Surfing dog

(zoom in on this pic and see the guy on the hill behind me falling on his butt) Wow! We had a great weekend but wow! I am busy! Next weekend we will be at Blue Lake up near Portland for the entire weekend. I will be a vendor for two days, Saturday is the sprint race and Sunday is the olympic distance race and Bill is racing Sunday. Typically there are about 1500 people there for the weekend so I'm really hoping sales go well, I had to up my inventory, buy credit card processing stuff, and I'm scrambling to get a vinyl sign ready in time. I am providing awards for the overall winners of each of the races (both tri and duathlons) so I'm really excited to be adding value to the event. I guess I will be working all week at the day job and then all weekend at the tri. It's a good thing we have a vacation planned for the end of the month!

Sunday was so fun, I get incredible joy from our dog, he's just Cool. We took him to the coast and he ran on the beach playing soccer with Bill using a tennis ball but Marshall wanted to go in the water so Bill threw the ball out there and that dog was totally surfing in the waves. The water off the Oregon coast is COLD but it didn't slow him down, he jumped right in the surf and retrieved his ball. He's a much faster runner than last year when were last here (he was 6 months old then) so he put some serious moves on Bill when they played soccer. Bill played in college at Indiana so he has moves (they're rusty but they are moves) but the dog made him look like an old man. Fun for me!

Friends, this week is going to be challenging. I was asleep on the couch last night by 9pm. Do not watch that "Planet Earth" show with no lights on! The soothing voice over and music in the background are a killer. Plus it can give you freaky dreams. They seem to find the most disgusting creatures to feature on those shows. The vampire octupus really got me good, I wouldn't be surprised if that thing was responsible for alien activity. It had weird eyes! Freaky! It makes my skin crawl. Don't watch the Deep Sea series, you have been warned.

Here's a video of Marshall at the beach: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7312995769755691295