Category: Family

Raleigh Midtown News Highlights Joyce Hawley and The Eclectic Furniture Garden

“A professional singer and aspiring author, Hawley, 65, added businesswoman to her resume and found her niche when she and her two daughters opened the popular community furniture and gift store, The Eclectic Furniture Garden.
The three women run the boutique that offers painted, used and consignment furniture, as well as gifts, garden and home accents and work from local artists. It’s a place where Hawley says they can let their creative spirits run wild.”

Full article HERE.

My Wife Rocks…

…as do Liz, Beth and Cynthia.

Urban Gypsies Dance Company performing “Uncomfortably Numb,” choreographed by Christina Hawley Pressley.



Our Dog, Ruby

Our dog, Ruby died last night. She was the sweetest, most loving, and charismatic dog I’ve ever met. She will be sorely missed.

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Ruby 1998-2008

*EDITED* Drive-In Premier or Clone Wars Animated Movie

The Raleigh Road Drive-In put on a “Meet R2-D2 and C3PO” event for the premier of Lucasfilm’s Clone Wars animated movie. My kids, and their cousins, got to meet, C3PO, R2D2, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Kwi Guon Jin, and a couple of Stormtroopers. They had a blast. sadly, I couldn’t attend because I had a gig that night. Anyway, here’s the movie I put together from the footage Chrissy taped.

***Flickr only allows movies up to 90 seconds in length. So, you can find the high resolution version of the video HERE. ***

Ruby’s Sick but Will Be Okay

I’ve alluded to this on my FaceBook page, but not with much detail so I figured I post something about it here.

We noticed over the last couple weeks that Ruby would have bouts where her breathing would become fast and shallow. We didn’t think much about it at first because Toy Poodles have windpipe issues anyway. Late last week though, her “funny” breathing became the norm, so we got worried. We took her to the vet, and come to find out, she has a heart murmur, pneumonia, and an enlarged heart. The vet put her on antibiotics for the pneumonia, and on Lasix for the fluid in her lungs and heart. Needless to say, she’s MUCH better. Once these rounds of meds are done, she’ll go in for another check-up and then she’ll be put on a daily medication for her heart murmur. So, she should be fine, she’ll just need to take her murmur pill for the rest of her life. Thanks to everyone who expressed their concern!