Tag: cats
member name: David Rochester
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Her: I know you're a good person, because my cats like you.
Me: Oh? I can't ever gauge anything by my cats' reaction; they have terrible taste. My youngest . . .
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November 24, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
Last night when I left home to meet my parents for Thanksgiving dinner, my middle child cat, Big Dumb Darling Daria P. Olka-Dot Pants, slithered into the front hall coat closet with the silent rapidity . . .
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November 17, 2006 01:11 AM EST --
Today I changed the sheets on my bed, pulling them fresh and warm out of the dryer where they were tumbled with a little mesh bag full of dried lavender, so they smell wonderful. Changing the . . .
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January 17, 2007 01:28 AM EST --
My bright-eyed busy cat sat at the window, watching large snowflakes tumble from the sky. Were they feathers? Small birds? She patted the glass longingly. How disappointed she would . . .
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October 30, 2006 01:04 PM EST --
This morning as I was on the home stretch of my morning walk, I saw a cat dead in the road. It must have been killed quite recently; I had not seen it there when I had passed twenty . . .
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January 08, 2007 10:08 PM EST --
Today I have a work schedule fairly common to real estate brokers; my hours will be "from 3 PM until whenever," which will probably be 9 or 10 at night. Therefore I . . .
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November 09, 2006 11:41 AM EST --
I read a post on a blog this morning discussing how children handle the death of a pet. It put me in mind of my own early life experience with a beloved pet, and the loss of that pet. (I told part . . .
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October 18, 2006 04:08 PM EDT --
For the past several months, I have been using a biodegradable clumping cat litter made of non-food-grade wheat, called "Swheat Scoop," which is good for me and my cats because it creates neither . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:22 PM EDT --
This morning while I was brushing my teeth, my middle child cat, Big Dumb Darling Daria, jumped up onto the sink cabinet and tried to help by patting my hand and my elbow and generally making . . .
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September 24, 2006 01:35 AM EDT --
Recently I moved from a small condominium to a much larger house. Although she now has nearly 1600 square feet to run around in, my youngest cat, Little Liu the Weasel Fiend, is not going . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
My cats' current favorite toy is a tuft of feathers attached to a long plastic wand, which they pounce upon with much glee. Sometimes I let Little Liu the Weasel Fiend "kill" . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
My father gave me a handful of his old golf balls, thinking they might make good cat toys. The cats seemed fairly indifferent to them, but one day somebody batted one right under my desk, and I idly started . . .
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October 22, 2006 02:36 AM EDT --
I was awakened from a delicious nap this afternoon by my youngest cat, Little Liu the Weasel Fiend, who suddenly decided, as she sometimes does, that she liked me and wanted me to pay attention . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:50 PM EDT --
Last night, just as I was hovering on the exquisite delicious tantalizing edge of falling asleep, it occurred to me that I could not remember having made my November mortgage payments, which . . .
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November 23, 2006 12:28 AM EST --
Today I was ill, and at around 4 in the afternoon I decided to just give up and go to bed and groan unhappily to myself and hope for the healing balm of sleep. This was . . .
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November 09, 2006 05:28 PM EST --
There once was a gal named Amanda
Than whom no woman ever was grander
For miles around
You could hear the sad sound
Of desperate men trying to land her.
Ed showed up to court her with Molly . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Recently I suffered through a plumbing adventure. I had noticed that my kitchen sink was giving off whiffs of decaying vegetation, but had been too busy to investigate the cause. . . .
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December 17, 2006 12:49 AM EST --
Over the past couple of months, my middle child cat, Daria P.Olka-Dot Pants, has decided that under certain circumstances, I am too loud and must be reprimanded. This particular cat, who is a Bengal, . . .
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December 20, 2008 08:52 PM EST --
1) I just finished reading Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood, and cannot recommend it highly enough. It is very short, a novella really, and it is a masterpiece. Isherwood has the curious . . .
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September 07, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
I'm sure you've all observed that in everyone's life, there are certain kinds of things that characteristically happen; sort of a recurring fate or destiny, a particular kind of accident, . . .
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