Wow, what a night! For those of you who think all the howling you heard this morning was because of the moon would be wrong. That was the sound of the Yard giving birth to the FIRST Junk Yard Dog for 2011, our own Ireash JYD #124!

Yes, in the early morning hours in a 23 page run Private Klink, rth548 myketheknife and myself were witness to this most historic of occassions. Ireash, JYD #124 was given the place of honor on the Big Dogs Couch this day. The Yard is his for the celebration and congratulations that will be forthcoming this day. The birth was a long and tireing process but was successful and the Pack has once again grown and has become ever stronger with another voice to add to the challenge, the STATEMENT that WE will be NUMBER 1! Long live Junk Yard Dog Ireash, Long live the Yard!

Wow, birth is a beautiful thing, the camera was rolling and the entire birthing process was recorded for the pleasure of all the dogs. Alas in the last few seconds of congratulations the film canister broke open and the entire historic event was exposed to light and lost. So mear words must be sufficent to present to you this most joyous of events.

Ok, now on to more mundane things.

The outdoors and fieldcraft side is now at 19,892 posts, up from 19,889 for an increase of 3 posts.

The Knives Forum side of the site has grown by 544 posts for a new all time high post count of 449,186!

The ZDC page count was stagnant at 1204 pages yesterday morning and this morning, the count is 1227 pages for a page count increase of 23 pages!

The TOTAL post count this morning is now resting at 473,494 posts after that 23 page rally for a JYD run! This in an increase of 546 posts over yesterday!

Ok with this new MUCH larger count we now have 26,506 posts to go for the rapidly approaching goal of 500,000 posts!