21 July 2009
Chris Cross
Officially offical, mark your calendars: December 6th. Meeting point and race details coming along shortly. Plan on 45mins + 4 laps. 1/2 mile lead out & home stretch. Beers and such afterwords at the farm.
14 July 2009
Back in Action
I'm back...I guess. I'll be using this as the go-to for all information for Chris Cross, a cylcocross race I'm organizing for December 6.
Next week monday I meet with the Dodge County Parks commission. The head guy, Bill, didn't think there'd be any problems with a race in Astico park, but wanted to get everyone's input.
So mark you calendars and think about racing or volunteering.
Next week monday I meet with the Dodge County Parks commission. The head guy, Bill, didn't think there'd be any problems with a race in Astico park, but wanted to get everyone's input.
So mark you calendars and think about racing or volunteering.
18 February 2009
24 September 2008
20 August 2008
It's going to get real rad around here...
In about one month, a new collar will be unvieled. We've got a slew of ever-changing patterns, cuteness and very nice collars. Megs has started printing her own artwork on organic hemp and organic denim fabrics, and soon, (towards the end of September) we'll show off our new design - our partnership with Capital Brewing!!!! Limited edition, Captial Brewing dog collars. They're going to be as rad as it gets! Hand printed Cap. beer logos on organic denim fabric. I'm not sure how many we'll do, I'm not even sure what the price works out to. We'll keep y'all posted.
01 August 2008
Keep on Truckin'
This weekend is 24-9, all my fit and unfit friends are going to race, eat, drink and achieve collective exhaustion. I went in '07 and in '06. I'm really sad to be missing out. I really like cycling, but co-managing a business with my wife has taken all each of has. Our "free" time is spent sewing collars, taking orders, shipping product, returning emails and attempting to turn a profit. Both of us have sacrificed our social lives, all of it, the friends we have left are probably there by proxy more than anything. Neither of us ever thought starting a business would be so all-consuming. We knew we were going to work hard, very hard, but not that we would run ourselves ragged for months on end.
We now have 6 stores in the Madison area, one in Milwaukee and one in Chicago. We also have 2 humane societies and several breed rescues we donate too. Success is imminent! I want to believe that this is how all business have to start out, even our favorite ones, like Exxon Mobil, they're killing the competition in terms of profit.
In 2007, Exxon Mobil made $1300 per second; for the entire 12 month span. They continue to break profit records. Making an American-owned company record profit of over $11 billion just in the second quarter. This at a time when our economy seems to be slowly disintegrating.
Meanwhile, we have neighbors who walk their 3 pigs everyday.
We now have 6 stores in the Madison area, one in Milwaukee and one in Chicago. We also have 2 humane societies and several breed rescues we donate too. Success is imminent! I want to believe that this is how all business have to start out, even our favorite ones, like Exxon Mobil, they're killing the competition in terms of profit.
In 2007, Exxon Mobil made $1300 per second; for the entire 12 month span. They continue to break profit records. Making an American-owned company record profit of over $11 billion just in the second quarter. This at a time when our economy seems to be slowly disintegrating.
Meanwhile, we have neighbors who walk their 3 pigs everyday.
24 June 2008
30 May 2008
WTF was that?!
Here's what my 4 dogs and I saw:
4 legs, dark brown, running from a field across the street about 100 feet in front of us. It moved like a cat, had a big bushy tail, and was maybe about 30# or so.
4 legs, dark brown, running from a field across the street about 100 feet in front of us. It moved like a cat, had a big bushy tail, and was maybe about 30# or so.
20 May 2008
Breed Standards
I stumbled upon this picture of a very unlucky Chinese Crested.
Normally, I'm not one for small mostly hairless dogs. Dogs should have fur in my book, a nice fairly even coat, I also like a bit more sturdy bone structure. So I guess, if a Crested was for me, I'd have a powderpuff that was beefed up somehow.
