Its Saturday morning and I am sitting at my computer. My husband came home from his trip so the dogs are off with him watching him unpack, hoping he brought them some treats. He and his buddies had a good trip. They went to the Black Hills for the first week and then drove into Wyoming and North Dakota. The house is so much livelier with him around.
   I'm working on downloading all the pictures he and his friends took. Here's a picture from their stop in Mitchell, South Dakota.

    I finished all the donwloads and have 1853 pictures. You can read all about his trip on his blog, www.travelswithmikea.blogspot.com.

    I am sitting at the computer and should be paying bills but I was distracted by my blog. I am listening to the radio which is airing the coach's show for the University of Louisville Football program. Even though they lost to the University of Kentucky last Saturday (although just barely) the fans seem pretty happy with the improvement in the team. UK is my team but I sure would like to see UofL continue to improve and get back to being a competitive team in the Big East.

    Well I made it through another Monday, only 16 more to go before retirement! My boss started a days-to-go countdown for me in her weekly status report. I think its to make sure we get all my duties turned over before I leave. Or maybe its just the number of days until someone gets my laptop and someone gets my window office. I wanted to pull a Blagojevich and auction them off to the highest bidder but my boss has already promised them away. No one has spoken up for my stapler yet; I wonder how much I could get for that?
   

    This is my first experience at blogging so bear with me. It's a Saturday morning and I am home alone with my two dogs. One is sleeping at my feet, the other is barking at our neighbor who is out mowing his lawn. It has no effect on him or on the sleeping dog. My husband is off on a buddy trip but I got a post card from him today. They visited the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. 
    Now that I started this thing I am realizing that its hard to be creative on demand. I thought instead I would post a picture of the dogs. Unfortunately it appears my husband took both our cameras with him along with the movie camera. He must look like something walking around with all that hardware. I still have my old camera but the battery is dead. Yeah, the backup battery works. Ok, I took the picture. Now where is the cable to download the pictures?
    I'm back, found the cable and the battery charger. There were still pictures on the camera from I don't know when. Here is the picture of the sleeping dog:

    Her name is Ukie and she is a Papillon that we got from the Humane Society twelve years ago. She is very smart, sweet and a real chow hound. She has amzing focus when it comes to food. She uses her wiles to take food from her sister and often succeeds. One time she bit the end of a jerky strip off while her sister was carrying it in her mouth. Then she went around the other side and bit the other end off.