I originally got these pictures as an email, but found them on the web
through a quick google search.
Check out the pictures of "painted cats" over on
http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/02/painted-cats.html

...without bursting into tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutspXY8nQk

For Hanukkah, and just for the hell of it!  I love bagels with cream cheese
and jalapenos  (it opens your eyes right up in the morning), and this recipe
from a New York Mexican restaurant was scrumptious!
Potato-Jalapeño Latkes (Pancakes) With Horseradish Crema

All the cats are normal, eating well and the litter box looks fine. :-/
I'm hoping this was a fluke and everybody is ok. One good thing came out
of this experience though, as I finally went ahead and enrolled the kids
in an insurance plan. I chose the one offered through the ASPCA ...

A woman on our local Freecycle was trying to re-home two very beloved
littermates because her son had become too allergic. I wasn't ready to take
them when they were advertised, but through various Mothership-like
interventions I found myself typing out a reply two weeks later ...

http://schatzistreasures.com/images/apersiancat.jpg
I got one. Should be here before Christmas. Casey passed Monday from
kidney failure. This sorta looks like him.
Bobby is missing the Case man as I am. Whenever there is a noise,

There is no progress to report.  Four didn't show up today or tonight. It is
now 7:15pm.  I will lock Victor Velcro in and leave the porch open so that
Four can return and prehaps feel comfortable there for a while. I'm sad
about this.

I have been quite amused by the differences I've seen in preferences
between the kitties. Most of them don't seem to have a strong preference
for either Nancy or me. Amelia loves to shoulder-ride with both of us and
snuggles with both of us. Tabitha likes to shoulder-ride with ...

Nancy just added a new entry to http://www.newton-iowa.us. The top entry
has a photo of Ranger and Tabitha checking out the new Kissamouse Tree.

BROOMS!
Two brooms were hanging in the closet and after a while they got to know
each other so well, they decided to get married.
One broom was, of course, the bride broom, the other the groom broom.  The

Well, I took my piles of holiday cards to the post office to get them
weighed and sent to *abroad* on Monday.  I got the most grumpy person in the
world to deal with them.
She said "What?  all these cards to America and Europe?"

It occured to me today, that I joined RPCA in 1998 when HRFL Tiger was
an "Itty bitty hooli-kitty!" He's now 9, going on 10!!!
HRFL used to be so small, I had to carry him in my dressing gown
pocket so I didn't step on him! Now he's so hefty, I can barely lift

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b171/lync_jl/misc/card_inside_sanitized.jpg
I will keep this card forever.  She confirmed I did the right thing
and I really appreciate receiving this card from her. She was the vet
that first examined Casey at 8 weeks old and saw him throughout his

Either I was better organized this year or had more time. I got my
cards done faster than I thought I would. Although I will admit some
of the writing isn't the best(due to tired hand and spasms) and I had
a few places I had to use White-out.(which is old and no longer

A lady called us (SPCA of Northern VA) about a cat that showed up on
her porch and didn't want to leave.  We picked him up and it turns out
that his front leg is severely injured because someone wrapped
rubber bands around it at the arm pit level.  He has been at the vet