Some stuff from Stella

Hello Pups and Kitties!

She made it back home.  That rowdy Ali Zophia had quite a trip too.  She isn't saying much about it though and we asked her if her instructor, Lucas Miguel Marcos, came with her.  She said something about getting as far as Iowa and he decided this was a cold climate he couldn't live in so he hitched a ride South.  Me and my Mom cannot say we are sorry about this, we sort of dreaded another tempermental cat in the house.  She says despite that her feet hurt, she will have her column ready for tomorrow.  Nice to know she will (ahem) dance on for us! (heh, heh)

My Mom got a small book of poems about dogs, called Doggerel and she says it has some great poems in it from way back when until now.    She found one that she thought you guys would just love.  Its called A Dog's Eye View written by Amelia Josephine Burr who might well have had it dictated to her by her dog.  

A Dog's Eye View

The people whom I take to walk
I love and yet deplore,
Such things of real importance
They persistently ignore.
The sights and smells that thrill me
They stolidly pass by,
Then stop and stare in rapture
At nothing in the sky.

They waste such time in stopping
To look at things like flowers
They pick the dullest places
To settle down for hours.
Sometimes I really wonder
If they can hear and smell;
Such vital things escape them---
And yet they mean so well!

Is that perfect or what? 

Ali Z. will see you tomorrow and I will see you on Wednesday!

Kisses,
Stella