Playing Catch Up

Curtis writes:

As you can tell we have found it a little difficult keeping up with the blog these days. Rachel is currently in “Computer Camp” and getting ready for next week’s travel camp visiting various Kentucky state parks. The last two weeks for both of us has been work, work, work…this is a very long post as I can be very long winded but hopefully it catches everyone up!

I just finished up one of the longest weeks in my season. After returning from the annual Hardacre summer pool party I jumped right into the Triple-A All-Star Game and festivities here in Louisville.

Rachel and Chip in the pool

We had a Home-Run Derby on the 14th and the actual game on the 16th. It was a very stressful time for everyone on staff as 2 years of planning came down to just three days but everything went extremely well. I was in charge of “holding down the fort” at the office during the three days and hosting/organizing four parties in relation to our events. Luckily, the team had a couple hotel rooms downtown at the Galt House for the staff to crash as we were putting in 14-18 hour days. After all of the festivities were over we headed into 8 straight home games to restart the regular-season. There is an end in sight as there are only 2 homestands left in August! Louisville Slugger Field, home of the 2008 Triple-A All-Star Game

Ophelia is still going strong and is crazy as ever (the fun kind of crazy). She seems to be kicking her cold/eye infection and is negative for feline leukemia. This means she has been getting some “general population” time with our animals. She, Hobo and Gypsy chase and tackle each other until Tyson gets too interested and Ophelia puffs up and runs away. Another week or so and she’ll be spayed and hopefully adopted very soon. We will also be working on getting Shamrock's cats up on PetFinder.com. Currently, only their dogs are on the website and the cats are adopted through local pet stores.

A very regal-looking Ophelia

An update on our first litter: all four have now been adopted. Heidi was the first to go and went to another Shamrock foster’s sister in Florida. Henry was next going with a woman from Louisville. We were getting worried about the remaining two, Helene and Hans, as they were not getting adopted very quickly. But as soon as Rachel and I discussed about taking them back to foster again they were both adopted together to a nice older couple in Louisville. We hope to receive pictures in the future!

Nebu, now Milo, has been adopted by Leslie and Travis (Rachel’s sister and her husband) and seems to be settling in pretty well. They had been looking for a cat for a while and Milo seemed to fit the bill. If it doesn’t work out, we would gladly take him back though!

My fence project has been slowly, emphasis on slowly, moving along. It’s been hard to work on projects at home when we both basically live at work for much of the summer. I hope to get all the posts in this week when Rachel is gone.

The next few weeks will be busy, again, but fun. Tomorrow, Rachel’s cousin, Scott Dubois, is getting married so we will be driving up for the day but returning home that night. We have lined up many visitors in the month of August and hope everyone gets to come down. 1) Leslie will be helping Rachel with her travel camp next week. 2) A couple of my friends, Joe and Jared, are headed down next weekend to visit and go to the Willie Nelson/Dave Matthews Band held here at the stadium. 3) Rachel’s parents are coming in for a week or so and will help with Rachel’s last camp of the summer, “Horse Camp” (I’m sure she’ll blog about that one quite extensively). And, 4) My parents, Kimberly and her boyfriend might make a trip down to catch a game and go over to Holiday World as well.

I’ll be sure to upload some pictures of some of the described events. Our computer has been on the fritz so that could be a while. Thanks for checking in!