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

[cady soukup]

Chuckling over your descriptions,

We've been coping with moping kitties because of the rainy weather.
The warm, sunny weather this week caused a great deal of kitty joy as
they all dashed outside to enjoy themselves. Back to clouds and rain
today - and sulky kitties.

hugs - Cady

On 3/11/16, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>