Too Much Rain Cancels Test and Tune For Delmar
The Delaware International Speedway Test and Tune scheduled for Saturday,
April 12, 2003, was canceled due to the ground being to wet after a week of down
pours. Good News Though! It has been rescheduled for this Monday night April
14, 2003. So come out and try your car, it's time to get dirty. See you at the
track. Regular Grandstands admission free.
Gate Open 5:00 PM.
Testing to begin at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
Tawny passed away on April 08, 2002. He will be very sadly missed, he loved people and loved the attention from all. Tawny always had a smile on his face, he was overjoyed from every visit he made or had come to him. Tawny, loved to be sang to and he would do a little jiggle. His favorite food was Grotto's Pizza, he always enjoyed the ride to get one and forever recognized the box with one in it. He loved to go camping and swimming. A friend of ours would say to Tawny to use his tail (numb) as a router. And even more, Tawny loved to have a garden. Tawny would help get the garden ready with spreading the dirt, then nursing the plants until he could pick his own peppers, strawberries, cucumbers and tomatoes. Those were his favorite, and he really did pick them and eat them. One year, my peppers could not get any more than the size of quarters or fifty cent pieces before he was picking them as I weeded. He became sick suddenly, and I had no warning with kidney failure. But, he knew how much he was loved by his family and all as well. He was eleven. I still have the other dog I purchased shortly before him. Her name is Sable, she's blind and has loss most of her hearing. In September, 2003 she will be thirteen.
August 9, 2005 1:26 AM
Sable has just passed away, I purchased Sable in November 1990 and I brought Tawny in March or 1991. One of Tawny and Sable's favorite things in the world was to go to Grotto Pizza's on their birthday or mine. We would hop in the car and ride to Millsboro and get one, since Grotto's was not any closer. Tawny knew the boxes, Sable just knew it was food. On their birthdays they would receive some sorta cake or treat and ice cream sometimes.
Princess Sable Coal
August 9, 2005 12:55 AM
My older dog has just passed away, there is not another breath hardly left. Sable would have been 15 on Sept 10, 2005. I knew she had really fallen in the last two weeks. She was blind and deaf, and had lost a lot of her hair the last couple of years or less and wore a diaper. But she knew what was going on around her and she just stayed in her own little world. She did not seem to suffer so I let her live even though her life was not much as it once was, for fear not being able to put her down and guilty at the same time. Sable was in her own world though and continued to eat and sleep regularly. I did not want to punish her by putting her down even though her world was so different, so I again let her to continue in this manor. I am somewhat relieved because she has not been the pet I loved for so many years, but yet all those years she was a beautiful, smart, pet that loved me dearly and trusted me. Sable I called her, but she was Princess Sable Coal, born Sept 10, 1990 and produced some very nice pups the few times I bred her. I have her daughter, Hon-E-Pup, who will be 10 years old Aug. 16, 2005. It is still hard but I know she is better off now, and I loved her to the end as she did me I am sure. I purchased Sable in November 1990 and I brought Tawny in March or 1991. One of Tawny and Sable's favorite things in the world was to go to Grotto Pizza's on their birthday or mine. We would hop in the car and ride to Millsboro and get one, since Grotto's was not any closer. Tawny knew the boxes, Sable just knew it was food. On their birthdays they would receive some sorta cake or treat and ice cream sometimes. Sable had a bowl last week, so I guess she figured it was time to go now, her life was complete with that last trip down memory road.
Hon-E-Pup
August 7, 2009 1:16 AM
Hon-E-Pup, my baby, baby girl! Oh you are and will be sadly missed forever. I know your life changed the last few years going blind and loosing your hearing. But, we carried on to the end, always. We always had a special bond and special place in each others heart and forever will. I love you so much!!
Shortly before midnight, Aug. 7, 2009 you left this world and rose to a quiet, peaceful, new world, filled with all your old friends, no pain, able to see and hear again. Though we went through a lot together I know you are safe and at peace now. Even though my selflessness did not want you to go and neither did you want to go. I knew I would really struggle when the day you left would come, and it is so painful.
You were Sable Coals baby and your father was Painter, you were born just as I arrived to a weekend get-away in Deep Creek, MD. You were so precious and my favorite puppy of the litter. I hated to sell you, but you went to a lovely couple promising to give you much love and I had 3 dogs. Not much after you were gone your father passed. Then shortly after you left maybe, 8 weeks more or less the couple was breaking up and wanted to know if I wanted to buy you back as stated as a clause in the seller contract should they decide to get rid of you. I bought you back, and it was like you never left here, we bonded to the end.
You were always petite, and so well mannered from the start, I was your love and you mine, best friends no matter what. When Tawny passed you were my little angel from then on. We did everything side by side and together. I had a garden, you helped me and loved to eat tomatoes, (Tawny loved green peppers) You loved to eat any vegetables or fruits. You and Tawny would eat the neighbors strawberries. We planted flowers together, you helped me cut grass riding on the tractor. We had a song we sang while riding called "Tractor Riding Girl". You loved sitting in my lap over my leg with your front paws hanging down and me holding you little back feet, and you would have a big smile across your face, as your ears waved back.