The only ones I know are owned by a good breeder, she's got...4 or 5 or 100, it's hard to remember, all those little barking dogs and her big ornery law-dog son waving his long arms around in a fruitless effort to shoo them away.
There's another woman I know who shows/breeds them. Her Cresteds are terrible rat-like little creatures with little socialization, even training and not much of a dog's life. They live in kennels about 22 hours a day. When they're let out the dogs are left to scrap it out anytime one of her bitches is in heat. She's smart enough to seperate the dogs and bitches, but...damn...get some horny little dogs together with a good looking bitch in heat and all hell breaks loose. It was a terribly stressful place. I'm glad to be freed from her and her dogs.
This little girl is more my style...
It's our little girl, Ci ci. She's doing really well, loves to be outside and is getting ready to do some toy breed agility. She's a little over weight at 7.6lbs, but I'd put her up against most other "family pet" dogs out there. She gets 6 miles a day of walking and eats high protein food, she can jump a fence that's over 2.5ft high. About the only thing she doesn't do well is swim.
Normally, I'm not one for small mostly hairless dogs. Dogs should have fur in my book, a nice fairly even coat, I also like a bit more sturdy bone structure. So I guess, if a Crested was for me, I'd have a powderpuff that was beefed up somehow.
The only ones I know are owned by a good breeder, she's got...4 or 5 or 100, it's hard to remember, all those little barking dogs and her big ornery law-dog son waving his long arms around in a fruitless effort to shoo them away.
There's another woman I know who shows/breeds them. Her Cresteds are terrible rat-like little creatures with little socialization, even training and not much of a dog's life. They live in kennels about 22 hours a day. When they're let out the dogs are left to scrap it out anytime one of her bitches is in heat. She's smart enough to seperate the dogs and bitches, but...damn...get some horny little dogs together with a good looking bitch in heat and all hell breaks loose. It was a terribly stressful place. I'm glad to be freed from her and her dogs.
This little girl is more my style...
It's our little girl, Ci ci. She's doing really well, loves to be outside and is getting ready to do some toy breed agility. She's a little over weight at 7.6lbs, but I'd put her up against most other "family pet" dogs out there. She gets 6 miles a day of walking and eats high protein food, she can jump a fence that's over 2.5ft high. About the only thing she doesn't do well is swim.
16 May 2008
Locally famous...sort of
I managed to finally do it. I made cookies last night. Not just any chocolate chip cookies, though. I used my dad's recipe. Not too many people outside of our family have it. I used to believe they couldn't be made up to par unless I was in his kitchen, with his watchful eye overseeing everything. Last night I made the cookies in my kitchen, without my dad, and I'd say they turned out exactly like his. Most of the recipe is written down, there's a few little things that aren't. I successfully remembered them and.....TADA!!!!! COOKIES!!!!! I'm especially proud because my brother has attempted and failed to make the cookies, he's a great cook & baker. He's made all kinds of stuff, from Bread Puddings, quick breads, donuts, prime rib, crepes, pretty much everything, and yet he can't make dad's cookies in his own kitchen.
I had a lot going against me, first dad uses a nice electric mixer, I mixed by hand. His recipe makes 60-80 cookies, I only made about 30. He uses really nice non-stick cooking sheets, I bought mine at a garage sale for $0.05 each. He has an electric oven with a digital thermometer. I have a gas oven with an innacurate dial thermometer.
As you can see in the picture, they look perfect, and as I can taste, I recreated them perfectly. Maybe I'll make another batch and bring 'em to Wheels on Willy Sunday.
I had a lot going against me, first dad uses a nice electric mixer, I mixed by hand. His recipe makes 60-80 cookies, I only made about 30. He uses really nice non-stick cooking sheets, I bought mine at a garage sale for $0.05 each. He has an electric oven with a digital thermometer. I have a gas oven with an innacurate dial thermometer.
As you can see in the picture, they look perfect, and as I can taste, I recreated them perfectly. Maybe I'll make another batch and bring 'em to Wheels on Willy Sunday.
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