where did the time go??

Wow where did the time go, its been over a year since last here. We have been busy, I guess I'll try to bring this up today with what has been going on...

Jessica made it thru her senior year, graduated in May. She got her DL in December before christmas. And my worries started. Jessica went to Mississippi on a mission trip this during the summer to help people in a very small town that has a lot of poverty. It was a real eye opener for her, she had never seen such poor living conditions for people. I was very proud of her for giving of her self like that. This fall she went off to college in Hastings. That too was also a eye opener for her. Lots of challanges and temptations. But she so far is do pretty well. Having room mates was one challange she had to get used to. On the downside she hit a deer just after Halloween and crunched her car, she was fine, just a bit rattled. I got the 1am phone call from her, I hate that. So now we are in the empty nest syndrome now, its just different in the house with out Jessica but we are getting used to it.

Samantha I still in Omaha doing pretty well. Keeping very busy all the time. She on the side belongs to a circus troupe that does all kinds of different things, she has learned Poi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_dancing and is starting to contact juggling, and does things with the ring (big round metal ring in the air), Its intesting, she has no fear it seems. She is also still in school and working. Dont know where she finds all the time. So we joke she ran-away from home and joined the circus.

We rescued an American Eskimo dog in may, he was running on the road far from anywhere, a car almost hit him and Sean stopped to get him. Took lots of patients to get him to come up to Sean, We figure he was about 7 months old when we found him. He was so dirty and full of ticks. He had stickers all the way down in his skin. Smelled really bad, so we think he had been out for a while. He has a problem with eatting to much so I have to regulate his food all the time. He is somewhat of a fat boy now. But so loving and loves to hug. We are trying to get him trained, hes like having a 2 year old all the time, and is very smart. Being bored is a big problem, then he starts chewing, nothing on my desk is safe with im, nor are my quilt pieces. He has decided that anything he sees me playing with he wants to play with. But hes a good dog for the most part, will be great when he grows out of the puppy stage which is at about 2 years.

September 08 I got a call from the breeder that we got taffy and sugar from asking me if I would take a pup she got back from some people that couldnt keep her. So I went to see her, what a sweet cute dog, her old people took her to the vet and found out she has a heart mummer she was only 5 months old, then I found out she is the younger sister of sugar and Samanthas Beebee. What a sweet dog, just loves everyone. The heart mummer will probably never be a problem at all since she was born with it. The people just freaked out for nothing. She doesnt like to be away from me at all and will cry till she sees me if im out of sight. She is also a bit hyperactive with an hyperactive system so shes not very heavy at all, and eats like crazy. But she does fine and is a very happy little dog. Its good none of our little dogs are over more that 5 lbs. If we put them all togeather wouldnt even have a large dog. Buddy its the largest dog we have now at about 25-30 lbs.

Just not to long after getting saving Buddy, we lost Millie, she had almost died in December 08 from a massive infection in her girl parts, she had all that removed and was on her way to recovery, but she really had a hard time of it during recovery, when the fatty tumor started growing and broke open and wouldnt heal, She went into surgery again to have it removed and didnt make it thru. She was 9 1/2 when she passed. We all miss her she was a big part of the family for so long. We found she had cancer, probably the shock of the other surgery started it growing. She had started loosing weight so we knew something wasnt good. She will always be in our memories.

This last year was not a good year for us for our old animals, we lost our cat Cowie suddenly, stomach cancer, and we lost Popcorn our oldest cat of old age. She was about 16.

I had H1N1 in may and all the cats came down sick with upper respitory. I spent every hour treating them and all survived it, but jsut after that Popcorn started not being able to eat.

I had found out that cats can get H1N1 from people. so it was very sad to loose Cowie and Popcorn, makes a hole in the house where they used to be. Cowie was Seans favorite cat so it was a great lose to him.

Threw all of this I did sew quite a bit and I will put up pix of the quilts I did get done, but for now Im going to close for now and come back later and continue on with our last year update.