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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>What a great thread! It’s such fun to read about when everyone joined the Drool and to reminisce about those that have left us, but from whom we learned so much! I don’t remember when I joined – I think it was sometime in the late 1990s, as I have a wonderful pin made by the very talented Nancy Gallagher of my first basset, Moose, who left for the Bridge in 2002. I also have three volumes of the very funny Nick’s Adventures, the delightful “You Had Me at Ahroo,” and the incomparable “Brudder Elwood Here – Keep’n da Eyeball on That Elder Clara!” – I’m going to enjoy them all again! And then there are the terrific stories – so many Brudder Elwood and Elder Clara adventures, Annie and the turkey (that one makes me laugh every year!), the Pacific Basset Feet (still have the bandanas from my second basset, Twinkletoes who left in 2013), and some of the imaginary trips our hounds enjoyed. I promise to write more often too, as I dutifully read, but seldom post (and I actively avoid FB). I’m recently retired, so I’ll have no excuse not to share Tallulah’s antics with the group. Thank you all for some wonderful memories, great advice, and cherished friendships! Slurps! Kathy Wilson, Tallulah, and Tucker the Dalmatian, with Moose, Twinkletoes, and Hooter the harrier all ATB with my Peter<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>