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| Rafe - about a month ago |
The dog news is sparse. We've gone to no shows since early March, but I did take Rafe to training class last week. Our class is in Peoria, so I have to leave home by 5:15 to get there by 7:00, and I don't usually get home until after 10:00. For that reason, it is not always convenient to go. I'd like to go every week. Rafe had not been at class for a few weeks, nor had he had a lead on since the last time. I was very proud of him because he remembered what to do and gaited so well around the ring, stood still for examination on the table, and free stacked himself a few times on the floor. I'm very excited about his prospects as a show dog. Time will tell! Oh…and he is now officially registered with AKC as Joyslyn's Inherit The Wind.
Soon there will be more dog news as we begin going to the May shows: the Badger and Janesville shows in Jefferson, WI; the Scott County shows in Rock Island, IL; and the 4-day Memorial Weekend shows in Bloomington, IL. I am really looking forward to them—to showing Maggie again, to seeing my other Lhasa friends, and to starting Rafe's career on May 27 when he'll be 6 months old. Mira is due to have her and Breaker's puppies on April 30, so there will soon be new baby pictures to see.
On the people side of my news is that on April 15, Lynn and I will have been married 40 years! I'm posting some photos about the wedding. We were so young! There is an interesting story about our wedding cake that was written for a newspaper. I hope you'll be able to read it. (If you click on the photo, you should be able to enlarge it a bit.) Our mothers were so worried when they found out that Lynn's roommate, Ron, had volunteered to make our wedding cake as his wedding gift to us. Lynn and I agreed to have him do it, but the moms were beside themselves with worry. Ron got the white frosting on but did not get the lavender frosting decorations done, so only an hour before the wedding, he ran to the flower shop, bought fresh flowers and decorated the cake with them! It looked good and tasted good too. Another funny story about the cake is that the friends I'd asked to cut the cake had no idea how to slice a round wedding cake. So they just cut HUGE pie-shaped pieces from it. Funny! Fortunately we had plenty to go around.
I found the receipt for our wedding bands in a scrapbook. Mine did not even cost $70! I'm also posting the receipt for the flowers. My bouquet was $15.50!! Ah…"the good old days." Gas prices were probably under 75¢ a gallon too! I can't remember!
On our honeymoon we searched for puppy. (Gee…that's not what every newly-wed couple does on a honeymoon???) We had problems finding one we wanted and could afford so at last found a cutie from the animal shelter who ended up costing us an arm and a leg in vet bills during her short life. She probably was not more than 6 weeks old and way too young to leave her mother. She became so ill while Lynn and I were doing our student teaching and my mom was caring for her that she had to be euthanized. Oh my that was awful. She was such a character, even through all her illnesses, that letting her go was so hard. For example, when she was about 5 months old, we lost her. We found her marching with the high school marching band that was practicing across the street from where we lived!
It was a lonely two months without a dog but we were busy moving to Iowa where I had my first teaching assignment. Once we were settled and I'd receive a couple paychecks, we purchased our first Lhasa, Pheebe, followed shortly by Buffy, and Lynn said, "Maybe we could show these dogs," words he has probably come to regret! If you are interested in the history of Joyslyn's and haven't read it yet, you can find it in some of the early blog posts in the archives.
Life is good when you have a Lhasa to love you!
Joyce
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| A picture of our wedding band design and the receipts |
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| The invoice for the flowers |
I am into cake decorating, so I can appreciate the story and magnitude of what Ron took on.
ReplyDeleteThe cake turned out wonderful!
Did Ron every go in to cake decorating, it seems that was his calling.
Raquel
No, Ron did not go into cake decorating as a career. All of us were theatre majors. Lynn and I were pursuing teaching degrees. Ron did a lot of sewing and costuming and was involved in the production angle. As happens so many times, we lost touch once college days ended and we were all busy with careers. And, yes, the cake turned out well ... and tasted good too. Ron would mix up various wedding cake recipes and make cupcakes then bring them to rehearsals so we could all sample the cake and provide feedback on taste and texture. It was quite a process. I did not worry much about the cake. Our mothers did enough fussing about it! BTW, he did all his cake baking in my landlady's kitchen, which was a good thing because I would never have wanted to eat food prepared in the kitchen of the apartment Lynn and his two roommates were living in. They were really slobs.
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