I was awakened by an enthusiastic mom,
flinging open the door to the bedroom and saying
"There's another one!"
Me: "Hmmm? Another what?" (sitting up by now)
Mom: "She brought another one! And it's white and gray!"
Me: "Another kitten?"
Mom: (no longer at the door, but has taken off down the hall)
So, I go look out the dining room window,
and indeed,
there is another kitten -- siamese-esque in coloration,
which is starkly different from the 3 strictly black and white kittens to date.
I wonder aloud whether there are more tiny baby kitties elsewhere.
Around 9am, the lady from the CatNip program at UF's Vet school arrives.
We called yesterday when we returned home to find their postcard
announcing free spaying until the end of January.
The nice vet student assures us that if there are other kittens
mama kitty will be able to go get them soon
even if she has the surgery today.
AND the nice vet student says she can foster the kittens until they are adopted!
So, we painstakingly corralled the cats into her carrier and off they went.
All but one, that is, for whom I had found a home in the ATL.
So I drove back to Atlanta with a kitten in the passenger seat.
Every time I stopped, I opened the door to the carrier and petted her
and let her walk out.
She walked across my lap,
climbed up the door armrest,
and looked out the window to see what was going on in the world.
She's adorable.
In other news, my phone died.
It did the same thing it did 6 months ago
when the buttons would light up
but the screen was black.
Alas.
I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to get the kitty to my friend
since I can't remember how to get to her house.
Alas again.
I guess I'm going to go get a new phone tomorrow.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
Sweet Mama and some Tiny Baby Kitties!
My aunts decided to call the mama kitty "Ms. Claus" and they tried to come up with holiday themed names for the tiny baby kitties. Noel is the only one that stuck. She's the one with the white face, and she's the boldest.
Rock on.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Happy Christmas!
The 25th:
* sleeping in
* BACON and eggs with CHEESE
* crazy family fun
* entirely too much food, with the ham and the potatoes and the broccoli salad and the wild rice salad and the regular salad salad and the rolls and the haystacks...
* presents... including jewels, a trivet, books, the traditional calendar, some dvds, coffee from my cousin's shop, and some other nifty whatnots
* brunswick stew leftovers!
* um, and the 1987 World Series, in which my Twins bested the Cards, and of which Shanfro and I watched the first two games. Phil -- who actually remembers the games since he was 37 while Shannon and I were 5 and 9, respectively -- kept asking "Is this when Gagne gets a double?". Shannon kept reading the cliffnotes on the dvd case and saying things like "I bet Hrbek will get out at first." All in all, a good time. And 5 games to go!
The 24th:
* I cannot really remember what happened, except we ate brunswick stew, went to church and hung out with my cousins and the flying monkey.
Rock on.
Hope you had happy days as well!
* sleeping in
* BACON and eggs with CHEESE
* crazy family fun
* entirely too much food, with the ham and the potatoes and the broccoli salad and the wild rice salad and the regular salad salad and the rolls and the haystacks...
* presents... including jewels, a trivet, books, the traditional calendar, some dvds, coffee from my cousin's shop, and some other nifty whatnots
* brunswick stew leftovers!
* um, and the 1987 World Series, in which my Twins bested the Cards, and of which Shanfro and I watched the first two games. Phil -- who actually remembers the games since he was 37 while Shannon and I were 5 and 9, respectively -- kept asking "Is this when Gagne gets a double?". Shannon kept reading the cliffnotes on the dvd case and saying things like "I bet Hrbek will get out at first." All in all, a good time. And 5 games to go!
The 24th:
* I cannot really remember what happened, except we ate brunswick stew, went to church and hung out with my cousins and the flying monkey.
Rock on.
Hope you had happy days as well!
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
~ David Whyte
from The House of Belonging
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
~ David Whyte
from The House of Belonging
Talk about productive...
I watched 17 episodes of The Office
today (which is still Sunday to me because I am still awake).
My favorite way to watch a television series
is straight through on dvd.
Similarly, I'm a sucker for a reality tv marathon.
Rock on.
today (which is still Sunday to me because I am still awake).
My favorite way to watch a television series
is straight through on dvd.
Similarly, I'm a sucker for a reality tv marathon.
Rock on.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
The Christmas Shindig
Our tree!
white elephant and new friends...
Craiggers in curlers... I love it.
BFF trumpeteers
Friday, December 07, 2007
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