My friend Gwen told me yesterday the story of her family cat, a real ferocious hussy named Dusty Apparently birds were not enough for this tough feline. Rabbits and other wild animals were also in the cat’s pervue – their remains sprayed across the back lawn of the family residence. Seems Dusty liked everyone else in the family but didn’t really take too kindly to Gwen. The menacing looking critter regularly smirked and growled at her when Gwen returned home from school and no one else was present. One day smirking was not enough for Dusty who jumped claws out and latched onto Gwen’s leg where he remained for a brief but painful period of time. Alas, Dusty met a rather gruesome end. While travelling the highway one bright sunny day, Dusty, according to witnesses, was hit by a semi truck. Gwen upon reflection believes no mere car could have put an end to Dusty’s furious furry fury.
Category Archives: Cats
Healthy and now Happy
Roxie & Jean-Claude went to the vet today. They are in perfect health except for one extra pound. Me thinks that’s due to Azeena’s feeding. JC especially knows how to get that perfect meow and beg like he’s never been fed in his life. He’s over 15 pounds now while Roxie is almost 8.
I told the Vet about Roxie’s adventurous tendencies and how she likes to sleep on top of the water heater. He warned me that she could get Carbon Monoxide poisoning so I just need to figure out some way to secure that door so that I can keep her out of there!
He also said the tooth she lost isn’t painful for her and she’s good!
She does exist
That picture that Azeena posted was too cute. So I have been busy and said that I would be posting, but it is hard. It’s been on my to do list.
Anyway, I have been trying to wrap up one project, finish another project and then try to live my life in between. So the cats were at my house and I realized that I missed them a lot. Roxie showed her displeasure that I had left them by peeing on my coat and sheets (looking at my while she did it). Jean-Claude of course was his normal nonchalant self.
The are both very very sweet. I did go to Banff this past weekend for a day. It’s part of the Canadian Rockies. It was a beautiful country, but I think I prefer the Green & White Mountains of Vermont & NH. I love the colors on the trees in the Appalachians. On the east the mountains are older I believe and less raw feeling. 
Trash Day
Trash Day
Today, Wednesday, is trash day so Jean Claude and Roxie usually spend a short time outside. They don’t like the noise from the trash trucks. Well truth is Roxie doesn’t like loud noises of any kind. Jean Claude had some intense discussions with birds before moving to a spot under my porch. I shut and locked the back porch door and forgot him for a bit. He stood at the door, crying loudly. I opened the door and he ran in and went straight to his food bowl.
And You Should….
I recently pitched my Page -A-Day calendar. This particular one was supposed to encourage busy women to live balanced lives. Instead it seemed to dose out reminders about how unhappy I (or busy women) should be with my (their) choices. Daily it carried admonishments about what I was (women were) doing wrong and how the way I (we) lived was depressing and overwhelming. (Even a female four-star general didn’t escape the invalidation of the calendar writer. The general was criticized for not having enough militant feminism in the way she acknowledged her family during a speech about her career). It’s the third calendar that I’ve trashed this year. As someone in the message business with an intense job, I want daily messages that fill my soul and inspire me. Tomorrow, a page-a-day calendar decorated with flowers is scheduled to arrive. Flowers are silent but beautiful reminders that spring is here. It was a lovely spring day today. Jean Claude and Roxie spent time outside while I sat in my big wicker chair trying to gain back spiritual sanity – lost because I let the shoulds get to me over my daughter’s decision to go to her business destination a day early. My mind went wild with “I should be doing so and so or I should be doing this…and of course I should remember that if people have plans that don’t include me they don’t want me (a horrible selfish should).” ” The Shoulds” should be listed as diseases for the agony and misunderstanding they cause.
Gradually I found peace again by remembering to let those I love be who they are, just as a great power does that for us all on a daily, hourly basis. So now I am celebrating the peace of this particular day and the miracle it holds for me and hundreds of millions of people.
Just stopped writing for a moment…thinking.. “I should check on Jean Claude, he’s still outside.” Roxie came in a while ago.” Sure enough Jean Claude is outside resting comfortably under the big beautiful tree that is in MY backyard.
Cats & All That ™ 