Just popping in here briefly as a break from Real Life; hope to be back more
when I can but I have to tell you all this:
Last week we had a whole pineapple ripening on our counters and Tucker
discovered it.  He was in love; he's a very "chewy" cat always has to chew

Last night I was taken my shower and Harvey had assumed his customary
positon of supervision by sliding open the shower door a bit and
sitting on the edge and yowling at me that I was not doing it right. I
was talking to him as I got out of the shower telling him that meowmie

Sign in store window -
"Unattended children will be sold or given a kitten."

Dee

At 7.30 this morning somebody came knocking on our front door... when
we staggered out there it turned out to be a workman getting ready to
change our door handles and give us a new door-knocker etc on the
front door. He apologised and said he'd come back later in the day,

I saw the new Pet Sma&t Commercial last night. They use to refer to
"us" as Pet Owners now we are refered to as Pet Parents. I really like
the sound of that.
Skritches,

Meet the players: Kiara, a lovely grey tiger DLH aged 18 mos, and Jacob, a
DSH, nattily attired in a grey tuxedo with white mittens, age 9 weeks.
Kiara: Now, Jakie, watch how I do this: You stand WAY up on your legs and
reach REALLY high, then bounce (Jumps up after a 'fly' - one I ...

Got a new (ish) machine here, seeing if all is well!

Me & KFC, dat is.  On Furrsday morning I run into der howse wiv a birdie in
my mouf.  Den someow it got away..and it fluttered all over der place wiv me
after it.   Meowmie was gettin reddy for werk and she say "Oh, (den a funny
word) *FANTASTIC" so I guessed she was plesed.

The night temperature here is dropping.  I didn't look at the weather
forecast last night but at 8 a.m. this morning when I went to let out my
chickens I could feel the cold rising up from the ground up to my knees.
I've brought my tender plants inside tonight.  Impatiens and ...

Do you think it might be a good time for President Bush to reconsider
signing the Kyoto agreement? He declined to earlier, deciding that
doing so, might adversely affect the economic prosperity of the United
States. Paying out billions of dollars to hurricane victims might also

A customer at my laundromat told me how he ended up being a cat owner
for the first time in his life.  I haven't the slightest idea what
this old gent's name is but this is the story he told me.  Read it
with a Southern drawl similar to Andy Griffith's and it will be almost

Betty seems to be doing well, all things considered.  She's very happy
and healthy, but I'm pretty sure that this will have been our last
summer together.
Betty's undergone three radiation treatments, with no improvement, so

Oh man did we need *THIS* bit of good news.  One of my daughter's dogs,
Gypsy, was found and is safe; and we're hoping the other was with her (she
was chipped, but Digger was still a puppy and had not been chipped yet).
Here's is the link with her rescue picture (my daughter is ...

Delightful article about Toolbox, Kitty of the Sea:
http://tinyurl.com/9uyht
or
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050925/LIFE/509250370/1005