Clyde, Isabelle and I are on the beach in Ocean Park, Washington. We're joined by Flash and Gordo - two new boys to our Gang. It's a small house and yard for the 5 of us, but the beach is 28 miles long. Ever try to catch a greyhound running down a 28 mile beach?

Gordo's new trick this week is taking anything he can off of counters, but only when I'm not home. Flash likes to bark at anyone that walks by.

Who taught these boys manners?
Guess I'll have to.

RV is loaded up. Dogs are in their places. Izzy on her zebra-striped dog bed, perched precariously on the passenger seat, on an incontinent pad. Clyde with his bunny, agaisnt the pillow on the back bed, and here comes Power, to tell me I'm taking too long to get in the car and get going!!

We're headed to Pugh Canyon for a quick walk first, and then it's onto Salt Lake City.
To see Melanie and Fran and Rosa and go to the movies, and go for walks, and have a barbeque.
Power will now have his forever home in Salt Lake with the best greyhound mom ever, Lorinda.

Then Clyde and Izzy and I will head thru Idaho and Oregon (I have so much trouble driving only 65 mpg thru OR) to the beach in Washington.

Don't we have the life. On the road again.

We are going to be traveling fools this summer.
Here's the schedule - always subject to change.

Last week of June - we'll be in Vegas dog sitting for our friends Carla & Chris - and their lovely hounds - Smiles and Allie.

Last two weeks of July - Grapehounds - we're doing TWO, count 'em, TWO talks. 7/24 and 7/25. Then West Palm Beach to see the Daddio. Then Greyhounds of the Bluegrass for another talk.

Then to the Beach - Ocean Park, WA - for a month of watching waves.

Sometime in Sept or October we'll be doing a talk in WA for GPI, too.

I do so love to talk.

Labels: Grapehounds, Greyhounds of the Bluegrass, Smiles

It's 6:15 am, and there's 200 humans and hounds waiting for the start of the Gathering, and I've been up half the night because the coyotes have howling and so have the over 20 hounds staying at Greyhound Gang.

What a way to start the weekend.

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A last minute, and really fun addition, to this year's Gathering.

I have a girlfriend in Chicago. Her name is Charna Halpern. She's a big deal in the comedy improv world, having helped launch Tina Fey, Mike Meyers, Andy Dick, Andy Richter, Chris Farley, Rachel Dratch, Jason Sudeikis and others.

She's training a comedy troupe in Cedar City on Friday morning, the 15th, and then they are driving her to Kanab, and she and they will perform during our evening festivities at Angel's Landing.

She's going to stay and help with the Gathering the rest of the weekend too.

I'm already laughing.

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I'm furiously trying to pull off this Greyhound Gathering - and saying yet, again, this is TRULY my last one.

Best Friends put this article up on their web site - Shades of Grey. Yeah!

Event Schedule - of all the many wonderful things happening that weekend

a microcosm of my life:
- 200 Raffle items to pull together
- 300 Silent and Live Auction items to organize
- Tables to find to put these things on
- Volunteers to commander
- Desk to clean off so I can find things
- Golden Oldie goody bags
- Posters to get up
- Publicity to find
- House to Clean
- Dogs to Walk
- Yard Work

Ok. That's depressing. I have to go eat candy.

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It's 12:30 pm. I won't be able to sleep. The RV is packed to the gills for a month away from home. We (Clyde, Power and me) leave at 7 am tomorrow morning. Our first stop is Breckenridge, CO. Just 9 hours away. A college girlfriend, Barbara, who I have not seen in I don't know how many years has a home there, and it'll be a reunion for a couple of days.

Barb and I used to wear our bell bottom pants, which we dyed, with our leotards and head to the college dances and dance ourselves silly. It seems we never stopped laughing in those days. I can still hear her say - "Claw-dee-ah".

From there it's a hotel in Omaha, NE. Then a few nights in Chicago with my friend, Charna. Then a hotel in PA. Then Dewey Beach here we come.

Wave to us. The RV has AdoptGreyhounds.org plastered all over it.

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