Ollie and Nigel Spar

This type of cat "exercise" goes on 24X7 at my house. It may seem entirely innocuous, and it is but the frequency of it becomes a nuisance at times. However, I love them anyway. :)

Little Alley Cat? No, Just Nigel

Nigel looks as if he has been living in an alley under an oil leaking car but he has not. Instead, he has been playing in the fireplace. When he was small, this was one of his favorite past times. I thought the days of having to wash him was all behind us. He has been up to his old shinanigans again! Believe me, it is much worse than it appears in these pictures. (Notice the filthy feet that leave little dirty feet tracks.) He ordinarily has no black on him;he is not a calico cat. He is a red and white tabby. However, I will just have to learn to live with it because soot does not want to come off!

Blue Bear

I miss my Blue Bear. Last night, I had a dream that I was standing at the bottom of a spiral staircase and my Max came running down the stairs to me. I picked him up and buried my face in his thick fur. It was so wonderful to hold him and hear him purring. Dreams are so wonderful that way allowing you to be together again one more time. Dreams are also so effortlessly symbolic. It really is not that difficult to see the symbolism in the spiral staircase.

2009 - 1972 = 4?

Some people say you cannot dream in color yet I know I do because I have noticed the vibrant colors in some of my dreams. For example, I can remember dreaming about buying a red purse and shopping for red purses all through out the dream. But one thing I have definitely noticed is a common problem in dreams, (By the way' "In Dreams" is the title of a song written by Roy Orbison. See how I am always thinking about music?) is that the math part of my brain does not work and for that matter, a large part of the logic portion of my brain. But when you think about it dreams really cannot be logical, can they? I mean that defeats the reason for them, doesn't it? Right before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming that I moved into a different house. I was considering getting new flooring. I was talking to someone about the situation and I said "I cannot decide if I need new flooring." The other person asked how old the current carpet was and that is when my brain froze! I was trying to do a mathematical calculation and appearing to be a fool in the dream. I kept trying to perform simple subtraction in my head. I was thinking well I think this carpet is original to the house and the house was built in 1972, therefore, 2009 minus 1972 IS...but no answer would arrive. It seems minutes had passed and this person in the dream kept awaiting an answer so as not to keep him waiting I answered "4". Four? Four! Since when did 2009 - 1972 = 4??? Besides why couldn't I just look down at the 37 year old carpet that looked like it had been in a bear's den and determine that I needed new flooring?? Like I said, there is no logic to be found in MY dreams.

This or That?

I am an animal lover. (tee hee hee, what an understatement!) ANYWAY, my mom recently lived at a facility out in the country for almost 3 months. One of the nice aspects of this facility is that it looked out on a ranch. We would watch the cows going to eat when their Dad (is that the correct term to use for the man that feeds the cows?) would come to feed them every evening. The little calves were so cute! I started wanting a calf. I even began to fantasize about keeping one in my backyard. My backyard is "kind of" big relatively speaking anyway. I mean it is bigger than a bread box. ANYWAY again, my mom did mention to me that me getting a baby calf was probably not the "best" idea since there is probably some city code about it. I would never let a small thing like that stand in the way though. I "kind of" got past the idea. Then, Sunday I met a baby donkey. He was at church just fraternizing with the parishioners. His name was Poncho. ANYWAY again, I want a baby donkey now. So which will it be? A calf or a baby donkey? Decisions, decisions.
Will it be this?
Or will it be that?