A New Member

It's been hard since Tiger Lilly passed away. She had rubbed my legs and talked to me nearly every morning for 12 years. She was a big, fat lap cat with eyes worthy of oriental watercolors. It's just hard to even discuss for all of us. I'm tearing up trying to write this and I see I'll have to try again later. Here is a photo of her cuddling Coconut with Baby Girl close behind. Tiger was Coconut's mother and they loved each other deeply.

We gave in and went to the local shelter Saturday morning. We told ourselves it was all for Hannah but later admitted it was a trip for all of us. We had a hard time making a choice but Hannah didn't. She held her new kitten (the first one she touched) and that was that. She hasn't a name yet because Hannah says it has to be perfect. She's right. This new feline is following in Tiger Lilly's paw prints.

This Morning.......

I woke up wishing for another place and time. I just wanted to be there.

ChiChi, My LapTop And Sunday Dinner

We love our animals in this house - human, canine and feline. I have a big soft spot for Hannah's dog ChiChi. He is a big mess mentally but a big cuddler too. Hannah bought him while I was in Cleveland Clinic for my surgery. He was at a shelter near my parent's home in Kentucky and she fell for him pretty hard when she saw him. ChiChi had been abused and was skiddish and pitiful. Hannah is just like her mother and thinks she must save the world. ChiChi became a member of our family from then on.

My first encounter with ChiChi was my first day home from the hospital and he peed all over me. It took us well over a year to get him to calm down and stop doing that. He has seizures and we have no idea why but we deal with them. He has become my baby. All of our dogs are my babies but Chi is my CuddleBug. This is not really a tribute to Chi but more of a lead in because he was number two dog on my list for a few hours this weekend. Chi is jealous of the laptop. He tries to lay on it, jump on it, get between it and whomever is on it. He's bad about it. Saturday, I left it sitting on my bed and he threw up all over it. He had an entire bed at his disposal but he chose the keyboard of the laptop. It wasn't even a real kinda sick it was clear like he made himself do it. Am I imagining this? Could he have done this on purpose? Luckily, we just need to replace the keyboard but he is a bad boy and he seems to have no remorse whatsoever. Sigh...

I decided Sunday morning that we would take a road trip to Kentucky to eat Sunday dinner at a diner I had seen on "Diners, Drive ins, and Dives". Al and were I excited to go there and the girls graced us with their lovely selves begrudgingly. It took a little over an hour to get there and we were starving. It was crowded but not standing room only. It was a hole in the wall but it was clean. The menu looked good. We all found something we wanted and ordered. We sat there for over an hour before Al walked over to inquire on our food. People were being served all around us and we had our drinks and nothing more. Our waitress literally kept disappearing and when our food finally came to the table it was....well a 3 on the 1-10 scale at best. Most everything tasted as if it had come straight from a can or had been cooked until there wasn't any flavor left. The only reason and I do mean ONLY reason I gave it a 3 was because after the bad dinner I ordered the pie that the show had mentioned. That one piece of pie was pure heaven. It was homemade with a flaky crust. The filling and topping to die for. Sadly, that pie was there only saving grace and we told them so. I felt bad for ever suggesting we go there. How would I have known it would be so bad?

Shame on you Guy! I am not sure I can believe you when you "toot your horn" about a place any longer. Unless.....it's about their pie!