We’re back in Saskatchewan (though I’m overnighting at the family farm and will finish the last 5 hour leg in the morning) – a round trip of over 3400 km since Wednesday, with a 5th wheel in tow.
I don’t have access to a graphics program on this computer, but if you click here and look at the map, the distance travelled began a little bit below the first “a” in “Canada” and ended just above the first “s” in “United States”.
Why? Because I needed a single point on one of my dogs to finish her American championship title and Vermillion, SD was the closest, soonest place I could find to try to win it. (Which she did, yesterday morning, with a couple to spare.)
The actual time in the ring? About 5 minutes.
So, next time someone tries to convince you that there is no greater waste of time on the planet than blogging, you can argue authoritatively that “Why yes – yes there is!”.
And that you know of someone so gifted with a talent for wasting time, that she manages to pursue both.
congratulations Kate and welcome back..didja happen to catch the ‘Riders game?
Yes, congratulations…
Hope you took that puppy out for dinner to celebrate.
One more thing Kate, someone in the comments, while you were gone, say’s you were plagiarizing there dead rat you have up in the corner. Said you pulled a Ward Churchill on it or something. Might want to check it out, unless it’s your own creation. He was demanding you pull it down.
I’m still confused how you can have rights on a dead rodent when there’s a bazillion of them out there.
I saw that. I figure he had to be kidding.
Kate: The guy who accuses you of stealing his dead rodent is Warren Kinsella. You can expect a registered letter from Clayton Ruby tomorrow.
Welcome Back! I was on pins and needles. Glad to hear it went well. At least you can comfort yourself knowing you’re not the only one who pursues a greater waste of time than blogging.
(the third being that of typing comments, I suppose???? Lol.)
I had no idea that whole trip was just for that one point. Reading it put so dramatically put makes me want to pay you money…Tell Wyatt her crate is waiting. You could get lunch out of me for this…probably more…
Now back to politics and media shortcomings.
A waste of time is persuit of something worthless. Both your choices have real value, so they must both be worthwhile.
I hope you allow your dog’s to revert to retired status before you give up the blog site. 73s TG
Shameful way to operate in a ‘free country’
Even proponents of same-sex marriage should be appalled by the way Bill C-38 was pushed through Parliament last week.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Winnipeg/Lydia_Lovric/2005/07/03/1115940.html
“I saw that. I figure he had to be kidding.”
It sounds legit to me, actually. If you originally found the image on the Net and he is the creator of it, then he is within his rights to ask that you modify or remove it. If the gopher image is not your creation, Kate, I would recommend taking it down and finding a replacement.
I’m afraid I don’t have anything in the way of small dead animals in my portfolio right now, but I will keep an eye out in a few weeks while I am living on the prairies. In the meantime, you have my blessing to use any image you want from my portfolio as a replacement if you want to.
Of course, you ARE a very talented artist, so there’s nothing stopping you from creating your own replacement image, right? 😉
People.
I SHOT THAT GOPHER.
Not, as in “I took the photograph of that gopher”, but “I shot it through the head with a vintage .22 rifle.”
The photograph was taken, as it fell, by a friend who was there with me during a visit to the family farm. The body was not adjusted, manipulated or positioned in any way, nor was the image altered after the fact. If you look very closely, you’ll note a small drop of urine clinging to it’s (probably her) netherregions.
OK???
Hey Kate: dusting sod poodles is a right of passage on the prairies….if you hadn’t made a perfect head shot with iron sights on an (unregistered?) old cooey, I’d suspect you were a western transplant from parts east..they all learn to shoot too late in life to be good at it ;-o
Well, no worries then! 🙂
(My father-in-law would like it if you would visit his farm and shoot a few more.)
I would like that, too.
I don’t get enough opportunities to kill stuff.
Well, Kate, you should’ve been there when Saddam popped out o’ his hole…
There’s still hope: perhaps you and Ann Coulter will be invited to he on the firing squad! I’ll take a front-row seat! 🙂
Mission Accomplished
Looks like Kate is back from camp.
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What do you mean, you don’t get enough *opportunities* to kill stuff?? Come on, you have plenty of *opportunity*…..just too much restraint….not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing…