Men in Skirts, Cont'd - #4 Blog of 4

Mom and Emily,

This concludes this special St. Patrick's Day 4 piece blog. Have a nice week and I'll be sending you more information in future blogs.

To all my readers (Mom and Emily), please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com

Men in Skirts cont'd - Blog #3 of 4

Almost done!

Men in Skirts cont'd - Blog #2 of 4

Again, no explanation needed. Lots of nice people with lots of cool dogs.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

To all my readers (Mom and Emily), please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com

St. Patty's Day, or Men in Skirts, Blog 1 of 4

I'm just going to post a bunch of photos. I'll let the visuals do the talking, but the basic idea is that my friend Terry and I took Miles, her Blue Tic Hound, to the St. Patty's Day parade on Saturday and we participated in a section of the parade that was promoting Bark In the Park. Bark in the Park is the annual doggie fest held by Mecklenburg County's Parks & Rec. They'll be celebrating a new doggie park at R.J. Davie Park this year and the date is April 28th.

They're always looking for volunteers, so if you're interested contact Lori Saylor at 704-336-5478, or lori.saylor@mecklenburgcountync.gov.

I'm apologizing right now for how I looked. It was VERY, VERY cold out so I put the Bark in the Park t-shirt over my velour sweatshirt and I look like a fat cow. I really don't look that bad in person, believe me! And no, I'm not Irish, but my cat, Timmy Abrams is, so I felt perfectly fine marching in the parade.

To all my readers (Mom and Emily), please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com

DogsWalk in the Planning Stages

I am on a committee that is working on a DogsWalk for the American Cancer Society that we will hold on June 9th in Charlotte. The funds raised will be for human and animal cancer research. These are photos of the crack executive committee, with a little help from "Snowy" who decided to drop by. We hold the meetings at Metro-Paws, one of Charlotte's top doggie day cares.

If you want to get involved go to: American Cancer Society DogsWalk. You can be a sponsor or start a fund raising team, OR join my team. I just set it up, it's called "No More Kitty Cancer".

This will be one fun event!

To all my readers (Mom and Emily), please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com

Beautiful Charlotte

It's raining today, but over the last few days we've had temperatures in the 80's. I had a networking lunch in Lake Norman and when we were done I told some of the locals to point me toward the water. There was no way I was leaving without putting my toes in Lake Norman (hence weird photo with my toe in the Lake!). The photo of the falcon in the tree was actually taken at a business park. I came out of an office building and saw this huge tree that had fallen into the parking lot. When I went over to examine it I realized that there was a stream running behind a residential area into the parking area and when I looked up into the trees two falcons (I think that's what they were) were swooping around. I was only able to take one shot, so it's not great, but I had to share. It was one of those magical Charlotte moments where you're standing in a metropolis but you're surrounded by rustic beauty at the same time.

So, the magazine is defunct but life is still good. I'm making headway with the identity theft product. My family arrives at the end of March so that should be fun and stress-free (ha, ha). I still count my blessings EVERY day.

To all my readers (Mom and Emily), please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com

Bummer

Emily threw herself a surprise birthday party last night, as in she invited people to Graduate on 51 but didn't tell them it was her birthday. Luckily I still had a gift that I hadn't given her left over from my trip to Israel in OCTOBER 2006, so you can see how extremely close our friendship is! Anyway, that's Emily with a bottle of root beer (right) and her good friends AnnMarie and Brad.

I was happy to find that pork is still popular in the South, and oh so affordable. I'm glad some traditions still live on.

And last but not least, a photo of Ebony and Officer Gilmore walking down the red carpet at the Merchandise Mart's Vendor show. What fun was that running into other Pre-Paid Legal Associates, all of us trying to get to business owners. It's a cutthroat business, I tell you. Anyway, it's all good. Last man standing kind of thing. (Can you tell I'm having a weird week?)

My social life is totally bust, but thank God for girl friends having surprise birthday parties for themselves, otherwise I'd be sitting at home watching American Idol, which kind of sucks this year, don't you agree?

To all my readers, please spread the message of love and peace in your every day conduct. I will try and do the same.

Sara Abrams
visit: www.CatsAndDogsofCharlotte.com