Website Still Missing

I was surprised at how many people think my blog is down. Apparently they always connected to the blog by going through the website, rather than just creating a link to the blog or saving it in favorites. Hopefully the website will be back by Thursday. Everything appears to be intact, but it will not appear under http://www.paisleydals.com/ until the domain transfer is complete. It is currently hosted by Yahoo at http://paisleydals.com.p6.hostingprod.com/

(I'm posting this to see if this link works from anyplace other than the Yahoo site.) Not sure if the final move from Network Solutions to Yahoo is instantaneous, or if it take a bit of time. If it takes some time I may be unable to use my email for awhile, since that is tied to the domain name and is also being transferred between the two parties. I was assured that it would work out fine - we'll see!

That's Penny at the top of the page. Although she is Nikon's daughter, she looks like a Josie pup! Laurie will be taking her to handling classes so that by the time Penny comes here to be shown, she'll know a bit about dog shows. Hopefully they can find a few fun matches too. Charlie starts obedience classes in two weeks, in Dawn's class as I had suggested. Dawn teaches a standard class, no clickers, no head collars, just basic obedience training which works nicely with Dalmatians. I'll have to stop down and watch the class from time to time.

Jaime is probably coming next week, so I'll have a pup to work with for awhile. If you are reading my blog, and interested in a handsome black-spotted puppy boy, he will be available after I get my puppy fix!

Yesterday I sat through a 6 hour meeting on vendor issues in the new statewide accounting system. The amount of work & time & preparation involved in a project like this is just mind boggling. The presentation was actually pretty interesting, but the part that affected the way I do business took about 10 minutes. I'll be back there this morning but probably not spending the whole day. My desk is a Code Red and looks like a disaster area!

Time to feed dogs. The turkey necks are not thawed enough to use my cleaver on yet, so I guess their rmb (raw meaty bone) meal will be chicken necks. We're out of their favorite chicken backs, although I ordered another box yesterday. Wish I could always get the smaller turkey necks, but this batch was the baseball bat size. Really good for their teeth, like a doggy toothbrush, but I prefer to chop them in half before feeding. We tried a number of ways to do this including knives, scissors & an axe. Finally purchased a big sharp cleaver so I can whack through them in one blow. Hope no one was watching on Saturday morning when I was out on the deck in my pajamas with the necks on a bread board on the deck rail. Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Each neck cut cleanly in half. At least it doesn't take long!