money.
"The government may not prohibit the free exercise of religion," Broyles told FOX News. "I believe that our Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave if they saw that here in the year 2009, a pastor and his wife are being told that they cannot hold a simple Bible study in their own home."
"The implications are great because it’s not only us that’s involved," Mary Jones said. "There are thousands and thousands of Bible studies that are held all across the country. What we’re interested in is setting a precedent here — before it goes any further — and that we have it settled for the future."
The couple is planning to dispute the county's order this week.
If San Diego County refuses to allow the pastor and his wife to continue gathering without acquiring a permit, they will consider a lawsuit in federal court

Who's who

So I'm an apparently grumpy blue eagle now? Nice, very nice. I suppose Becky and Tom chose me as the eagle because the eagle has that certain allure that I am famous for, a sort of Latin sexual machismo. I don't remember the majority of the characters apart from the "major players".

The Thanksgiving idea sounds good to us too. Its been a number of years since we came out there to visit the Lost Gravy Memorial and celebrate Obama Redistribution of Pie Day. I'll take Tom's piece and share it with Dean.