Sarah and Bryan meet Vincent

Yesterday Sarah and Bryan brought Vivian up for grooming. Vivian is a littermate to Ian, C’est La Vie, Camron and Tambo. That was an excellent litter. Julie kept a male and a female. I kept a male and a female. Vivian, in sync with her littermates, is officially FFT Vis-a-vis. When her permanent bite came in, it was apparent she was more undershot that preferred. With 3 siblings to go forward, I placed Vivian with Sarah. What a joy that has been in my life. Sarah and I became friends. I love that I have a friend that’s 32.

On New Year’s Eve, Sarah’s dad preformed the ceremony for her wedding to Bryan. They seem a perfect match. Bryan sometimes accompanies Sarah when she brings Vivian up for grooming. We talk podcasts, politics and lots of other stuff. Bryan is the person that brought Web 2.0 to light for me. Being an IT guy for CU Boulder, he truly understands computers inside out. He understands all the silly lingo. Twitter. Tweet. I really do like having young friends.

The coolest thing happened the week I groomed Vivian in January. Sarah sent an email wanting to talk with me about getting a puppy. Bryan wanted a male and had already named him Vincent. Vincent! There’s history behind that name. Vincent! Viv’s dam is Victoria. Her siblings were Victor and Vincent. Both met untimely, unfortunate deaths. In fact it was Vincent’s death that nearly did me in. That’s another story for another day… Anna’s puppies were born that very week Sarah sent her email. Anna and Vivian are both daughters of Victoria. Anna whelped one male puppy. Sarah and Bryan’s Vincent had arrived. Yesterday they met for the first time.

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Seth

Hi, Debbie, (again)   

    Samson has a habit that I intended to tell you about in my last e-mail.  He was certainly given an appropriate name. ” It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” was perfect and he is true to his name.  Around 5:00pm almost every day Don and I have a cocktail or a glass of wine before dinner while we watch the news.   Samson is fed at 4:00pm and you could set your clock to that time.  After he eats and we go for a walk he is content until 5:00 and then………….he knows it is cocktail time.  Obviously he doesn’t get a cocktail but he gets a little ramekin which I fill with Cheerios!  Why Cheerios?  Don has been a volunteer at Hospice in Toledo for several years.  They havre a dog who lives at the facility and is a great favorite with the patients.  They found that everyone was giving the dog food and he was getting too fat so they started giving him a few Cheerios instead of other fattening food.  The dog loved the Cheerios and didn’t put on any more weight.  So that is why Samson is now fed them at cocktail time at our house.  When they are all gone I show him the container and tell him they are “all gone” and he seems to accept the answer.  He would still like some of our goodies but “oh,well” that’s just too bad.  So you see, you couldn’t have given him a more appropriate name!

Recognize this face?? Portrait by Julia Warner in England.