Major is (will be) 1 yr. old!

Tomorrow our puppy Major will be 1 year old! He's registered name is Major Jakie Bear. The "Jakie" is after Alan's Dad, whose is often called Jake by his family. Our first collie was named Prissie after Alan's Mom (if you know Geraldine, you'll understand!), so it was only fair to name Major after J.P., and he owns Major's parents. BTW-he has a couple of new collie pups ready to go to new homes!!

It doesn't seem like it was a year ago Major was so tiny...(Minor?)

He's about 2 wks old in the photo above.

This photo was taken on April 4th.

He's not so tiny now! Now you know why the "Bear" part of his name! He still wants to be a lapdog some days, though. He loves to play with his rope. He slings it, chews it, and chases it. He's pretty good at fetching and bringing it back for us to toss again. He's got his people trained well. His other favorite toy is a plastic flower pot! He will carry it all over the yard, retrieve it when we throw it, and chew it. Then we get a new one so he won't get cut or eat the plastic pieces. He has brought lots of joy & laughter to our lives.

Here is Major with his first flower pot when we brought him home last May!

It took us a couple of years to get another collie after Prissie had to be put to sleep. She was with us for 13 years and was so much company for Alan, especially after he had to stop work due to his back problems. She followed him everywhere around the yard and shop. Major is following in her footsteps in that regard. If he would just stop barking so much!! Prissie only barked if something was wrong or someone came around. Major barks at the birds at the feeder, when he wants to play, while he's playing, when someone or some animal comes into the yard and sometimes just for the heck of it, I think. Hopefully he will soon mature enough not to bark so much. We love the noisy ole boy though!

Happy Birthday Major!

Hi, I'm Sue...

It's been so long since I've blogged, I thought I may need to re-introduce myself.

I haven't really had anything to blog about, and haven't really felt like it. Still coughing and battling sinus issues. Week before last, I had a rheumatoid (sp) arthritis (RA) flare up in my hip & leg and couldn't walk for 2 days. It's frustrating, but I'm so fortunate that the medicine usually keeps it in check. Anyway, I'm much better now. There are so many people with so many more & worse problems than mine.

This week was all about making it until Thurs. at 1:30 when we got out for Spring Break!!! I worked until 4:45 though-nice and quiet-actually got some stuff accomplished.

I was thankful Wed. night at Weight Watchers for a 1 lb loss! (I must be following Kelly's idea of 1 lb/wk). That's a total of 9.4 in two months. Hopefully with losing so slowly it will stay away forever! Hoping for 1-2 lbs loss next Wed. at least to get to 10 lb loss! Due to the RA flare up, I didn't get any extra walking in. I'm working on those Activity Points this week! I did the trim mowing with the push mower today. Hopefully I'll get to do some walking on the beach sometime this week when we visit my dad's side of the family in the Shallotte area. (But my uncle's cooking will push my daily points too! We call him "Emeril").

I was feeling a bit mischievous (imagine that,LOL) yesterday afternoon. My mom can't stand Easter egg trees, so I tease her every year about it. For years I've wanted to decorate one of her trees when she was gone, but haven't been able to work it out. Well, they went to the Maundy Thursday service at their church in Roanoke Rapids last night and I had my eggs ready. I didn't have many, and I wanted to make sure she saw it when they drove up, so I hung them on her gardenia bush at the end of the driveway (forgot the camera). Dad called on their way home and I told him to make sure the headlights hit the bush. We're always doing something to aggravate her. Well, when they drove up, Dad said at first she didn't say anything, then she said "Look at that! That mean daughter of yours has put eggs on my bush!!" 'Course she was laughing. So she called and said she was gonna get my britches when she saw me. I responded as usuall with "My Diddy won't let you!" Well, this morning I rode with Alan to get the trailer & lawnmowers (stored at their house). While he was loading up I went inside to see her. Of course she didn't get me-we had a good laugh. Later, when we took the lawnmowers back, I snuck around and got the eggs off the bush and hung them on her Norfolk Island pine in the back porch. Later she called saying she had found that and I was gonna get it for weighting down her NI pine. Well, I asked it she laughed, of course she had. I told her see I knew she needed a laugh, and was only doing it for her stress relief. She needed a laugh-she had just dumped a lemon chess pie upside down on the oven door as she took it out of the oven! Some days are like that! Anyway, I get my mean streak from her, so she can't say much about it.
Hope everyone has a great Easter!