I came to lurk and ended up ranting, which was not my intention.  Maybe
I should mention the cats.  ;-)

RL has buried me in work, but of course that means I get to spend more
time with the office cat(s).  Ozzy the Lawcat is my very excellent
helper, as always; he's recently taken to jumping on my desk and
skidding stacks of files (and his fat orange self) right over the edge.
And there are so many dirty little pawprints on my calendar it's
getting hard to read.

Honorary Lawcat Tigger is an orange stripey cutie pie, who is very
sweet but is always *much* too busy to be affectionate.  He likes to
help me file, peering in all the drawers.  Tigger has turned into a
total niphead.  He'll spend the entire afternoon rolling and wallowing
and snorting and sneezing in a big ole pile of catnip, then he'll swipe
a mousie and carry it back to his house.  I feel bad about contributing
to the delinquency of the neighbor cat.

We now have Honorary Lawkitten Smokey around the place as well; he
belongs to another neighbor, and is a black longhaired little fella,
about 9 months old.  He also likes to leap on my desk, but instead of
knocking files off he likes to lounge and chew on them.

Naturally, all three of the cats like to wrestle in the lobby, with
loud thuds on the hardwood floor, while DH is trying to talk to
clients.

Lula and Hubie are their same adorable selves; meowmie's little
miracles.  Spring has definitely sprung here (88 F tomorrow!) and the
rabbits are out in force, keeping things lively on the kitty tv, a/k/a
the living room window.  When Hubert starts mrrping and running up and
down the windowsill behind the curtain I know there's a rabbit right
outside, making a snack of my gerbera daisies.

When Hubie is very interested in something, like the rabbits or the
possum that regularly comes to eat the cat food I put out for strays,
he sits up like a meerkat for minutes at a time, bobbing his little
stripey head for a better view.

DH and I are finally breaking down and buying a bigger house, and I
don't know how Lula and Hubie are going to take it.  I think they'll
love the new house once they get used to it; there'll be lots more
running room, including stairs to dash up and down and up and down, and
best of all there's a screened porch, which I anticipate having to drag
them out of on a daily basis.  We're so busy that it'll take a while to
squeeze in moving, so we'll be gradually shifting furniture and things,
so the new house should have plenty of time to smell like "home" to the
kitties before we move them in.  And we'll have time to positively
saturate the place in Feliway.  I hope the adjustment will be easy for
them.

Lula and Hubie and Ozzy and Tigger and Smokey all send out purrs for
the rpca'ers, even though they're not posted.  I lurk when I can and
let the kitties know where purrs are needed, and the mothership does
the rest.  I miss you guys!

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Krista