Now that we have survived the holidays, it is time to get back into
the habit of the regular five-day workweeks. I always find that hard to do.
I hope everyone has started out the year in a good way and that the year
2000 finds you healthy and happy.
PPP
I have decided that Sparky is living in the twilight zone and is
taking me with him. He is acting very bizarre and I am not getting any sleep at
night. I seem to spend half the night fighting with him. He keeps wanting to be
an undercover kitty, but if I turn my back on him, he claws me then proceeds
to crawl over me to the other side and paws at me to lift the covers so he
can get under again. And back and forth we go all night.
PPP
I just love Dalmatian dogs and was looking at a book at the library
about them. I have often wondered how they came to be firedogs. Before cars,
fire wagons were the only way to get firefighters and their supplies to a
fire. The fastest horses were chosen to pull the wagons. Firefighters in
London were the first to discover that Dalmatians were the perfect companions
for them and their horses. They ran ahead of the horses to clear the way for
the fire wagon. The dogs and the horses made the fire stations a very
popular place for kids to visit, and to this day, kids like visiting fire stations.
PPP
“If you’re a laughing parent, your children will be laughing children
who marry laughing spouses.”
PPP
We were not able to do our polar bear swim scheduled for
Christmas day. The weather was a horrible 40 degrees. I still wanted to do it and
was trying to talk my nephew into it, but everyone said they didn’t want
to come rescue us if the cold water was too much for us and we went
into shock or something.
PPP
Did you know you could buy gift certificates at the Town Pump for
gas? I never knew that, but Mom and Dad got me some gift certificates for
gas for Christmas. What a great present!
PPP
I watched an excellent video the other night that I had checked out
at the library called “Rose White.” It’s about a Polish family and how
they were separated. Some who were sent to Nazi camps were reunited later.
It was a very good movie and I highly recommend it.
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