THE NEED FOR SPEED

This morning Mimi and dad went up to Snoqualmie for Mimi's last official ski lesson. She has one more make-up lesson to do next month. Dad helped out the instructors as not many of them showed up today. Dad says that Mimi is doing real good and that she has the need for speed. He says that when she was skiing by herself she likes to go fast otherwise she would go slow with the rest of the class. He also says that she can do her turns real good. Last week she came flying in the door exclaiming "Mom! I did real good today! I only fell down 3 times!!!" Meanwhile back at the ranch, Butch was just beside himself. He so much wants to play with the cats but unfortunately our Stanley does not like to play with him much. Butch kept barking at him as if to say "C'mon and play with me!" Finally Stanley had this look on his face saying "Look here dude! KNOCK IT OFF!!!" Then proceeded to chase Butch all over the house, downstairs and upstairs both. That just got Butch even more excited than before.