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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well Sisters, it’s been a busy week here at the Bridge and at the Sweet Meat Shoppe. You know I haven’t been here but two weeks and I’ve been busy working (that reminds me, I need to swing by and thank Elder Clara for the shoppe), so I’ve been a bit slow in exploring and meeting all the houndies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Well this week I went by the buppy’s area down the street (I can’t bemember the ezact name), it’s a little like a nursery school, there’s a real nice big building with lots of toys and stuffies and places to hide and chew and do buppy stuff, plus there are several huge outdoor play areas, too. It’s a great place for the buppies, and lots of grown houndies volunteer to work there and help with the little ones. Well you girls know Sister Anna bees a social gal and likes everhound, including the bups, so I went by and put my name down to volunteer now and then. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Okay, so I goes into the buppy building and asks about volunteering, and guess who I ends up talking to? Grandpa Mitchell of the Szaton clan. He bees in charge of the volunteers and works hisself with the bups. So we chats for a while about the little ones and their activities, and then girls, I couldn’t help myself, I asked the question. “Grandpa Mitchell (I sez), here at the Bridge all us grown-up hounds are back to our prime time of life, we is healthy and looks good, and so do you. You don’t look like no Grandpa, you is a fine looking, studly hound. So how come you calls yourself Grandpa?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Girls, here be whut Grandpa Mitchell sez to me – “Sister Anna, you know I has always loved buppies, not just my buppies but all buppies. And lots of these little fellers were loved before they came here, but lots more were not loved. Some didn’t even have names when they got here, let alone fambly members to take care of them. So I figgered that if buppies arrived without names and fambly, they sure could use a Grandpa. And that’s me, eber buppy’s Grandpa Mitchell. I be bery proud of that name.” Nice hounds here at the Bridge girls. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oh my, gotta run or I’ll be late for my hat fitting session with PW Pauline. I’ll tell you about my hats later girls, don’t want to be late, PW Pauline is bery in demand, specially since Queen FeyFey announced the Mad Hatter’s Tea Pawty will be held on the Palace grounds on March 21<sup>st</sup>. Ebery houndette wants a new hat for the Pawty and poor Pauline bees chasing her tail trying to get eberthing done. Lub and kissies to everybody, talk to you later girls. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>