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One of my best sales locations had been the Port Gamble Trading Company. This store occupied the old garage in Port Gamble, not far from where I lived in Hansville. Stacy and John ran the store as a collective of vendors. Here is John with Tino and his mom, Gracey, and John’s dog...

Geddy and little dog Starr in Panama had adopted a sloth, Jessica. An ex-pat friend, living close by in Cacique, operated a sloth rescue. Sadly, baby sloths often fall from tree tops, getting separated from their Moms. Typically, this wouldn’t go well, but Dave’s rescue was a blessing. Jessica’s favorite food was hibiscus flowers, and her favorite pastime was hugging a human. Geddy gave her a teddy bear to hug when he wasn’t available.

After 6 months of blissful caring and loving little Hoppy, mini horse Truffle’s baby foal, he and his Mom prepared to live on Bainbridge Island with Priscilla in January of 2003. It is heart-wrenching to see them go, but rewarding to see how loved they are in their new home. They are forever in my heart. Fortunately, I found two mini horses nearby looking for a new home: Nikita, a tiny dappled gray filly with a platinum mane, and her buddy, Rasta, a slightly larger pinto colt

Early February I traveled to Panama. Geddy and Starr picked me up in an old beat up car. We stayed in the only hotel in Panama City that allowed dogs, a local bare bones hotel. We took a bus to Sabanitas near Colon, then a taxi past Portobello heading to Jose Pobre, a truly tiny remote seaside village, 7 miles down a dirt road past cow fields and dense jungle.