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Hello again, dear friends. As with my tribute to Harri I ask your indulgence.
THat day so many years ago when Nancy and I went to the Petsmart in La Sierra, CA I had no idea that we would be going home with a kitten. WHen Nancy suggested it and pointed out a cage full of tiny tortoishell kittens I was taken and immediately agreed. When we got the kitten home we found she much preferred flying to walking. If she wanted to get from one side of our bedroom to the other, she should jump atop Nancy's dresser, fly to the top of the shelves, then to the top of the next shelves, then leap to the top of the headboard, then to the top of my dresser. It was this love of flying that gave Amelia her, in honor of Amelia Earhardt. Amelia loved to chase bugs. When a bug had the audacity to land really high on the wall or, gasp!, on the ceiling, she would look at me and meow loudly while looking from me to the bug and back. That was my signal to pick her up and carry her to the bug so she could do her high-hunting. The bugs never stood a chance. She adjusted to living with DeeDee and Cleo very quickly. The adjustment was much easier for Amelia then for the other two. I remember well watching Cleo and DeeDee hunting a gopher. They had stalked to within about a foot of the gopher hold and were sitting perfectly still, listening intently for the gopher to approach. When Amelia went out into the yard and saw her two adopted sisfurs staring at a hole in the ground, she ran over with an expression like "Oh cool, a hole, I wonder what's in it?" and shover her paw inside as far as she could. The two older girls stomped away in indignation. Amelia was a very loving girl, and often slept on my pillow. That sounds cute, but since she got to be a very "fluffy" shorthaired cat that left almost no room for my head. I took to keeping a spare pillow beside mine, so that I would have something to use. When I was having big problems controlling my blood sugar, Amelia showed her special powers. I could be asleep in bed, and if my bolld sugar dropped to dangerously low levels Amelia would meow very loudly and scratch at my blankets to get me to wake up. She might well have saved my life those times. In later years she started preferring to sleep in Nancy's office, under her chair. One morning in late 2015 I took her morning Temptations to her in Nancy's office, but she didn't move. When I checked her, her body was cold. My dear sweet Tortitude girl had crossed the Rainbow Bridge in her sleep. That was the first time in my adult life that I had to deal with the passing of an animal that was dear to me. It still hurts. I miss you, sweetie, and I love you. |
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Dat wuz a lubly tribyoot, Unka Dan. Yoo haz had so mennee wunnerful kitteez chooz yurownself, itz no wunder dat we named yoo a HC.
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Francesca: Miz Harri, i never getted to meet yourownself, but i did find your hangers an your navigation charts an esploration notes an stuff. Fangu for keeping such good notes! I promise day i will keep using your stuff fur da good of da Community.
Francesca |
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