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from: Barb Jernigan
date: 2003-06-18 08:02:32
subject: Re: speaking of prairie dogs...

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:18:02 -0500 "Emily Weems" 
writes:
> Kathy wrote...
> > The postcard had, as mentioned, been chewed by secret prairie dog
> > operatives, and as a result, the only address visable was:
> > 
> > Kathy W
> > 6951 W I
> > Littleton
> > 
> > and they managed to find me on Ida Dr. in apt 532 in Colorado... 
> 
> I got a card sent from Europe to 
> Emily Weems
> Mekelscroft Farm
> Franklin TN
> 
> a year or so & it got to me.  Mum is still marveling over that!

And we used to think that was just an aspect of the small town Post
Office.
[Our Post Mistress was very proud of the letter addressed simply:
"Grandpa Mac"
that was delivered correctly, Lo! some 30 year ago.]

OTOH, have seen a fair number still bounce "Insufficient Address" -- so I
guess you're at the whim of the sorter.

> how cool!  And prairie dogs, too!

=hmmmmm=

> Root root root.

whistlewhistlewhistle

> emily, rooting for the roooters, insouciant grunion

they's fun critters to watch, tygress....

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Nevertheless, even when he's being a monster he manages to stir up every
ounce of maternal feeling I never thought I had.  It's a low, underhanded
survival tactic and I ought to resent it, but I can't.  I suppose I must
be his mother.  :) --Rebecca J. Bohner
====
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