Dear Friends,
We've left New York now. We had a great time in the big city. Many of our friends are there and we were able to catch up and renew our camraderie.
The most flexible woman I have ever met owns a dachshund. She took us to a dachshund ralley and we raced her dappled dachshund. Unfortunately she came in third, but still ate my sandwich.
We later went to the Empire State building and it snowed fantasticaly. We have decided that we love the Chinese pug dog. This lady, without any sense of how unfair or materialistic she was, had three while we have none. I think it would be better if we all had one each, don't you?
This fellow here with the sash is our friend Greg Kinsey. He is on the board of Asian Art at the Smithsonian institute. He has a vast collection of Chinese and Japanese art and pottery. He was recently awarded by the Japanese Emporor for service to Japan. He is one of the only westerners licensed to teach the tea ceremony in Japan.
We've now moved on to Texas where our sole responsiblity is feeding these 12 golden retriever puppies twice a day. It takes about four hours.
Love to you all. Rusty and Sally
