tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371727942024-03-13T04:29:16.396-04:00Dee Gatrell's Writing NewsWriter/Family/Grands and dogsDee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-11161271077825708852017-01-19T12:12:00.003-05:002017-01-19T12:16:31.154-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Here is it, my very first novel! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Myrtle Sue Henderson and her family are probably like your normal dysfunctional family. They don't always get along, but they do love one another.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">When Myrtle Sue is widowed, her mother-in-law, Hazel, moved in with her because she was kicked out of the senior apartments. There was no place else for Hazel to live. Did I mention Hazel wasn't fond of Myrtle Sue?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hazel hits a man at church with her cane, takes money from the collection plates, and talks loud enough for everyone around her to hear, like when she says one lady's dress looks like her grandmother's wallpaper. Another lady's hair looks like a bird nest. And she isn't happy when the older man doesn't take to her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Zack comes into Myrtle Sue's life and actually likes her wacky family. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Presley, Myrtle Sue's oldest daughter and her two children also move in with her. Presley is trying to escape an abusive marriage. Her husband is a taxidermist who stuffs dead animals for presents. Like when he stuffs his 8-year-old daughters dead dog for her birthday present. But hey, he puts wheels on the dogs feet so she can take it for walks. What more could a child ask for? A live dog to replace the dead one? That's what a normal person would do. James is not what we'd call normal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I hope you will consider buying the book. So far I have good reviews. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Dee</span>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-46591580117070002842017-01-19T11:56:00.000-05:002017-01-19T11:56:30.178-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>When I sold my novel a year ago, I was told it could take a year for it to be out. Really? No way.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Here it is a year later and I'm finally about to get my release date. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>I have sold many stories to the confession magazines, one to Chicken Soup for the Soul, and various newspapers and magazines. I figured writing a book couldn't be much harder.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Or, you need to watch out for filter words. Hmm. Better read about that, too.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>The good thing about The Wild Rose Press is they have meetings on Tuesday evenings (online) and from that I learned lot. I also made new friends.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>I don't have my release date yet, but should have it soon. Poor Myrtle Sue and Presley, my mother and daughter in my dysfunctional family book, had to learn to do things like threw an arm in the air, scrunch their face, or touch someone, have thoughts I hadn't thought about, and much more. I'm sure both my characters shook their heads many times wondering if this writer was ever going to get things correct so they could move on with their lives.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Myrtle Sue's dead husband finally quit talking to her now that she found a replacement for him.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Presley's abusive husband got ate by a gator while in one of his drunken stupors.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Sonja learned her mother would not quit her job and stay home with her baby.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>And even her sometimes dim-witted son found love.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Hazel, the mother-in-law from hell, finally got placed in a home, the same one Zack's father is in. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Oh yes, Zack, the man Myrtle Sue met at church after Hazel whacked his father with her cane, turned out to be a really nice guy, one she decided could psychoanalyze</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>I hope you'll join Myrtle Sue and her family for a good homemade Southern meal once the book is out. Some of those recipes can be found in the back.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>Dee Gatrell</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b>(um, yes, we all have dysfunctional families that give us things to write about.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%;">When
I was fourteen years old my parents sold our home in a small town in OH and
decided to move. Somewhere. We had lived beside my aunt and uncle on one side
of us and my uncle’s brother on the other side of us. Being an only child, it
was great having my cousins and their cousins around.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%;">I
swear my mother was part gypsy. Once our house sold, we moved in with her
sister and family. My cousin, who was my age, was not my favorite. She had,
shall we say, sticky fingers. Money out of my bank went missing. And it wasn’t
a ghost who swiped it.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%;">So
after six weeks of living with them in the city, school number two for the
year, my parents bought a 72-acre farm. Neither of my parents were farmers. My
dad grew up in the city and worked at Sterling Bakery. My mom had various jobs.
By then she took in foster kids.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%;">School
number three for the year was Minerva High. Three schools with different
teaching of algebra, is it no wonder I didn’t do well? That I never learned to
like math? Ok, once I got to college I actually got an A in math, but not my
freshman year of high school.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 200%;">So
back to the farm. The house was large with a small kitchen, a large dining room
with a bookshelf that used to be a dumb waiter, a living room and one bedroom
downstairs. The upstairs had three bedrooms, two on each side of the hall and
the one bathroom. To get to the bathroom you had to go through one of the
bedrooms. Imagine a slew of kids and two adults and only one bathroom!</span></span></span></span></div>
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least I had a large bedroom that wasn’t attached to the others. When Grandma
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there was a large barn, and a garage with an upstairs. That’s where the turkeys
stayed. Which made me happy. I am not a bird fan. We had chickens, too. Can’t
recall where they stayed, but I do recall the day we came home and found dead
chickens all over the yard. I guess my dog killed them. Not its fault. They
made dogs stay outside in those days. The cats stayed in the barn. And my dog
was murdered. That’s what they did in those days.</span></span></span></span></div>
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had one cow. I was told I needed to learn to milk it. Remember, I was a city
girl. So I sat on the milking stool, no machines, and I tried to milk it. Just
pull in the udders they said. I did. The cow laid down. “Bessie, get up.” But
she refused. After trying to get her up for what seemed like forever, my one
foster brother, who stood there laughing, took over. Bessie stood and he milked
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did get a pet calf when I was a junior in high school. But then I came home one
day and Candy was missing. My mother explained that they gave my calf to her
friends who owned a farm, and in return we’d get meat from their cow. A few
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of Candy, my Aunt Mildred was pregnant and said she had planned to name her
baby Candy, but couldn’t since that’s what I named my cow. Years later, when I
had a daughter, she couldn’t pronounce Mary Alice and called her Mary Ass. As I
told my cousin, good thing she hadn’t been named Candy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>You see, many moons ago a psychic told me I would publish a book, but I'd be much older. Much older I thought meant I'd be about 50. Huh! She didn't tell me I'd be as old as Grandma Moses. By the way, how old was Grandma Moses?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Over the years I spent time as a reporter at a few small newspapers. I sold articles as a freelance writer to various newspapers and magazines. I even had a story about my relatives in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Lucky for me, they were already dead. I'm not sure they would've found what I wrote about them, all true, as funny as the newspaper reporter who wrote about my story in our local paper did. But hey, everyone has quirky relatives, right?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>While attending college (when I was in my thirties) I had a column in a local newspaper called In and Around Winter Springs. It was rather boring, but about everyone I knew appeared there. My neighbors, Joyce and Bear, took a trip to visit relatives. He dressed as Santa, their son, Cubby, also dressed as Santa, and Joyce as an elf. I took their picture and they appeared in the Sanford paper. Other neighbors appeared when they had company, or whatever they did. We even made a movie for one of my college classes.</b></span><br />
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who use her like she’s a pair of Depends. With a daughter and two grandchildren
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care for, until she went to church to get away from her troubles, only to find
more when her mother-in-law causes chaos. She hits an elderly man with her cane
and helps herself to money out of the collection plate. That’s how she meets
Mike, a psychologist, who could spend his life trying to figure out her family.
