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Now let's talk about some wonderful, wonderful people who helped feed Mr. Luke and Mama G (Ms. Ginger) while they were around our part of the woods.

Pat Lewsen or Mr. Pat as I call him, is married to my "sis" Lydia and between them we have a pretty amazing company in Everything & The Dog!      You all probably know that we take care of animals, but did you know that Mr. Pat is a gourmet chef and makes wonderful dinners for 2-leg clients?   And can give you a cooking class in your house too?   Well that is the truth, and without him, my Mom and my "sis" would probably go hungry on a regular basis.

So the very first night Mr. Luke joined us here in Leesburg, Virginia, was September 7th, and Mr. Pat made the most amazing dinner and we invited some friends to come join us to celebrate Mr. Luke's arrival.    
It was so yummy that Mom came back to our house groaning from all the delightful dinner.   Mr. Luke is a pretty fine cooker himself but can't keep up with Mr. Pat in that department.

Mr. Luke stayed at our home for his first few days, and then went off to stay with Theresa Fairbanks, who is one of our wonder sitter's with Everything & The Dog  .    In a few days we sent him on to stay with Doug & Barbara Arnold, who are clients of ours, and Mr. Luke and Ms. Barbara hit it off big, cause Ms. Barbara is a member of Loudoun County Master Gardeners  and Mr. Luke is very interested in gardening  (or he would be, if he wasn't walkin' so much ----  HA).

                                                  

If you would like to take a virtual tour of the Loudoun County Demo Garden (in case you have been walkin' a lot and are tired), just ask your Mouse Person to fly you over there by clicking on the link above.

Then after The Arnolds, Mr. Luke went on to stay with another client, Ms. Katie McAuliffe (who is the Mom to Oakmont, one of our favorite pups), and then finally stayed with Troy and Caren Smith for a few days in Ashburn.   Ms. Caren also works with us here at  Everything & The Dog  so you can see that we really put our sitters and our clients to good works with Mr. Luke and Ms. Ginger.

AND.............WE HAD SOME BIG EVENTS AND SOME SMALL EVENTS, BUT ALL WERE WONDERFUL EVENTS.

We had a Candlelight Vigil and a Memorial Tree Planting at our Leesburg Dog Park which is at Olde Izaak Walton Park.   That was on Tuesday, September 8th and was pretty wonderful and pretty emotional too. THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP LEESBURG DOGS, Friends of The DogPark --- Mary Harper, Sandy Kane, Cathy Chianese - to name only a few.

Then Lydia took Mr. Luke to have dinner with her Northern Virginia Professional Pet Sitters Network  group on Wednesday night.  If you are needing a pet sitter or dog walker and we cannot be of service to you, then please go and visit the NOVA Network for some helping hands (or paws).

                                   


Next we had our Dog Swim at the Symington Aquatic Center of Ida Lee Park and you can read all about that by checking out my  blogging from that day     Mr. Luke couldn't stay there very long, cause next he was off to Bark n' Bubbles in Ashburn for a Charity Dog Wash.     To give you a preview of that event, you can check out another Blog entry of mine which was reposted by my friends at Dogtime.Com, and you can see pictures and the full story of the event on that day.     

I can't resist reposting this picture of Ms. Pam Ahart, one of the owners of Bark n' Bubbles with Murphy, after his bath.



                                

After that exciting day, Mr. Luke and da' Boys were off to Arlington to Dogma Bakery to attend the 2009 Wag'N The Cure event.     You can go and read all about that great day at this Dogtime.Com link   This is a great piece of reporting cause there are lots of questions and answers about Canine Cancer and you need to read up on this in addition to learning much more about Hudson, Murphy and Mr. Luke

What next?

Our friends at The LIfe Centre in Leesburg had a nice Meeting & Greeting event with Luke on Monday the 14th and that was the day that Mama G arrived, so she got to go and meet the great docs and clients who came to see Mr. Luke and da' Boys that evening.     Then there were meetings with The Parks Department in Washington DC to finalize plans for the big day, and a Meet & Greet event at Friendship Hospital for Animals on the evening of the 17th.

Next --- The Big Day, our Canine Cancer Caucus Walking, and finally (and now we are pooped) an amazing event at DogGone Natural in Ashburn

 


So let's see.   Who have I left out?   Oh my, my head is spinning right now, so I'm sure there were some others that I should mention.

The great people at ABC and at FOX-5, did news stories about Mr. Luke and had reporters and cameramen at The Washington DC Walk.    You can read the stories and see the videos by clicking your Mouse's tail and going to visit them at Fox News on the Web and ABC- Channel 7

And then.  

A Very Special Huge Hug and Thank You to our wonderful friend, Ms. Kate Bland of Wrapped in Kindness.    Ms. Kate stepped in at the final hour and organized our news and press releases and we know she was responsible for having the news teams, on the job.    



Oh and wait!   Water, Water, Water.    A Big THANK YOU to Costco, Leesburg and to their general manager, Mr. Billy Wallace and Mr. Sergio Vitela, the Asst. GM of Operations, from  Store 337    Costco donated SIX CASES of their Kirkland Signature Water so we could all stay hydrated during our long walking.

And for overall help, support and hugs when we needed them, thank you thank you to our true friend, Diane Ward.    Diane is the brains and beauty behind Scooby North America and you can read more about her in the next few days on our Blogging.


Well that is it in my Thanking Department.   I know I did forget some people and I am sorry for that.     There were just too many for one poor little PitBull to remember about.  Even though I am a reporter Extra Ordinary, remember, I do not have opposable thumbs, so my note taking on the spot is often compromised.

Love and Licks and Puppy Up!

Bob