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  Date:   Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:09 PM Subject: Pets R fine     Danni and Cubby were really good friends. They went everywhere together. And died within days of one another.          Took the cat and dog to the veterinarian on Thursday last week. They were long overdue. Stuffed the totally uncooperative 13.8 lb. cat into a 10 lb. cat box, bought the dog a new blue collar because her old one got melted on the barbecue grill, grabbed the leash, called the dog and off we went, merrily, I might add.     The cat was in the back of the truck so I couldn't hear her hiss to the dog,  "GET ME OUTA HERE OR I'LL SCRATCH YOUR EYES OUT WHEN YOU ARE SLEEPING. DON'T BE FALLIN' ASLEEP ON ME HERE! WAKE UP. YOU GOTTA GET ME OUTA HERE I'M SUFFOCATING. I'M DYIN' I'M TELLIN" YOU. HE PUT ME IN THIS BOX WHEN I WASN'T LOOKIN'. I WILL SO CLAW YOUR EYES OUT! CLAW YOUR SIX NIPPLES TOO AFTER YOU'RE BLIND AND CAN"T SEE ME! HOOHAH! THAT'LL BE GREAT, ...

  Date:   Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:11 AM Subject:   Re: Homesteads   THE RAVEN   is full of homestead stories, but one such issue that comes to mind is one of the most popular issues because it contained two homestead stories, one from Marshall County and one from Roseau County.  Volume 8 Issue 1   From Marshall County comes   The   Martin & Anna Olafson Story , by Steven G. Reynolds   The story is about family whose homestead log cabin stands NW of Grygla, one that I had taken photos of years before we published its story. One of our subscribers told me of someone who would know all about it as the gentleman's wife had been born in that cabin and so could provide much information.    Thinking about that era, I could imagine:      " Wolves howl eerily in the distance. Below the star-studded black sky, wide eyes look nervously about in the immediate darkness of the new land. The cattle's huge nostrils in...