My Feral And Rescued Cats

[pearl99]

tabbytom
I find that the greatest gifts are not bought. Laughter, love, kindness, hope, friendship, LIFE. January.

Truer words...never spoken.
Agree.

 

[Jcatbird]

tarasgirl06 Ohh. The anniversary. Part of our story now too and cherished. I am so sorry they had to leave but you hold them to share with the rest of us. They live on that way. I hold elders in great esteem. I could sit all day listening to what they can tell. How can anyone fail to understand how precious they and their life experience is to us all. We are all connected like the ripples on a pond. One end part of the other though they are at opposite sides of the pond. To Samuda and your mother, we owe them much for sharing the ripples with us. May they rest well and with peace. From those that come before….we learn things like this. History told is well worth remembering for many, many reasons. This short story tells it well.

 

[dustydiamond1]

I had cool clouds yesterday too. I posted one pic in the photography thread, but here's another one.

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OOOOOOOH! Fabulous!

 

[dustydiamond1]

In years past the young folks learned from their elders. Nowadays the young are teaching their elders.(modern technology)

 

[Jcatbird]

N NY cat man Eight Ball is smart and he knows you are working your way to him. He is allowing it in cat time. Lol He already trusts. They always know which humans will love them. I am sure he will get around to petting you soon. Come on Eight Ball!

dustydiamond1 That is a beautiful sky. I love watching the clouds. Cloud paintings are my favorite kind. Pictures in the sky.
So true about young teaching technology. I also learned so much from Sarah but none of it was technology. She taught me many things.

rubysmama That’s a gorgeous sky too. It looks like a giant fluffy quilt! I wouldn’t mind snuggling up to those puff balls! Lol Almost uniform in appearance. Amazing how the clouds would form that pattern.

pearl99 Well Hi! I believe those words too. “The best things in life are free”? . I hope all is well there.

 

[dustydiamond1]

At our library today. Picked up instructions & some paper. Never tried origami before. They have a box there for completed pieces.

 

[Jcatbird]

dustydiamond1 That is so cool! Many, many decades ago I did a wee bit of origami but remember nothing! Lol Somewhere I have a book of origami. I did like doing it. A friend of my nephews visited once and she asked for a piece of paper. While we chatted she made me an origami orchid flower which I still have. Don’t know how she did it though! I can still make a cube! I don’t know if I could do a crane though. You’ll have to let us know how it goes!

 

[tabbytom]

From those that come before….we learn things like this. History told is well worth remembering for many, many reasons. This short story tells it well.

And this short story came from where I come from. Didn't know rippled across the Pacific Ocean to where you are.

 

[Jcatbird]

Heh! I love watching BJ at work. Supper and watching the cats.

Kind of bored.

A little female attention would spice up my day.

Hey Flowers! Give us a little kiss.

BJ! You think you can just get a kiss any time?!?!?

Geez! Sorry!

Get the hooman to pet you of you’re just bored!

Hooman is nice but you know I love you best Flowers!

C’mon.

I’m wearing my finest cat scent for you.

Well, you do smell nice.

I wuv you Flowers!

Awww BJ!

For that, you get a kiss.

Heh!
Ummmm! Tastes like tuna!

Ha! Dinner and a show! A great night at Chez Catbird!

 

[Mamanyt1953]

One such was a large cast-iron stove, all black enamel and nickel fittings, with bread warmer and water reservoir.

The one I posted is, alas and thank goodness, quite modern, but made to look quite old. The "multiple doors" on the front are all part of one door, opening onto a full-sized oven. I couldn't handle hauling wood, but OH MY, I love that look! Think beams overhead, and at least one stone wall...

Duplex? I have the design mapped out! Passive solar too but more energy efficiency could be added! I like the idea! I can help to supply the cats! Lol Coffee in front of the stove at dawn?

Absolutely! And I would count on you to help supply the cats! I'm also wishing for a demand tankless water heater. How nice, to have as much as you need, but ONLY when you need it!

I'm feeding a new cat. A little tabby with tuxedo markings. A Tuxebie? He has a broken front leg, and won't let me near (yet). I'm calling him (I think) "Cassidy," since the little thing hops along, and the name would do for a tom or a queen, in a pinch.

 

[dustydiamond1]

The one I posted is, alas and thank goodness, quite modern, but made to look quite old. The "multiple doors" on the front are all part of one door, opening onto a full-sized oven. I couldn't handle hauling wood, but OH MY, I love that look! Think beams overhead, and at least one stone wall...

Absolutely! And I would count on you to help supply the cats! I'm also wishing for a demand tankless water heater. How nice, to have as much as you need, but ONLY when you need it!

I'm feeding a new cat. A little tabby with tuxedo markings. A Tuxebie? He has a broken front leg, and won't let me near (yet). I'm calling him (I think) "Cassidy," since the little thing hops along, and the name would do for a tom or a queen, in a pinch.

Oh no! Poor little baby! for a quick capture and trip to the vet

 

[Jcatbird]

tabbytom Wow! That’s amazing! The note spoke truth. The endless ripple made it here. Funny how I was searching for some way to illustrate what I was writing and just happened to find that video and choose it. I was actually looking for a piece of music but found that instead and was moved by it. Wow! Those ripples are strong! That video carries a message worth sending out across the ripples. It came from a very good place!

 

[Jcatbird]

Mamanyt1953 Oh no. Poor kitty but I am so glad he/she can get food there. Cassidy can make it, thanks to you.
We’ll hope for that stove and all that goes along with it.

