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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>It’s me again – Norm!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Jeeze Louise – when is summer coming back?? I like the
snow about as much as any basset can, but this is getting ree-diculous! Mom
won’t let us stay out for more than 5 nano-seconds and when we try to
stay out, then we get ice balls between our toes and that hurts. Then we
act like we can’t walk and Mom has to come out and carry us inside.
She says she is getting too old (and cold) to carry us *<b>big boys</b>* in
from the back forty. Then there are the snow hills – they are
taller than I am! I know I am not very tall, but what can I say? I am
what I am! And the ice! Dad puts this blue stuff down but he says
it is even too cold for it to make the ice go away. Finally, the
ears! OUCH! Mom made us these cool fleecy blue camo snoods, but
Opie keeps pulling mine off when we are outside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>I decided that my poem of the week should be about the freezing
cold. Brrrr – hope you like it! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i>In the freeze!<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s ten degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>When we went out today<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>We ran around<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Sniffing the ground<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Inviting the squirrels to play<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s eight degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Around the yard we stroll<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Our toes are ice<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It isn’t nice<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i> On the morning patrol<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s six degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>The birds they are a’squawking<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Our tails are tucked<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>And they are stuck<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>So we’re having trouble walking<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s four degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>The temperature is dropping<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Sidewalk’s slicked up<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s tough for a pup<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Starting and then there’s stopping<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s two degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>The wind is really blowing<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Jack Frost has bitten<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>We need some mittens<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>We wish it would quit the snowing<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>It’s zero degrees, we’re in the freeze<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>The weather is just squalid<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>We run in and out<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Without a doubt<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i>Our world is frozen solid<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Drools to ya!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Norm (and the rest of the Red Bay Gang)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Grady, Hoagie, Johnny & Opie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Sandi Wittenberg - Mom to the Red Bay Basset Boys<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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