The title for today’s classic A&J may be the easiest title for a blog entry that I have ever had to conjure. It was pretty obvious. There is a new cat in this household, about 8 months old. She would do something like this. Her name is Shiloh. Or Scoot. Or Scoot Scoot. Or Scooter. Or Woot Woot. Or Squirt Dauber. Or Squirt Blossom. Or Squeaky. Poor thing doesn’t really know what her name is. None of us do. I’m the offending party, mainly. I try to come up with a new name every few days. The above are just the names that stuck somewhat! But everyone knows the best cats have the most names. She is the only cat among three who will come when she’s called, no matter what that is.
Cat and Mouse
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136 responses to “Cat and Mouse”
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This one, emb?
Debbe, not silly at all.
Mindy or someone put popcorn in my mind and I had small bag, now cannot get salt out of taste. Have not had salt much in years. This is worst taste ever. Need to get dressed and go look at floating condo. Got huge string of youtube on them last night which I will look at tonight after I see some live.
Dark rooms are therapeutic I think. Like caves.
Debbe
Not silly at all – we care about those we care for.
As to cat names, I have Toby (Fat Cat or Fuzzbutt), Pumpkin (Sweetie Girl), Robbie (Kittie Princess) , Emmie (Panda Girl), and Malkin (Dinkus, Norbert).
The Prodigal is a story and is relevant in ALL ages.
Stolen from Andy Rooney:
I’ve learned…. That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the
strength to help him in some other way.
We do that here very well.
Mark: Yep. emb
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An edit button and emoji support would make us look like real 21st century internet savvy pros.
Enjoying a quiet, sunny day alone at the ranch. 🙂 The SO won’t be back until early tomorrow, like 12:30 AM.
Dear Old Bear, thanks for letting me know where “Fearless Leader” came from. I lost my grip on that memory I guess! Chris and I and the children were all devoted fans of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” but that was a long time ago.
Dear emb, nice painting of the Prodigal Son; I liked it. Can you enlarge it and see the details? I can and enjoyed the costumes and faces, and everything. I have spent a large part of my happy life looking at paintings, in galleries, in books and magazines, now on the Internet … have to be careful getting started on that. Many hours could be spent that should be used more productively!
Good morning, Village. Speaking of March Madness, as some of you were, I am just back from a week in Seattle along with another couple. We did Seattle tourist stuff for half the week and basketball for the other half. We’ve been doing this all around the country for the last 15 years. (I think I mentioned Gaterland in Orlando here a while back—that was on one of these trips.) So I skimmed through a few comments today but know I can’t take time to read the whole week. My loss. It looks like you are doing fine.
We plan these trips most of a year in advance usually, so we never know who we will see play or how good the games will be. We’d have loved to have seen Arizona, of course, but they were down the road in Portland. We did get Gonzaga, who looks really good. Neither of their opponents were able to keep up with them. In fact, we had only one good close game, which was UC Irvine versus Louisville. We were rooting like crazy for THAT upset, and UCI came really close—final score 55-57! We had seen UCI play before. I may have mentioned that our son is sports information director at Long Beach State, which is the same conference (Big West) as UCI. He is primary contact for men’s basketball, and we went over to visit him and go to some games in January. UCI-LBSU was one of those games.
Glad to be home–in my own house, own view, own weather (Seattle is gorgeous but cold and wet particularly for this desert-dweller), and own Village.
Miz Charlotte, is your new cast better behaving itself now?
Jackie, I asked a nurse practitioner I know, and she told me problems with taste (over-tasting, under-tasting, and mis-tasting) can be caused by a number of prescription drugs (of which I believe you may take more than a few), and sometime by a zinc deficiency. You might want to consult with your primary care physician about that.
While on medical topics, there’s an old Southernism to the effect that “It beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”. Tomorrow, I’ll find out if that saying applies when my ophthalmologist sticks a sharp scalpel in my right eye.
The right-sided cataract I’d mentioned previously has now reached the point of being annoying when I drive at night, which I still do quite a bit. (No snide comments, please.) And as an additional benefit, the new lens should also improve my visual acuity downrange. It was going to be a laser procedure, but it seems I have a bit of corneal scarring from, well, I have just enough corneal scarring to rule out a laser procedure.
I’m telling you this so that if I should post anything unseemly later tomorrow, please take into consideration that I’m probably still recovering from the goofy juice they gave me before she poked me in eye with a sharp scalpel.
GR6,
WOW! Cataract surgery was the best thing to ever happen to me. I went from 20:200 to almost 20:20 in both eyes. Made my high school football mates laugh during our 50th reunion in 2006. I told them I could see the scoreboard. When I played, I never could see the scoreboard. I always wanted to be an air force pilot but couldn’t pass the eye test. Now that I can pass the test, I’m too old.
Blessings and prayers for everyone.
Charlotte: More / paintings later. Having an optical migraine now [painless, nothing serious], but interferes w/ looking at what I’m typing. Good nap time. emb
Charlotte in NH
What is more productive than looking at art and appreciating same?
Nancy
It takes 4 hours and more to go through the backlog of a week –
especially if the Village has been productive and left many links.
I’ve learned…. That just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my
day!’ makes my day. AR
Ghost, cataract surgery with a lens implant is a fascinating procedure. I was fortunate to be able to watch my father-in-law’s surgeries both times on closed circuit television. Praying for you, but I know all will be well.
Charlotte in NH, just click on the painting and it will bring up a full screen size.
GR6, best of luck and enjoy your recovery time. I do know the elderly ladies who depend on you schlepping them home after evening prayer services will be glad your night vision has improved.
Help! I downloaded Google Chrome this morning and am trying to learn it. Where is…well, rather than ask every question, where is “Help” ? Thanks folks 🙂
Llee, help is online. https://support.google.com/chrome/?hl=en#topic=3227046
Yes, dearest Ghost, this new cast is comfortable (but still clumsy and awkward). I am being careful to keep from hurting any other part of me! Wishing you a good procedure tomorrow. Chris was nervous about the surgery to remove a cataract from his only good eye (macular degeneration in the other eye) but it was very successful. He was able to discard the eyeglasses he had needed since he was six years old, all day, every day. He loved his new, improved vision!
Denise in Michigan, it sounds very interesting to watch, but I don’t think I could. Good for you. To Old Bear and to emb, You are right of course that looking at paintings is a good thing, but the most important thing right now is collecting all my Income Tax information, documents and whatnot that I have failed to file in a timely manner; now I’m sorry I procrastinated. I seem to be spinning my wheels at this point.
Thank you! 🙂
GR6
Wife had left eye done about 3 years ago. Sez best thing she has ever done. Luck tomorrow.
Ghost – my husband’s experience was much like domaucan1’s, except Bob played in the band and still needs glasses for reading music. May your procedure go equally smoothly – and I hope you too may describe your doctor as “a babe” 🙂
If we had that edit button, I could have gone back and added this – http://www.winterparkeye.com/cms/AboutUs/AboutDrKurzon.aspx