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>No, this woman isn't a nut case, she's funny as all get out and has more energy than anyone else who exercises there. She said she has an entire attic filled with Elvis everything. (Ha, maybe his body is there, too!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>I have sent my dysfunctional family novel off and hoping it will sell. I have lots of family to pull things from, and also have met a lot of folks in my life to get ideas from. All writers do. We turn on the TV and hear stories which give us ideas of what to write.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>I took Zeus, my 10-year-old schnauzer for an Xray today at the vet's office. Seems he has bladder stones--like kidney stones. I have learned that schnauzers are prone to everything. They refer to him as our million $$$$ dog. He has had a broken leg, got bit by a spider and had to have surgery, skin infections, got something in his eye and had to have it removed, and I can't even remember everything else. He needs surgery now, but my husband says he's old and could end up with more problems like hubby did this past year. I'm saying it isn't like he has cancer. They can remove the stones and he'll be fine. Right?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Noah, our autistic 6-year-old grandson has some strange ideas. Either he'll grow up to be someone who can really think out of the box, or he'll be some sort of wild preacher. He told my husband when hubby dies and goes to Heaven, if he's good God may give him new blood and he can come back.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>He said to me, "Gammy, you are really old. You are a hundred and two plus fifty." Well thank you , grandson!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>And that is what's sort of new with me. Off to do more writing. My story, I Hate Valentine's Day, will be in February True Story magazine, if anyone can find it.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Dee</b></span>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-10938172567144801982014-06-01T20:09:00.002-04:002014-06-01T20:09:55.830-04:00Interview with Cousin Ken<h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Cousin Dee has been one of the most out of the box thinkers I have ever known. I have always looked forward to spending time with her and listening to her stories of the antics of our family. For many years she threatened us with being placed in one of her stories but we took that for granted. It wasn’t until that last ten years that those threats became real when she began getting published. I never knew she was taking writing seriously until I started receiving reports through a social media site that she had one story published, then another and so on. I decided to interview her about her writing as I have also given some thought of writing from time to time and wanted to know her experiences while achieving her goal.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>I first became interested in writing when my fifth grade English teacher pulled me aside to tell me how much she liked a short story I had written. To my surprise, this was also the case when I asked Dee the question of when did she start writing? She stated that “she always wrote but started giving it more thought during her senior year in high school when she received an A on an English paper”. She also stated that her mother was not very supportive and suggested she become a nurse and “not something crazy like a writer”. Dee kiddingly added her mother said she would never make any money as a writer and added that her mother was correct in the latter statement.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-67478877128911903562014-02-24T11:45:00.000-05:002014-02-24T11:45:13.694-05:00Med side effect and grandkids<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I haven't blogged for a long time, so thought it was time to start again.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sometime before Christmas I was watching TV in the bedroom and moved the rocking chair so I could see it better. At 10:30 I was ready to go to bed and moved the rocker--right into my leg. I looked down and saw blood gushing like a volcano out of one of those Hawaiian Islands.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did I mention I don't do well with blood?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hubby was sleeping in the family room with the TV blaring and I decided the bleeding would stop soon. Band aid after band aid I was still gushing, then put a lot of gauze over it and went to bed. I know, I should've gone for stitches, but who wants to sit in ER at that hour and wait for someone to get the thread and needle out and stitch your leg?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I kept doctoring the leg, sure any day it would be healed. I never had trouble healing. Besides, Christmas was coming up soon and another baby was entering the world, Larry had leg problems and was in treatment, and I volunteered a few hours a week in grandson Noah's Kindergarten class.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christmas Day arrived, but we won't talk about that drama, the baby arrived, Tyler Phoenix Ana Hase, then New Years. And the leg still wasn't healed.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>February was about to arrive and the leg still hadn't healed. I had a talk with the leg. "Damn it! Get over this. I don't have time for more doctor appointments." I visited my primary doctor again. He said to keep any eye on it. How could I not? </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Two more weeks passed and I called and said okay, my leg still isn't healed. Ok so perhaps you need to see a wound doctor, Primary said. Meanwhile, here's some antibiotics. Another three weeks I got to see Wound Doctor. He gave me two more antibiotics.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I don't know about you, but I never read that long list of side effects. If I did, I'd never take any medications. Along with the antibiotics, Wound Doctor gave me some witch's brew to clean the wound with. Cleaning an open wound hurts like the devil, but I could do this, and wear lots of gauze over it.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But then I went to lunch on the second day of drugs and picked up my grands from school. I noticed I was getting cold. Real cold. We're talking about Florida here. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Noah gets in the car and I ask how his day was.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Not good. I got into trouble and I'm on red now."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"What did you do?"</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"We'll talk about it when we get home." </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That sounded serious.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Then Emma gets into the car and I ask the same question.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Good. I now have 25 dog bones."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Noah: "You have 25 dog bones? I only have one and it's for Art."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(dog bones are some type of awards at the school) </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Noah grumbled the whole way home. When we got home, Larry gave him his usual chocolate milk, but in his haste of being upset over Emma having more dog bones he yanked with the pop-up on his cup and milk came flying out all over him.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"It's your fault, Papaw! You put too much milk in here."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Meanwhile, the side effects of one of the meds kicked in big time with me. I wrapped up in blankets and shivered, had a headache, and even my teeth rattled. I called the doc 's office and was told medicine x was probably causing it. I read the paper and yep, I had a lot of those things going on.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My leg is slowly healing, we will pick up the kids in a bit and hopefully, Noah had a good day!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-16180784932499342012013-10-13T20:44:00.000-04:002013-10-13T20:47:12.736-04:00Rocky Goes to Obedience School<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rocky
goes to Obedience School</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">By Dee
Gatrell</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“My
cookie! Gimme!” My two-year-old granddaughter, Ashley fought the German
Shepherd dog for the cookie he tried snatching from her hand. She got half, he
got half. She was angry and yelled at him. He just looked at her like, “Hey,
what did I do? Your hand was near my mouth.” For the next two weeks, it was a
constant battle between them.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rocky was a German Shepard given
to us when we lived in Ohio. One of our friend’s daughters couldn’t keep him
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only was the dog a cookie
thief, but he had no manners. We’d put him out to use the bathroom, and if
someone was taking a walk by the house he’d run down the long driveway and bark
and scare them. We tried keeping him in the house, but he’d want to go out to
romp, which was fine as long as one of us was with him. After all, he had ten
acres to run on. So why did he have to run the several hundred feet to the road
to scare people? He really wasn’t all that brave.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I read in the paper there was a dog
obedience class starting soon, so I signed him up. I think I was more excited
about going to them than Rocky was. The first night of class, I drove my
husband’s Chevy S-10, which is a pretty small vehicle. Rocky sat beside me and
was behaving. When we arrived at our destination, there were a lot of dogs.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our first assignment was to get
in a line and walk in a large circle. One wall was lined with mirrors. We would
walk, then told to have the dogs sit. Most of the time Rocky would sit, but
while the others dogs ignored the “doggie in the mirror” Rocky fell in love
with himself. It wasn’t easy to get him up and moving again. I swear if he
could’ve talked he would have said, “Look at that handsome dog in the mirror. I
think I’m in love.”</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the end of the night, the
instructor told us repeatedly to make sure we praised our dogs on the way home
and when we got home. We get into the truck and Rocky decided he wanted to sit
almost on my lap. I kept pushing him over, but again, he wanted to be close. So
I told him, “You were such a good dog. And you are going to learn to have
manners.”</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was about a fifteen minute
drive to our house. I turned onto the street where he lived, again assuring
Rocky he was a good dog, but I’d like him more if he quit trying to get into my
lap. Nearly to our house, Rocky laid his head in my lap and threw up. A lot.
All over my legs.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I pulled into the garage and told
him he really wasn’t a good dog for doing that. I walked into the family room
and my daughter, Michelle, and my husband, Larry, took one look at me and
started to laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told them I was
supposed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to tell Rocky he was a good
dog, but right now I didn’t think he was.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Six weeks later we were finished
with obedience school. But Rocky still didn’t listen when I called him and he
still swiped cookies out of Ashley’s hands.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then my husband was transferred
from OH to FL and we had to find a home for Rocky. We were having a house built
and had to rent an apartment until it was finished. I took Rocky to the vet for
his checkup and asked if he could help me find him a good home. The next day I
got a phone call from a young woman who was recommended by our vet. She was
really excited and came to visit him. They fell in love instantly.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rocky went to live with her and
her roommate. They had someone try breaking into their house and wanted a big
dog to protect them. She took him home and called me the following week to
report in.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">“He is absolutely wonderful,” she
said. “My roommate has a little girl and they get along well. But the best part
is that I work for my dad and he lets me bring Rocky to work with me every day.
