… Hope and my sink.
Should I be jealous?
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Needless to say, I couldn’t be more delighted at the new addition in your life. Hope is fabulous in every way, and I just love how you’re letting us in on her unique personality traits as you discover them. What a great personality! You’re both very lucky, Sheila. xxx, Stevie
Stevie – speaking of cats, how’s BG doing?? I felt very blessed to even get one brief sighting of him when I was at your house. He’s obviously a One-Man cat!! He stared at me like, “Who is this flu-ridden lady lying on MY COUCH??”
He’s just fine, sweetie – in fact, he’s lying on my chest and purring mightily as I try to type and see around him. He’s such the one-man man, you’re so right. His behavior with me is extremely loving, it’s hard to believe how much he can’t abide other people. Ande calls him cranky, but really he’s just a misanthrope, like me. His venturing out into the dining area while you were visiting was a bold statement of his comfort with you – you cracked the defenses more than anyone else ever has! I think it was our mutual enthusiasm for Mildred Pierce that drew him near us. After all, he’s a huge Crawford fan as well!
xxx Stevie
Sheila, you know how I love you….I sometimes want to BE you when I grow up (no SWF stuff…don’t worry! LOL)…and I love reading everything you write. But I’ve found that I rush over to your blog to see if you’ve written anything about Hope. There is something just so delicious and beautiful about the symbiotic relationship between a pet and a human.
I’m so happy for you and for Hope. You are both very lucky!
De – ha!! I love to hear that! I love when you blog about your pets as well. They’re fascinating little creatures, and it’s really good to have them around.
Today there was a thunderstorm for most of the day and Hope has been alternately freaking OUT and sleeping like a zombie. It’s hysterical. The thunder all along has been at the same level – but sometimes she’s so cool with it that it might as well not be going on – and other times she behaves as though demons are stalking her throughout my apartment.
Also she killed and ate a moth last night. It was bloodsport. I was so proud of her.
Good kitty!!!
Yes, the doggies were having thunderstorm issues here, as well. I can’t wait for you to meet Ciaran’s mail order bride, Carly. She is JUST what he needed- a good strong woman (albeit, dog) to whip him into shape. And I LOVE Stevie’s word:”Misanthrope”-that is exactly how I will now describe my poor puppy from now on!!
I wouldn’t be jealous. The sink doesn’t feed her. But I’d stock up on Liquid Plumr. You drain’s going to be stopped up with cat hair pretty soon
Beth – I can’t wait to meet the mail order bride! Very happy Ciaran met his match.
Miss you!!
Doug – No need to answer the “Should I be jealous” question. It was a joke.
Beth – and yes, I love the “misanthrope” term too! the cat I had when I was a kid was pretty misanthropic … we all loved her to death, but man, she was prickly, and almost never relaxed and chilled out.
I also remember that she once killed a bird in front of me and all my friends in the backyard. We were all totally traumatized.
she is so CUTE!! I love her white bib!
The image of the neighborhood kids, mouths agape, staring at the Ozzy Osbourne cat, with bird-blood dripping from her chin is just killing me!!!!
“Hope is the sink with feathers…”
beth – it was totally like that. Kids staggered home from our lawn sobbing at the tops of our lungs. It was awful!! But Widdy couldn’t help it. That bird was just SITTING there … a total provocation to a bloodthirsty beast like herself.
She plunged her fangs into the bird’s neck as all of us – the Hodge kids, the Quinn kids, the Wright kids – stood around screaming and crying.
hahahahaha