Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty

My Dad who was a house-husband long before that word was coined, Because of
being gassed twice in ww1
used to walk around the house all day doing his house
work and cooking, with a cat on hie shoulder,{maybe that was a bit
naughty,}but they weren't too fussy in those days, and I guess it never hurt
any of us. Jean.P.
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Takayuki wrote:

"Duke of URL" wrote:

And then of course the most famous example is Rush Limbaugh, who never
liked cats, who *only* ever had to do with dogs. Then he married and
they got a pair of Abyssinians... It's hilarious to hear his
occasional
typical catslave babbling about his little darlings!

He sounds like a wonderful person.

Rush Limbaugh sounds like a wonderful person? Ewww, you can't mean
that, Tak!

Now TBird's Honey is another matter. He does sound like a nice person.

You can add my dad to this list of former non-cat-people. All through
my childhood my father was just barely tolerant of the cats that came
and went in my house. My mom liked to take in strays, and all 3 of us
kids adored them. He was helpless against 4 females looking all sad-eyed
and saying, "Please daddy, can't we keep him/her/them??" The best
time was when we took in a pregnant stray, got to see the kittens one
day after they were born, and kept them until they were 4 weeks old.
(Barbaric, I know, but this was the mid-1960s, and a lot of people,
including vets, believed that kittens were old enough to be separated
from their mother at 4 weeks!)

Anyway, all the while, my dad would grumble and complain about all the
cats underfoot, and occasionally he'd put his foot down and order this
or that stray, or group of cats, to be taken to the shelter. We always
had at least one officially-adopted-from-the-humane-society cat, who was
allowed to stay.

But now my father has his own cat and he's just nuts about him. This cat
takes long walks with my father, which my dad, being somewhat new to cat
behavior (even though he lived with them in our family, he tried to avoid
them as much as possible), thinks is completely unique and that Baxter is
an amazing cat. I don't have the heart to tell him that many other cats
do this, although it's true it's not the norm. I met Baxter on my last
visit last month, and he's very, very cute. Long, lanky brown tabby who
likes to roll around in the dirt. I just find it very sweet that this
long-time dog-person has gotten so attached to a cat. He calls Baxter "a
dog in a cat suit."

Also, there's a book called "My Cat Spit McGee", by Willie Morris, which
is the autobiographical tale of a cat-hater (himself) who married a woman
with cats and proceeded to form a deep bond with a cat. Good story!

Joyce

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty:

I've always thought Tak was male. :-)
I recall a picture of Tak and I would definitely say he's a he.

ISTR him being pretty cute, too. Or was that you? :-)

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty:

I've always thought Tak was male. :-)
I recall a picture of Tak and I would definitely say he's a he.

ISTR him being pretty cute, too. Or was that you? :-)

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty:

Funny, I don't recall you saying anything about Joyce's accusing me of
racism because I'm a Republican [which is why I was out of this group
I don't think Joyce did what you're saying she did. Wasn't it Bridget
who made the comment that ****ed you off?

Believe me, something that hurt that much, I don't forget easily, and
it was Joyce.

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty:

Funny, I don't recall you saying anything about Joyce's accusing me of
racism because I'm a Republican [which is why I was out of this group
I don't think Joyce did what you're saying she did. Wasn't it Bridget
who made the comment that ****ed you off?

Believe me, something that hurt that much, I don't forget easily, and
it was Joyce.

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

Hopitus2 wrote:

When we lived near Silicon Valley, CA., we went once to that Gilroy Garlic
Festival a few miles to the south. Gilroy is a tiny town around which are
fields and fields of garlic growing; you can smell it halfway up to San
Jose. They have more foods than you can imagine with garlic as an
ingredient. There I ate my first (and last) garlic ice cream.

I've never been to the garlic festival. Fighting my way through a
huge crowd of people, all trying to buy the same overpriced novelty
items, just isn't my idea of a fun day. However, garlic is one of my
favorite flavors on earth (but not for ice cream!).

Better than the food, I thought, were the hot-air balloon rides we had.
Except big belching flames over your head is quite unnerving, even scarier
than being up off the ground, AFAIK.

The combination sounds pretty unsettling to me!

Joyce

Hopitus2 wrote:

When we lived near Silicon Valley, CA., we went once to that Gilroy Garlic
Festival a few miles to the south. Gilroy is a tiny town around which are
fields and fields of garlic growing; you can smell it halfway up to San
Jose. They have more foods than you can imagine with garlic as an
ingredient. There I ate my first (and last) garlic ice cream.

I've never been to the garlic festival. Fighting my way through a
huge crowd of people, all trying to buy the same overpriced novelty
items, just isn't my idea of a fun day. However, garlic is one of my
favorite flavors on earth (but not for ice cream!).

Better than the food, I thought, were the hot-air balloon rides we had.
Except big belching flames over your head is quite unnerving, even scarier
than being up off the ground, AFAIK.

The combination sounds pretty unsettling to me!

Joyce

"Hopitus2" had some very interesting things to say
about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe KittyLONG:

When we lived near Silicon Valley, CA., we went once to that Gilroy Garlic
Festival a few miles to the south. Gilroy is a tiny town around which are
fields and fields of garlic growing; you can smell it halfway up to San
Jose. They have more foods than you can imagine with garlic as an
ingredient. There I ate my first (and last) garlic ice cream. Probably right
up there with your cod ice cream for yum-yum factor.

DMIL and I have agreed that we'll team up to try that if we ever make
it to the Garlic Festival [it's within the "possible" range,
drive-time-wise, and I *love* garlic].

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

"Hopitus2" had some very interesting things to say
about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe KittyLONG:

When we lived near Silicon Valley, CA., we went once to that Gilroy Garlic
Festival a few miles to the south. Gilroy is a tiny town around which are
fields and fields of garlic growing; you can smell it halfway up to San
Jose. They have more foods than you can imagine with garlic as an
ingredient. There I ate my first (and last) garlic ice cream. Probably right
up there with your cod ice cream for yum-yum factor.

DMIL and I have agreed that we'll team up to try that if we ever make
it to the Garlic Festival [it's within the "possible" range,
drive-time-wise, and I *love* garlic].

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL

itty (Sherry ) had some very interesting things to
say about Tee hee...My Honey and Joe Kitty:

I've always thought Tak was male. :-)
I recall a picture of Tak and I would definitely say he's a he.
OMG. I always thought TAk was a girl. (no offense). OTOH, I thought Hopitus was
a dude for a long time, too.

I thought Hopitus was male for quite some time myself. :-)

--
"Don't mess with major appliances unless you know what you are doing
(or unless your life insurance policy is up-to-date)." - John, RCFL