Happy New Year to all of our friends.

2008 certainly was an eventful year.

Dad suffered a recurrence of his cancer - and fought through a successful surgery to end up back in remission and is doing well - with Sweet SUE's help of course.

I lost my job at the radio station.

We became foster parents for Save Our Setters. We got to see precious little DANNI and handsome HUNTER adopt out to perfect forever homes. And we were blessed to take bouncy little CODIE JOE into our home.

We got to celebrate our special Cousin Vi's 104th birthday - and she still lives alone in her own home!

We survived a week without power following a nasty summer storm.

We all made it through another year - still loving and appreciating everybody in our lives.

Oh, yeah, can't forget - we discovered MDS and made a great bunch of special friends whose daily contact brightens every single day.

Here's to 2009!  May it be all that 2008 was and more!

Jim, SUE, and CODIE JOE

Merry Christmas to all of our MDS BFFs.

SUE and I wanted to take just a brief moment of your time to thank you for being our Pals here on MDS.  Joining MDS was one of the high points of our year.  While we have wasted some time in silly forum battles, by-and-large our time here has been wonderful.  In large part because of all of you.

So, in no particular order, and summarizing for time and space, we wanted to give you the gift of sharing just a few of the highlights of our friendship with each of you.  So, to:

Dogaholic & Pecodee who make us laugh so often;

Benji & DogStar who inspire us with their stories;

ZoeXavier our special Secret Santa friend;

TuckersMom, Everydogsmom, Aussie6pk, & WeLoveOur7Dogs who provide us with so much wisdom and guidance;

BAMBIWOODS & yaz who demonstrate the power of love in caring for a dog in need;

Astrid, dalgd, NadiaWebber, Nancy_R, brenpooh, & SableandChi who did so much to make us feel so welcome here;

corky for the constant support;

CarlaGenender for her inspirational strength;

and Zenmasterdod - my brother from another mother

thank you all for making our season so bright.

Merry Christmas to All!

Jim, SUE, and CODIE JOE

OK guys, today is all about some fun!! Check out our Santa visit blog.

Jim, SUE, and CODIE JOE

>~You have just been hit with an e-mail snow ball!~
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>It's the start of.....
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>Snow Ball Fight 2008!!
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>One rule to this game...
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>You can NOT hit someone who has already hit you!
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>I got you first! And you can't get me back!
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>Nanee - Nanee - Nanee!
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>We do not stop playing because we grow old;
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>We grow old because we stop playing.
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>Never Be The First To Get Old!!!! !

Hi friends!

Sorry that we haven't been barking much lately.  SUE's best friend (and our next door neighbor) JAZZY JAZZ the Yellow Lab came to our house for a sleep over pawty.  JAZZ's people went to Out Of Town, wherever that is, and apparently you can't take dogs there.  So JAZZ came to stay with us for a bit.

We really like playing with JAZZ.  She had a bit of a hard time, as the snow in our yard was up to her belly!  That made it pretty cold for her.  CODIE JOE got to play with JAZZ for the first time and they got along really well.  We discovered that CODIE is a pogo bouncer!  He does this funny little thing where he bounces straight up and down with his legs almost stiff.  He would bounce in circles around JAZZ in the backyard.

JAZZ is not a full time indoor dog at her house.  She mostly stays in the mudroom (doesn't that sound like a fun room to have) when she is inside, so she sometimes has a little bit of trouble with indoor manners - like not eating out of the yummy smelling garbage can.

But Boy gave us yummy rawhides and frozen kong treats (see our blog for the yummy frozen kong stuffing recipe).  And we played tug - a lot.  With ropes and kongs and the stretchy tug toy!  Even Dad felt good enough to play some tug with us and give Boy a break. 

And we had lots of snuggle time too.  All three of us would dogpile on the floor with Boy and snuggle in for a nap. 

We were kinda sad to see JAZZ go home with her Dad when he got back from Out Of Town, but we still get to see her when we go out for walks.

Anyhow, we were all a little tired when JAZZ left - especially Boy.

We also put up all of the Christmas decorations.  We were big helpers to Boy on this project.  We put our noses into everything and supervised Boy to make sure that he did everything right.  We are big helpers!

We hope that everything is going good at your house too.

Jim, SUE, and CODIE JOE

OBTW - Boy is also tired from arguing with some human in the forums.  He says that he is just glad that almost everybody here at MDS is nice and honest and loves dogs.

imikimi - Customize Your World

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How are you? hope you have a great weekend

Sorry that we haven't barked at anybody very much lately.  We've been so busy between all of the fostering for Save Our Setters's and keeping up with the day to day stuff.

We just wanted to stop by and let you know that everything is going well and that you are our BFF.  We hope that everything is going well with you and your's too.

We are going to brew up a really big batch of good Irish Setter Zen to share with all of our friends!

Sorry to bark and run, but we have to get busy finding the perfect forever home for CODIE JOE. If you know somebody that would love this handsome, well mannered, little gentleman just click on his name and submit and adoption request.

Thanks for being our MDS BFF.

Jim, SUE, and CODIE JOE

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Have a beautiful day!

glitter-graphics.com How are my wonderful friends doing?? Think about you often. Have a fantastic weekend!!!