Saturday, August 28, 2010

Something nice happened today!

This morning we went out around ten A.M.
The Cultural Center that I have mentioned before had an annual event there; I do believe this was just the second year, and we had gone to it last year.
Crazy 4 Paws, is an occasion where many venders in the pet toy, food, training display their services or animal related wares, and your entire short hairy, fury or feathered loved ones are invited to indulge with you to enjoy what was there.
Whatever you might need for your loving four-footed family member or feathered friend was on show for you to examine or even try.
Our dear Skipper was on his better behavior than last year where Hubby ended up having to remove him because he had decided to take it upon himself to give his vocal critique of the other visitors, to our dismay with loud unrelenting embarrassing barking at most all of them.
This year he seemed to have matured in his behavior and really behaved remarkably well, and greeted all other canines and with quiet sniffing, and tail wagging.
What a difference a year makes, huh?
Part of the excitement of the tour of the room is getting each vendor to sign a form they hand you as you enter the venue.
When fully completed at the end of your visit you can fill in your personal info on the bottom and therefore be entered in to win a contest!
And so I did what everyone else did as we exited the center to go to our car to go home for our lunch since it was just after eleven thirty A.M. and at this point it was all free and we are down to the end of the month financially so eating out was not on our agenda besides Skipper was with us and we weren’t going to push our luck even though now in our county there are quite a few dog friendly eateries.

We finished our lunches at home and sat down to enjoy some of our favorite how-to shows on PBS when around twelve forty-five P.M. I received a phone call.
It was a person from the center saying that I had won a free gift!
By now I was pooped and I thanked them and asked if it needed to be picked up right away, since I didn’t know at the time if Hubby would be willing to go back without me to go retrieve whatever it could be. He overheard the conversation from here at the computer so I asked him, and he said yes, and so he went and picked it up. And he brought a pretty lavender bag back filled to the brim with what I had no idea, and apparently he didn’t either since as I examined our lovely gift, I said OH NO!
For within the very pretty bag were cat toys and food and all things for a kitty… Our Casey passed away just last October from cancer, our beautiful long haired orange Tabby with amber eyes, I felt like crying. I tried immediately to call the person back from the number in my phone, but I got a recording saying that they were closed until Monday!
I begged Hubby to take it all back and suggested perhaps they didn’t know what a Bichon Frise was; I suppose that was highly unlikely considering where we were; at that pet event.
Hubby again went out, back to the Cultural Center, what a guy.
But I was still a bit annoyed that he didn’t look in the bag before he brought it home…
Any-who, while he was still in transit I looked up the number of the center in the book, and it was different from the number I tried on my cell phone from when they called.
And so I called and I got the center and explained what had happened.
I also called Hubby to let him know that and to ask if they might have a dog gift in trade?
Hubby said that they apologized and felt just awful about the mix up, and they gave him a certificate for a free pet grooming for our wonderful Skipper!
Wow! What a truly nice gift, since we both know how expensive it is to bring our darling in for grooming at forty bucks every six to eight weeks. We were going a wee bit longer since we had all those additional expenses these last few months and now it would be taken care of, oh joy, what timing!

And so as nice as that was Hubby wondered if this could mean that our luck would finally be changing for the better…who knows I said, anyway it is a very nice little surprise and who in their right mind couldn’t appreciate that, really I ask you?

On that positive note of hope and whatever… happy night to all and to all count those blessings and we well too!

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