[Magdalen] I was in prison, and ....

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Today they cut out and removed the fiberboard with the smelly sticky black
stuff on it, and replaced it with new plywood.  They hope to alleviate the
slopes in the floor by use of shims. We could allow the kitties to come out
of seclusion, since there is now clean plywood only on the floor, and soon
we hope there will be tiles.  One of the kitties expressed their feelings
by spewing their latest meal onto the fresh plywood.  I hope that lightly
used catfood doesn't destroy the integrity of the floor....

We wiped it up as soon as we could.

Tonight they will get to sleep with us again. The world is once again a
safer place.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:01 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are getting a new floor for our kitchen.  The tiles have been ripped
> up, and the underneath is really nasty.  We cannot bar the kitchen from the
> rest of the house, so for the duration, the kitties have to remain in the
> other side of the house, which is my office.  They are very sad.  Every
> time I come over to put out food, they try to make a break for it (if
> you're a cat, making breaks for it is what you do). Please pray that we get
> through this and the kitties all survive and don't have any lasting
> resentments.
>
> I notice again that the big guy, Malcolm, still defers to his much smaller
> older brother, Max, when at the food dish.  He is genuinely respectful of
> his brother.
>
> They are probably not blood related, but when we adopted four cats at the
> SPCA, they reviewed the surrender documents for all of them, and it became
> apparent that Max and Malcolm had been surrendered from the same home.
> Max weighs about twelve pounds, and is deaf now. Malcolm is well over
> twenty pounds.
>
> I need to close down the pc and go to bed, hopefully without letting
> anybody escape....
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>