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CALLING ALL READERS! RESPONSES
This month’s winner is WILLIAM SOLOF of Golden, Colorado:
Visiting Holland a few years ago, my wife and I obtained rooms at a farm outside Amsterdam. Our host had a ginormous Bouvier des Flandres named Berri.
At dinner that first evening, the dog kept pushing and sniffing us, and it became, to say the least, quite annoying. We finally asked our host about the dog’s behavior.
(excerpt from Emily Moore's letter)
"My husband and I were enjoying an independent tour of New Zealand in 1993. Our little rental car took us up and down the mountain roads through lush green farmlands with thousands of sheep.
"Our first surprise was a traffic jam of sheep in the road ahead of us. There was no way around them. They filled the road, even spilling over into the woods on either side. ..."
Photo submitted by Katherine Shindel
"I bought this necklace and earrings from this very talented woman in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, in February 2020. (South Seas pearls are cheaper than Tahitian pearls.) I can't imagine all the hours she put into it."
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