Rowdy would like to thank everyone for their nice comments. He spent the better part of yesterday recharging his batteries.

As for future cart bookings, I actually did get several requests for his presence at future weddings but I was fairly non-committal. He definitely had his fan club. Right now we're working on his Carting titles (yes, you can actually get a working title in Carting) along with his Rally Obedience titles (he's the only dog in class over 5 years old. He thinks the girls are very pretty ).

Bob, we've started training Sundance to pull the cart as a prelude to having him try out for the Budweiser wagon and he's doing very well. Now, that's a dog that can pull some weight -- he pulled me over a 1/4 mile in the sulky! My plan is to build a cart that looks like the Budweiser wagon and put a nice cold keg in it and have him go around the complex giving out samples. I think he'll become a legend . Of course, there will be a large container with Kool Aid for the non-beer drinkers.

As for the wedding, it seems that my experience shooting ring formals in dark show venues was perfect training for shooting a wedding outdoors at night. I've reviewed all the images (over 700) and they're all usable and some are even rather nice . The photographer that was shooting the earlier wedding came by with his entourage and put his hand on my shoulder and said "boy, I'm glad it's you and not me shooting this one." A glutton indeed!

If we turn this "talent" into a viable business, I'll let everyone know. Puppy kisses to each of you from Mr. R.

Jim