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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Hi Everybody --- Nick Here!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>I had a very busy day today. Mom and Dad put my crate in the van (we now have six crates in the van but only five of us …. I wonder????) and Mom said we were all going to Granny Pat’s for a Bath-A-Thon! Sounded like fun to me, so I went running to the van and got in (with Mom’s help). When we got to Granny Pat’s , I got to play with my sisters, Holly and Fancy, for a long time. Mom and Granny Pat kept taking the other big bassets to the basement, one at a time, and then they never came back upstairs. My half-sister, Emmy, tried to warn me what was going to happen but I was busy playing, so I didn’t worry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Then Granny Pat came upstairs and got me. We went down these scary stairs …. there were a million of them and they were 42 miles high. Granny helped me go down the stairs and I got to watch Abby being drowned. Mom said she wasn’t drowning her … just giving her a bath. I thought Abby was going to be <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>naked when Mom was done ‘cause so much dog hair was coming off of her. Mom said Abby was “blowing her coat” but I didn’t see her blowing on anything ??!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Then it was my turn. Oh my goodness … they took this big machine and tried to grind off my paw (No Nick, Granny was grinding your toenails). Then Granny cleaned my ears and that felt good. Then Mom put me in this big bathtub and tried to drown ME! Can you believe that? Then she put some stuff on me that made me smell like an orange … I kept trying to tell her that someone might peel me but she said it was okay. Then she tried to drown me again. Finally, she took me out and rubbed a big towel all over me … I liked that! But I wasn’t safe yet … Mom took this big hose out and blew air on me … I thought I was going to be blown right off the grooming table. Just when I thought I was safe, they put me in a crate with a cover on it and turned on a big blower with warm air. After at least 100 hours, they took me out and I got back in the van to come home. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>I need to rest now … this was very hard work today. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Slurps,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'>Nick <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Nickpagetext><span style='mso-ligatures:none'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>