Category Archives: Cats

Sanctuary

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Sanctuary for Roxie and Jean Claude

Roxie and Jean Claude have spent the past several days at their other residence – CCL’s house. For those of you who  don’t know that’s my daughter known as Crazy Cat Lady.   Roxie  and Jean Claude enjoy their multiple residences and   have had several adventures while staying at CCL’s  house.  Definitely a lot more going on – busy streets, noisy neighbors up all night and a second floor back deck  for  a better view of birds and other UFOs – which also works for bungy jumping(Roxie) .   But I feel the cats like  my daughter’s company as much as I do.   There is a certain peace in being with those you love …and like.

Taking it All in Stride

So there was a book out called everything I needed to know I learned from my cat or something like that. This is true. One of the greatest lessons we can learn from cats is their ability to be flexible. Nobody is perfect and occasionally I’ll oversleep and the cats will have no food. Sometimes they try to wake me up, but more often not, they just curl up at the foot of the bed so as soon as I wake up, they are ready to run downstairs and get their food.

When they can’t go outside they meow for a bit, but eventually they will move on and realize “hey, I’ll go out another time” They don’t care about the consequences and they don’t whine if they don’t get their way.

We should be more flexible in our approach to life. We may not get everything we want, but we will get everything we need.

Just Being

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Roxie At Peace

Some people are always searching, always asking for more.  Never content.  Never grateful for what they do have —    for them peace is not  option.   I am, I admit, a bit of drama queen myself.  Roxie, of course, is a drama queen.  But we have our moments of rest and relaxation.

The View is The Thing

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A storm knocked down my neighbor’s tree a few weeks ago. It took several days for contractors to clear the mess only to reveal a view of the car repair shop. It is an eyesore to me. Yet Roxie and Jean Claude don’t mind. They like sitting at the door on the back porch taking in the action.

Take Me To the Cats-Paw

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Ok. so I went on a road trip  to Atlantic City for business with two of my colleagues, wonderful people.  We  stayed at the Trump Taj Mahal.   No, I don’t recommend it.   The check-in is the worse I’ve  in 30 years of travelling.  Rooms  are ok though and I had a view of the beach.  The best view is watching folks….the Atlantic City boardwalk has the best people watching in the world.   The Trump Tower is  connected to a nightclub …the Casbah, ala the 1938  film “Algiers’ with actors Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamar.   You can access  the club off the boardwalk.  One of my colleague told me about a group of cats that hang out underneath the boardwalk.  She  said they seem domesticated – got me thinking maybe Roxie and Jean Claude (who enjoy people watching from my back porch) might like a road trip.