This isn't quite as good as the geek love poem shirt but it captures the general recent mood of the site doesn't it?
Seriously, my life hasn't been that interesting at all. But I guess that's what separates the good weblog writers from the sucky ones - the ability to take a mundane life and make it interesting to random ass online strangers.
The Westminster was fun to watch. Whatever the commenter says about ridgebacks usually throws the rr folk list into a fair tizzy for a few days which is always fun to read. I remember the first year we were thinking about getting one and the commentator guy said something implicating that these were intense, scary dogs to own - which was one of the deciding factors in us deciding to adopt our Catahoula mix breed, ASCII. Who was a wonderful girl but had probably some of the worst set of hip and knee bone joints in veterinary history - having to be put down at approximately three years old because we just couldn't justify the extensive pain and expense for all the surgeries on our sweet girl. Which made us look into breeders who check genetic ailments which led us back to ridgebacks. I don't begrudge the commentator for what he said - but I do listen very carefully to what they say about my favorite breed.
This year they walked a pretty good line between making them sound like good pets but certainly not for the slack dog parent - both completely true. But they just can't help mentioning that lion baiting thing - which Winter finds quite handy when getting bullied by the sixteen year old princess kitty, Kurry.
It's not like they killed the lions - they would get in a pack, annoying the crap out of a lion, dodging the claws, keeping the lion in one place until the hunter would show up with his gun. Brave? yes. Independent? absolutely. But the lion aspect has always been one part of what was mostly an excellent farm and family dog. And while Winter's greatest foes are rainy nights when she needs to go potty, cold tummies, cranky princessy cats, and only getting a Greenie every other day - the characteristics that were important for those farm dogs do show themselves. I wasn't familiar with the ridgie who had taken best of breed this year. I usually expect Woody (who won best of hounds group at Westminster in 2002 and a distant cousin of Winter) or Gatsby (who took second in the hounds at Westminster last year). But I've been a bit out of the loop in the conformation and lure coursing groups the last few years so I have no idea who the big names in ridgeback circles are right now.
We've found a new dog park that's much much closer to our house - like five miles away as opposed to twenty-five. There's gravel which winter doesn't like much so she stays on the edges with natural sand landscaping. But the people and their dogs are nice. And the difference in distances and the roads to get there just don't even compare.
I'm hell-bent on finishing what's officially known as the ugliest scarf in the world but I keep getting distracted with real life crap.
And I've been slack with the photos. So this t shirt really applies doesn't it?
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