My Lucky Day

Well what do you know, it's my lucky day.

A little background first.  We go to Olsen's Grain to pick up our dog food for the girls.  Emma and Rylee get Canidae Lamb and Rice,  Jessi gets Natural Balance Lamb and Rice Limited Ingredient because of her allergies.  Back in May we went to Olsen's to pick up a couple of bags of each, when the clerk asked me if I wanted to enter a raffle.  No purchase necessary, but we did anyways before we were asked.  I usually pass on these things but, what the hell.  So I filled out my entry form and put it in the box.  Knowing full well I won't have a shot in hell of winning and thinking to myself," nobody ever really wins these things, or at least you never hear of anyone winning."

Fast forward to July 1st.  Out of the blue, I get a message on the answering machine from Olsen's saying that they need to talk to me.  I give them a call back..... I talk to Manny, he informs me that I had won the raffle and to come down to pick up my prize.  Sa-weeet!!

Rewind, back in May, Olsens was sponsoring a local PET DAY here in the Quad City area and the special guest was Tillman, the skateboarding Bulldog that weekend.  This was to be Tillmans last gig and was going to "retire" from doing any shows or appearances.  We never made it out, probably should have, not often you get to see a skateboarding Bulldog.  It turns out he is also the "spokesdog" for Natural Balance Dog Food.

Fast forward to today.  I went down to Olsen's and picked up a couple more bags of food, the clerk asked me if there was anything else that I needed?  I replied," well,  I guess I need to talk to Manny about a skateboard?"  The girls face light's up and she blurted out-

"Congratulations!!!  That is so cool!"

I said' thank you."  I pulled out my speech I had written down hours earlier and began to thank The Academy and everyone for their support......no,  not really.  The grin is for dramatic effect only.

The proud winner.....and the lucky recipient below.....

As you can tell, she is overwhelmed with enthusiasm.  She doesn't know what to do.  Jessi asks herself, "Should I  lick it?  Should I play with it?  Should I chew on it, those wheels look pretty tasty."   As she sat puzzled by this......."thing"............Brooke and I were talking out in the backyard, not really paying to much attention to her and then............ this happened.......

All by herself.  It's gotta be the food.  Or maybe the fact that she's German and those Germans are known to be pretty darn smart.  I think it's the latter.  I tried to get her to do some tricks on it, but it was her first day and I didn't want to rush things.   Maybe in a few weeks we will revisit this crazy dog and see what she is up to.  ;)

Jessi says "Raroooo!"