Fiesta Jazz

I was at work Friday helping with two very skittish dogs while they were being inoculated against kennel cough.  I was asked to take some photos to improve their chances of being adopted.

 So I got on the ground and starting shooting random shots hoping for the best. As one of the girls sat down and cocked her head at me Les squirted the Bordetella up her nose. But at the same exact moment the dog snorted, a stiff breeze blew across her and I took a breath. Needless to say I inhaled the Bordetella.  

Bordetella is a genus of small (0.2 - 0.7 µm), Gram-negative coccobacilli of the phylum Proteobacteria. Yeah that is what I thought too. Or….. any of various small, gram-negative coccobacilli of the genus Bordetella, some of which are pathogenic in the human respiratory tract. It includes B. pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough.

My lungs had filled with fluid in 15 minutes and I was coughing like a drowning victim. Les called the vet and he had never heard of people ingesting it. Well, it was not like I did it on purpose!  In another 30 minutes I was sneezing and had a runny nose.  It was well over an hour and I was wheezing and coughing. This went on for almost three hours and then I noticed it was easier to breathe and I was coughing less. By 7:00 PM I was breathing normal and was no longer suffering.

The long term effect of this so far has been an uncontrollable rage at the stomping and jumping of the people above me in the town- home. They had shattered my internet connection at total of 16 times in 30 minutes.  It was Sunday evening and I just wanted to cap off the weekend with a movie, a bowl of buttery popcorn and a powdered donut in peace.  My next angry outburst was TWC

 for their inadequate system.  I am very sure my tirade would have made Pirates cringe in fear.

Outside of all that; my daughter Lovey and I attended a Casino night fund raiser for a local Lions Club and had the best fun! She won a Silent Auction item and I…. well I just had fun. She had never played roulette so we started out there, much to her disappointment. She wanted to play Black Jack. So after about 30 minutes we waltzed over to a table and played Black Jack the rest of the night. We proceeded to build our empire as she called it.  I will say that once she figured out the roulette table she loved it.  I did bid on a date with Mayor at the auction.  Lovey and I then got in a bidding war with three other people over a 30 minute flight with a pilot in a little something, something aircraft. We backed out at $600.

There was more adventure on Saturday as I caught some of the marathoners at a water station, then photographed a parade. 

The 2013 Fiesta Especial Promenade & Parade which is part of Fiesta Especial® 

Fiesta Especial® is an official Fiesta® San Antonio event created for children and adults with physical, cognitive and developmental differences and the family and friends who love them.

Later in the afternoon I headed over to Schertz to grab some photos of Absolute Jazz.  

What a wonderful afternoon listening to the velvet voice of Ken Slavin and The Jazz Protagonists and many other local jazz artists. They had wine tasting, beer and food.  

I hope everyone else had a fun weekend!