Isn't it supposed to be dry here in the mid-atlantic by now?  If this
year says anything, it's going to be a harsh hurricane season.  Or,
it will suddenly become near-draught conditions overnight. We've had
the most amazing downpours and storms about 2 times per week. This is

In the middle of the night, Chester woke up us by suddenly running out
of our bathroom.  It sounded weird - like a pair of running shoes was
tied to him - slow and heavy and with a weird thumping sound where you
didn't expect to hear it.

Finally, I've managed to take some relatively decent pictures of the crew.
They're at my Flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yowie9644/
When I get better photos, I'll upload them to a better service, but it'll do

A little set-up.  I bought my nephew some toys from an outfit caled
"KazooToys" which packs a little plastic kazoo into every order.  So I got
the order this evening, and  set about preparing Stinky's evening meal,
walking around with the kazoo sticking out of my mouth, and ...

Well, I got totally into it, and even though I wasn't playing for hours
on end (maybe 2-3 games per day, at 10-15 mins per game), I am well on
my way to developing an RSI from all that clicking. Today I'm icing my
arm and doing mouse operations with the other hand, because a tendon ...

This is copied from an update post in rec.food.cooking:

Any ladies in or near Minnesota who love cats?  I have 2 but have had as
many as 5.  Can't seem to connect with anyone here.  I'm 48, nice
looking, 5'9" and about 185 lbs.   Pic available!  I travel on business
and would enjoy meeting you.  This summer I will be in Mason City, IA,

I ran across this in another group that both Jill and myself frequent so
I posted it here on her behalf since she was not able to with good reason:

Have a book of cat short stories available to anyone interested that I will
mail out.  It is The New Roger Caras Treasury Of Great Cat Stories.  It is a
collection of 35 stories by many well know authors and some not so well
known.  The stories are mostly American and European ...

Just want to know.  A group of cats living together is a clowder, they may
not be physically related, but they are emotionally and physically tied to
an area.  We're emotionally tied together and I'd say physically tied to our
computers to communicate.  We, generally, speak the ...

Hihi folks, this is O T Mahoney and I got a complaint.  There  first was
three of these hummingbirdies, then there was ten of them, and now there is
about 25.  They don't do nothing but eat and fly around, land in another
spot and eat again.

When I went back home from SC in April, Mom's 2007 taxes hadn't been done
yet.  Dad's 1099-R from his military pension had gone missing and I wasn't
able to get a copy prior to the 4/15 deadline.
Now, they've been using this woman to prepare their taxes for years.  I've

The neighbor is going on vacation so I get to cat sit her two black kitties,
Schwartzie & Fedders!  Yay!
They are normally indoor-outdoor kitties but when she's gone for more than a
day they're confined to the IN.  She warned me Fedders might hork up a few

I got FIRED on Thursday!!  There was no issues, no warning, no clue.
The project manager just said that he needed to speak to me, and that
was it.  They wanted me Off The Project, and I wasn't even allowed to
go back to my office to pick up my purse.  He had to go get it for

Annie, the D-pet, loves to go out in the back, mainly because there's
all sorts of skwerls to chase (she leaps as high as she can at the tree
they run up as soon as the door opens - we must have the most fit-n-trim
skwerls in the county!).  Just now I let her out, and she did the ...