[nagdu] State Convention

Natalie nrorrell at qwest.net
Fri Nov 11 00:27:12 UTC 2011


I join you on this one.  I've heard that Liam has the most soulful eyes.
Best,
Nat and Liam Joshua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention


> Me niether.  But I hear that Holly has a melancholy look on it.  Sometimes 
> I think I can feel those looks!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:27 PM
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>
>
>> Oh how true that must be. Sometimes I wish I could see my dog's face. I 
>> don't have any vision.
>>
>> Sheila Leigland
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:29 PM
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>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>>
>> The funnest thing is how you're dog looks at you!  You wonder just how
>> stupid she thinks I am!!
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>>
>>
>>> Yep you sure can get lost with a dog. It's a little more fun with a dog
>>> though but not much. I hate getting lost.
>>>
>>> Sheila Leigland
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Larry D. Keeler <lkeeler at comcast.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:01 PM
>>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>>>
>>> Yah, and you sure can still get lost with a dog!  The folks I braught to
>>> convention left me and ran off to lunch so I went later as well.  On the
>>> way
>>> back, there were no sidewalks and I got really lost!  It took me 45
>>> minutes
>>> to get back and I think Holly was calling me a big dummy all the way 
>>> back!
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tami I have been stupid a time or two with a dog. When I was in 
>>>> training
>>>> with my first dog, he would stop at those parking things that are
>>>> supposed
>>>> to slow down cars and I didn't for a total of theree times I finally
>>>> figured out that when my dog stopped maybe it would be a good thing to 
>>>> do
>>>> the same. I also got tired of the bruises. My trainer told me I was
>>>> learning to fall graciously. One after coming home with my dog he 
>>>> stopped
>>>> at a bunch of steps and my son who was with us said dah your dog 
>>>> stopped
>>>> mom. That one would have been a long way down.
>>>>
>>>> Sheila Leigland
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:52 PM
>>>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] State Convention
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it's a real hoot romping around with cane users and your guide
>>>> dog. /lol/ Especially when everybody likes to experiment and compare
>>>> notes and find new and clever ways of dealing with ordinary O&M
>>>> problems. Er... Unless you happen to be the cane user who gets excited
>>>> over a new technique and starts using it on the fly without learning to
>>>> adjust for it first. Ouch! Well, one way to learn how to use a new
>>>> technique to avoid obstacles is to run into one a full tilt. The
>>>> advantage of being the dog user in such a free wheeling crowd is that
>>>> your dog has more sense and will not allow you to get hurt from your 
>>>> own
>>>> stupidity. /lol/
>>>>
>>>> Tami 11/07/2011 06:50 PM, Larry D. Keeler wrote:
>>>>> Yah, this sort of appropriat for this list.  Our state convention was 
>>>>> in
>>>>> Kalamazoo last weekend.  Three members from our chapter went to
>>>>> Kalamazoo
>>>>> by train.  While there I introduced the idea of forming a guide dog
>>>>> division like many of y'all have in New York for instancee.  I may 
>>>>> very
>>>>> well have enough interest as well!  But, that is not what this is 
>>>>> about!
>>>>> My 2 friends are cane users so I sort of wondered what it might be 
>>>>> like
>>>>> to work cane and dog together as a team.  Not me with a cane in my 
>>>>> hand
>>>>> and also a dog but using what the dog knows in tandem with what can be
>>>>> found with the cane.  It was pretty fun!  I would have the cane folks
>>>>> find which driveway we were supposed to go up and then I would have 
>>>>> them
>>>>> follow me when I told Holly to find in! They did the shore lining and 
>>>>> I
>>>>> did the door finding.  Also, when I was in front I could tell them 
>>>>> when
>>>>> something was coming up and which way to veer so they didn't bang it.
>>>>> Using both skills in a group was really interesting an
>>>> d neat!
>>>>> Intelligence is always claimed but rarely proven!
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