Nov 20 2012
New Beginnings
It’s a blustery day here in Hooterville – the kind where the wind chimes sing merrily of power outages, and you wake up to find that your purple honeysuckle has been swept off its feet. I will need to borrow a cup of Rob, like I did a few days ago when the sliding glass door in the studio came off its moorings. Fortunately, the glass didn’t break, and Rob was able to reinstall it by the light of the silvery flashlight, but I’ll use one of the other four doors for a while…
Thanksgiving is approaching rapidly, and we have a couple of new reasons to be thankful.
One Saturday when I was at the jobette, Monica stopped by so I could meet someone:
It was the world’s cutest puppy! I fell pretty hard for Daisy Davis Pit Bull Rescue’s latest member, and I posted pictures of him on Facebook to try and help find him a good home. Imagine my joy when our nephew* Jarrett adopted him! Jarrett will be here for Thanksgiving and will pick up the puppy then. I can’t wait! And I’m so glad that I will get to watch Archimedes grow up.
A couple of weeks ago, a small, starved, mangy-looking kitty turned up at our brother’s place:
We estimate that she is somewhere between 6 and 8 months old. We have no idea how she got there – Jonathan lives alone on 68 acres, and across the street is a further 100 uninhabited acres – but somehow, she found him. He’s been catless and dogless for a long time, so it’s a win-win.
I hesitated to post about it before, because it took a long time to get close enough to pet her and get her to come inside for the night, and we were all afraid that she would take off and take our hearts with her. But fortunately, she is enjoying the food and the pets, so we’re hoping that she will be a permanent member of the family.
She has the loudest meow and purr, sometimes both at the same time. She’s quite the character.
*We have known Jarrett since he was four years old. He and his Mom lived on a boat at Pier 39, as did Megan, Rob, and Jonathan. They took the fatherless kid under their wings, and he lived with Megan and Jonathan during his last two years of high school, like Megan did with me.
2 Responses to “New Beginnings”
Animals have a keen sense of survival, they instinctively know who to approach, they know who to trust and it looks like there’s a fair amount of good souls in your small town, good luck to all with the puppy and the new kitty.
The more I hear, the more I think your family is pretty darn special!
Love the animal photos…
jx