Sunday morning musings

Two lengthy service calls and several hours later, hubby has Direct TV and a decent picture for his TV. Our local provider is a cooperative and as this is a poor county, the equipment is fairly low end, so the cable picture is not a good quality.  We have joined the satellite receiver in the yard crew that is the mainstay of country living, at least they aren't still huge dishes mounted literally in the yard

Mowing was finally done around the house between weekend storms.  This weekend was Steppin' Out, a huge street festival in Blacksburg with food, music, and crafts. We got a couple of gifts to stash for birthdays or Christmas on Friday when it was steamy hot before the first storm hit. Yesterday during one of the storms, I dashed between mostly hunkered down vendors to get to the farmer's market for bread, cheese, and a few, produce items not growing in our garden.  The meat vendors weren't there.

Last evening, between storms we took the pups to the Huckleberry trail for a walk.  Shadow has done well on these walks until last night and she was skittish, dragging, pulling, and dancing, especially when two skateboarders passed us from behind and again when they returned.  We were hoping she was getting over her fearfulness.  She starts puppy training classes today, mostly for the socialization in a strange location.  She won't take training treats from us except in the house or car and training is easy here but I don't expect much from the class except helping her to get over being fearful.

Kelly and Rich's wedding 8/13/2010.  Today my cousins, brother, and Dad will begin their vacation at the site of many wonderful memories.  Have fun, maybe next year.