I finally learned how to do this all by myself. It’s very difficult to try to find a photo that meets such restraints as to size. First I found Mary Beth’s photo of her black Lab Gus with a hand-lettered congratulatory message on our wedding back in January, 2003. That didn’t work.
Then I found a photo of me on a sailing yacht in Greece in 2001 on Dad’s birthday voyage, Chasing Ulysses. By the time it was cropped one couldn’t see the boat or the seas, just chipmunk cheeks.
If it’s chipmunk cheeks you’ll see, let’s go back just a few years. Yes, this was my first “kitty,” a beautiful Steiff kitty that I was choking at the neck. The good Lord made me pay for that one by sentencing me to two real cats that were each a challenge in their own way. I mean to say that s/he has permitted me the opportunity to be the personal guardian of two cats and two dogs in my adult life.
Hope you like it. If I can find another, better photo I’ll post it. You have a great day! Dee
p.s. Look to the right. I’m pawsinsd. Haven’t been able to change that name on WordPress…
Cooking with Dee 
I wanted to post Gus, aka The Gusinator, because he used to stay with us often when his folks were out of town, was a great ambassador at the V.A. and he died suddenly last year but we got to see him beforehand. He was the first dog I knew who could bisect the space so that no-one could leave without him knowing about it! When Zoe first did that as a pup, I knew exactly what she was doing!