food, crochet, merriment
This girl and her daddy like to tease each other about who loves the other person…more. They’d go around and around…”I love you more…no, I love you more!”
One day, little Skylie came up with a love that was hard to beat.
This is the song written about that adorable true-life experience.
So, so beautiful.
If you’ve read ANY of my posts about Hobbes–from the time he was a kitten…
then you probably already know what a tough guy he is.
He’s always been pretty much Rhen’s cat and would barely let me touch him, sometimes even trying to duke it out with me as to who actually runs this joint.
I’ve always loved him, but I’ve often felt like he just didn’t have any use for me, and would much rather be a man’s cat.
But since his run-in with the law a few months back, he’s been a very different fellow. Sad in a way, but also…
interesting.
Oh, sure–he still comes in all dirty and scratched up from his latest stint on neighborhood-bad-cat patrol–for which we are all soooo grateful.
But now, when he’s finished with his tough-guy duties outside, he always comes and finds me…where ever I am.
He adamently gets between me and the silly puzzle, or silly book, or silly computer that’s taking all my attention so that I will pet him, or scratch his back or ears, or just…hold him.
I think he just needs assurance that his home and his people are still here and that no more wicked dudes are coming to get him.
And after all these years, I think he’s finally decided…
that he’s safe…
with me.
I love you Hobbes.
These kitties got so big so fast!! They are already 8 weeks old.
With the last batch, I kept them so long that the pet store I was bringing them to almost wouldn’t take them.
Eight weeks, is apparently the perfect time.
Well, perfect for them, but not so perfect for me. I’m not reaaaady!!!
I meeeeean…just look at that sweet little guy!! Awwwwwww!
In order not to have a personal, immediate meltdown, I came up with a solution… of sorts.
I decided to take this giving away my babies thing, in…shall we say…
stages. That might help.
So I took these three today….
and I’ll keep these two…ahem…I mean, I’ll take these two…
later.
Yeah. That’s what I’ll do. No, really.
Oh, boy. I’m in trouble.
This might not look like much to you–just a silly Zen Water from Fiiz.
And this might not look like much to you either–just that cute boy grabbing some yummy lunch.
But let me just tell you–this was a fun, big deal to me.
You seeeee—just before this guy got married, I said to him, “if you are ever in town, just running boring old errands, come and get me, and I’ll go with you.”
I figured, that way, we could visit and make the boring stuff a little more fun–not to mention give me something to do besides talk to my kitties all day. Haha. Sad commentary on MY life right now.
Good grief.
Most of time, of course, he has the love of his life to run errands with. But on those rare occassions when she is working and he’s in this neck of the woods doing something dull…
well, it’s nice to know that he still likes my company as a far distant second.
I’ll gladly take that…
any day.
Here are my latest Copy Cats!!
This is Eva.
And here we have…Thor!
Eva and Thor are on their way to Portugal this very minute as a birthday surprise to my friend Teresa’s son. Sweet Teresa is the dear friend who sent me a Seed Fairy many years ago. It’s hanging in my house still.
I sure hope she loves her kitties!!
Making them was a labor of love.
