The gray cat is finally snoozing in my back bedroom!  I'd pretty much given up hope on her since it's been so cold here.  But yesterday afternoon she showed up and I grabbed her.  Since then she's eaten three plates of turkey and two cans of cat food and still only weighs 8 pounds. She's a large-framed cat, I'm guessing a good weight for her would ( Read more... )

*Another* cat has shown up, this one a skinny gray.  I can feel every rib and spine knob.  He (?) has shown up two evenings now.  Tomorrow I'm going to stop cleaning long enough to get some more turkey.  Give me a week, I'll have him sleek and happy.  He's very friendly, and has a voice like a Siamese, so maybe if he's healthy he'll get a permanent ( Read more... )

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 The kitten -- I refuse to name her -- is a little bigger every day.  She's also sweet, quiet and playful.  How can I give her to a stranger?  Without spying on them to be sure they're good to her?  Fostering's *hard*.  Here she is --


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I've found two kittens in the neighborhood and have started feeding them.  One just visits occasionally, but the one in the photo has decided I'm a good thing.  I'm trying to find a foster family or, better yet, a good home.

Is it my imagination or does s/he have six toes?

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 Hey, a month to the day since I last looked at my LJ.  Still on the dole, but not doing badly.  Just checked my Kiva account today and found I could reloan some money, so I helped a woman in Tajikistan buy a cow.  Damn, that feels good.  www.kiva.org -- give it a whirl, if you haven't already.  Help somebody out, feel good.  Not necessarily in ( Read more... )

 So ... it's been a while since my last post.  Good news is I didn't have to buy a new car.  Bad news is I have to find a new job. I've been on the dole for over a month and there hasn't been a nibble. It'll come, though.

So Murphy is curled up in his basket and Wyatt is curled up on the lid of some big plastic bin of crap (good crap) that needs to be sorted and I'm stretched out on the couch with my laptop right where it belongs. It's cool outside and the front door is open so the breeze can come in and stir up the cat hair tumbleweeds.

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Yep, I love it.  It works well, and it isn't about to cost me an arm and a leg ... unlike my car.   =sigh=

Why is it people say "that's life" when something suckacious happens but not when something lovely happens?  That's life, too.  So.  I'm healthy, my Mom is too, my friends are and my cats are.  Good enough.

Tomorrow will be two weeks to the day that I caught this flu and today is the first day that I've felt something approaching good.  Actually, good is somewhere off in the distance -- I'm just happy to be breathing without coughing.  Last night I got some antibiotics from a friend and they've made a huge difference.  I know, reaching for the ( Read more... )