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After a week of miserable weather during the spring break wee, we took ourselves and Bacon to Topsail Beach. Dogs are allowed on the beach off-leash until early May. Bacon had a great time chasing his football up and down the beach. Afterwards we drove about the island looking at the houses for sale.

Here’s a little Drum and Bass mix I made.

Erin made and flipped her own pancake for the first time.

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After working in the yard all morning we went up to Hillsborough to see the garden sculpture exhibition . We very nearly purchased one called ‘Quantum Dog’… still deliberating about it… might get a kayak instead. Who knows? We put some photo’s on flickr. After we met Josh and Jamie for a few beers in Carrboro. The Kentuky Derby was on TV.. but I think we ended up watching the wrong race.

Note to self. Horse racing is pretty boring unless you have money on it.

So I’m sitting in my kitchen deleting emails – as you do, when the phone rings. At the other end of the line is an earnest man asking me to contribute to ‘dogs against drugs’. As you can imagine, I thought it was someone taking the piss, but no – they were really cold calling, asking for a 100% tax deductible donation to what turns out to be a program where police officers take drug sniffing dogs to schools, and pitch the little buggers on the danger of ingesting unknown chemicals sold by shady geezers.

It all sounds very worthy, but I’m not sure I can take seriously anyone who opens their pitch with ‘would you like to donate to dogs against drugs’.

a vacation…. bloody Nora we needed one, what with leaving the country, and all that entailed, and buying a house we decided to take a vacation (note it’s not even a holiday anymore)
Well after an evening getting all excited over Mexico, Grand Cayman and the Car-RIB-eean, even Disney, we settled on Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for our anniversary vacation.
We’ve never been to a family resort destination in high season, but after the initial culture shock I think we would do it again. No fine dining, or high culture, but plenty to keep us occupied, straight out onto the beach and indoor and outdoor pools- lazy rivers are all the rage it seems, but with temperatures and humidity both through the roof you can see why sitting in a rubber ring and just floating around to cool off is such a hit.

As I write a storm is outside and everyone waits for it to get rid of the humidity and make things a bit more bearable, we’re getting ready to go try something called Magiquest