Could you pass

a test to become a United States Citizen? MSNBC had this link on their homepage this morning. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461301/from/ET/ You will have to copy and paste this, I can't seem to get a live link. Anyway the website scores the test for you and you get to see (in my case) that you have forgotten a lot of the civics that you had to know to graduate from high school.

It is interesting to contemplate the kinds of requirements to have this honor if you are not born in this country. Maybe we should all start acting like we really, really WANT to become good citizens. I bet we would surprise ourselves!

Our "Bunch of Grapes"...

Yes, I am a "new Grammy". No, I am not obsessive! Hattie is a very good mom and is totally enjoying her new role as Queen of the Red Room (the room upstairs which has been converted to the puppy nursery). She REALLY loves all the additional food. New mom has figured out a sort of system for "holding" the babies in the warm zone and it is quite cute. She sort of "stashes" them under the pig rail and between the bumper of her bed and the side of the whelping box. Of course, anyone who knows puppies knows this only works for as long as they are passed out from their glut of nursing!