Sandy, she is adorable!

Scrolling back I see Angels
beautiful Grey Tabbies (?)  --  Cats are
so unique,  and each has their own personalities..

I had an organge tabby that I love and called
"Sandy" because I wasn't suppose to have
a cat.    That seemed to work fine.   Of course,
I could have called her "Mom"..that might have
worked too!!!   

I do love cats,  but I am determined not to have
any more.   As,  I do love them but I am
a wee bit allergic to them,  so I love them
from a distance.     And that is not always what
cats want.  Especially lap cats!   

Great pictures, everyone!

Sandy, you do have a lovely great granddaughter. She looked in the photo as if she could sleep a few hours more and would like to get to it! 

My sister was allergic to cats but loved them and she too had to love from afar!

Today is Farrah's first full day out from under the bed. Pet Pride offered to exchange her for a more loving cat but I thought why give up on one who needs time and love? They say she has been abused. It was the same with Sarah and the reason they called me for a "hard to place cat." So why stop now?

I'm not returning her as if she was a handbag!

She does purr and licks your hand when petted, she does not play with toys but that is a domestic, not a feral trait, and she has never meowed but whined once or twice when she was afraid. We're working on this together!

When I brought a second cat into my
home,  my first cat went and "lived" behind the toilet
for a month.    I had to put a litter box and his food
in there with him, until he decided to join the
rest of the ladies.       

Sometimes cats take a while to get comfortable. 

Everytime I have seen Ophelia,  she has had her
eyes closed.   She pretty much eats and sleeps and
fusses only when she is hungry or wet.     

So far, so good.    So she can stay,  too!!!
 

Sandy

 

angel - I'm so glad that you didn't "exchange" Farrah for a different cat.  I think she will become more loving as time passes, but even if she doesn't, you know she is grateful for a warm and gentle home.  I feel so bad for all the abused cats and dogs out there - alone and scared. It's so nice of you to give shelter and love to one in need. 

Marilyn, I know what you mean. One of my heroes is a friend in Dearborn with an old Victorian who shelters 21 cats, all older and usually unwanted. It is a tremendous, neverending job and she is older, but she does it out of love.

What I can bring to Farrah as she takes one step forward to two or three steps back, is nothing to what she brings me and what Sarah, who was also unwanted, feral and actually more aggressive out of her fear, brought to me.

Patricia, I am sure you will win with Farrah.  She already is responding a bit.

Sandy, if I haven’t said so elsewhere, Ophelia is a darling.  She looks older than a few days old.  Annie’s cat disappears if people she does not recognize show up.  He has several hiding places that I can’t get to so I don’t try to find her.  He does recognize his “mother” when she comes.  And he often is glued to me.

Mary Ann

The 3 cats that run this house are totally disgusted with me this week... having painters coming & going all around their house outside~  Mama Callie turned up missing Sat & I was pretty sure she had hidden in the garage across the street where people used to feed her long before I ever saw her.  The man left Sat morning & got home while ago & sure enough, Miss Callie came running across the street when she saw me outside.  She has done this before & so has Tiger, they are "free" spirits and don't want to stay inside all the time, but they are nosy.  I watched old LaurenKat go into deep depression until her spirit was broken when we made her stay in 2 years, after something attacked her. That vet bill was a shock & then having to keep her in a cage for a week or two, giving her meds & waiting for her to use the litter box for the first time (vet guaranteed she would in 3 days, he was right... only problem is ever since we gave up & let her go out during the day, she comes back in to use the litter box.) They are a lot of company, funny, and frustrating, & smart.

Patricia, I'm so glad you have cats again, I often think of the crew you had before.  Loved the photos you showed.

Better go let Tom & Tiger come in.  LaurenKat is waiting on a chair by the computer downstairs, for me to come hold her before I go to bed.  Miss Callie is in the garage & I expect she might want to stay out tonight, after being confined almost 5 days without food or water!  She really still thinks that house is home when she is unhappy with me or I'm out of town.  They really do not like these strangers being right in their space!  I did get photos of Tom, Tiger & Callie down by the river the other day... but are on the other computer!

I'll try again
Here is some thing really old
Me using some spare time when I was in the WRNS

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Hi Chocky
Good pictures, thank you for sharing them with us.

Kelly

wow Chocky, sportwoman really.  I can also see you had quite a collection of photos on that back wall.

Looks like they were fun years, Chocky.

Great photos, Chocky, and exactly the image I have of you from your posts.  Fun person to be around "got the world by the tail"..... cute, too.  

Chocky, great photos of you "just hanging about!"

It's always fun to look back isn't it?

Chocky.  And we thought our children crazy when they acted that way.  Sort of forget that we did the same.

Hi JeanneP
When I look at photos from the sixties, the hairstyles and clothing make me  think today's styles were little different than today.

As I often say that the styles of today are too modern and where has the style gone, but my parents said the same of us in the sixties.

Kelly

Thank you all kindly for your comments. (I was 22 then)

The photos on the walls are other peoples. I never stuck pictures on the walls.

Bet they didn't think about fire hazards in the 60s.

Hi Chocky
Do you play the guitar?

