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Sunday, April 26, 2009
4.26.09 Early morning beach walk
Sunday morning, Mimi and I jumped into the van and headed to Folly Beach. As locals, we wanted to start early to miss the 12 noon beach goers and bumper to bumper traffic on Folly Road. We arrived around 10 am and walked the early beautiful intimate beach.
We saw some strange looking worm-like creatures that I had never ever seen before. We kept walking and came upon a high tide horseshoe crab mating session within their personalized crab made circular pool. Those worm-like creatures were the hscrab's offspring. The large female supports the much smaller male on her back, while vibrating and creating bubbles from her underside, thus releasing the offspring. After the crab-jacuzzi they leave the pool and amble back to the sea, leaving their offspring behind.
We saw many hscrab couples participating, it was on a new moon and at high tide. . . . what an adventure . . . we also found a inch long shark's tooth! It was a great way to start the day and be home by 12 noon!
We saw some strange looking worm-like creatures that I had never ever seen before. We kept walking and came upon a high tide horseshoe crab mating session within their personalized crab made circular pool. Those worm-like creatures were the hscrab's offspring. The large female supports the much smaller male on her back, while vibrating and creating bubbles from her underside, thus releasing the offspring. After the crab-jacuzzi they leave the pool and amble back to the sea, leaving their offspring behind.
We saw many hscrab couples participating, it was on a new moon and at high tide. . . . what an adventure . . . we also found a inch long shark's tooth! It was a great way to start the day and be home by 12 noon!
Friday, April 24, 2009
4.24.09 Events of interest
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| 4/26 | 6:00p | April In Paris Dinner Theatre (plus $3.96 Tax, $9 Gratuity, $2.44 BPT fee) |
| 5/1 | 7:30p | Broadway Broads |
| 5/9 | 2:00p | Amazing Grace-a Gospel Celebration! |
| 6/24 | 8:00p | Footlight presents Sea Marks by Gardner McKay |
4.24.09 We saw this opening night! Mesmerizing!
Cirque Du Soleil - Saltimbanco
North Charleston Coliseum
| When: | Saturday, Apr 25 7:30p | Where: | North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center North Charleston |
4.24.09 Pretty Pampered Pups
Pet boutique for the dogs
James Island shop owner finds niche
By Edward C. Fennell (Contact)
The Journal
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Edward Fennell
The Post and Courier
Barr offers her own dogs a treat. Barr was in advertising and then medical sales before discovering that caring for dogs was what she wanted to do with her life.
Edward Fennell
The Post and Courier
Suzanne Barr, owner of PawPurri on James Island, dries a white boxer named Bella after giving the dog a bath. PawPurri offers dog grooming and bathing services, collars, leashes, dog clothing, dog food and other supplies for dogs as well as doggie daycare.
After two earlier careers failed to satisfy, Suzanne Barr thinks she's finally barking up the right tree.
In 2006, Barr opened the PawPurri For Pets Boutique, Daycare & Grooming Salon at 1120 Folly Road. The shop offers dog trimming, grooming and bathing services and doggie day care. Dog food, care manuals, clothing, leashes, collars and other canine accessories are for sale, too.
Dogs rule at PawPurri, where cats need not apply. "A cat wouldn't want to be here. It's a dog town," Barr said with her ever-present smile.
Dogs occasionally barked behind Barr as she spoke, but that's music to her ears. "We talk to them and sing to them," she said of her staff's affection for dogs in its care.
"They treat the dogs like their babies," and the dogs, she added, "like to talk to everybody that comes in."
Now in her early 40s, Barr recalled how her love of animals led her away from two previous professions, including one that made her a world traveler based on the West Coast, to make South Carolina her home and PawPurri her career.
She said she spent her early life "zig-zagging" between the East and West coasts, but "I'm done with that. This is where I am staying."
Barr was born in San Francisco but raised in Virginia. While earning a business degree at Virginia Commonwealth University, she worked for a radio station and went into advertising after graduation. Five years later, she started her own advertising/public relations agency. After nine years, she needed a break from it and moved to near Malibu Beach, Calif., to be close to her brother.
There she went into international medical sales, specializing in X-ray equipment for hospitals and clinics. But that also didn't prove to be what she wanted.
"I was trying to decide what I wanted to do for the next 20 years of my life," she remembered.
She concluded she needed to work with dogs, and her positive impressions from an earlier stop in the S.C. Lowcountry led her to decide that was where she wanted to live and work.
Barr said what she loves about her shop are "wet noses and sweet waggly tails, unconditional love. They don't talk back to you, and you don't have to negotiate a business deal with them."
One of the best parts of the job, she said, is that she gets to be with her own dogs: Sam, a black Lab; Kolby, a yellow Lab; and Gracie, a "mystery girl."
Barr said Kolby is sneaky and has to be watched carefully. Kolby figured out how to open the refrigerator and once helped herself to a pizza stored inside, she said.
A James Island resident, Barr said another plus for her is, "I live three minutes from work. It's so nice not to have to commute very far."
Perhaps the only provider of doggie day care on James Island, PawPurri hosts three to seven dogs each day. They usually play well together in the fenced backyard behind the shop. The dogs have been coming to PawPurri for years, "and they all know each other and are happy all day," she said.
On the shop's small staff are Linda Olsen, a groomer with 30 years of experience, and Anna Lisa Hart, a bather who's glad that she also can bring her dog, Cadee, to work. PawPurri accepts new customers, but appointments are necessary.
A supporter of animal rescue and adoption services, PawPurri will host a meet and greet for the Shih Tzus and Furbabies Rescue 11 a.m.-1 p.m. May 9. "Cute babies will be up for adoption," Barr said.
Call 795-5779.
Reach Edward C. Fennell at 937-5560 or efennell@postandcourier.com.
4.24.09 Film Festival
The Charleston International Film Festival opened Thursday. Read reviews, get the complete schedule, and more in the Preview section.
4.24.09 2009 Spoleto poster
Festival unveils its 2009 poster
Friday, April 24, 2009
 | It's black and white and red all over with a retro block-printed feel. It's unveiling signals that Spoleto Festival USA is getting closer. And like many of the 32 posters preceding it, the portrait is unexpected for an internationally recognized performing arts festival. |
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