<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:black;"><DIV>My little gal that a quiet little no will stop her in her tracks. </DIV>
<DIV>All this time that I have felt sorry for her because she was </DIV>
<DIV>too short to counter or table cruise. I have caught myself </DIV>
<DIV>smiling more than once at her attempts but giving her a </DIV>
<DIV>gentle "No Nelly Belle". that always stops her in her tracks.</DIV>
<DIV>All this time that she had me thinking that the antics of her </DIV>
<DIV>younger siblings were far behind her. Well today I found out my</DIV>
<DIV>sweet little senior gal has been playing me for the past nine months.</DIV>
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<DIV>This morning Miss Nelly Belle decided to stay in bed which </DIV>
<DIV>is nothing unusual thing for her. Thirty minutes later her little </DIV>
<DIV>voice rings out. Ahhh...I am thinking...she is ready for her morning </DIV>
<DIV>belly rubs. I call out "Nelly, Momma be there in a minute". Another </DIV>
<DIV>ahroooing....more pitiful. I go in the bedroom. No Nelly B in the bed. </DIV>
<DIV>Where is she? I look on the other side thinking OMD she has fell off </DIV>
<DIV>the steps to the bed and hurt herself. Nope ...no Nelly B. I look under </DIV>
<DIV>the bed...nope not there. Where is my gal????? Another arhoooo....</DIV>
<DIV>quieter....Ahhhhh there you are! Standing in the tall medium size storage </DIV>
<DIV>bin that substitues as a cat litter box! Is that a smile I see on your lipper </DIV>
<DIV>flaps Nelly Belle? Nooooooo. you are not kissing meeeeeee!</DIV>
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<DIV>Leave it to a Senior to figure something out! </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>We send drool to all in need,</DIV>
<DIV>Karen and The Dog House Gang</DIV>
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<DIV>Little Note:</DIV>
<DIV>The storage bin has always kept all the kidz out. Even with the </DIV>
<DIV>2 steps up to it not one of the kidz are able to walk up to it </DIV>
<DIV>because the front of the steps butts against the bin and the </DIV>
<DIV>back is against the dresser. Nelly B is the shortest both in </DIV>
<DIV>height and length of all the droolers in the house. She must of </DIV>
<DIV>manuevered her little body just right to get up the steps and </DIV>
<DIV>jumped in silently. Needless to say the gate is up and all access </DIV>
<DIV>is cut off to the kitty crunchies. </DIV></div></body></html>