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Nenana has increased by eight feet. These eight feet, quickly followed by four more feet, just ran past me here in my dining room. Let me tell you about the latest 4-H project. On Tuesday, November 25, we met two Guide Dogs of the Desert puppies-in-training at the Fairbanks airport.
Gabrielle is now attempting to raise Bo, a puppy that we hope will be trained, when he is grown, to be a guide for the blind. Bo is a black four month old German Shepard.
Elliot is also puppy-raising, but his pup is Cooper, a male, three month old black Lab.
Sponsors of Guide Dogs of the Desert are given the privilege of naming their puppies. We will likely have them until they are just over a year old when they return to CA for their training. We do not receive any financial benefit from this.
One big reason Brian is involved in Christian radio is because of how God used it in Brian’s salvation and spiritual growth. It is a way to ensure that others can also be blessed in this manner. In a similar way, we are really grateful for the work others did on our behalf before Gwen, Brian’s Seeing Eye Dog, was trained for him. We’re trying to help other blind folks to be blessed with moblilty and greater independance.
Check back later for pictures.

When Brian says that it’s minus twenty-two and that it has warmed up, I’m glad to be sitting on the couch with a phonics lesson to do.

We had some guests of the younger type for supper the other day. The subject of my age came up. No, I’m not 87 nor am I 500 years old. (Actual guesses!) But we did some counting and found that I am older than Gabrielle (17), Simeon (11), Michaela (5), Guest A(6), and Guest B (8). They also found out that next year, they would have gained five more years but I will have aged only one more! What fun we all had…and of course, we did talk of lots of other things!

Because of the memories of last year, I think having a peanut butter sandwich for Thursday’s dinner would be fine.  Not everyone else in the family thinks like I do. Much to their delight, someone came today with a TWENTY pound turkey for us to have for a more traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Now I am also looking foward to having some fun in the kitchen while teaching my children how to wrestle that big bird into the oven!