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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I've been worrying about Susie....she just doesn't do well when I'm gone, and I've never been gone for this long. I think she will do better tho, since Mack will be here. In the past when I have been gone overnight, he's always been with me, so I think that will help. But I've still been worrying about her. Jenny was telling me yesterday, that she would miss me as much as Susie does, so I had to call....
Nothing like good old family guilt to start a trip on:) (just teasingTM:)
Becky
I can see the resemblance you see in the muzzle :~D
As soon as I saw that picture of her daddy I knew I had the same picture of Cyn, I just had to find it :~D
If he always moves like her, that's not particularly something to brag about in an Arab, since she moves like something of a clod most of the time :~) But since they seem to be most proud of his temperament and feet, I thought they'd like to know that those two features were definately passed on.
No, no pictures of the ride. The lens on my camera is getting more and more fragile. I'm trying to make sure it's partially workable when I come there. I may have to get CD's or something of the pictures you take...I don't know if mine will still take pictures if any of the pieces of the lens comes out, and they are looking like they could. I don't want to do any unnecessairy joggling of it till I have to. My budget won't allow a new camera at this time...not till I get back.
Becky
I hope Suzi does OK without ya... ours would worry too, that's why we travel so rarely! At least she's home. Ours are OK at home with someone, worse when we have to take them somewhere else when we travel.
You can call home as much as you like :~)
I can certainly send you home with CDs of all the pics we take. It'd be nice if you could carry a camera too, so we get double the pictures... maybe if you think yours won't hold up, we can borrow one from my dad or brother too.
Susie is the only one I worry about. She frets even when I just go on a ride. She knows as soon as I put my boots on, even I put them on while she is outside, she notices and starts getting that worried look, runs out the door, trying to go with me...Then when I tell her no she has to stay, her tail drops and she walks back up the porch and goes and curls up on the bed:(...it's really very sad. Mack says she does come out after a while. When we went to Vegas a few years back, Charlie and Kristy kept her. They had truck trouble while we were gone and came and borrowed my truck. When Sue saw it coming up their drive Kristy says she came running, jumped in and then was just like, "where is she". After that every night they had to go get her out from under it when it was time for bed.
Becky
I've been thinking I may borrow Kristy's or Jenny's. Kristy's is smaller, the size of mine, but Jenny's takes better pictures...
Becky
Oh - the heartbreak. Poor thing. It's a hard world for the little things! I hope you don't feel like too much of a heel when you drive off and leave her for a week.
We had a couple extra digitals for awhile, but one quit working, and I had to give the other one back to the friend that gave it to me.
Well, even if I'm the only one taking pictures, we know there'll be a lot of you, and that's what's important. I hate pictures of me anyway :~)
Oh, she'll survive. It just makes you feel bad that you can't make them understand you'll be back...I've just been nagging at Mack that if he stays in town he needs to take her there too. Not to leave her night after night alone. He has to come home to feed anyway. Jenny said she would come up here a few times to play with her. Susie really likes Jenny:), Jenny was still at home when I got her.
Becky
Maybe Mack will take her with him because he'll be lonely too, without you :~)
LOL, maybe:).I think the year he and Charlie went to Sturgis, 1998, is the only other time we've been separated this long. He was gone 10 days that time...Course Jenny was here, and Mack had Charlie, so neither of us was "alone". I'm not worried about Mack, but I sort of feel bad leaving him for a week:). But he's OK with it, says he'll miss me, but is glad I'm going to have fun:) He's a pretty good guy:)
Becky
It'll be a new adventure for both of you :~)
I'm off to mow... before it gets hotter :~)
It's me. Had to come and feed the baby and hopefully he'll take a nap now. Travis changed my pass word for me so it's the same as everything else.
We've got a yard full of people.
How'd your hair come out?
I'll say! Really! Heh... How much does a breeding pair of pythons sell for? What do you feed them? Or do I want to know?
My son in the Navy would love to have those. I'm not even going to tell him they are for sale.
Thanks. I have go buy my firecrackers. I'm almost out. Shhh!
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