We all really love him.”</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was so happy to hear that. I
hated having to give him up, in spite of his bad habits. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh, did I mention after the
vomiting episode I didn’t feed him dinner before we left for class?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more vomiting on the way home!</span></span></h3>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-75482175838500049102013-08-19T20:35:00.002-04:002013-08-19T20:35:31.374-04:00DOGS OF CHINABERRY LANE<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.1in 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dogs of Chinaberry Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>I’ve always had dogs from the time I was
nine years old. My first dog was named Peewee, and I have no idea what she was.
Those were the days when they made the dogs stay outside. I loved Peewee and
wanted her in the house. I must’ve had her less than a year when I came home
from school one day and she was gone. The chain on her dog house was the only
thing I saw.</b><b> </b><b>I asked my mom where she was. “Your dad
dropped her off in the country. Don’t worry, some farmer will take her in.”</b><b> </b><b>Yes, I cried for days. I found it cruel
to do that, and no matter how my mom tried convincing me it was okay, I didn’t
believe it.</b><b> </b><b>A few years later I got a house dog, as
they called them. And over the years I have had many house dogs. I do not
believe in having a dog that has to live outside, big or small.</b><b> </b><b>I’ll skip over many years of many dogs,
but want to talk about Maggie, a Belgium shepherd rescue. We had her for ten
years. In April 2013 she was 12 years old and had to be put down. She was my
husband’s constant companion and a wonderful dog. She loved children and
tolerated our two schnauzers in spite of Icarus stealing sticks before she
could get to them. There was nothing more she liked than to have someone throw
a stick for her. At times she’d snoop until she found the same stick that was
thrown into a pile. She loved it when the grandkids were here to play with her
outdoors. Losing her was like losing one of our kids.</b><b> </b><b>Next came Zeus. I had lost my small dog
who was 12 years old the year before. Maggie favored my husband, and I wanted a
small dog. For our anniversary my husband said to find a dog I wanted and that
would be my present. I found a place selling the white schnauzers, and we made
the 35 mile trip to see the puppies. I picked the smallest of the litter. He
was supposed to get to no more than 20 pounds. He’s now 33 pounds.</b><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Zeus is loving, but clumsy. When we had
a deck in the back yard, he used to have a hard time climbing the steps and
often would fall down the steps. But he’s our weather dog. If he starts to
shake or crawls underneath my desk, within half an hour we will have a storm.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">We call Zeus our million dollar dog—he
broke his leg at 9 weeks, he got bit by a spider and had to have surgery and
anything else you can think of, it happens to him. He’s also a hunter. He
killed a snake in the yard, he killed a squirrel that ate the screen on the
back porch and was there to make another mess, and last week he caught a baby
bunny and brought it to the door. That one I wished he hadn’t caught. It was
too cute and too dead.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Then came Icarus. I went with my
daughter-in-law to look at schnauzer dogs at a kennel going out of business.
She bought two dogs, but when we got home she said to tell my husband I bought
one. He grumbled and then named the dog. I wrote her out a check and that’s how
he came to live with us. He was six months old, all fuzzy and looking like a
teddybear.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">He and Maggie were good friends and they
both ignored Zeus, except to pick on him. When Maggie passed over, Icarus
mourned her for a month. It didn’t seem to bother Zeus.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">By the time four months had passed, my
husband was ready for another large dog. Daughter Michelle was visiting and we
went online looking for dogs. We sent him several pictures to look at and he
liked the half lab, half Great Dane dog. She, too, is a rescue dog, about 18
months old. Ellie is what we renamed her. She is great with the kids, listens
well, and will go into the crate to take naps and sleep at night. She’s all
black, not a white spot on her. And she’s still a clumsy puppy. Icarus growls
at her if she gets too close when he has a chewy toy. Zeus fears her when her
big paws come too close to his head when she wants to play--and he hides under
chairs! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Ellie has been in two other homes and
took back to the Second Chance Rescue. One single mom decided she didn’t want
the dog anymore and the other family only had her a few weeks and learned the
kids were allergic to her. She’s trying hard to be good so she can stay at a
forever home. We hope nothing ever happens to make her leave, because we want
her forever.</b></span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>When Larry was in the military and came back from
overseas, he was stationed in OK. I had moved to AZ with my parents while he
was gone, so he flew into Phoenix. From there we drove to OK to rent a house by
the base, as we weren't eligible for base housing. So we found a house to rent
in Dill City, which is a very small village. I looked it up online and it’s
still about the same size as when we lived there.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Then we went to OH to spend time with the rest of our
family members for several weeks. I went to get my hair cut, and the beautician
said she heard there was a tornado in Dill City. Back then the news wasn't as
easy to get as it is now. We couldn’t find anything about a tornado and thought
she was wrong,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>When we arrived back to OK and turned onto the road
that would take us to the house we rented, the entire street was flattened. I
had never seen destruction from a tornado before. My first thought was, is this
what we’ll find when we get to our rental? We drove further and found the house
we rented was standing as were the others in that part of the town. The entire
town was and still is less than 2 miles. (I googled it)</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Back then Larry was young and healthy and was asked to
pitch in to clean up the mess.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>One thing I remember about living in OK, sirens went
off a lot. One of our neighbors had a storm cellar and we would head to
it with the others and sit out the storms. And people were friendly and
helpful.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Larry once cleaned out a septic system for the
landlord for a bag of groceries. I learned to eat green beans from the garden
planted by whoever lived there before us. Since we didn’t have much money, we
never had soda. It was popcorn and Kool Aid. I still can’t drink Kool Aid! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>When we rented the house, a man who lived in the town
came to the door to greet us and tell tell us he’d check on the “matters and
tatters” while we were gone. We learned to eat the food from the garden, and I
learned to be less picky. </span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In the military you moved with the car pools. Next we
moved to Cordell, then to Elk City before being shipped to Indiana. We had two
Okie babies. Not much to do in OK back then. One TV station that had locals
singing over and over "Gum Chum."</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Dee </span><span></span></span></span></div>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-24066422428626159012013-02-22T19:40:00.004-05:002013-02-22T19:56:21.084-05:00Those who love our pets<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">For those of us that love their pets, who think of them as family
members, it’s hard watching them age.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Maggie, our shepherd rescue dog, is now about 12-years-old. Her hips
are giving out and she limps at times, just like my husband Larry and I do. She
is a wonderful dog and loves to play with the grandkids when they are here. But
after a few hours of throw the stick and let me bring it back for you to throw
it again..and again..well, she never gives up. When they go home, she has a
hard time moving. Last week Maggie was disappointed when Larry told the kids
not to throw sticks for her. <span style="font-size: large;">He <span style="font-size: large;">worried about her being able to walk when they left. The question is, </span></span>do we let her have fun in her last years, or
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Last week we thought she was dying. We found her in the bathroom lying
on the floor and not moving. Later she moved to the toilet area. She wasn’t
eating or drinking water like she usually did. Then we started getting her
cereal bowls with water in them and she drank and drank, but still ate no food.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> After a few hours she followed Larry to the family room and moved to her pillow.