 

[tabbytom]

tabbytom Wow! That’s amazing! The note spoke truth. The endless ripple made it here. Funny how I was searching for some way to illustrate what I was writing and just happened to find that video and choose it. I was actually looking for a piece of music but found that instead and was moved by it. Wow! Those ripples are strong! That video carries a message worth sending out across the ripples. It came from a very good place!

Yea, I was surprised when I saw the boy and immediately knew it was from our side and when I view it, I recognize the elderly lady and that confirm it's our local production.

 

[Lari]

At our library today. Picked up instructions & some paper. Never tried origami before. They have a box there for completed pieces.
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When I was in high school, there was a class making paper cranes for Japan in the same classroom I had my sociology class in, i think. It was a different period. Anyway, since they left origami paper and instructions, and my teacher didn't seem to mind, I folded a bunch of cranes fir their box while I listened in class. It helped me concentrate to do something with my hands, and I can still make them almost by instinct. It's like riding a bike - you can get rusty but never truly forget!

 

[tarasgirl06]

tabbytom How wonderful!
Lari Also, how wonderful! My father had a lot of Japanese and Japanese-American friends and co-workers and some of them would give me gifts. One of these gifts was an origami book. I never got far with it, but I loved looking at the book, which had the completed examples of each project in the pages, kind of like a pop-up book. It was gorgeous.
dustydiamond1 True, they are teaching technology; but they will never be able to teach the wisdom, history, compassion and caring to the elders, who are the keepers of these. And these are the greatest qualities, sorely lacking in society now and the most needed.
Jcatbird Awww, a loving couple to be sure!
A very beautiful video. This is how I was raised, too. I hope enough people around the world can keep these values and share them with the next generations so they are not lost. If they are lost, the world is absolutely doomed.
But then, cats can show us all. May respect and protection for/of the cat increase!

 

[Lari]

Okay, got the bug to make one. Didn't have any origami paper, so I used a piece of newspaper whose puzzles I've done. Not perfect, but from memory and the wrong paper, not bad!

 

[NY cat man]

tabbytom How wonderful!
Lari Also, how wonderful! My father had a lot of Japanese and Japanese-American friends and co-workers and some of them would give me gifts. One of these gifts was an origami book. I never got far with it, but I loved looking at the book, which had the completed examples of each project in the pages, kind of like a pop-up book. It was gorgeous.
dustydiamond1 True, they are teaching technology; but they will never be able to teach the wisdom, history, compassion and caring to the elders, who are the keepers of these. And these are the greatest qualities, sorely lacking in society now and the most needed.
Jcatbird Awww, a loving couple to be sure!
A very beautiful video. This is how I was raised, too. I hope enough people around the world can keep these values and share them with the next generations so they are not lost. If they are lost, the world is absolutely doomed.
But then, cats can show us all. May respect and protection for/of the cat increase!

Amen to that! Kids nowadays (gawd, but I sound old!) can make their phones and/or computers sit up and do tricks, but altogether too many of them have no more common sense than a newborn calf. Exhibit A: the Tide pod challenge, and now the milk crate challenge. People risking serious injury for fleeting internet fame. I think that Andy Warhol was optimistic. Everybody may become famous, but I doubt that it will last even 15 minutes. But, hey; who wants to listen to an old geezer like me? What do I know about anything? The only good that may come is a bit of draining of the shallow end of the gene pool. One can only hope.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Amen to that! Kids nowadays (gawd, but I sound old!) can make their phones and/or computers sit up and do tricks, but altogether too many of them have no more common sense than a newborn calf. Exhibit A: the Tide pod challenge, and now the milk crate challenge. People risking serious injury for fleeting internet fame. I think that Andy Warhol was optimistic. Everybody may become famous, but I doubt that it will last even 15 minutes. But, hey; who wants to listen to an old geezer like me? What do I know about anything? The only good that may come is a bit of draining of the shallow end of the gene pool. One can only hope.

IDK. I have never seen having or not having compassion and intelligence as being age-related; you either have them or you don't, and it's largely up to your family environment IMHO. I was extremely fortunate to have compassionate and intelligent parents who spent the time necessary to share those with me and explain the whys, hows, whens and wheres to me. We lived a different way than the mainstream and held different things dear than they do.

 

[BellaGooch]

I haven’t had much time lately to keep up, but I’ve been thinking of you all!

Jcatbird BJ and Flowers are so adorable And what’s more entertaining than a couple of cats?

Mamanyt1953 I’ll be sure to keep Cassidy in my prayers!

I had a friend who was big into origami, so I learned how to fold a few things, but I never was very good at folding cranes. My specialty was folding pianos.

Lari impressive! Folding with newspapers is hard!

Amen to that! Kids nowadays (gawd, but I sound old!) can make their phones and/or computers sit up and do tricks, but altogether too many of them have no more common sense than a newborn calf. Exhibit A: the Tide pod challenge, and now the milk crate challenge. People risking serious injury for fleeting internet fame. I think that Andy Warhol was optimistic. Everybody may become famous, but I doubt that it will last even 15 minutes. But, hey; who wants to listen to an old geezer like me? What do I know about anything? The only good that may come is a bit of draining of the shallow end of the gene pool. One can only hope.

As someone who is technically a part of that generation, I’m sometimes ashamed to be grouped in with some of this generation’s behavior!
We’re all not like that, I promise. I think it’s ridiculous what people will do for attention and fame, and I wish we would grow towards being more compassionate and kind as a whole population. I do agree to a point that wisdom comes with the older you get, but like tarasgirl06 said, compassion and intelligence don’t always have to do with age; I think a lot of it is who you’re around in terms of family and peers.
I know plenty of people who are younger than me and some of the kindest and smartest people I’ve ever met. (But that’s just my opinion )