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Your Pet! Skyler!
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LAP
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I have a great interest to visit the northern countries especially alaska and canada are my favorite. Beautiful countryside and a lot of wildlife to see. And not the least amazing people to meet. Thank you for sharing your photo with me. At wich coast do you live??
A bearshug Ans
Hi Ans, Thank you for dropping in on my blog! If you look at a map of North America, right in the middle you’ll see a piece of land surrounded by large fresh water lakes. This land is shaped like a mitten. We live on the peninsula just above that mitten-shaped land. Our house is on a small lake that is hooked to the largest of those “Great Lakes,” Lake Superior. Our lake is called Munoscong.