He kept bowls of water there all night long and he made sure she drank. The
next day she ate a little, peed in the house several times, which is something
she never does, but again, wouldn’t go outside or eat.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But the next day when I got up to let Zeus and Icarus out, she went
with them. I got her a bowl of dry food and mixed in wet food<span style="font-size: large;">, </span>and she ate. We were like two kids, excited because Maggie ate. Sounds silly,
but to watch her recover was like watching a miracle. We thought for sure it
was the end of her life.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This morning we took her to the vet when Icarus went for his flu shot.
Yes, dogs need them, too! The vet checked her and said her heart is still
strong, and yes she has arthritis in her hind legs, but for her age she’s
doing great. I really think if Larry hadn’t stayed with her all night that
first night she wouldn’t have made it. She now has pills for her pain and she got
her nails cut, which she hated.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Larry had to lift her into the truck. Sad to see she can’t jump on her
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Zeus, who is an 8-year-old schnauzer, loves to go to the vet, gets all
excited as soon as he sees that yellow building. Icarus, who is soon to be eight,
too, has this attitude of okay I’m here. Pick me up so I can see over the
counter. Maggie is scared. She gets to shedding something awful when she is
there. Funny thing is, it’s Zeus who has had the surgeries—broken leg, spider
bite and other odd things—and he loves to go there. Maggie only gets shots, as
does Icarus.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I was watching a show on TV, forget the name of it, but it’s about two
gay guys who have a surrogate mother and they will take the baby when it’s
born. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">They had an adorable puppy who they treated like a baby. They were
practicing fatherhood on the puppy. The puppy got something wrong with it, and they rushed
it to the vet. Turns out h<span style="font-size: large;">e had gas, </span>but they wanted to keep it overnight. Then the
vet folks took it for a walk—I don’t think they ever do that—and the dog got
hit by a car and died. I am still ticked over that. They should never have
killed off the dog! It’s a goofy show, but I like watching it. I think I simply
like stupid shows that make me laugh.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">What do you think of them killing the dog off in the show off?</span></b></span></div>
Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-66132161397024463892012-12-29T12:20:00.000-05:002012-12-29T12:20:03.193-05:00Autumn's birthstone found<h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Dear Autumn,</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">It has come to Santa’s
attention that you were upset that you never received your birthstone when you
were born. Santa isn’t in charge of birthstones, but since your mommy wrote to
tell us about this, saying you really, really wanted a birthstone, Santa had
his elves check out just who was in charge and to find out what happened to
your stone.</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">My Elf, Noah, was put
in charge of finding the person in charge and to see what stone it was. So Noah
took off to where the stones are kept. Noah got terrible confused when the
Stone Man asked, “Which stone are you looking for?”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">“June,” Noah said.</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">The Stone Man scratched
his head. “There are three stones for June. There’s the Pearl, which has been
used for centuries. There’s the Alexandrite, a relatively modern gem, first
discovered in Russia in 1831. And then the Moonstone. This gem was given its
name by the Roman historian, Pliny.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Noah stood in awe. “Um,
um, I don’t know. Santa sent me to find this stone for a little girl who didn’t
get hers at birth. I’m an Elf, not a stone master. Please tell me which one so
I can tell Santa.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">The stone master picked
up the three stones and showed them to Noah. “Tell me something about this
little girl, then I can tell you which stone should be hers.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Noah sat on a large
rock, placed his chin in his hands and said, “Well, Santa showed me a picture
of Autumn. She’s got long light brown hair, a nice smile and is about as tall
as I am. She’s very kind, loves her sister, Sophie, and her Aunt Emma is one of
her favorite friends.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">“She sounds like a
loving child. I’ll bet her eyes sparkles, don’t they?”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Noah stood up and
tripped, then landed back on the rock. “Whoa! Sorry, Mr. Stone Man. I didn’t
hurt your rock, did I?”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Stone Man laughed. “You
cannot hurt that rock, Noah.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Noah smiled. “The
picture of Autumn Santa showed me, yes, her eyes do sparkle.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">“Then I know which
stone is hers.” He pulled out stone and handed it to Noah. “Czar Alexander II
liked this gem. It is an extremely rare chrysoberyl with chameleon-like
qualities. Its color is a lovely green in both daylight and fluorescent light;
it changes color to a purplish red in incandescent light. I can make this into
a necklace if you want me to. It’ll take me just a few minutes. Can you wait?”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">“Thank you, Stone Man.
Yes, I can wait. Santa will be so happy to learn I found the stone for Autumn.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">And so Noah placed the
necklace into his pouch and with his eyes sparkling, handed it to Santa. “I did
it, Santa! I found Autumn’s birthstone!”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">“Ho Ho! Good job, Noah.
Autumn will be so happy.”</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">On Christmas Day,
Autumn joined her family at Gammy and Pappaw’s house. Santa placed her necklace
under the tree and hoped Autumn would like her special necklace made especially
for her!</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Lots of hugs and
kisses.</span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">Mrs. Santa Clause </span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #00b050; line-height: 115%;">PS--<span style="font-size: large;"><b>After reading this to Autumn she loo<span style="font-size: large;">ked at me an<span style="font-size: large;">d said, "Is this for <span style="font-size: large;">real?"</span></span></span></b></span> </span></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<br />Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-72435278542548056702012-11-14T19:27:00.001-05:002012-11-14T19:38:53.719-05:00Meet the Obitch Queen<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will it be self published or
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I don’t sell it or have an
agent by March, I’ll try to self
publish. Right now two agents have partials and an editor has the full.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who or what inspired you to write
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One day I was thinking of all the
kooky characters I actually worked with at the newspaper and decided I could
pull from them and from my notes to write a book. I use to refer to the town in Ohio <span style="font-size: large;">where I worked <span style="font-size: large;">as the town </span></span>of
the dead and the dying. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many years ago my husband was waiting
while getting a lube job on his car<span style="font-size: large;">, a<span style="font-size: large;">nd <span style="font-size: large;">a</span></span></span> man sitting there was from a neighboring
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What else about your book might
pique the reader's interest?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">An older woman who is left
destitute, had to find a job, and meets her high school sweetheart at a party,
drags him with her to a friend’s house where they find a man dead in the friend's
kitchen, the friend tied up like a Christmas turkey<span style="font-size: large;"> in a closet</span>, then the friend is upset
that her good knife is in his chest and pulls it out, ho<span style="font-size: large;">lding it <span style="font-size: large;">w<span style="font-size: large;">hen the police ar<span style="font-size: large;">rive</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span><b>.<span style="font-size: large;"> There are other dead
bodies found, like the dead man sitting on the friend’s porch at a later date,
posed with a cig in mouth and a note saying they wasted him because he sold
them bogus blow, which they later learned was her husband’s ashes and they
apologized. A sexy ex-boyfriend she’s determined not to become involved with
after her lousy marriage, but how can she make herself not get involved? </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The characters are as loony as many
people I’ve met over the years, the ones I loved to hang out with, the ones we
all love because they are fun to be with.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh, Diane notes that I write about
dysfunctional families. Are there really families who aren’t dysfunctionals? I
thought that was today’s norm!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to my world.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dee</span></span></b></span></div>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-83620819923684346732012-11-04T17:50:00.000-05:002012-11-04T17:50:13.731-05:00I'm a hoarder<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hoarding or not</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dee Gatrell ©</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I never thought of myself as a hoarder until recently. I was
looking through pictures to find some to send to a few cousins who wanted
pictures of their parents. That’s when I discovered that I have thousands of
pictures. They start from the time I was a few months old up to now.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cousin Vicki wanted pictures of her dad. He was three years
older than me and was my uncle. He passed away probably 10 years ago. Those who
go early in the family mostly were smokers and drinkers, it’s a long family
tradition.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">It seems I broke that tradition. Instead I think my bad
habit is hoarding.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In addition to all those pictures, I was cleaning out my dad’s
old cedar chest and discovered, possibly hundreds of letters. They are
letters from nearly every family member, including an aunt who died forty-some
years ago. When email was new, I started saving them, too, but now don’t. Thankfully,
email is saving me space in my closets. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hate to admit this, but I think I have large cans and a chest
filled with letters in the attic. I don’t go to the attic, so they’ll be there
until I croak and my children will be complaining about my addiction.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In addition to family letters, I discovered letters from
people I worked with at Superior Court in Indiana about 30 years ago. I also
discovered a certificate for profession paralegal secretary or something like
that. The court house was different to work at. Gabe, the probation officer,
was fun to be around. The lawyers that came to the office were funny and
enjoyed telling us stories. The one Judge from Indianapolis was hot and we all
drooled over him. Or maybe it was me doing the drooling. Shhh, don’t tell my
hubby! Anyhow, I loved listening to his stories about the folks he had to deal
with. When Gabe wrote she filled me in on what was going on at the court house, the people who worked there and the cases. I wish we hadn't lost contact.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sometimes we were sent into the creepy attic to get files.
