What is a PBGV?  One of 210 dog breeds, Petit Basset Graffon Vendéen,  competing at the  Westminster Kennel Club dog show  this week.  Named after Buddy Holly, the designer below prevailed over 2500 dogs. PBGVs are bred to chase, not kill, rabbits, and are so extroverted, friendly and happy, that they make superb therapy dogs.  A newcomer to Westminister, but popular in Europe, for Soletrader Peek A Boo (or  Jilly ) beat more than 20,000 dogs in the Crufts 2013 held in Birmingham, England, the largest annual competition.  Costs $100 to enter Westminister and only around $25 for Crufts. From  Yahoo : What You Can Buy for the Cost of Owning a Show Dog? If you think bankrolling a show dog isn’t the best use of a quarter million dollars, there are a lot of other things you could buy. For the same cost of owning a show dog, you could buy: A three-bedroom home in Birmingham, Ala., Des Moines, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minn., or many other places across the country. Four years of college. The cost t

Sunday is my spiritual day, and I many times post on religion.  Life and Death...God...our ultimate future.    Don McLean was recently interviewed,   and while I have written about him on numerous occasions, for his   American Pie   is about the death of Buddy Holly ( 22 ), Richie Valens ( 17 ) and the Big Bopper ( 28 ), this article evoked sufficient emotions as to inspire me to do this one more time. I was not aware that McLean had a premonition when he was 15 that his father was going to die.  A few days later, showing no particular symptoms, he dropped dead right in front of him.  His father was his hero. Now 75, he talked further of his 1971  American Pie  he wrote at the age of 24.  Said he cried for two years and blamed himself for his father's death.  Thus the song of the '60's from that plane crash, the day the music died.  His original handwritten lyrics sold in 2015 for $1.2 million.  A broadway show is planned to open next year, plus a children's book.  Also