Update on Roxy, My AKC Doberman

I finally broke down Saturday and told my DH about our Dobie being sick. DH had ill feelings towards her until he discovered that part of her 'issues' are not helpable by her. I believe she has cancer and DDD.

Mississippi Tornado

We had a tornado hit here just a few days back. I wasn't sure if any other you other ladies knew. I went around today and took a few pictures. I tried to be respectful of HOME OWNERS and not shoot any homes .... and believe me there were quite a few that had damage. Trees on houses, vehicles, uprooted. Blown away shingles, and just lots of wind damage. The photos below are of a couple businesses that are about 8-10 min from my house. This is the second tornado that has come close to me, but not nearly as close as the one I encountered in Nashville around 1998 where I was without power for nearly 2 weeks!

Anyhow, Below are some picts of the industrial section that got hit pretty hard. There are quite a few people unemployed now and that damaged homes. Although the most that happened to mine was a few shingles were missing .... 37 to be exact, my heart goes out to those with great losses!

This is COOPER LIGHTING, their business was ripped too pooo! You can see inside their building quite well and they have security there so that no one can enter and take things from the exposed palates. To make matters worse for this business, it caught on fire during the tornado. These photos were taken today, so it's apparent it's going to be a slow recovery process..

I do not know the name of the business that is in the photo below. I dubbed it the 330 building. I know that it's right across the street from the park I take my kids to play at and this is the one, although you can't tell in the photos, that had 2 semi's over turned and tossed INSIDE the building. When I drove by 3 days ago, the semis were there, but today it looked like they had been removed.

The following business is also unknown to me.... and honestly there's not much of it left for me to try to figure out what it used to be .... but it's demolished. This photo is what it looked like from the tornado NOT THE CLEAN UP!

I know that this could happen anywhere, but I just wanted to ask everyone to keep everyone that was affected by this tornado in their thoughts.

EK Success Winners Posted

Just so that everyone knows that I'm no just blowing smoke, I thought I'd send you the link to where EK Success, the contest originator, lists my ZOO PAGE as one of their winners. Thanks for checking it out and here's the link... http://www.eksuccess.com/contest.php?id=3

Well Fed Ex Dropped of the Goods!

I was headed out the door today when FedEx dropped of my goods for the EK Success/Jolee's Contest I entered in November!

Whhooo-hoooo!

It was a lot of stuff they sent .... all stickers, but atleast I'll be stocked for quite some time.
There was a wide array of stuff, even some stuff I'm sure I'll never get the opportunity to use.
I'll post up some picts of the loot later ..... last count it was 47 SETS!

I'm so thrilled that I can't stand myself right now!

The day is coming....

The day is drawing near for me to see my submission in print with EK Success. I'm so excited. I had to mail them the layout and I know that they said it was the January 8th Newsletter and "What's New" on their site, but I'm not very good at being patient! Atleast not when it comes to getting scrappin goodies! I'll post up details when the email goes out.

I have a busy month ahead of me with lots of meetings, homeschooling, field trips, and teaching scrapbooking classes at my LSS. This month I'll be teaching wedding pages, an altered wooden picture frame & a "Year In Review" two page layout about what else.... the end of 2007 (Shown Below). The tags can be used to show a variety of things. In my example here I have them showing things such as 'current prices for milk, gas, etc. I also have two tags that show what each of my boys liked the most about that year (movie, music, etc).