I was just wondering how everyone was doing in your home.  You may have
posted an update and I missed it but I thought I'd check on you anyway.
Julie, Hobbes, Selena, Lacey and Sam

Waffles & Francis are taking it in turns to give me some TLC. Somehow,
yesterday I've done *something* to my right hip/leg and I am hobbling like an
old crone. It is painful. Waffles & Francis are taking it in turns to sit on
the affected leg & purr loudly. Waffles is doing a bit of ...

During the one of the worst years of the horror of the Russian
Revolution, 1920, many people froze and starved to death, even in
their apartments in Moscow. It was a prime lesson on what can happen
here.

I went to take the trash out and found a beautiful adult female cardinal
dead near my back door.  No signs of an animal having got to her or trauma
from flying into something, it appears she simply expired.  (I picked her up
with paper, wrapped her and put her in the trash - no ...

The surgery went well, but they did *not* do it first thing this
morning, so he is having to spend another night, grrrr.  His surgery
was done this afternoon, though the *whole point* of taking him in last
night was so they could do his surgery first this morning, and we

I was awakened this morning by an unfamilar motion close to my head.
Stinky was on my pillow, as he often is, completely filling up my
vision as my eyes opened.  But this morning, he was hard at work,
maybe two inches from my head, facing me, one leg pointing straight

Well, I didn't bother to check my messages at Steamboat, as no one ever calls,
anyway.  When I got home, I had four messages from my mom.  Apparently my dad
had a hole in his intestine and had 8 inches removed.  Congenital, they say.
He's on morphine and should be fine, but it's ...

My 6 year old son's cat died recently and his was pretty upset. He
even started his own website in her memory.
http://www.christopherc.name
When I came across this group I figured there would be someone here who

Have you considered Australia?
According to the latest news, our unemployment rate is the lowest its been
since 1973 and we are suffering from an acute skills shortage which goes all
the way up the management tree - we are even short of executives.

I'm outta here for a week.  Off to a wine festival at a ski resort... For
those in western Canada... The Icewine Festival @ Sun Peaks. Leaving
tomorrow, I shudder to think how many posts I'll be downloading after a full
week away...EEK!

GRRRRR!!!
As some of you may know, Mischief has found a new spot on top of my
computer monitor,
And I'm finding it ver ydifficult to read the messages on this NG with

Grizzly being excessively cute:
http://web.mr-happy.com/~jfb/ablum/pets/grizzly21.php
http://web.mr-happy.com/~jfb/ablum/pets/grizzly22.php
Jimmer and Grizzly supervising my computing activities:

The New Year's slowdown is fully upon the trucking industry. The one
beneficial effect of this is that Harri and I have been able to spend a
little more time at home. As she spends more time with the other four
Harri is becoming more and more at home with them.

Only a few days after Rusty finished his medication, he started
peeing on the floor again. Sigh!
I just talked to the vet and he agreed that Rusty should go back on the
Clomicalm - an antidepressant.  He is going to see if he can find a generic

I took left the house this morning around 6:30 am, stopped at a 24 hour
pharmacy and picked up the Zithromax and Albuterol and at 7:30 I was
signing Sam out of the hospital.  We stopped by our regular vet who
incidentally were waiting for us.  They open at 8 am, I got there at