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Santa Paws Gift Exchange
sign up by December 2nd!
& mail your gifts by December 12th.
- The Elves at Casa De Chaos, in Sandy Eggo, are Tippy & Stella Allen.
- They will puzzle over matching who sends gifts to who.
- You have your human sign you up, & you’ll get paired with someone else, who has also been signed up, & then you mail your gift out by December 12th. Shortly you should get a gift sent
to you. - Keep gifts around $15. to $20. Make sure any special requests or information is noted, such as if you are a cat and not a dog, if you can't have edibles cause they will make your tummy gurggley and squrggley, etc.
- Then enjoy giving and receiving!
- Please send your information by December 2nd, by email, to: Tamara Allen & Susan Kamen Marsicano
Tamara, Tippy, Stella and Dennis Allen.
When I am old...
I will wear soft gray sweatshirts...
and a bandana over my silver hair...
and I will spend my social security checks on my dogs.
I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair
and listen to my dogs breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...
When people come to call, I will smile and nod
as I show them my dogs...
and talk of them and about them...
...the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today...
I will still work hard cleaning after them,
mopping and feeding them and whispering their names
in a soft loving way.
I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,
like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all...
especially my family...
who have not yet found the peace in being free
to have dogs as your best friends...
These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall...
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,
to greet you as if you are a God,
with warm eyes full of adoring love and hope
that you will always stay,
I'll hug their big strong necks...
I'll kiss their dear sweet heads...
and whisper in their very special company....
I look in the mirror... and see I am getting old....
this is the kind of person I am...
and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.
Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives...
they love my presence in their lives...
When I am old this will be important to me...
you will understand when you are old,
if you have dogs to love too.
-Author Unknown
