Furry Friday

We have until the 4th to let Corgibutts.com know that Hampton is all we want for Christmas.  If you haven't voted yet here is your chance. Click here to go and vote.  If you have already voted on your computer you can vote via iphone or other phone as well.

Child Wranglers

Wanted to stop these people and ask them if they were professional wranglers or not.  Wonder if there is a 'child whisperer' whose tricks and tips are passed  along so that they can be the leaders of the pack.

The scary thing is probably that, in order to end up in a spot where leashes are used for kids they would have had to lose one at some point.

Office Space

Anyone ever feel like their day is straight out of the movie Office Space?

PC LOAD LETTER?  What the F does that mean?

Hampton needs your help!!!

Hampton is in the midst of a calendar contest on corgibutts.com.  She needs everyone's help to make the 2013 calendar.  So we need everyone's help to get her in.  Click the link Click here to go and vote.  She is 1 of only 2 Cardigans up against all the Pembrokes.

Get to voting!!!

Blenhiem Palace

Not sure what happened but these pictures were lost for like a year and have mysteriously popped up, so figured I would go ahead and post about it.

The palace was originally a gift to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in appreciation for his military service.  The appreciation must not have been too strong, as the funding was withdrawn shortly after construction and the completion of the palace ended up taking about 30 years to complete construction.  The palace and construction nearly bankrupted the Chruchills and in 1896 in a last ditch effort to save the family fortune, married into the Vanderbilt's for a $2.5 million dowry.  

Winston Churchill was born and lived here for a time, and the Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchills still live there.  As they were out of town when we visited we got to tour their 'apartments' and see what it was like to live in a palace.  They have to open the majority of the palace up to visitors to cover the costs of maintenance etc.  There was a stark contrast between the public and private portions of the palace.  The public parts were grand and amazing, and the private parts (ha ha) were like the land where time forgot.  Lots of nice things, but because the building was so old it seemed to miss the normal comforts which we are used to.  And there just seemed to be so much stuff around.  I guess when your family has 300 years of history, you have alot to chose from when decorating.

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Furry Friday

Hampton's first print campaign.

Its actually a story about her dogsitter Yulia, but I think that she is really the star of the article.  I tried to read it via google translator, but don't think its quite the best translation.

If you get really bored and want to try your luck with Russian here is the website.

Crime Scene

Was at the fancy new mall, and was surprised to see crime scene tape and the little # things that they use to mark evidence. Couldn't figure out what was going on, but then looked it up on the internet.  Was shocked to found out that there had been a stabbing the day before.  Half the mall was blocked off still, some 24 hours later.   Would have thought it wouldn't take so long to take care of whatever it was that then needed to do.