It was said there were ghosts up there. I just know it scared the heck out of
my when I had to go there. Spooky!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Other letters were from my Aunt Mildred who would often
write from the hospital telling me that was her vacation spot. She was funny.
And my dad often spoke about “your dear sweet mother” and how he was cleaning
the cupboards, doing the house cleaning and babying her. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’ve decided one day I’m going to actually go through all
those letters. Who knows? I may get writing material from them. We had a male
friend Larry had been in the military with who wrote stuff about his dates that
I’m sure they wouldn’t have wanted us to know.<span>
</span>He married three times. I still stay in touch with wife #1 and his kids.
Wife #2 was a whack job and wife #3 sounded more intelligent, but I’ll just
leave it there. The friend told me before he married wife #2 and 3 they were
told they had to write me letters. I didn’t know this was a criteria for their
marriage or I would’ve told him what I really thought. #2 reminded me of
someone I knew and I would never have suggested he marry her. #3 did seem
smarter, but there were red flags there, too. Of course, he was an alcoholic,
so he had red flags, too.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I can always pick out something that came from my Aunt
Martha. She was 5 years older than me and also died right after Uncle Donnie.
She loved to underline words on a card. Slash, slash, slash—that was Martha. I
still miss her.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now it’s time to finish cleaning the mess off my bed and
wonder what I’ll do with the rest of the mess. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We all have to have our own addictions, right?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So what’s yours?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have you ever milked a cow? How about ride a horse that took naps?</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dee Gatrell ©</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I
was a teenager my parents bought a 70-acre farm in Minerva, OH. I had been
raised in the city of Canton until the age of nine when we moved to the village
of East Canton. So at the age of 14, moving to the country wasn’t my cup of
tea.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eventually,
my parents bought pigs, who managed to break out of their area often. Pigs are
pretty smart and probably figured out why they were there. Then they got
turkeys who were put on the top floor of the garage. They couldn’t stay
outside. Turkeys aren’t overly bright and can drown in the rain. I have to
admit, my cousin’s aunt and uncle had a farm with very mean turkeys that ran
free. I wished they would’ve drowned. They used to chase us kids to bite us. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And
of course there were the chickens who ran free--until some of one of our dogs
killed them. What fun to see a yard full of dead chickens. They got rid of my
dog. I love dogs and cats and preferred the chickens go and the dogs stay.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then
my city parents decided we should get a cow to provide us with milk. Did I
mention they took in foster kids and the house was generally filled?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
didn’t care for the chickens, turkeys or pigs, so I opted to learn how to milk
the cow. I pulled out the little stool that I saw the others sit on when they
milked the cow. How hard could it be to milk the thing? She was a sweet old
cow, as far as cows go. I remember talking to the cow whose name was Bessie. I
reached for her utters and nothing came out. I tried several more times. I
guess she got disgusted with me as she decided to lay down and take a nap. I
tried my best to coax her to get up. But no way would she allow me to milk her.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
finally gave up and let my foster brother take over. Of course he snickered
once the cow stood up for him and let him milk her.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That
ended my affection for the cow.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Until
my parents got a calf named Candy. She was cute and I could pet her, and she
grew into a pretty brown and white cow. My Aunt Mildred wasn’t too happy that I
named her Candy. I never knew if she was joking or not, but she swore that’s
what she wanted to name her baby. My cousin Mary Alice is thankful she wasn’t
named Candy.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And
then one day Candy disappeared while I was in school. My parents said they took
her to their friend’s farm in exchange for meat, and Candy would be happy to
run around with all their other cows. Okay, I could deal with that. Until a year
later when my mother the liar told me we ate Candy. She also told me a rabbit I
ate was chicken. She wasn’t a trust worthy mother.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Then
there was the neighbor boy who had a horse. He brought it to our farm and said
he’d take me for a horse ride, which sounded fun. We trotted about a mile and
suddenly the horse laid down. What was it with me and animals lying down? I was
a skinny girl back then, so it wasn’t my weight. And he was a skinny boy. But I
was worried my 102 pounds was too much for the horse and I had hurt him. A week
later my neighbor boy learned his horse was having heart attacks.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">From
then on I mostly did the housework chores and occasionally got to drive the
tractor during hay season. But I longed for the city.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I
didn’t live in the city again until I was married with kids. Then I longed for
the country.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Teenage
kids aren’t easy to please. I used to tell my parents if I died I wanted them
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">And
later what did I want? The country sounded great.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Interview with Dave for The Obitch Queen Novel</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Dave tell me why you cheated on Ellagrace after all
those years of marriage?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: She bored me. She was fun when were first married.
Then the kids came along and took up
most of her time. As they got older we spent more time at the country club. It
was like Ellagrace became a stepferd wife—she was one them—except I don’t think
she cheated on me like the other wives did.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: She did stick by me throughout all my cheating on
her and my business deals, that I’ll give her. But by then the love was gone.
She simply stayed married to me for the same reason I stayed her. It was
convenient.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: So why did you take up with Mary Mayberry?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: he shrugs. I knew her from high school. She was wild
and we had a fling back then. I accidently ran into her at a bachelor party for
one of my clients. They had strippers and she was one of them. She suggested we
get together for a good time. I was ready. Ellagrace and I hadn’t slept
together for a few years. She was always too tired and I was not interested and
so it goes. I was ready to have some fun.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: How long had you been seeing her before you died?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: I don’t know, a few years I guess. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Where you seeing other women, too?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: A few. Nothing serious. Then Mary, who owned her own
escort service, asked if I would be interested in buying into her business. I
was losing money in my business and she
assured me I’d be making good money with her. All I had to do was bring her
some new clients, men I knew. It was safe she assured me. After all, she had
some big politician clients.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: The mayor, a few policemen, a senator. Some of the men
at the country club liked the idea of having a pretty young thing on their arm
when they attended functions. Afterwards, they had a pretty young mistress to
follow up their nights. At first Mary paid me well for the new customers. Then
about 6 months ago the money got less and less. She said she lost some clients.
