Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log
SATURDAY APRIL 10 2004
We're posting early again today because I'm the designated van driver for our Adoption Day at PetsMart in Plano, and the van leaves here at nine a.m.
Being short two of our regular hands I will once again assume the position of van driver. After dropping off Tina and the dogs at PetsMart in Plano I'll drive the van to my 95-year-old dad's house in Richardson, where I'll meet up with Dad (two photos of whom are in the April newsletter), my older brother, Pete, and younger brother, Tom, who (with his wife and daughter) arrived from New York last night to visit Dad this weekend. My brothers and I will take Dad to lunch, and then I'll return to PetsMart to finish out our Adoption Day session, pick up a week's supply of dog food and drive the van and any unadopted dogs (and the dog food) back to Straydog. We usually get back home at about six p.m. I'll report on Adoption Day results in the Sunday Update.
Thanks to Volunteer Ofelia Gipson 600 of the 2500 pieces made it to the post office by closing last evening
Another 400 pieces were ready to go to the post office by six p.m. when Ofelia left Straydog, and Juana and I kept on stuffing envelopes until seven o'clock when Randy, our overnight man, arrived with his wife, Rita, who stayed all night with Randy helping out with the mailing. When I talked with Randy at five o'clock this morning, he said that he and Rita had gotten another 500 pieces ready to mail. What we've got ready now will go to the post office this morning. Then we'll have about a thousand pieces left to do, and they should make it into Monday's mail. Then we keep our fingers crossed and wait.
Printed copies of the newsletter (in black and white) will be available today at our Adoption Day "booth" at PetsMart, or readers can print out copies with color photos via the following links:
(1) April Newsletter, First 4-Pager