[blparent] naming and decorating canes

[Veronica Smith]

I think they were trying to get us to appreciate it.  they just kept saying 
it is a cane, not a stick.   I'm not really sure, maybe Dave Andrews knows, 
at one time he was my instructor. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] naming and decorating canes


> Why could you not call your cane a stick?  I've never named any of mine,
> just never thought of it, I guess.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] naming and decorating canes
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>>I love it, bubba.  My first cane's name was Palo which means stick in
>>spanish.  When we started at the orientation center they told us we could
>>not call our cane a stick, so Palo it became. Smile. V
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Shannon Wells" <pwandmomx2 at suddenlink.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] naming and decorating canes
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>>> you all will laugh, but my cane's name when i was a kid, was Bubba
>>> Shannon Wells
>>> on the web at
>>> http://www.christianhomeplace.com
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:22 PM
>>> Subject: [blparent] naming and decorating canes
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>>>
>>>>I own 2 canes right now and they both have a name.  One is emily and she
>>>>is
>>>>a straight cane goes almost every where with me.  The second one is
>>>>Casper
>>>>and she is a telescoping cane and goes out to dinner or to the moviees
>>>>with
>>>>me.
>>>> I used to work in a little kids program and the kids made sleeves for
>>>> their canes during the holidays.  Some of the sleeves looked like cany
>>>> canes and others like snow flakes.  For Halloween, they were orange and
>>>> black and for Saint pats day, green with shamrocks.
>>>> We had a lot of fun. V
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