I knew business was bad for everyone. I had learned the bank was foreclosing on
my investment business. She suggested I take out a mortgage on my house, which
was paid off. I told her Ellagrace would never allow that. She told me not to
worry, she’d take care of things.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: Yes, she did. She forged Ellagrace’s name on the
documents. Her cousin owned the mortgage company. Then she insisted I invest
more into her business. I did, but had a hard time sleeping at night. I knew
what I did was wrong. She gave me some drugs to help me sleep. I later learned
they were addictive. I had to pay for them. When all the money was gone, she
said she didn’t need me anymore.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Meanwhile, I had let her keep her business at an old farm
house I had bought with my money. I lied and told her I had rented it from a
cousin. She didn’t know I had a small business on the back or the property and
had a man getting the honey and selling it for me. She was terrified of bugs
and snakes and I told her the property was filled with them and not to go
beyond the house.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Dave, who killed you?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: I suspected Mary of putting something into my drinks
or maybe food. I lost weight, I felt like hell and she kept telling me if I’d
take my vitamins she gave me I’d get well. I did. Then one night she insisted
on having sex with me. She gave me a Viagra, or so she said. We didn’t get very
far when I had terrific chest pains and my heart stopped. I watched her stare
at me. A man came into the room and they talked. She had my money, he said, and
it was time to get out of dodge and to go onto their next venture—selling
babies.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Who was the man?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: Shady.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: laugh. No, he’s not dead. What I heard is he and Mary
were having plastic surgery, changed their names and buying a house in North FL
and then setting up a so-called adoption agency—or selling babies. Some of the
girls who worked in the escort service got knocked up and don’t want to keep
their babies. Mary assured them they’d get paid and she’ll find good homes for
the babies.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: What about the airplane he fell out of? They said he
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: And what did
Melzie say? He was a coward and would never jump. That’s true. He got some poor
smuck who wanted to skydive take his place in the plane. The police were told it was Shady. They
didn’t like Shady—he was being investigated for bilking people out of their
money and was about to be arrested. The parachute not opening saved them the
trouble of having to arrest him. Case closed.</b></span></span></div>
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the coach?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: Because Shady forgot to get his book with all the
names of those men who used the escort service and all the housewives who made
extra money that way. He couldn’t remember where in the house he hid it. As for
the coach, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: I’m not sure. I think Shady has an inside with someone
at the police department who he pays well to help him.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Do you know who is making those phone calls to
Melzie?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: Again he laughs. Yes. Shady has been taking voice
lessons to learn to change his voice like the actors do. He thinks Melzie is
stupid and he is enjoying these games. He’s not as smart as he thinks he is,
though.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Is Ellagrace in danger?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: I hope not, but she is nosy and may find herself in a
pickle. I hope her boyfriend can keep her safe. I don’t want to see her harmed.
I did enough damage to her.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: Do you have any advice on how to catch Shady and
Mary Mayberry?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dave: No. I hope the PI catches him. But I have a feeling
Mary Mayberry will get her comeuppance. Shady probably has someone else waiting for him.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Author: RIP</b></span></span></div>
Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-35762420945440525032012-10-05T13:27:00.002-04:002012-10-05T13:27:17.977-04:00Living Around the Amish<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Living Amonst the Amish </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">©</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Dee Gatrell</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have been reading Barbara Cameron’s book, A TIME TO HEAL,
QUILTS OF LANCASTER COUNTY. I find it a very interesting book. The heroine’s
grandmother is Amish, but the heroine isn’t.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">When we lived in Ohio in the Mansfield/Galion area we lived
near the Amish. Running across a buggy in the dark terrified me as they aren’t
easy to see in spite of the orange triangle on the back of them.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">People often think the Mennonite are the same as the Amish,
but they aren’t. They can wear colorful clothing, drive cars and have electricity
in their homes. Their cooking, to me, tastes better. There is a restaurant in
Hartville that used to be tiny. Last visit we had to Ohio we went looking for
it. It’s now a big place where they sell Howard Miller grandfather clocks and
other items. Their food is good old fashioned farm cooking.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Taking a drive to Sugar Creek <span> </span>will take you back many years. If you ever get
to Ohio, make a trip there. It’s a small village, but they have unique
restaurants and little shops with souvenirs, trail bologna and Swiss cheese
that you won’t want to leave without buying.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">One of the restaurants has an area outdoors where you wait for
the clock to strike on the hour and these miniature wooden people come out and
dance and play the Swiss music.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">When my husband was being transferred to Florida, we had our
woods looked at to see if the trees were mature enough to sell. An Amish man
was sent to our ten-acres to look them over. My youngest son, Doug, was about
twelve years old at this time. When I told him there was an Amish man in our
woods, he quickly put on his coat and boots and headed out.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The older man didn’t mind that Doug found him. He spent time
with Doug explaining to him about being Amish. Really, I always regretted that
I didn’t tag along to hear him talk. But Amish weren’t new to me. I had seen
them here and there all my life. And my Dad used to tell tales about visiting
with them.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Reading Barbara’s book brings back those memories. I used to
find Amish and Mennonite books for my aunts who loved reading them. I know they
would’ve loved reading Barbara’s books.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">If you want a good read, find one of Barbara’s Amish books.
You won’t be disappointed.</span></b></span></div>
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darned pantyhose ©</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">By
Dee Gatrell</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I don’t know if any of you still wear pantyhose. I
know I gave them up years ago. Why?</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">First they were miserable to put on and to wear.
There I’d be in the middle of the day and somewhere around my middle thigh I’d
have a bust out that by the end of the day would leave a sore spot. Or somehow
I’d manage to get a run down the leg.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">But worse than that were the times when embarrassing
things happened. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I was younger and thinner in the days when I worked
at the college’s Hunt Club facility. We were very small and had to do
everything from admissions to registering students to advising and we even had
to sell books. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">There was one day when I had a dress on and had to
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bookstore. My backside faced the area where the cashier took the money. I heard
my co-workers snickering, but didn’t know why.
By the time I got off the chair and walked out to the counter with the
books, my co-workers were laughing hysterically.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I glared at them and hissed, “What’s so funny?”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">After I handed the book to the still giggling
cashier, my co-worker pulled me into her office. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Turn around and let me fix your dress. You just
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“I’m not going back out there.” I could feel the
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my office.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">A month later I was decked out in my red power suit
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where you lined up and ordered food. After the meeting we’d buy lunch and eat
together. So I had visited the restroom first and waited in line. A woman standing
behind me in line said, “Honey, is your slip supposed to be showing as part of
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I reached behind me and pulled my skirt down. “Thank
you. No, it isn’t. I thought I had made sure it wasn’t tucked into my
pantyhose.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I decided to quit wearing dresses and pantyhose and
went to slacks. One day after my restroom visit I was walking down the hallway
to my office when the security guard said, “You have something hanging out of
your pants.” And before I could find out what it was, he pulled it out and
handed it to me. You know those paper things you sit on in public restrooms? It
seems it caught up in my undies and there it was for all the world to see.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Dang pantyhose was bad enough, but now I have to always
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">© Rocky
goes to Obedience School</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Dee
Gatrell</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rocky was a German Shepard given
to us when we lived in Ohio. One of our friend’s daughters couldn’t keep him
anymore. We lived on 10 acres and said
we’d take him.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A few weeks before we got Rocky,
our son and his two-year-old daughter moved in with us. Rocky was a sweet dog
and we didn’t worry about his temperament. What we didn’t know about him was he
was a cookie thieve. Ashley would walk around with a cookie in her hand and
Rocky would snatch it from her. She’d get mad at him and try to get it back. It
was a constant battle for a while.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Not only was the dog a cookie
thief, but he had no manners. We’d put him out to use the bathroom, and if
someone was taking a walk by the house he’d run down the long driveway and bark
and scare them. We tried keeping him in the house but he’d want to go out to
romp, which was fine as long as one of us was with him. After all, he had all
that land to run on.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I read in the paper that they
were holding dog obedience classes in town and signed him up. I think I was
more excited about going to them than Rocky was. The first night of class, I
drove my husband’s Chevy S-10, which is a pretty small vehicle. Rocky sat
beside me and was behaving. When we arrived at our destination, there were a
lot of dogs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Our first assignment was to get
in a line and walk in a large circle. One wall was lined with mirrors. We would
walk, then told to have the dogs sit. Most of the time Rocky would sit, but
while the others dogs ignored the “doggie in the mirror” Rocky fell in love
with himself. He would sit and stare at himself. It wasn’t easy to get him up
and moving again. I swear if he could’ve talked he would have said, “Look at
that handsome dog in the mirror. I think I’m in love.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At the end of the night, the
instructor told us repeatedly to make sure we praised our dogs on the way home
and when we got home. We get into the truck and Rocky decided he wanted to sit
almost on my lap. I kept pushing him over, but again, he wanted to be close. So
I told him, “You were such a good dog. And you are going to learn to have
manners.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It was about a fifteen minute
drive to our house. I turned onto the street where he lived, again assuring
Rocky he was a good dog, but I’d like him more if he quit trying to get into my
lap. Nearly to our house, Rocky laid his head in my lap and threw up. A lot.