Kelly

Chocky, neither did I think about fire hazards when I lived in a rented room (at age 17) abroad and sticked with scotch tape lots of family pictures on the walls around me so as not to feel so lonely.

I don't think it would have made much difference in a fire since the walls were all covered in an ugly mustard faded wallpaper.

Health and Safety issues were not as stringent then as they are now.

But we got by!


Kelly

Most homes I lived in growing up in UK.  Fireplaces in every room. I remember when going to bed in the cold winter my father would light one in my bedroom.  Burned coal back then. Wonder we didn't all have bad lungs.  But again. You always had a window left open.  I still have to have that.  Hate central heating and Air conditioning on all the time.
Later on it was all Central Heating.  My family live now in a house built in the early 1800s All Central Heating and Air Conditioning in it. Wall like a Castle.   Up in Lancashire it never get that warm and doubt the A/C ever used. Funny thing is I never saw home fires with the fireplaces or homes burn down. (Other than when they Bombs fell on them during the War.  but then most the houses where stone that  is at least a foot thick. Not much wood in homes back then. My dads family home still there along with my grandmothers. Must be at least 170 years old now. Both look great.

In my area here in US. it seems like house fires all the time. Every thing they use to build a house is flammable. they go up fast. No matter the cost.

So much of the material used in mattresses, couches, and living room chairs is polyurethane which gives off that noxious black smoke during house fires. It is dangerous to the inhabitants and for the rescuers or firefighters.

I think that most of the Lung Cancer comes from having so much of that material around. Now the wood floors are still being glued down again.  Worse than cigarette smoking I think. I had wood floors put down last year but they just snap into each other.

Too many unnecessary chemicals added to our food, water, and air! I remember several years back, reading about how the Funeral Directors, US association said that people exhumed for whatever reason, five years after burial were just beginning to show signs of deterioration. That's from all those preservatives we used and babies receive it early from their mother's umbilical cords!

Hi
I remember years ago there were local authority housing or what we call council houses having asbestos removed from he houses. 

The houses were built about the early 1930's and asbestos was widely used then.  But later if was found that asbestos was very bad for your health.

Some people asked if the asbestos was safe been removed while they lived in the houses and the answer was yes it was.  But I don't think many people believed this, as the people removing the asbestos were dressed in protective clothing from head to foot and with face mask!!

Kelly

Asbestos was still not regarded as particularly dangerous here until the mid-seventies and yes the removers were dressed in full protective gear, and careful to not breathe it in. Remember the pink glass fibered insulation blown into attics and walls? They are now removing it here.

For those of you who like photos of clouds, I took this one Sat. with my iPhone.  This is just the way it looked.  Photo is not enhanced.  I thought the colors were so pretty.

Clouds over the Gulf of Mexico

Jean, love it, and it did not need to be enhanced.

Love your clouds, Jean.... I have marveled at their formations since I realized that bottoms of clouds are always flat as you look across the sky.  I sat in a huge meeting room in San Antonio or New Orleans, staring at half a dozen large paintings on a wall behind the speaker, admiring them, when I noticed that all the clouds had flat bottoms.  As a life long "artist" (I use the term loosely)... I had never painted sky or clouds that looked so real.  Since then I've gazed at clouds to the point I am not safe driving, and marvel that they always look like they are sitting on a ledge.  Beautiful shot!

Was going to post the photo of my gr-son that graduated this week end but forgot photos are on the other computer~  Had prints made this morning, for everyone.  I'm off to laminate the ones I want to put in the RV, I keep a gallery tucked into the frame of the mirror so everyone invited in can see the latest.  I'm loving this laminating tool, think I paid about $20 for it & find it preserves my list of phone numbers & photos that stay in the RV, makes for nice bookmarks with a fav photo inside.  He graduated "with honors" (Cum laude) & like with Jack's grand... made us all proud!  Reminds me, I need to charge the camera battery!

I've wondered about the pink insulation that was "blown" into the walls & attics of houses after WWII, I was hanging out the bedroom window as the truck filled our old farm house (in town) my parents bought because of it's location & extra lots they could buy to have privacy.  I was about 10 & not sure my parents realized I was watching it all from that window, just a few feet from the hose & hole they were blowing through.  The screens just lifted up & off so I could lean out.  At this stage (81) I quit worrying or wondering. 

When a gr-daughter moved into a dorm her first year of college she sent us all a video of their room.  I don't think I've ever laughed so hard, she & room mate had something covering every inch of every wall & had stored their treasures in every nook, every opening in & under, and even had the excess hanging from the ceiling.  She only spent one semester at that college & gave up her scholarship to come "home" to Wichita State University & graduated quite a while ago with her Industrial Engineering degree (& still went to work for an aircraft company.)   

We have had light rain most of last night & today, so glad the painters finished yesterday! Next big project is to drain & clean the pool, then let it dry & paint it again before filling.  I remind myself every year that this is no more work than if it was a big flower bed & takes very little maintenance all summer, cool to look at. All I ever do is go stand on the step, knee deep in the water, as I get fresh air during the heat of summer.  It is what it is & either take care of it or move.