THE CACTUS SHOW

Mom is not much fun these days because all she does is play with her plants and worry about the dumb old Cactus Show, which will be this weekend.  I hate it when the cactus show comes around every year because Mom is gone for most of three days in a row, so there's nothing for us dogs to do except stay home and sleep.

Anyway, Mom already took all the plants that she is going to try to sell over to the Loose Park Garden Center yesterday because that is the place where the show and sale will be.  Mom is trying to sell more plants this year than usual.  She hopes she will sell about 50 plants.  Some of them are very small, but others are pretty big.  If she sells them, I think we will probably be rich, and Mom can buy us lots and lots of yummy dog treats.  But Mom says she will not make enough money for us to be rich, even if she sells all 50 plants, so that's kind of sad.  And what's even sadder is that she is likely to just turn around and spend the money buying more plants, which is totally stupid, if you ask me.

Last night Mom got all her show plants ready to take to the show.  She had to "groom" them, which she says is a little bit like grooming a dog, except that a plant holds still better than a dog does.  And then after she got them all cleaned up, Mom had to pack all the plants in boxes with lots of newspaper around them so they won't fall over or hurt each other while she is driving them to the show.

Then today Mom will be at the Loose Park Garden Center all day long, helping to set up all the show plants and sale plants, and it's a really big job, so she will be all tired and hot when she gets home.  Also she probably won't get home in time for us to eat Supper of Dogs on time, which is another thing I hate about the cactus show.

Well, now that I told you all the bad stuff that we dogs don't like about the cactus show, I will tell you that Mom thinks it is a pretty fun thing, even if it is a bunch of work.  And she said I should tell everybody who lives in Kansas City that they should come on over and check it out.  So that's what I'm telling you to do.  Loose Park is at 51st and Wornall Road, and the Garden Center is just west of the big, huge picnic pavilion thing.  And you can go there anytime Saturday between 9:00 and 5:00, or on Sunday between 11:00 and 4:00.

Okay, now I'm going to take a nap.  Just wake me up Sunday evening, after the cactus show is over!