You would ride on my lap in the car. I could snap my finger and you would be there. I could give you commands just as if I was talking to you and you obeyed, I just knew you were going to open your mouth and words would come out. You would jump up in my lap and stand on your hind legs and drape your front paws over my shoulders to give me huggies. When you were loosing your sight you would rub your head against my face while giving the huggies because things were changing for you. But we never let it stop us.
In the winter when it was cold you would get under the covers, then you just got so you slept under there anytime. You would let me hold you like a baby doll until I fell a sleep, then you would move.
I never bred you because I could mot find a male I liked well enough, but that did not let you miss out on motherhood. Sometime after 2000 I found a baby kitty with their eyes just opened on a cold, foggy October night. You and I saved the kitty, I bottle fed her, you would stimulate her to go to the bathroom and clean up after her. I did not care for cats and wanted to get rid of her but the SPCA said they would only put it down. So I figured we had saved her what the heck, Smokey is her name and she was your only child, until a year later when Mystic found her way under the house, a young kitten. Mystic was all black and a sweetheart. Smokey was very independent. Before I got her fixed she got pregnant. You were there the whole way in birth helping Mystic. You then had 4 little Hon-e-grandbabies to care for. Brian & Melissa died within the first 6 months. Georgia Peaches, and Nikki are still your Hon-e-grandbabies. Nikki walked with you outside when your eyes failed to keep an eye on you. Nikki would always show me about the area you were in the yard.
Somewhere around the same year I adopted Duke. He became your great friend and you would run around outside together. Duke loved you too.
2002 or so I started working the go-kart track. You were with me every time until the last few months of this season. As you aged you got cold easier so you would wear shirts and sweaters to keep warm. One of your shirts said you were a "go-kart kid". You loved to go to work at the track so much, just as Molly & Rusty do now. Everyone could not get over how you would just be so good and stay, & lay there? A few years back the ice cream truck would come and give you a big cup of ice cream. You would listen for the diesel sound of his truck and perk right up or even get in his truck when he stopped by. You loved the ice cream! You had a lot of things you did and liked, I know your life was fulfilled. You fulfilled mine!
May 2009, Rusty & Molly became new members to the family because I was missing you in my lap and in bed as your sight worsened and you aged the last year & half. I knew the day would be here sometime in the next year or more and you would be gone forever. If not for Rusty & Molly I would not be able to bear this. It is hard enough though! I am still crying, sobbing hard as so many memories flash though my head of our life together. The list is endless with things we did. I hate for you to go but you are at peace I know that! My baby co-co puff, Hon-e-pup, I love you and will miss you so much!!!
September 11, 2006
Though it has been five years, it still seems so fresh in our mind & hearts. We can't even imagine the magnitude of the devastation that was caused that day. The photos that aired had no reality of how real it was for those that watched the broadcasts. They were so vivid, yet always photos don't don't do the justice to how bad it really was; I can't even imagine how much worst it would be to see for real.
I still have tears in my eyes when I watch things about the attack and the heroism that the passengers of Flight 93, and all our brave public servants, along with all the people that died and were injured. It is so hard to remember how those two buildings were destroyed or really that they were destroyed.
I remember exactly what I was doing at the time on September 11, 2001 early on that morning. I had Live Regis & Kelly on when the broadcast was interrupted, announcing this tragedy and actually watching the live broadcast as the second plane engulfed in the South Tower as so many others viewed. Later the buildings crumbled, disintegrated right before our eyes. I shall never forget! It is still hard to believe this would happen in America let alone disintegrate to mere ash in seconds. That's still hard to imagine a building of that capacity crumbling right before our eyes.
I remember my first thoughts after I grasped what had happened, and I am not sure I did. That I was an American, and we had been attacked in a way I never have seen in my generation. I was proud that I was too. I went and cut the American Flag patch on one of my old uniform shirts, and put it in my car window. I have always been proud to be an American, but that hit me like a ton, wanting to display my support more than ever.
I don't know why I am compelled to put these thoughts in word on the fifth anniversary since the tragedy happened, but I do. I have been watching the last two weeks movies, documentaries, of this devastation. I still tear up and feel so much in my heart that this happened to us, even though I was not in New York at the time or anytime for that matter. But I felt it hit me hard and it still does to this day. I feel so much empathy for the families of all people. I know and feel the courage that the Flight 93 must have had to do what they did to save an attack on a building in Washington, DC. I know my feelings are heart felt, and I know that families suffered more than me. Yet, I don't know if I had been there to witness any of these attacks, I'm not sure if I would have been able to deal with it. Probably would, but I am still so touched by all our heroes and survivors from that day five years ago today.
