Howie and Carole’s First Valentines Day

Howie writes Carole 14 Feb 2003 06:56:31

 

Hi there.  I woke at 4:30 this morning.  Rather weird.  Could not get back to sleep for an hour, so met my goal of rising at 5:30.  I'm suspecting that there is something I find addictive about your company, and that after 20 hours or so I start to have withdrawal symptoms?

 

Enjoying one of my exotic teas and thinking of you before heading to the club to work out.  Since you have commented so favorably on my tiny muscles, I figure the least I should do is try to maintain them.  Hope you have a day full of good minutes that I hope I can add to this evening. - Howie

 

Carole writes Howie 14 Feb 2003 08:44:55 EST  

 

Dear Howie,  I agree that spending time with you is addictive.  It's like chocolate.  Any excuse will do.  I kept myself busy after the Spay and Neuter Delegation left by writing up the minutes and copying everyone, and then faxing out press releases to 30+ media contacts who I hadn't been able to reach via email about Alachua Bob, and then puttering around outside refilling the waterfall and then writing a bunch of letters to the CFC, the Sanchez campaign, and on and on until I was too tired to drive.  That was the only way I could keep myself from coming to you.

 

This morning I awoke at 6:00 and thought you were rubbing off on me, with your early morning habits.  It was an hour before I could drag myself to the hot tub, but that helped a lot.  The wall paper guys got here at 8:00 am and are re-papering the guest bath.  Because I had shut the Great Danes in there once while company was here, the walls had been destroyed in there.  I picked a paper that made me think of you.  When you read the names of the palms you will know why.

 

Saturday the 22nd my training is over at 4:00 so I could be at WOES by 5:00 if necessary.  The walk will feel good after a day of being cooped up inside.  Just let me know.

 

Howie writes Carole 14 Feb 2003 13:31:17

 

Lovely, as always.  And I do have a card for you just in case. :-)

 

Carole writes Howie At 08:52 AM 2/14/03:

 

Valentine's Day Every Minute

 

A Lovers' Day was set aside

So many years ago

A day in which to claim with pride

And let the whole world know

 

That we had found our one true love

And that we'd ever more

Be giving thanks to God above

For one whom we adore

 

Valentine cards pass in the mail

With words we love to hear

And chocolates and roses frail

Exchanged with love and cheer

 

Through all the world this Day's proclaimed

And love just fills the air

"No better holiday is named,"

All Lovers would declare

 

But every day with you is great

And every night more so

The "minutes" that we've shared, of late

Are all I need to know.

 

For:  Howie Baskin

By:  Carole Ann Stairs 2/14/03

 

Howie writes Carole 14 Feb 2003 13:38:53

 

Unable to respond in poetry that would match yours, I offer you these insights into men.  I think you will enjoy them.

 

Q. How many honest, intelligent, caring men in the world does it take to do the dishes?

A. Both of them.

 

Q. Why did the man cross the road?

A. He heard the chicken was a slut.

 

Q. Why don't women blink during foreplay?

A. They don't have time.

 

Q. What do men and sperm have in common?

A. They both have a one-in-a-million chance of becoming a human being.

 

Q. How does a man show that he is planning for the future?

A. He buys two cases of beer.

 

Q. What is the difference between men and government bonds?

A. The bonds mature.

 

Q. Why are blonde jokes so short?

A. So men can remember them.

 

Q. How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?

A. We don't know; it has never happened.

 

Q. Why is it difficult to find men who are sensitive, caring and  good-looking?

A. They already have boyfriends.

 

Q. What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?

A. A widow.

 

Q. Why are married women heavier than single women?

A. Single women come home, see what's in the fridge and go to bed.  Married women come home,