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1. about 1 year ago on Breaking Cat News

   The battle is joined.

2. over 1 year ago on Breaking Cat News

   I love the speed blur for Ora Zella.

3. almost 2 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   A little bit off topic from where the story line has moved today (back to the sale of the BPH). Due to some travel I have coming up, I took the Christmas tree down yesterday evening while our kittens were eating dinner in their room. It took Comet (the tuxedo male) until after Christmas to start trying to play with the garland and lights and batting at a few of the lower ornaments and he seems to have trained Neptune (virtually all black female). The lower ornaments needed moved higher and we just had to deal with resetting the garland and lights. I didn’t think any climbing had occurred, but when I was dismantling the tree (yes, its artificial), I discovered a few branches with some unusual bends in them, suggesting at least one attempt at climbing (or stretching) up the interior of the tree. Overall, not too bad (no one singing Ora’s version of Hi Ho) and no lasting damage to anything.

4. almost 2 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   This year I’m living in a bit of fear over what is playing out in the strip. After losing our two Oranges around the 4th of July to complications of Cancer (Belenus at 8 to an abdominal tumor that was causing internal bleeding that couldn’t be controlled and Mars to heart failure as a complication of what appeared to be advanced mammary tumors at 14-15), we added two kittens in late August from an area shelter. They were part of a feral colony that had 12 kittens and were the last two to be adopted out at about 4 months old. These two are very well socialized to people and are very affectionate (to an annoying degree if you are working from home). The female is essentially all black and the male is a tuxedo. They are balls of energy that race around making our older cats (Sassy about 18, Mercury 11, and Kane about 8) a bit annoyed at times. They both like to jump and climb, so the tree will likely be an adventure when it goes up this weekend. Will keep you posted on what happens.

5. almost 2 years ago on Savage Chickens

   How about hit the Powerball or Mega Millions?

6. almost 2 years ago on Bloom County

   A true classic for its time.

7. over 2 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   It sure looks like a Garfield phone, which is very fitting.

8. almost 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   Here in Central Ohio we are in the thick of the winter storm LadyPeterW mentioned. Yesterday between about 9 am and 9:30 pm we had 0.67 inches of rain. It was raining lightly at the time and overnight it turned to freezing rain. At 7:00 a.m. this morning I changed out the rain gauge again and it looks like it has about another 0.25 inches of liquid and ice in it. It is thawing out now. There was about 0.03 inches of ice buildup on the trees and bushes with the freezing rain continuing until around lunch time. This will all end as several inches of snow by tomorrow morning. It is days like this I’m glad our Division at work moved to Remote status, even though I miss seeing my colleagues on a regular basis.

9. almost 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

   In our area the supply of dry cat food is OK for the time being. It is the wet cat food that is hard to find, especially the poultry and beef varieties.

10. almost 3 years ago on Breaking Cat News

    It is hard to lose a cat you had known since they were a young kitten. The mom cat and the two kittens are a great addition, but they won’t replace Frodo who will live on in your heart.