Sorry for the delay in updates. We have been visiting relatives near Sarasota, Florida, and also saw a man who served with Jim in Vietnam. I swear they were Energizer bunnies disguised as senior citizens. Although they are in their 70s ad 80s, they about wore us out. Anyway, I got to sit in the...

Sunday, May 14, 2006 St. James, Florida anchorage Just to prove that anything is possible, we had four courteous boat drivers slow down when passing us to reduce the effect of their wake on us. Two of them were the infamous Sea Rays that seem to think they own the world. Everybody and their...

Dear RPCA people, My DH arrived in Berkely yesterday (Sunday) for a week-long training course. He discovered that his accommodation (the YMCA) is kinda grotty and the beds are too short (he's 6'6" and his colleague is also more than 6' tall). I am aware that it's graduation week and most places...

In the regular post yesterday, I received a piece of advertising mail which had this warning on the outside of the envelope: "Joyce Wermont, Termite swarms may be headed for the San Francisco - Oakland - San Jose area around 4/24/2006. iIs your home protected?/i" It was not intended as a...

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The Stripey Thing has a spot on one of his front legs that is new and I don't know what to think about it. My first response is that it is stress. He has licked all the hair off and there are a about 8-10 little bumps under the hair that is left (he is long haired so there should be a lot of hair...

Apologies to everyone for unexpected absence! My NEW (at Christmas) laptop went wrong again with the same fault as last time just before Easter. It was failing to recognise wireless network. A month later I have got the manufacturers to give me a new machine. It was a hell of a fight, but I managed...

There is a sparrowhawk sitting in my garden chomping on something. I was in the sitting room and could hear birds squarking like mad in the garden. I looked out the window and thought "What the?????" There it was, at the edge of the lawn, by the base of a fence panel.. male sparrowhawk! Cheers,...

Vino has become a non-stop purrer. He goes about his cat business around the house, purring the whole time. Checking things out, lying around relaxing, litter box duty, purr, purr, purr. All night long he's walking all over us in bed, purr, purr, purr! Dennis says he knows exactly how he feels...

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Eli and Abelard are doing more than their share of puking for the last day or so. I'm not quite ready to take anyone to the vet yet but if this keeps up for much longer.... It's been mostly water they've hurled so far but Eli lost one load of moist kibble yesterday. Hoping it's not...

He really settled in quite fast. Came to bed for scritches and headbutts right away when I went to bed. He was practically insatiable, even though I'd been scritching him all day long! He slept near me for most of the night, coming round for forceful headbutts from time to time. He's picked up a...

Hi all, Playing with the vidoe mode on my camera and caught the girls, Tessie mostly paling with a catnip sock Karen made. I swear she is part Gumbi :). heres the link: http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?userid=99599&cdate=20060510&ctime=161319 And for all the movies that Karen and I shot

Please explain why IBKFergus hurtles around the house in full halloween mode, chasing greeblings, and why she'll bat pretty much anything that is even remotely battable around for hours on end, and why her favourite place to go a'hunting is the kitchen with the wood floor ao that if she's...

Okay Persia, I know you're there. It's not time for your food yet. Remember, you're on a feeding schedule. Stop staring at me; that isn't going to change things. No, I'm not getting food, it only looks like I am walking towards the kitchen but I'm not, honest! Okay, cut it out! Seriously, stop...

I always think about the kitties who are afraid of thunder when we get a thunderstorm, fortunately my two cats don't seem to mind. I know Persia doesn't like thunder. I'm not too surprised we are getting a thunderstorm here. We just had two or three days of nice warm weather! That will put an...

Please tell your mom we're sending our best purrs for poor Petrus. Dan

I wasn't satisfied with what my vet was telling me about Bandit's blindness (that it was just a result of old age) - I researched it and found that, in cats, age alone is almost never the cause of blindness. So I took her to another vet. The first vet was right about her blood pressure being...

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/05/kitten_mosh_pit.html More awww. Kathryn

My messageboard, the Allspark (www.allspark.com) has a new bandwagon fad. Marvel Comics "Civil War" event involves downloadable banners where you can proclaim your allegiance to one or the other group of superheros in the Marvel Civil War. We've been photoshopping our own humorous banners in the...