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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OM goodness...I go to flip my DD calendar this
morning and there are the two most handsome hounds that I have ever seen before
in my life!!! Wait those are my hounds! Colt and Ruger aka. The Bad A$$
Basset Brothers. Today is the boys Calendar day, my parents 45th wedding
Anniversary and next Saturday July 9th will be the brothers 4th
Birthday!!! It seems like only yesterday that I picked them up from the
Daisy Hill Puppy Farm (Snoopy comic strip reference)...thats what I called it
anyway. I got them from a very nice couple that had 2 breeding female
bassets and a couple of Boston's . There son had the Male basset that is
the Brothers father. Anyhowl The boys were so small I could carry both of
them at the same time. Not anymore! The buppies have grown into
little monsters...I mean very handsome hounds! hehehehe...only sometimes
are they little monsters. For the most part they are very good boys that
are the center of my world. They are my heart and soul, especially when the DH
is off somewhere in the world trying to save someone or some team, aircrew
etc. Without them I would be a total basket case in a padded room
somewhere in a straight jacket. They boys have seem mw through a lot of
stuff in their short 4 year life. the DH being deployed twice for 3-4
months, numerous other Military training trips, and 2 year seperation with
him stationed in England. Oh and the DH's 2 serious injuries sustained
while training. Yes my two bothers are my sanity rocks...Sometimes they
drive me crazy but most of the time they keep me just outside of a mental
treatment facility.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tommorrow we will be celebrating the boys birthday
with the neighbors with a Bar-B-Que, and a doggie cake from our favorite dog
bakery. Oh and we will also be celebrating the DH's promotion to SMSgt
(E-8). DH looks very handsome with that new strip sewn onto his
uniform...but the next paycheck will look even better with more bone moolah in
it for the brothers. hehehe. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Happy 4th of July! Remember we would have an
Independence day without the sacrifice of a lot of great warriors.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And to my Bad A** Basset Brothers - HAPPY
CALENDAR DAY!!!! </FONT> <FONT size=2 face=Arial>Daddy & I Love you
both very much.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Women are Angels...And when someone breaks their
wings..They simply continue to fly....on a broomstick...They are flexible like
that...<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>