All over my legs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I pulled into the garage and told
him he really wasn’t a good dog for doing that. I walked into the family room
and my daughter, Michelle, and my husband, Larry, took one look at me and
started to laugh. I told them I was
supposed to tell Rocky he was a good
dog, but right now I didn’t think he was.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Six weeks later we were finished
with obedience school. But Rocky still didn’t listen when I called him and he
still swiped cookies out of Ashley’s hands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then my husband was transferred
from OH to FL and we had to find a home for Rocky. We were having a house built
and had to rent an apartment until it was built. I took Rocky to the vet for
his checkup and asked if he could help me find him a good home. The next day I
got a phone call from a young woman who
was recommended by our vet. She was really excited and came to visit him. They
fell in love instantly.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rocky went to live with her and
her roommate. They had someone try breaking into their house and wanted a big
dog to protect them. She took him home and called me the following week to
report in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“He is absolutely wonderful,” she
said. “My roommate has a little girl and they get along well. But the best part
is that I work for my dad and he lets me bring Rocky to work with me every day.
We all really love him.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I was so happy to hear that. I
hated having to give him up, in spite of his bad habits. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Oh, did I mention after the
vomiting episode I didn’t feed him dinner before we left for class? No more vomiting on the way home!</span></span></span></div>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-25888449117989058652012-09-25T15:53:00.000-04:002012-09-25T15:53:37.604-04:00Parenthood ain't for Sissies<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">©
Dee Gatrell 09/25/2012</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Parenthood
Ain’t for Sissies</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">My
husband was serving in the Air Force when our first three children were born.
When Chris was three and Michelle two, we rented a nice two bedroom house with
a basement. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">In
the winter this made a good place for the toddlers to ride their tricycles. The
basement door was off the kitchen, and I could cook or clean and listen while
they played.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">It
was a snowy day and I was pregnant with baby number three when the toddlers walked
up the steps rather quietly.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“Hey,
are you finished playing?”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">They
nodded.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
looked at Chris’s mouth and it didn’t look right. I bent down and asked what
happened.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“Sissy
made me drink something.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“There’s
nothing to drink down there.” His lips were blistered. “Come on, show me what
you drank.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">We
went downstairs and they took me to the trashcan. Michelle pulled out an empty
bottle of ammonia. I looked at the bottle and it was empty, except for a few
drops. Then I panicked. “You drank ammonia? Come upstairs.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
called the base hospital and was told to bring my son right in. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“His
lips are blistered, but it doesn’t look like he drank any amount of the liquid.
He’ll be okay. Here’s some ointment to put on his mouth,” the doctor said.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
thanked him and once more scolded the kids about touching things they
shouldn’t.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">The
next few months went well. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Until
Christmas Eve. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">My
husband worked the four to midnight shift that day. I decided to take Chris and
Michelle to Christmas Eve services at our church. In my head I saw myself as
this perfect mom with perfect kids, sort of like June Cleaver. We’d go to
church and when we came home I’d read them a story, and let them put milk and cookies
out for Santa. Then I’d make them hot chocolate and they could eat<span> </span>cookies while I so sweetly read to them.
Visions of sugar plums danced in my head, so to speak.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
bathed the kids after dinner, had Michelle’s hair rolled in spongy pink rollers,
and then I filled the tub for me to take a relaxing bath before leaving for
church. I left the bathroom door open so I could keep an eye on the toddlers
playing in the living room. I hadn’t been in the tub for more than five minutes
when Michelle came running into the bathroom, pink rollers bouncing on her
head.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“Mommy!
Mommy! Chris has fishies on the floor.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“What
do you mean he has fish on the floor?” I crawled out of the tub, wiped myself
off and wrapped a towel around myself. I walked into the living room and there
on the floor were three of the black mollies flopping around on the carpet.
I’ve never been a fan of touching wiggly fish, but I managed to scoop them up
and get them back into the fish tank.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“Christopher
Todd! You know you aren’t supposed to mess with the fish. Now go sit on the
sofa until I get dressed.” I looked at the fish and hoped they wouldn’t die.
Flushing them down the toilet and having my friend Rosie come over to do the
burial prayer for them didn’t sound much like fun on Christmas Day.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Finally,
the kids were dressed and we made our way to church. I let Chris take a
matchbox car and Michelle took a baby doll. Things were going okay until the
sermon started and Chris got bored. I looked at my son sitting beside me and
there he was, running his car up and down an elderly lady’s leg. I pulled him
closer to me. “That isn’t nice. Leave that lady alone.” I smiled at the lady
and mouthed, “Sorry.” She gave me half a smile.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Michelle
crawled into my lap and turned backwards, which I thought was okay until I
realized she was sticking her tongue out at the people behind us. I turned her
around and told her to sit still. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">At
last church ended and we headed home. My little darlings fought in the car all
the way to the house. When we got inside and I got their coats off, took them
to their rooms and got them into their pajamas. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">My
good intentions of being the perfect mother went down the drain. All I wanted
was for the kids get into bed and go to sleep so that Santa could arrive before
my Santa got home from work. I put them to bed, sat on the couch and took a
deep sigh.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">When
I knew they were sleeping, I went to the closet, pulled the gifts out <span> </span>and put the presents around the tree. Half way
through it dawned on me. I forgot to read to my children or have them eat
cookies and drink milk. What a horrible mother I was!</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">My
in-laws had sent two rocking chairs for the kids, disassembled. When my husband
got home after midnight, he got the tools and went to assemble them. Except
there were parts missing. He called his parents in another state and told them
about the chairs. It was days later before he could find the screws and bolts
needed to get the rockers together. But with their other presents they didn’t
miss a thing.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Several
years later when my husband was out of the service and we bought our first very
small house, I listened as my three children sat in the small bedroom playing
while I mopped the floors. I heard a thump and then a screaming child.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
raced to the room and looked in to see my youngest daughter, Diana, lying on
the floor wailing, while Chris and Michelle stood wide-eyed staring at their
sister. “What’s wrong?”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">“She
fell off the bed,” my five-year-old son said.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
went to pick Diana up, but she screamed that her shoulder hurt. “How did she
fall off the bed?” I asked.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Four-year-old
Michelle said, “She climbed on the rocking chair and fell off.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Diana
continued screaming in my ear and I patted her back. “What do you mean she fell
off the rocker? Did one of you put it on top of the bed?”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">They
both pointed their fingers at the other one. “He did.” “She did.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">My
husband had been working in the basement getting it fixed so the kids would
have a play room. He came upstairs to see what the fuss was all about.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">I
explained what happened. “I think she may have broken her arm. I’ll need to
take her to ER.”</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">The
20-month old didn’t break her arm. She broke her collarbone. She spoke pretty
well for someone her age and told everyone who would listen that Sissy and her
brudder made her fall off the rocker. </span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Being
a mother and now a grandmother, I realized June Cleaver and Harriet Nelson were
figments of someone’s imagination. Men must’ve scripted those shows. All moms
know being a perfect mother with perfect children just doesn’t happen.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">We
managed to raise four children who turned out to be good people. But I laugh
