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To: RR who wrote (60622)	2/7/2004 12:00:21 PM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Hi RR! Finally saw snow this morning......didn't stick....not enough.....prediction: more tonight. I missed ya lately, hope all is well. dealer

To: RR who wrote (60622)	2/7/2004 2:30:40 PM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

RR, You must be pretty busy; haven't heard from you lately. Hope all is well. jpg

To: RR who wrote (60622)	2/14/2004 1:49:19 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

hi rr- saw this clip in the paper this morning and thought of you and ms.rr. Tough love "Squirrel. Here squirrel," calls Clark Thomas of Tennessee. The professional photographer nursed a dying baby grey squirrel back to health with feedings of goats' milk and the little rodent now lives in his back yard and comes scampering when it is called. Sometimes, Mr. Thomas calls and feeds the squirrel; sometimes he doesn't. He also discourages his sons from calling it "Mr. Squirrel" because when you give an animal a name, the bond grows. "I want him to fend for himself," he says. Source: The Tennessean .... and then, of course, there was this: Bailey the buffalo gets 15 minutes of fame Wooly house pet receives invitations to travel after his story hit the papers Dan Lazin Edmonton Journal Friday, February 13, 2004 Buffalo rancher Jim Sautner reads the Edmonton Journal with his pet buffalo Bailey in their home 20 kilometres west of Edmonton. The three-year-old male buffalo has been a house pet since birth. Now he's in demand to visit fairs and parades across Canada. EDMONTON -- Bailey, the unusually tame Alberta buffalo who likes to roam his owners' living room, is getting so famous he may be in need of an agent and a good travel adviser. But Jim and Linda Sautner, masters of the mammoth, wooly house pet, are worried the costs of a travelling buffalo could stomp on the idea. "We've had him for quite awhile," Linda said Thursday. "We've never had this exposure. We've been told by a couple different people now that he would really be a valuable asset in commercials, or popping his head around the door at a car showroom." Bailey has made a couple dozen sojourns into the Sautners' rented farmhouse since Jim discovered the bottle-fed orphan hadn't become as aggressive as his peers. He sleeps on the lawn and has been neutered to preserve his docile nature. The oversized pet appeared in dozens of newspapers across Canada this week. He then migrated to NBC Web sites in the U.S. and to newspapers as far afield as Australia, New Zealand and Germany. He was momentarily a front-page item on news.google.ca, the news Web site run by the search engine Google. With that attention came calls for Bailey to visit fairs and parades from Comox, B.C., through to Sherbrooke, Que. (An angry landlord also called. The Sautners have invited him for a visit to prove that Bailey is not destroying the house.) "We get so many requests to be here and be there," Linda said. "I know for a fact that if we weren't scrambling to make ends meet on a daily basis, Jim would do this full time. Jim would take Bailey everywhere and anywhere." Alas, the Sautners' buffalo ranching business -- Bailey has 270 not-so-tame herdmates -- lost $1.6 million after successive seasons of drought and the Canadian discovery of mad cow disease, which shut down American trade on all cud-chewing animals, including buffalo. "[Buffalo] cows that were $4,000 [when they were bought] were $400 a year ago and then -- when mad cow hit -- are now worth $200," Linda said. The industry is bouncing back a bit, she said, because consumers have developed an interest in the hormone-free, pasture-raised animals. But although Bailey is now a prominent spokesbuffalo for the industry, he has thus far failed to convince officials at the U.S. department of agriculture that the border should be reopened. And until the money starts flowing, the Sautners are stuck with a gas-guzzling old Chevy truck and trailer that might not survive a trip to Sherbrooke. Maybe they'll win the lottery. Stranger things have happened. Like, say, a buffalo wandering into the living room. © The Vancouver Sun 2004 canada.com if you can access the link, you'll see a picture of this huge beast in this guy's living room. hope you and the family and the menagerie are doing well. -rose

To: RR who wrote (60622)	2/22/2004 10:22:52 AM
From: RR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

Hello Troops! Hope everyone is doing great and making lots of moooney! Moo! Things still wild here. Been awful busy since the first of the year, but things are going great. Got the world by the tail. Personal, business, and investment goals are all ahead of schedule for the year. Bring it on! Snowed a week ago. Now it's 60 degrees. Bluebirds checking out their house. Won't be long before they start to build their nest. Daffodils starting to come out of the ground. Looks to be a super Sunday. Been doing my annual burning of the ridge line. Leaves everywhere. I'll smoke the hill side again this afternoon. Stocked the pond with catfish the other day. Now we're feeding baby fishes! Coon family still comes every night. The regulars. They still love their crunchy dog food with vanilla wafers and peanut butter. Now for another cup of coffee and walk to the pond to check my babies. Have a great Sunday! RR