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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

catstuff
06:45 PM - 08/19/2009

The topic: Brian says “don’t take the picture!”
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But how could I resist?

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He's got Richie, Daniece, Miss Elizabeth, Oliver and Potter (at the end) visiting him.

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catstuff
11:40 AM - 08/19/2009

The topic: Some new photos of Pancho
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Isn't he stunning?

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catstuff
09:07 AM - 08/19/2009

The topic: One great thing about getting home
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And there are so many, because I truly believe there’s no place like home….

Gilligan is back! After being gone for months and months and months! There was some concern that he’d been hit by a car and was no longer alive, but Brian and I had seen him a couple of times on our walks. Now he’s back here.

I hope he stays here and hides in the juniper on OUR bank, like KittyMeeze does at night. I hope he doesn’t want to cross the street anymore.

And don’t start saying “why don’t you bring him in?” Because it would be too hard on the both of them to dump them in an environment with all these other younger, stronger cats. Just pray he stays out front.

UPDATE:

Well, he didn’t stick around, I watched him walk down the street and around the corner. I found it odd that he moved to the middle of the lane when he passed the juniper on the corner, where so many cats have called home throughout the years. Might it be because Notwally lives there on occasion and Gilly just isn’t up to defending himself? I just don’t know.

Anyway, I was able to get a couple of pictures of him while he was here (I took them through the bedroom window). Since he didn’t move much, I’m only posting one, they’re all pretty much the same. I noticed that he has the same profile that Lonee Gail had. And he’s also got that same black spot on his nose that she had, the one that would go away for a while, then come back.

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I also got a couple of KittyMeeze. His tail is normal now, remember how worried I was that it was broken and would cause long term health problems?

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disneystuff
08:19 AM - 08/19/2009

The topic: Note to self
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The next time you think you want to go to Disneyland to see something “special” during the summer and you make reservations months in advance, make sure that the day you go up isn’t the first day of the lifting of the blockout dates for the cheap APs (the less money you pay for your passport, the more blockout days you’re hit with…). Most of the APs (annual passports, did you know there are 800,000 plus?) have the summer blocked out. From mid-June to mid-August.

The blockout was lifted on Sunday. The same day we arrived. Sunday and Monday it was a zoo. And the reason we went up, to see the new Fantasmic dragon, well, the dragon (they call him Murphy) has been down since the first week of the new show. A disappointment to say the least.

When we went Monday morning, we headed to Big Thunder. Down. Then to Pirates. Down. Then to Tomorrowland. Star Tours. Down. Buzz Lightyear. Down. The Matterhorn wasn’t running. And it was wall to wall people. We had breakfast at the Riverbelle Terrace, then left for home.

All in all, a disappointing trip.

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