when I hear what their little darlings did to drive them to despair.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 200%;">Being
a parent just ain’t for sissies. </span></span></span></b></div>
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Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-32882459625178145622012-09-23T08:44:00.000-04:002012-09-23T08:44:33.569-04:00Space Coast STAR<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Good Morning!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fall has arrived.Of course, I live in FL so the weather is still pretty warm. Well, hot.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yesterday I attended to Space Coast Star Super Saturday with five of my Volusia County Romance Writer friends. It was a great mini-conference.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speakers were Agent Michelle Grajkowski and Author and Editor Anna DeStefano. What was great about this conference is that we not only had a chance to pitch our stories, but we had the chance to chat and ask about what's new with the writing industry. Both Michelle and Anna are very approachable and fun to be around.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anna suggested since I write stories for the confession magazines that I start posting short stories here for people to read. I think that's a good idea and hope you will suggest my blog to others.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I pitched The Obitch Queen novel to Michelle. Let me tell you a little bit about how I came up with the idea. I once worked at a small newspaper in Ohio. One of my jobs was to take calls from the morticians and write up the obituaries. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Really, I thought these guys would be very serious. They weren't. And since they said most of the people at the papers hated talking with them, they'd tell me things of interest. One of the guys sometimes would make up stories while giving me the obit and I would end up laughing. I mean, how could I not envision two men carrying a gurney with a large person on it down several flights of steps and slipping and dropping the person? Or what about on the count of ten when the guys were to bend on a knee and close the coffin only to have their tie get caught and nearly go down with it?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The younger folks I worked with referred to me at the Obitch Queen, and soon the morticians were calling me that. That is how I came up with the story. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ellagrace Gosdin's contented life changes overnight when her husband dies in the arms of the owner of an escort service. Destitute, homeless and the talk of the town, she moves on to accept a job at the local paper. She uncovers town secrets of illegal activities of her husband and some of his friends. Scandals. Bribes. Murder. Tagging along with her new love interest, Gary Thompson, her new exciting mission in life begins.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Obitch Queen is a humorous Southern Woman's Fiction.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a wonderful day! </span></span></span><br />
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<br />Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-27169974498245022532012-01-08T15:39:00.000-05:002012-01-08T15:39:01.464-05:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Happy New Year 2012 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Grandkids are interesting little critters. They are all
different. Some are bright and catch on fast and others take their time in
growing up.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We helped to raise our first grandchild, who is now grown
and has two daughters of her own. My youngest son is 13 years older than Ashley
and had been learning disabled as well as having motor movement problems. His
thought ability and movements weren’t as quick as others. He had to try harder
with everything in his development. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">So when Ashley came to live with us at the age of two and I
watched her motor movements, I was amazed. I don’t think with my older children
I paid much attention to things like how they ran, how quickly they rode a bike.
I knew they did these things when they were ready.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When we moved to Florida from Ohio I couldn’t find any place
where they taught motor movement skills. I knew if I didn’t have Doug continue at
the age of eight it would set him back. I was a junior at the University of
Central Florida and learned they had classes where the students worked with the
children—most were teachers.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>At that time I was
president of Seminole County Association of Learning Disabilities. I called UCF
to see about enrolling my son into the program, but was told they had a long
waiting list. I told them he couldn’t wait and that I was president of the
local ACLD program. I didn’t care if I had to push my way through the system by
using my presidency. I wanted help for my child—and I got it. Then the chair of
that department suggested I take the class and work with a child. He didn’t
tell me it was a Master’s class. I got permission to take it and found it
interesting enough to write articles for the local newspapers.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Then when Ashley came to live with us I watched her run. I
got excited to see her movements were like they should be. She talked at the
age of 20 months in sentences, saying to her cousin who was a month younger
than her, “Carl, why don’t you talk. Talk, Carl, talk.” A few months later Carl
did talk—and he turned out to be a very bright child. I think he enjoyed taking
everything in and later adding his words to what he learned around him.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am still learning about children as each of the nine and 2
great-grandkids keep me fascinated by watching how they grow, how they learn
and who has good motor movement skills and who doesn’t.</span></b></div>
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<b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Take time to watch your children and your grandchildren.
They can teach</span></span></b> <b style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">you a lot.</span></span></b></div>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-39473907642846875142011-12-29T15:12:00.000-05:002011-12-29T15:12:26.885-05:00chaos at our house<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsVZ8OVfhvc/TvzJqc1IGHI/AAAAAAAANW4/JvXp3tZrSCg/s1600/IMG_0048.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsVZ8OVfhvc/TvzJqc1IGHI/AAAAAAAANW4/JvXp3tZrSCg/s320/IMG_0048.JPG" /></a><div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-70169767111462952912011-12-29T15:07:00.001-05:002011-12-29T15:07:36.046-05:00<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2rvY61NB-Bc/TvzIbLn57VI/AAAAAAAANWs/npKu9vM77Xw/s1600/IMG_0045.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2rvY61NB-Bc/TvzIbLn57VI/AAAAAAAANWs/npKu9vM77Xw/s320/IMG_0045.JPG" /></a> </div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>Dee Hendershot Gatrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315751626223107417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37172794.post-68586906068313109072011-12-29T15:01:00.003-05:002011-12-29T15:09:07.491-05:00Christmas 2011<div class="MsoNormal">I love the holidays. Seeing the Christmas lights at night makes everything seem so pretty. Until they come down and everything looks bleaker than it did before.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Then comes all the cookies and fudge and all the other goodies we eat at Christmas. I think it was Santa’s idea. He just wants us all to be fat like him. Blah! I gained six pounds munching out.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The children are fun at this time of the year. You tell them Santa is watching them and it shuts them up—temporarily. But then you watch them opening their gifts, one after another after another, and they don’t seem a bit grateful. They throw it aside with that look of “I guess this is okay,” and move on.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Except for five-year-old Autumn. She’d open a gift and say, “I always wanted a watch. Or, “This book is great.” She actually read one whole book immediately upon opening her presents at our house. Yes, I did say she READ the entire book. She knew all the words and numbers and was happy she got several books.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This year we had to be happy seeing Autumn on Christmas Eve. It’s that new thing were parents split and one year one parent has the child on Christmas Eve and the next Christmas Day. Her Aunt Emma was not happy that she didn’t get to see her niece who is six months older than she is on Christmas Day.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Three-year-old Noah was happy as could be with the various trucks he got, while younger brother Sterling played with his toys as well as his brother’s. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One of our 13-year-old grandsons was happy with his new toy—an IPod! Who wouldn’t like one of those? And the other 13-year-old grandson wasn’t so happy when he got his DSS or whatever that game thing is taken away from him. Why? Because he didn’t wait until Christmas to get into it, just took it and tried to hide it. Santa takes things away when you don’t play by the rules. Guess he has a lesson to learn.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our 12-year-old grandson is almost always happy. He, like the other two boys, got gift cards so they could shop for themselves.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The older girls are easy to shop for—they like Bath and Body stuff.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our family has grown immensely over the years. The house was filled with lots of food, lots of laughs, and presents. I am happy to know Christmas is a year away. That gives me plenty of time to shop—again!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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