<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have to thank everyone who sent me notes of condolence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Between the Drool and other friends, I had no idea that Dan had touched so many lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I also have to apologize for not acknowledging other'<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>s losses over the past couple of weeks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s taken me some time to emerge from the lethargy I fell into after Dan went to the Bridge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have been spending my time trying to tame the wild and crazy Ricky and Lucy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While Dan definitely would have
qualified for BABES status, these two will probably become OEBEs in short order.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both of them believe that everything inside the house belongs in the back yard, and everything in the back yard (except the things that they just brought out) belongs in the house.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their favorite exercise is bringing sticks into the house and chewing them to shreds on the living room floor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It looks like I’ve mulched the house.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m scared to death that one of them is going to puncture some internal organ.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No amount of objective reasoning and no kind of toy or bone can dissuade them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I’ve finally convinced the DH that the back yard needs to be CLEANED UP!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </SPAN>What a concept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are both world class counter cruisers also.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m so definitely not used to this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both are enrolled in obedience classes but right now they both seem resistant to learning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, it’s early days still so we’ll see how we progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ricky, 17 months old, started out in a conformation household but he isn’t conformation quality so he wasn’t well socialized to people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He’s good with other dogs but very shy, scared really, of people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’re spending a lot of time getting him comfortable around strangers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lucy, 10 months old, never met a stranger but
has the attention span of a gnat!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll have to keep you updated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Randee and the White House Gang<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div></div></body></html>