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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>It’s me again – Norm!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Ya know – I am still a puppy and this is my first
summer. I love being outside and exploring my big backyard and I am
discovering all sorts of neat-o stuff outside. The weather has been puppy-perfect
and I have discovered that I have “yard mates”. You aren’t
going to believe this, but in addition to the birds, bunnies and squirrels,
there are all sorts of itty-bitty tiny critters in my yard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Yesterday I met a Buzzer! The buzzer was very pretty
and big. It had yellow and black stripes and made a loud
buzzzzzzzz! He was hangin’ out in mom’s flowers and she got
him all wet when she watered the flowers. He really buzzed then and mom
got real excited and yelled “Get away from me – I’m ‘lergic!”
Mom made me go in the house so I wouldn’t get ‘lergic too! When
the Buzzer Bee went away, Mom let me go back outside. I was laying in the
sun taking a nap and a pretty orange and yellow flutterby landed right by me. My
eyes were shut, so I didn’t see him at first, but I felt the wind his
wings made. I tried to make my ears flap like his wings, but that scared
him away. Tomorrow I am going to lay REALLLLLYYYY still and see if he
will land on my nose, just like my Uncle Nick did. After dinner last
night, I met this Clicker guy – he is really fun. He rubs his legs
together and makes clicker sounds. And the warmer it gets outside, the
faster he clicks. I can’t figure out how he does that. I
tried it and my legs don’t make any sounds and they don’t rub
together very well either. I decided to take him in the house with me to
watch him more closely, so I hid him in my mouth and took him to my
crate. Unfortunately, Dad saw me playing with him and then HE got all
excited. You would have thought I had a poisonous spider or
something. Dad took the Clicker away from me and threw him
outside. I WILL find him again and figure out that leg thing!
But the neatest critter I just discovered are Blinkers. Blinkers only
come out when it is getting dark, so it is easy to miss them. I think
they carry little tiny flashlights with them ‘coz they keep blinking these
lights on and off. I tried to catch one to look at but they kept
disappearing. I wonder if I can talk to Blinkers by blinking my eyes?
Maybe when the Twin Princesses or the three Mini-Mahems (those are Mom’s two-legger
grandkids) come over they can catch a Blinker for me and I can try that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Gotta go rest for evening critter patrol!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Drools to ya!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Norm and the rest of the Red Bay Gang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Grady, Hoagie, Johnny and Opie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Sandi – Mom to the Red Bay Basset Boys<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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