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  1. last night i scanned a print of a picture i took for a dog collar story that was published in celebrating greyhounds magazine. i was hoping to find the negative to scan but have not yet found it. so for the time being i settled for scanning the print instead, and then did a little clean-up in lightroom.

     

    nikki was the best. she was always happy. even now i can still picture in my mind her white-tipped brindle tail turning in ever more furious circles as she got excited. i can still hear her teeth chattering and i can hear her talking. she was so beautiful. it is a good memory.

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    And La Quinta is apparently not all pet friendly. The one I had booked tonight had breed restrictions (Tavarish not welcome) and their pet rooms are smoking rooms only. We are now next door at Motel 6.

    i called two different la quinta's in utah when trying to book hotel reservations a couple of years back. their pet policies were different, so i asked the more pet-friendly hotel why. i was told that the la quinta hotels owned by the company are more pet-friendly than those that are franchises. but there's no way to know which hotel is company-owned vs. a franchise if you don't know to ask.

  3. thank you isn't it greyt and Steve!!!

    Steve how's the family? I hope well. Gee last time I saw you was the Greyhound Solvang Gathering in 2007?????

    lauren,

     

    my family is doing well, although i'll be looking for work at the beginning of may due to layoffs at ibm (i'm an oracle database administrator). our greys, sadie and katie, are both 7 now (we got them both before they were 2). we lost nikki in may '08 (a week before she was to turn 13) due to a fractured hock caused by a spindle-cell tumor that grew next to the bone and caused it to deteriorate. we finally took sadie & katie to solvang last month, hoping to let them run in the solvang streak. but it rained briefly the night before so the grass was too slippery to let any dogs run. i didn't take as many pictures this year as opposed to previous years, but that was okay with me.

     

    still indulging in my photography habit. i got to finally go to dewey last year and took a lot of pics. i stayed with a number of GT'ers who had rented a townhouse for the weekend. it was a lot of fun and am planning on going back this year. i'll be going to gig next month and shooting more pictures. not that any of them are good but i have a lot of fun doing it.

     

    hope you, your family, and your pups are well. don't be a stranger -- keep in touch as time allows.

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    People like Kerrie are inspiring. The strong ones. I refuse to make cancer my life or curl up into a fetal position and feel sorry for myself.

     

    One thing I've realized, and this may sound weird, BUT as bad as late stage cancer is, I can think of 100 things WORSE than this.

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    this pretty much sums up to a tee what she said to me last february in solvang about her situation. i could only come away amazed. reading about her saying it in her posts was one thing; talking to her in-person was an entirely different matter.

  5. damn...i started wondering about her, too. at solvang in 2008 i took pictures of her miles (seen here trying to speak at the friday night pizza dinner, months before he fell ill):

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    i think i sent her those pictures of miles. we promised to look for each other for solvang 2009. i finally met her, her husband, and clark at friday's night pizza dinner. i got one shot of her and clark (she's on the right):

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    i told her we were thinking of bringing sadie and katie to solvang in 2010. she said she hoped to meet them. i regret that that won't happen. she was such a nice person, a pleasure to chat with, and was so matter-of-fact about her illness. she'll be missed.

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