It's been a while

Somehow I seem to have left updating my blog to the end of the pile these days. What with Facebook and email and working on upgrades to 2 websites I manage, as well as having spent a whole week at a judges institute...time has flown by.

Many will remember at the beginning of our summer, which started very slowly and really has not progressed too fast (unlike the rest of the US and the world it seems) I planted some upside down tomato plants - well eventually they blossomed, and bore fruit and now just this last week, have started to go orange (just 3 of them!) so we still have a way to go - and I still have blossoms on the plant, which I am sure will never bear fruit, before the first frost. Anyway, we may have a few tomato's, soon... the yellow flowers are Marigolds, which I am told keep undesirable bugs away.

Pictures from Waukesha

This is a picture of the BEST part of my ring - the other pictures I took, did not really show how bad it was...

Ouch!!

I am in Wisconsin judging. I arrived here Thursday as I was judging specialties for min pins on Friday. Minpins were in the morning and I had some lovely dogs- in the afternoon it was old English sheepdogs - now, the fairgrounds had had a lot of rain in the past few days and so I had a ring full of straw and this was not ideal for hairy dogs, however the temperatures were mild and the clouds kept it pleasant.
Now saturday was a different story - we had more rain overnight and this was the day i had the ring from h**l, most of the ring was mud covered with straw - not ideal for an entry of over 50 white dogs (Samoyeds!)
but we persevered. Early in the morning the bugs were bad (Mosquitos) but later in the day a wasp went up my skirt and stung me... And as those who know me well are aware, I am allergic but in the middle of the ring there is not much I can do - other than take some benadryl.
24 hours later my thigh (where I was stung) is swollen to the size of a diner plate and is hot and itchy, and so it will remain for another week or so.
Today - Sunday was very sunny, humid and HOT. More good dogs and a beagle goes Best in Show, a good day.
I will happy to return to the moderate temperatures of home tomorrow




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