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33 days ago
About three weeks ago Cassie came to live with us. She was a young adult from a rescue agency. Collar of Hope out of Bremerton, Wa. I found her on a program called Oodle.com that my DIL suggested. The name she came with was Tinkerbell, but having had a Tinker in the long ago past, I renamed her Cassie Starbright and we call her Cassie. Cassie’s story was sad. She had apparently gotten pregnant on her first heat. Her owners from eastern Washington no longer wanted her and turned her into a rescue place. The kittens were all adopted but no on wanted this beautiful girl. She was then moved to Collar of Hope. When we got her she smelled like motor oil, and her coat was stringy looking and had some kind of oil or grease on it. I took her to our vet to check everything out. She was healthy, neutered, and had her shots and the impregnated ID chip. He prescribed a bath with Dawn soap which they use to clean up birds in oil spills. He said it would cut the oil but had ...
74 days ago
I joined Facebook at the recommendation of my son, Jim Jr. DH kept saying it was dangerous. So I make sure I only accept people I know as friends. My experience has been wonderful. I hope if it is dangerous, they will get that part fixed because there can be so much more contact with people on a daily basis. First I found three lost granddaughters and their mom. That was wonderful for me. I got to catch up with them in their college experiences. One wants to come and visit me for spring break next year. I hope she does. Next I found many friends all over the world that I have known for years on the catsnquilts site. It even has pictures so we can see what our long time friends look like. (I refrained from saying "old friends" ) Then I found some dear church friends and we can talk about our interests and concerns. Even our Pastor joined but he doesn't write much. Next I found some dear friends from years ago. And now I have been ...87 days ago
It was 1968 and several good people were running for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of our Nation. We lived in Iowa and I was selected to be a voting delegate at the convention. Because of that there were a lot of parties and gatherings in Des Moines to get to know the candidates. It was quite accidental that I was standing in a hotel entryway with Ted Kennedy and our then governor, Harold Hughes. Unbeknownst by me, a picture was taken and it appeared on the front page of the Des Moines Register the next Sunday morning. I still have a copy. It seems so long ago. We were young, all of us. Teddy was helping his brother, Bobby, in his run to be our nomination. We all thought Teddy would be a candidate in 4 or 8 more years. But it wasn't to be. I think I would have voted for Bobby if he hadn't been removed by an assassin. That really hurt. Remember the song, "Abraham, Martin, and John? Then they added Bobby when they sang it. It always made me sad to ...
91 days ago
It has been three days and it still hurts so badly. I still look for her everywhere. It is so hard to accept that she is gone. But I am trying to remember the good times, and honor the sweet little pal she was. She had been dumped and all summer she would walk on top of our fence. But if I opened the door to give her food she was skittish and ran away. On an October Saturday that Jim and I were standing in our garage talking when she came up to us and rubbed our legs. I picked her up and she purred. Jim said "she's ours". We spent the afternoon trying to find a vet that would check to see if she was safe to put with our other two cats. The animal clinics close early on Saturday. We finally found an emergency clinic and it cost a lot but he okayed her health. I put her in the downstairs bath with tha door closed so the cats could get acquainted under the door. Then we took her to our vet on Monday. He guessed she was between 2 and 5 years old. She was so ...
95 days ago
One memory was very embarrassing for me. There was no nursery in the church so younger families like us took our young ones with us to services. Seven families had had babies about the same time that we did. One couple had twins. On this particular Sunday, our baby daughter started fussing a bit. I thought I could quiet her down but didn't have a chance. My husband said from the pulpit, "will you please take that baby out?". I did and later asked him about it. He said the other babies didn't bother him but ours did. I never believed that for a minute. There was an elderly gentleman in our church whose wife had died recently. This man wore a bright orange wig. He was not someone I felt I could be comfortable with. One day, Jim said he would like to invite this man over for dinner because he was lonely. I didn't want to do this. I reminded Jim we had a young baby and I was concerned about cleanliness. Jim thought that wasn't a particularly Christian ...
