Tuesday November 7 2006

Whew…my classes are over and I can breathe again. For the last week, I’ve been teaching classes at Spartanburg Community College. It’s a continuing education program in Warehousing, Transportation & Logistics. I taught Freight Claims, Hazardous Materials and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. I spent HOURS getting ready for these classes and was as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs! It all seemed to come out okay in the end and my students assured me they enjoyed the classes very much. I found I really liked teaching adults so perhaps more of this is in my future. For those of you who teach kids, my hats off to you! Adults are there because they want to be and it makes a difference.

So back on a normal routine, as least as normal can be around here. I’m also working again for S-2international LLC, a freight broker located in Atlanta. The owner is the former Director of Sales at the company I used to work for. I enjoy the work (sales) and Jennifer believes in a flex schedule. It’s part time and mostly home based so it works out really well for me with the kennel duties.

Adoptions – it looks like we had a total of four this weekend. Hamlet (standard poodle in Pennsylvania), Roscoe, Tristan (puppy) and Missy was adopted on Sunday by Jean Bullock. That’s Jean on the right and Chrisanne, the daughter of the owner of Missy, on the left. Missy was adopted by Chrisanne’s parents when they lived in Florida. Shortly after adopting Missy, Chrisanne’s mother developed Alzheimer’s and her father was diagnosed with MS. The family came to Hickory NC to live with their daughter. Missy was not getting enough attention to Chrisanne came to us to see if we could find her a home. As you can see, everyone is delighted.

class="MsoNormal">This Thursday, Cindy St. Clair comes in from Virginia to adopt Opal, one of our puppies. We are already scheduled for 3 adoptions this weekend (Sidney from Deb Poston, Jacqueline the puppy and another puppy on Sunday) and I hope to have more. We need 3 to 5 adoptions per week in order to keep the dogs flowing in and out and meet our financial obligations. Our adoption counselors are working very hard to make that happen. If you are interested in assisting, this vital function can be performed by anyone living anywhere. Let Terry Abell know.

Off to check the kennel and then to work. It will be a quiet day for the poo’s at Dreamweaver Farms as it’s raining like crazy here. Tomorrow is projected sunny. Yeah! Everyone have a great day.