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Skriven 2008-02-19 16:47:38 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2752 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
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Hi Janis,


 JK> > I need to get back into it too. Most of the writing I do now is
 JK> here. > (G)

 JK> Understand :)  I try to organize my daytime, but you know, things
 JK> never go as planned it seems... at least often enough (g).

I know the feeling, all too well.


 JK> > That was one stupid cat!  But, he didn't have the intense love of
 JK> > popcorn that either our first cat (Inge) or our cocker spaniel (Sam)

 JK> Ah you had a cocker? We had one for about 11 years.. poor guy was
 JK> raised in one of those pet-factories out West... gross.. we bought him
 JK> anyway because he was so beautiful and I felt so sorry for him.. he

We adopted Sam in spring of 1994 when he was 4 1/2, from a family going
to Scotland. They didn't want to put him into a 6 month quarentine.  He
was AKC registered, very sweet, but dumb as dirt.  We had him until
December of 2000, shortly before we left for HI.  We didn't want to have
to put him into quarentine there; he'd developed some health problems
and his age made it a risky propisition. In talking to our neighbors
down the street (who had come from HI), it turned out that the husband
wanted a cocker spaniel; the wife didn't want any dog.  After meeeting
Sam tho, she said that "she didn't want Any dog, she wanted Sam".  So,
he went there, to the delight of 3 little girls.  Now Deborah is telling
us she has an opportunity to adopt another buff colored cocker named
Sam.  Don't know if she will or not but she said that if she does, she
will brush it's teeth and teach it to sing, 2 things she did with the
first Sam.

 JK> had a touch of distemper from being in that place as a pup, and I had
 JK> to give him dilantin every day so he didn't attack us :) He'd have
 JK> petit mal seizures, and wouldn't recognize anyone...

That must have been hard.  Our cocker was raised with lots of love and
it showed.  He adored little kids, having been raised with a child about
his age.


 JK> > did.  Either one of them would pester us until we'd put down a
 JK> handful > for them--and then come back for more once that was gone.

 JK> haha.. sounds like our cat.. she loves popcorn too... the labs get it
 JK> first though :)

You just have to put it down where the labs can't get it. Sam would eat
almost anything; it was funny to see him with something we'd think "no,
he won't eat that".....and he did. Popcorn was his "vice"tho. (G)


 JK> > Yes, and it gets cold there in winter. (G)

 JK> If it's like here it's finally warming up a bit though :)  I'll have
 JK> to go outside and see if I have any thing growing out there yet :)

Probably not, unless you've got a greenhouse.



 JK> > Yes, but we couldn't pull up the things we didn't like--oops, I
 JK> thought > that was a weed--(G) either.


 JK> Lol :) The kids are great when they come over in the summer.. they
 JK> love to do it so I'm happy :)

It's still a novelty for them.


>> True, especially at some functions where people are expecting super
>> sweet treats, etc..

 JK> > As they do most al of the time in the states, or at least the main
 JK> land. > In HI there was a variety of treats, not all of them on the
 JK> sweet side.

 JK> That's interesting.. when I think of "polynesian" flavors, I think
 JK> tropical, sweet.. probably all wrong there :)

It's not the tooth itching sweets like on the main land.  Lots of fruit
flavors, yes, but fruit sugar has a different taste than cane or beet
sugar.


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Ruth
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