Well, I'm back from Burma, the most different place I've ever been.  And
I've been to many countries!
I got to Yangon on the evening on the 21st and did nothing but check into
the hotel at the airport and go to sleep.  The next morning I had to get up

Its been cold here in Vegas, actually snowed inches a couple of days ago.
Generally one of the cats will sleep with me.  Sometimes its Maya, but
usually its Bruiser.  Once Maya and Bruiser go to sleep they usually stay
where there all night and generally Maya goes to bed first.  ...

She's been staying close to the house since she came back, and being very
sweet to me.
Thanks a lot to everyone, once again, for the purrs & prayers. My own pain
is calming down slowly.

We don't really know how old she is; the vet guessed based on her teeth 2-3
years when I was enslaved.  Being a woman, I went with the younger of the
two :)
I therefore proclaimed her birthday, and certainly the anniversary of when

I caught the shrew! I caught the shrew!
Cheers, helen s
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2003 has been one heckuva poopy year. I am hoping against hope that
2004 will bring with it MUCH better things. For all of us. I am so sad
to hear the news about Di.
Things for me are... well, they just are. :)

About six months ago, I adopted two adult cats, Cinders and Katie.
They had belonged to a friend of a friend, who had moved to France to
attend graduate school and couldn't take her cats along.  Katie made
friends with me almost immediately, but Cinders was scared of me.  My

... Frank and Nikki send love and purrs for the new year:
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Okay, I understand parents love their children.  I really do.
This person posted on another ng about the family cat getting into his/her
grandchild's crib when the baby was not in it.  So to correct this problem
they set mouse traps in the crib.  Albeit, upside down, but we're ...

I stretched out on the sofa for a little afternoon nap, and Emily
immediately claimed "her" spot on my lap (is it still a "lap" when one is
lying down?)  Then Max hopped up by my feet and curled up between my ankles.
I was just nodding off when Pea climbed on to my chest and settled ...

Friday night we finally hit the sack.
As is usual, Little Feet made three turns, and cuddle up above my
head, and against Senyah's pillow. I petted him until I fell asleep.
Senyah woke up before I did, so she got up and made her breakfast.

I was doing some laundry (yes, folks, you read that right!) and opened the
dryer to put a load of clothes in.  But there was a little lizard in there!
Guess it would stain my clothes if I just put them in there and turned it
on.  Better get the lizard out first.  I tried chasing it ...

This is actually a correction of my web page:
http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html
Unfortunately, when I first posted that I'd put pix of my gang on the
page, I messed up the link to the FTP site. When you clicked on the

I'm up now, with nothing more than a lung infection to overcome.  While
I was in bed, I got the chance to do some cat observation between fever
dreams.  I noticed a lot about the art of stalking, as practiced by
various members of the Feline Mafia.

This house is resembling an asylum more and more....brother in Va.sent me a
big printer
gift - I had been happily 'puting for years w/o a printer at all (*yes*, we
are all wierd in some way or other, no?) and he insists I need one, after