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UPDATES: 2/14/03:

Yeah, I know it's Valentine's Day, but this yr. that just gets a big yawn from me, so no VD pages. Didn't even do them, muchless link them up. I'm getting to be a real party pooper (who was it said, "every party needs a pooper" ? ...//1/17/03: Okay, okay ~ it's a new year & time to update from the holiday stuff. I made the usual resolution this year: to make no resolutions. So far, it's easy to keep. Weather sucks: ice, snow & way too cold. & I never did get all my holiday stuff linked up. I don't know how much of that was ho-hum & how much was humbug. oh well... 12/03/02: Here's a little different slant on CHRISTMAS:
"A LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS":
Blessed old Santa Claus! King of delights!
What are you doing these long winter nights?
Filling your budgets with trinkets and toys- 
Wonderful gifts for the girls and the boys?
While you are planning for everything nice,
Pray let me give you a bit of advice.

Don't take it hard, if I say in your ear,
Santa, I think you were partial last year;
Loading the rich folks with everything gay, 
Snubbing the poor ones who came in your way:
Now, of all times in the year, I am sure,
This is the time to remember the poor.

Little red hands that are aching with cold, 
You should have mittens your fingers to hold;
Poor little feet, with your frost-bitten toes, 
You should be clothed in the warmest of hose.
On the dark hearth I would kindle a light,
Till the sad faces were happy and bright.

Don't you think, Santa, if all your life through,
Some one had always been caring for you,
Watching to guard you by night and by day,
Giving you gifts you could never repay,
Sometimes, at least, you would sigh to recall
How many children have nothing at all?

Safe in your own quiet chamber at night,
Cozy and warm in your blankets so white,
Wouldn't you think of the shivering forms,
Out in the cold and the wind and the storms?
Wouldn't you think of the babies who cry,
Pining in hunger and cold till they die?

Blessed old Nick! I was sure, if you knew it,
You would remember, and certainly do it;
This year, at least, when you open your pack,
Pray give a portion to all who may lack;
Then if you chance to have anything over,
Bring a small gift to your friend - Kitty Clover.

(This was originally written for a girl to recite at a school Christmas program. It is taken from The American Speaker and Writer of 1908).
 
A little more giving & a little less gimmee might make this weary old world a little bit better place to live, not only at the holiday season, but year-round. Think about it.

11/16/02:Time to change the picture for THANKSGIVING -- does anybody even DO Thanksgiving anymore? Can't tell it from the commercial side. The stores went straight from Halloween to Christmas - so we know where the big bucks go, right? 11/01/02:CHECK OUT THE NEW PICTURE BELOW! How do you like the HOWL-OWEEN PUPS? I love 'em! Hope you all had a fun holiday (& got lots of candy!). WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? ONLY 2 MO. LEFT THIS YR.! Seems only yesterday I updated, but it was a month. (I know it's impossible for you to tell I'm updating - it's because I'm building new pages which I don't have hooked up for you to see yet - it's going rather slowly.) TIME FLIES WHETHER YOU'RE HAVING FUN OR NOT! 10/01/02:WOW - ONLY 3 MONTHS LEFT THIS YR.! 30 days till HALLOWEEN (what's not to love: you knock on people's doors & say trick or treat & they give you free candy!). I'm going to post some Halloween safety tips for pets this month - keep an eye out. By the way - I'm not so sure expage ate my homepage - it's possible some poor sap with nothing better to do hacked my page. Either way, I was sick of expage's pop-ups. (did you see the car wreck one across the middle of the page?) Oh well. Anyway, I won't be updating too much for awhile as I am busy building new pages - I'm completely rebuilding. 09/17/02:EXPAGE ATE MY HOME PAGE AGAIN - eat, regurgitate, eat, regurgitate? I've changed my url on Supernova's Site Battle, so hopefully that will take care of it and i can spend my time & energy revamping my site. I will leave grafix & backgrounds for anyone who wants them, tho i'm not so sure that many people use them. 09/14/02:Last nite was FRIDAY THE 13th IN SPADES !!! The rain wouldn't have been so bad, but add to that a nail in the tire, the high school football game & dance cancelled because all the lights in the stadium went out, & expage ate my homepage, effectively wiping out my website address (tho today it miraculously reappeared - go figure!). 9/9/02:LOOKING FOR GRIFF? STILL HERE! CHANGED MY LAYOUT & SWITCHED TO ANGELFIRE (got tired of expage wiping out my hard work - when they blew my home page, & therefore my website address, i knew it was time to book on over anywhere else but there!)

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