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To: Ish who wrote (57439)	12/19/2000 7:28:05 PM
From: nasdaqian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Sue brings em home, you take care of them. Hmmm. Sounds familiar. I let my kids each have a cat and rabbit on the condition they take care of them. Right. I'm now the caretaker of 1 dog, 3 cats and 2 wabbits. Oh well, now they (the animals) like me the best, so I guess there is some payback, meager as it may be.

To: Ish who wrote (57439)	12/19/2000 9:41:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Today was an ok day. Took a client's check to the bank to cash it because I was afraid it would bounce but it was good. It was threatening to snow so I went to Costco and stocked up on groceries and bought the wreath. Took Kiwi to the vet for follow-up and he put a green bandage around her cast, so she looks very festive. The vet took her photo for a poster of animals that they have awarded Purple Hearts to, and they finally had it up - she was right in the center! Everyone oohed and ahhhed over her, she is very cute. On the way home I brought her into the office so I could check my messages and mail. The girls in the office made a big deal over her, and I had a check in the mail, so that takes care of Christmas. It snowed today, about two inches, so the kids got out early. Chris came home early so we could go out and buy the tree before it got dark. We bought a nice Frasier fir from the garden center we always buy the Christmas tree from - drank hot mulled cider, that always makes it seem like Christmas to me. Some of the people who run garden centers really love plants. This guy is one of those. He's got an incredible greenhouse with a really tall ficus Benjamini - it's almost like a 15 foot tall bonsai because he has to keep cutting it back to keep it from growing through the ceiling. I like to wander around in there and look at all the plants he grows that he is keeping for himself, enormous ferns and rare tropical plants. Put up the tree, and decorated it. Most of the Christmas ornaments have sentimental value because I try to buy ornaments that have some bearing on what we were doing that year. For example, I've got ornaments we bought in Louisiana - two alligators, a shrimp, a crab, a fish, and a crawfish. I've got ornaments for local monuments, like the Library of Congress, Monticello and the National Zoo. When we went to the beach we got seashell ornaments. The kids have ornaments with their name on them, and ornaments they made in school. So when we unwrap the ornaments (I put them away wrapped in paper towels) the kids say - that one's mine - that one's dad's - that's mom's. Last, I put on the icicles. That's been my job for the last 40 years or so - I am a very careful icicle hanger. Nicholas put the ornaments on the wreath. Now he's writing the newsletter to put in the Christmas cards. We are getting a late start on that, so Christmas cards may come after Christmas, but within the 12 days of Christmas, I hope. Not a bad day, at all.