A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE

I am not one who normally passes emails on...but this one is so very important, I decided to post it here. We must all take a stand against Insurance Companies and thier quest to save themselves a dime at the expense of our health. Please read and feel free to copy the article and send it along to your friends, family and email buddies.
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Please sign this bill and forward to anyone that you feel will sign it and pass it on.

From a nurse: I'll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell themthey had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast.I sat with my patients, giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasphalf of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened lookspoke louder than the quiet 'Thank You' they muttered.A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to removecancerous breast cells/tissue. If you know anyone who has had amastectomy,you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterwards. Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatientprocedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly in thehospital for 2 days after surgery.It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. Please take the time and do it really quick! Please send this to everyone in your address book.If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, thisis one of those times. If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the time to vote on this issue and send it on to others you knowwho will do the same.There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which willrequire Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the 'drive-thrumastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours aftersurgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anasthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a petitiondrive to show your support. Last year over half the House signed on.PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the Web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number.
http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and family and on behalf of all women, THANKS.

COOKIE at 9 & 1/2 weeks old

TOUCHDOWN

Lady Ellyllon (aka "COOKIE")

Both ears are up now, and Cookie is beginning to look a little more like a Corgi. Is this the cutest profile, or what???

OKAY.... I am TOTALLY enamored with this puppy. Cookie is 9 &1/2 weeks old now. She knows how to heel on lead, come (sorta), sit, goes potty on command.... OKAY.. ...she squats on command.... not so sure she actually goes potty or not. LOL!!!

She is THE PERFECT puppy. Let's see if she holds that status through the "toddler stage" which should hit in a few weeks.

The breeder is so impressed with her he has offered to breed her for free (stud of our choice) if he can have pick of the litter. I seriously doubt we will take him up on his offer, as we have "been there, done that" with Border Collies and I can attest to dog breeding as being a very expensive, time consuming undertaking.

Time for Cookie's nightly massage, then a little tv time. Movie tonight is Monks of New Skete.

And.. NO... I am NOT suffering from Empty Nest Syndrome. LOL

PRESENTING

Lady Ellyllon Rhoslyn of Fae

aka "Cookie"

8 weeks old

The lucky winners are :

LYNN for her submission of LADY

LIZ for her submission of RHOSLYN

(Ladies your FQ's will be on their way shortly).

ELLYLLON was my search engine find.

"COOKIE" is what my granddaughter started calling her and now the dog is responding to it. lol!!

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped me NAME THAT PUPPY!!!!

NAME THAT PUPPY - submissions

Here is a list of the submissions. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!! It was SOOOOOOO hard to choose. All the names were great!!!! We may have to get another puppy (or two) to use up all these FAB names. I will announce the winner(S) very soon. I am still trying to figure out a way to use all my favorites and still be within AKC's 30 space max.


TaffY's Tech Surprise

Ferrishyn (Ferrishin) - A Manx name for the fairie tribe; the singular is "ferrish". They are the Trooping Fairies of Man, though there does not seem to be any distinction between them and the Sleih Beggey.
They are less aristocratic than the fairies of Ireland and Wales, and they have no named fairy king or queen. They were small, generally described as three feet in height, though sometimes as one foot. They could hear whatever was said out of doors. Every wind stirring carried the sound to their ears, and this made people very careful to speak of them favorably.

Rhoslyn of Sable Hills - Call her Ros or Rose
Rhoslyn means lovely rose in Welsh

Cori Lou

Ellyllon
The name given to the Welsh elves. They are tiny, diaphanous fairies whose food is toadstools and fairy butter, a fungoid substance found in the roots of old trees and in limestone crevices. Their queen is Mab. They are smaller than the Tylwyth Teg

Lady Epona. Lady from her mother. Epona is the celtic goddess of horses which her saddle back for fairies suggests. She can be Lady or Pone as corn pone as any good redneck can attest to. After seeing her, call her Sweetie.

Brucie "Willow" Shaylee Brucie - forest sprite,Willow -strong,Shaylee - princess of the field wonderful new baby, congrats!!!!!

COOKIE

MISSY

PEG as in the song Peg of my Heart

Gracie after Gracie Allen

Lizzie after the Queen of England (Corgis are her breed of choice)

CORKY the CORGI

Lydia Ferrishyn of Robin's Lady (would call her Liddy) --- counted > the spaces and it's one space to many

LEGEND OF THE PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI

The legend of the Pembroke Welsh Corgi provides a charming tale for the curious of how the Corgi came to live in the hills of southwest Wales. According to this legend, two young children out tending the family's cattle on the king's land found a pair of puppies which they thought were little foxes. When the children took the puppies home, they were told by the menfolk that the little dogs were a gift from the fairies. The "wee folk" of Welsh legend used the small dogs either to pull their carriages or as fairy steeds. As the fox-like puppies grew, they learned to help their human companions watch over the cattle, a task which was to be the duty of their Corgi descendants for many centuries to come. Should anyone doubt the truth of the legend, the present-day Welsh Corgi still bears the mark over his shoulders of the little saddle used by his fairy riders.
Enchanted? Perhaps not-- but surely the Pembroke Welsh Corgi is a bit fay. What other dog can fold his front paws underneath his chest as completely as a cat? What other dog can flop over onto his back at the drop of a hat, paws waving ridiculously aloft, then right himself with a lightning twist that would do credit to a circus acrobat? And, finally, what other dog can manage to look-- while hopping up and down on his short hind legs in a rage at a cat or similar irritant-- so very much like Rumpelstiltskin when the queen told him she knew his name?

New Puppy

Here is the new puppy. She is a 7 week old Pembroke Welsh Corgi The picture below is what (hopefully) she will look like full grown.

TV problems and WARRENTECH

GREAT NEWS!!! After fighting for months with Warrantech to honor the extended warranty we purchased at Ultimate Electronics on our tv (which is a LEMON... with a CAPITOL "L" .....Samsung 61" DLP). Steve finally filed suit last week.... demanding the entire cost of the tv (which it says in the warranty we are entitled to if the tv can't be fixed. After numerous repairs THEY wrote it off as a lemon and offered to replace it with a used, refurbished tv from an Internet dealer that didn't exist and was a much lesser tv than ours...... long story there). ANYWAY.... once Steve filed suit they coughed up another NEW TV at an Internet site that had HORRID reviews and didn't even had the tv in stock, nor could they get it. Next Monday was to be the court date.

Yesterday they called and tried to settle for the cost of the tv, less taxes, delivery and the warranty... which the contract clearly states we are entitled to if the tv can't be fixed. Steve had 10 counts of Consumer fraud and violations of the Colorado Unfair Trade Practices Act he hit them with... Plus was aksing the court for Treble damages (under those violations) for both Warrantech and Great American Insurance (who Warrentech is the underwriter for).

Bottom line... . Steve settled out of court for triple the cost of the tv.... and we get to keep the tv.... which for the moment is working except for the video/audio jacks. They knew the judge hearing the case (locally known as the hanging judge) would not be kind to an out of state insurance company refusing to honor their warranty.

SOOOOO....with the extra $$$ Steve bought me a new puppy. More about that tomorrow.