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Honk Honk (love your tag line) :-)

Thank You so very much Mama_Bear. I have been fortunate to have been Blessed with a wonderful family. And I am fortunate to have met so many wonderful folks here at Free Republic. The graphic is beautiful, may I keep it? Billie did such a beautiful job with my profile, I am so grateful to her. I am going to print out this entire thread and keep it forever!

~~~Colleen~~~

[Billie]

I hope it takes a whole rheam of paper to print it, Colleen. :)

[LadyX]

Love the photograph of your Lucy, Colleen.
Years ago, I had a smaller version of her, sneaked in as a surprise puppy for my two young boys of then 6 and 7 - "Can't we keep him for THEM, dear?" the Question of The Day..:))

He was instantly Mama's Boy from Day One, though, my husband in SAC in South Dakota, on rotating shifts, and the boys in school.

'Shadow' was glued to me nearly all the time, taking seriously his job to protect me, sleeping with his chin on the back of my calf at night. Would've taken on a tiger to save me.

Sadly, one night in Fairbanks he went out for a last time outside - usually hurried in the sub-zero cold, but never returned from our location at the edge of woods filled with wild life, including wolves, bears, moose,caribou and wild dogs....RIP, Old Faithful...see you at The Rainbow Bridge with which too many of us are familiar.

[Mama_Bear]

The graphic is beautiful, may I keep it?

Of course, you may......and thank you, I'm glad you like it. :-)