[Dailydrool] Cakie's BW thank you!

[boardwaddle]

It is me. A very tired Cakie. I must arooo a lot of thank you's
for the BoardWaddle weekend. First I must point out some of the impawtant 
points.

1.       IT DID NOT RAIN. The weather was PAWFECT. Sunny, warm..slight wind 
off the oshun. Waddle of our dreams. This DOES NOT HAPPEN TO US! About the 
second time in 11 years it was so pawfect. The crowd was huge, she slave is 
still counting hounds. Thanks for the stompin! It rained up till Weds, 
backed off on Thursday and started again on Sunday.but we got the window of 
PAWFECT WEATHER. Thank you, weather dawGs..and feyfey who tries hard.

2.       My beloved daughter, Petunia and I tied for closest to the ground 
with Zephyr Funk just behind, er, less low than us. Since I am the mom, I 
kept the first place medal. Petunia didn't care. We got the same box of Old 
Mother Hubbard Cookies either way.

3.       Chunky edged out King George for Longest Ears. I am beyond words. 
Love George, Love Chunky.

4.       Good moolah for the paw hounds...he slave will be counting money 
for quite a while.but the top pledge winners were amazing! Too soon to know 
if it was truly more than last year, but he slave is cautiously optimistic 
and the slaves are HUGELY grateful to all the wonderful people who came 
through for Tri-State Basset Rescue in the not so hot economy. Pawction 
bidding was great fun and folks were very generous. Including Dr. Stinky who 
now has a $375 toilet seat cover created by King George's slave, Kay. (Both 
my she slave and my breeder slave are still muttering that they really did 
want to win it!)

5.       I got lots of humans to thank and at risk of offending anybody who 
I pawget,
remember I am old and so is the typist..... thanks to Paul Curley who went 
with the he
slave to fetch the cookies and soda and haul stuff on Thursday. (He slave 
really does need more help on Thursday.)

Thanks to Sandybob and Pam and Jason and Erika for doing the Olympics.

Thanks to Auntie Diana and Uncle Frank who not only came all the way from
Ireland to help haul stuff to the pawction, but were the last ones to leave
that night...then they waddled WrongWay Rusty! Thanks  Aunties Sharon Wilder 
and Marion for checking folks in and to Aunties Lisa and Ilene and King 
George's Kay and my favorite Auntie Moosebarb even if she is a little 
chintzy with the cookies, for hawking stuffs cause they done real, real 
good. Thanks to the prize girls, Kathy Z and Lori who don't even have hounds 
and Erika! Thanks to  Uncle Sandybob for taking the moolah....and did we 
mention Frank, Diana and Moosebarb for staying till the end  haul the stuff 
out???

Thanks to the basset wrangler Sam and Jason who stepped up at the last 
minute to lead the pawrade!!(who also did pictures and games wif Auntie 
Erika...proving ya can do stuff wif a toddler.) Thanks to original slave 
Sharon,  Cadbury's Karen,
and Auntie Kathy and Doreen for signin in the folks and passing lots of
moolah to Doug the waddle accountant! Thanks to Aunties  Pat and
Amanda for selling shirts and Auntie Donna and Bob for hawking coffee!

Thanks to Kathy Z and Lori for coming back on Saturday.....Kathy runs the
picnic with a team of little kids from Ocean City Elementary school who are
pawsome! Thanks to her kind, her kids and the chefs, Ed and Jim who have
cooked somewhere in the neighborhood of 14,000 hot dawgs over the years!!
Thanks to Aunties A and Marilyn and Cathy B for guarding the gate with 
waddle accountant, Doug.

Thanks to the pawfectly pawvelous sales team that had the unflappable and 
helpful Auntie Moosebarb...Pat and Carol and Walli and Amanda and Cathy. 
Rumors that they personally bought more stuff than they sold are, well, 
probably true! (..and they sold a lot.) ....big thanks to those who stayed 
to haul stuff and my breederslave Hank for helping unload the truck with 
Uncle Frank, loading it again and unloading the truck with the he slave on 
Sunday morning.

BIG thanks to Auntie Kathy R for being the proxy bidder (she had some
winners!) and doing registration and POOP raffle and measuring ears and
bellies.....with thanks t o Auntie Sue.. Auntie Amanda and the she slave 
walked the field at the end and found almost no poop!



Thanks to Auntie Deb for not only the shirt design, but bringing the little 
concrete houndies! Much to he slave's surprise, the dozen ordered were sold 
and she slave blatantly stole the dozen destined to have gone to Long Island 
right out of Deb's car. She sold two between the car and the door of the 
country club! Then she sold her own, right off the porch of my house!!! (She 
can wait till Auntie Deb fetches more.)



Thanks to everybody who donated stuff, bid on stuff, bought raffle tickets, 
contributed to the various pledge incentives and worked their tails off. 
Thanks to the amazing pledge winners, two of whom beat last year's high 
pledge..I am a stunned cakie.


I could keep mooing and I'm sure I have already missed somebody, but I'm
sorry and grateful and tired......and need a cookie!

Thank you all for coming and pledging and donating stuffs and bidding and
buying and making it work for another year! Grand Marshall Xandy Bear was 
born to the title. She was elegant and loved the crowd. Thank you Auntie 
daWn for the lovely tiara!!


THANK YOU EVERYBODY. I can't woof enough.


Cakie, GM 01 Basset Hostess
Thanking everybody who BoardWaddled with me in Oshun City, April 17-18. 
Because of you the poor hounds live.

Rolling on to Mishgun, more about that later.