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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Everybody – Nick Here!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Boy, did I have a busy day today! Mom and Granny Pat had a BIG basset party … they called it the Red Bay Basset Bash! This is the way it started. Dad, Mom and Granny Pat got up VERY early in the morning and started setting up 45 million little fences. Then they got ALL the lawn furniture out, our dog show chairs, all the grooming tables out, two VERY long tables, and 10 trillion chairs! They made 87 gallons of lemonade and 92 dozen cookies. They put pretty presents on the tables and then it happened!!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cars, vans, even a TV truck started pulling into our driveway. We had 83 bazillion basset buddies here! Anyway, we had this huge picnic and lots of people came and lots of bassets came. The people all sat around and ate …they didn’t share very much. All the bassets got lots of tummy rubs. Then the REAL fun began … we started to play basset games! We had a Carry-the-Bone relay and I did better than anyone else at that. We also had a cookie treasure hunt … I ate a lot of my cookies! Then we had a basset limbo contest … my sisters and another puppy named Sadie won that contest ‘cause they are still little! Oh --- I almost forgot --- we had basset slalom run. That was really hard because we had to be really good on a leash for that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The nice people from Channel 11 WTOL TV came and two of the newscasters came to our picnic with their basset Stanley. My sister Fancy and I even were on the 6:00 PM news! Great-aunt Teri was really jealous <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>because we were on TV and she wasn’t. We had lots of fun!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Slurps,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick, the TV Star<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>