Mild Rant

Did three high points since the last posting here will put photos up this week but this is a dog related rant. You know just when I think that some people may finally be turning into decent humans, I go out of the area and run into others who know them and they tell me Godawful atrocious things that are being said by the people I am trying to give the benefit of a doubt.

This weekend I talked with someone who is new to the breed or relatively so, and who has had another Borzoi person say horrible atrocious things to her and I quote, "That puppy is a freak, probably isn't purebred. Looks like a collie mix you should send it back." "I think that dog is a dwarf, there is something wrong with it." Said dog is in size for the breed and while she is on the smaller side around 26.5 to 27 inches and shorter on leg than my preference she doesn't look very different from some of the other Borzoi person's dogs. I don't know if people realize it but when they talk so mean to others and say such things about other people's breedings ( and let me say none of these dogs have anything of mine in their pedigrees) it only makes them look as though they have an agenda to push their own dogs off on people. Then later on another person there at the event I was at ( who doesn't even own Borzoi) referred to the the aforementioned negative person, as a nasty mean tempered person who only speaks ill of others. I didn't let this spoil my weekend but I had really hoped that there had been some great change in this persons life and that they were nicer now to people. I guess I need to keep praying on that instead of blogging.

Black Mountain, KY -11th high point

On July 10th we drove up to Black Mt KY, elevation 4139 feet around 4 hours from here and oh my in the middle of coal mining territory there. There were these huge coal conveyors crossing the state road in several places. At any rate we had a little impromptu picnic at the top, no real scenic photos from the top because it is covered with trees but I did get pictures of both of Archie and myself at the plaque there, the USGS marker, the old lookout tower there ( you can no longer get up because if you look the last TWO sections of stairs were removed and the FAA radar tower up there. All in all a fun day trip and we got to DRIVE to the top but we will pay for that plenty this fall trying to hike Mt. Whitney. Wahoo our 11th high point.