Finding the Perfect Gator

After searching through hundreds of gators, it looks like Dianne has found the perfect one for our logo.

Today is Baby Day

Deanna will be having her C Section this afternoon. We already know the baby is a girl. Welcome to the world baby Lara!

New Team Colors

Dianne has decided to eliminate the orange from our team colors and add hot pink. This will give us the ability to flip flop the colors of our shirts without duplicating the color of another team (Sundogs, who are orange). As an added benefit, lime green and hot pink are a very popular color combination so the possibilities of finding things in our team colors will be endless.

Surgery Update

The surgery went well and Dianne is expected home in the next few days. Hopefully, she will be up for having visitors soon.

Surgery Day

We are all thinking about Dianne today, hoping the surgery goes well, and wishing her a speedy recovery.

First Club Activity

This morning we had our first ever club activity. We all met up at Dianne's house at 9 am. It wasn't easy getting there on time after staying at Shawn's house so late. From Dianne's house we went over to the SCC campus for a packing/carting exercise. The idea was to get the dogs familiar with each other while walking in a group. We gave the dogs a job to do like carrying a backpack or pulling something so that they focused on their job instead of each other. It worked great! We took a little break in a shaded breeze-way and did a ball retrieve exercise. All of the dogs were successful. After the walk, we headed back to Dianne's house for some flyball practice. All of the dogs were able to accomplish more than we had anticipated. It was very exciting and rewarding to see.

Card Party

Tonight we had a card party at Shawn's house. It was a blast! Melanie was in charge of providing the food. She got some great stuff from Publix, lots of choices (lesson learned: don't bother getting baked chicken if you are also getting fried chicken). The best thing was a very cool cake with the team colors. Shawn's Whippet George provided some hilarious entertainment showing us that he can zoom around the house at the speed of light. Dianne had to leave after we ate, as her in-laws are in town. The rest of us attempted to play Uno but we were talking so much that none of us were really able to keep up with the game. Shawn mysteriously won almost every hand. Her husband informed us that she likes the cheat at cards ....Hmmm.... Before we knew it, it was 11:30 and we decided to leave poor Shawn alone and go home.

Team Members

Dianne's surgery has been confirmed for Sept. 10th and it looks like Deanna will be having a C-Section. We will definitely be having a break in the action while they recover.

First Team Meeting

After much excitement and anticipation, today was our first team meeting (even though it has actually only been 5 days since we became official). We met at the Central Florida Fairgrounds just in time to catch the end of DOCOF. Then it was off to Olive Garden. There is still a lot of uncertainty about how and when things will happen but a there is a tentative plan to run in Open Class with another team in November and then run as Swamp Dogs in January. Some of us will be going to the September tournament to gather information about captain duties.

Suggestion for Club Activity

Melanie found a great club activity http://www.showcaseofcitrus.com/ecotour.asp

It's a monster truck swamp tour. We have to wait until we get our shirts so we can get our picture taken on this thing.