Sunday: New Dog -- Nice meal eating out at IHOP for under $5.00 -- Mustang is home again

New Dog:
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Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)

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Meet Katrin. Adi has a sister now, the newest member of our family. We are adopting her as we will inherit her from a very dear friend who died Wednesday.

Ain't she sweet! She may be new, but she is eight years old. So that is 'new to us.'

Was she trained well as a child? We didn't think so yesterday morning, she was a naughty girl.

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This wasn't a bad thing. Even though she is a dainty poodle, here she was acting like a 'hound dog.' She chased a squirrel up this tree in our neighbor's yard.

Adi, our beagle and true hound dog, ran her squirrel the other way and up that big horse apple tree on the golf course behind our house.

The trouble was that Katrin did not want to come back to our house. It took Mrs. Jim and I both with two treats and 20 minutes to finally 'catch' her.

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Ever hear the saying about 'free dogs?' "They aren't really free." Here she has left her new vet's with a $51.00 microchip embedded in her body. The way she gets away and doesn't want to come back, that microchip might help us get her back. It has her vital statistics embedded in it.

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Our $5.00 meal:

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Actually it was $4.99 plus tax. Mrs. Jim had coffee, that was added.

These Celebrate America regional favorites at our IHOP (International House of Pancakes) are the best. I had berries on my pancakes, Mrs. Jim had bananas foster with ice cream. I had a bite of hers, next time I will order bananas foster.

We also had for our 4.99 money, two eggs our way--Mrs. Jim's were medium hard, mine were yolk and broken hard, and a big helping of fried hash brown potatoes. Just delicious. Neither of us wanted any bacon, sausage, or ham. That would have been another $2.00 and we weren't that hungry.

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We were stuffed just eating this. For a lighter meal and still get plenty, we could split one of these.

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The prodigal Mustang returned:

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And was it ever welcome back! When it left the A/C had quite cooling and the odometer didn't work.

Now it has really cold air, a reconditioned odometer in the making (it will be finished in two weeks), a radiator flush and new coolant, and new battery cables.

It might be ready for me to put another 28,000 miles on it. That is all I have driven it in the seven years I have had it. It was a retirement present to and from me. A little younger lady had owned it before and put 49,000 miles on it in the three years she had was driving it.