Hello SAM fans!

Hello dear SAM fans!  Please forgive that I have not written for so long.  There has been much going on in my life and I am still recovering from the loss of SAMMIE.  I had to scatter my oldest sister's ashes  on New Year's Eve... (she died one year ago with her husband, my brother-in-law) and I am leaving with Mark on Saturday to go to New England for the memorial of my  Auntie Betty, the identical twin and inseparable buddy of my mother.  With the loss of SAM and all this family as well, it has been a wonderful and sorrowful year mixed together.
  I am sorry if this is a heavy entry but I will return with tales of Tator and the upcoming Ugly Dog Contest in San Diego in March!  This will be a new one for us.  Thank you all for still loving and remembering our precious and irreplaceable SAM!