Everyone is busy getting ready for a birthday party here in doggy heaven! This is no ordinary birthday party, it is in celebration of Jesus’s birth. Down on earth you call it Christmas Eve and we see how you are preparing for the celebration too! Out buying gifts for the ones you love and for people who have touched your lives in some special way, getting the decorations and lights up, and baking cookies to share, in anticipation for the celebration that is to come. The kids are stirring, young and old alike, await with anticipation!
      It’s a giving time of the year, yes a joyous time of the year!
      Gift-giving is more difficult here, as we don’t have stores or computers. Since we cannot give material gifts, we have to give something from within ourselves. We give and receive gifts such as love, kindness, a helping paw, and friendship, which I have found are the grandest, for they always bring smiles, warm the heart and can last for a lifetime.
      I want to wish my masters and earthly friends a blessed Merry Christmas and in the New Year may you find and give peace, joy and love. Give from your hearts. I will always remember all the love, biscuits too, that you passed my way. My tail is a-waggin’....
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      Everyone gets up and stretches, shakes and begins the journey to the birthday party.
      I suddenly hear Sady, the watchdog over the Rainbow Bridge, barking for us to come, as someone is a arriving and is ready to cross the bridge. I meet up with my heavenly dog pals Kachina, BB, Rasta, Remington, Ruger---and our feline friends Lucky and Squeeky, are on their way.
      We walk over the bridge to meet Sady and greet the newcomer, a dog named Rocky. He is a little hesitant, as most are when they arrive, but we bark and purr our welcomes. He walks across the bridge as we all fill him in on his wonderful new home---just in time to help us prepare for our Christmas celebration. Soon Rocky is running with us over the hill to see his beautiful new world.
      All our tails were ‘a-waggin’
      GSD
     
      Gretta was a Golden Retriever
      who greeted all who visited the
      Boardman News for 15 years with
      a wag of her tail.
      She died in Nov., 2012