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Message 1502974 - Posted: 12 Apr 2014, 0:27:30 UTC

here's to you Mark - joanne & i enjoyn' speakin' w/ you on the telephone

and here's Charcoalette [male kitten - the incarnate of Charcoal - 6 months old



and here's Sebastian [aka Nico] w/ joanne

- the daughter Beth / Steve's newborn




and Rachel - the other daughter's little [one & 1/2 yrs old]

named Sydney [aka Buttons]





well Mark - thanks 4 calling - it was good speakin' w/ you Sir

- 'ello 2 eveybody else as well

Respectfully, joanne & i
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Message 1502981 - Posted: 12 Apr 2014, 0:41:01 UTC

You and I are sometimes elusive and hard to contact.
I was very appreciative to find both you and Joanne on the phone in one call.
And the little Charcolette as well, heard her meow.


A little acendote..............
I had a Whopper and fries the other day. Bean a long time.

Just how long?

Since before my beloved Squirrel passed.

What brought the remembrance home to me was this................

When I got home that day and unwrapped the fries........
Squirrel, no matter where she was sleeping...
RACED like fire into the living room and knocked all of the fries assunder.
And then stood there with her eyes aglo. I did tear off most of the whopper burger and fed it to my love.

Yeah, sometimes you do remember the light side of those past.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 1503081 - Posted: 12 Apr 2014, 9:28:14 UTC

And I spent a good deal of time yesterday working out in the yard for the first time this spring. Mostly a good day.
Until I had to drag some brushwood to the back 40.
Past her resting place.
It was hard for me.
Not dragging the brushwood, but having to go past her resting place.

I have to get a marker stone for my beloved Squirrel....
I sat down for a while on the cold wet ground and talked to her for a bit.
Tried to tell her just how much she is still missed.
Tears fell to kiss her and mixed with the earth she now calls her home.

I must go on, but it is harder for me than some. My gurl Squirrel was just so much part and parcel of who I was for over the 18 years that she blessed my life.
Carry on too much about 'only a cat'? I suppose.

I am starting to see signs of frailty in my other 3 of her half sister kitties. They are now almost 13yo.
Tigger II is getting obsessed with being by my side.....a good thing as far as kitties go, but a bit of a marker for me that signals something may be coming on.
Squirrel had become VERY clingy in her last days. I do hope I am not reading too much into Tigger's abundant affection lately.

Meow for now, as the saying goes.

And, thank you, Richard and Joanne, for remaining the truest of friends forever.
I cannot tell you how prized such friendship is.
There are no words.

Mark
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Message 1503378 - Posted: 12 Apr 2014, 22:51:02 UTC
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I leave you this evening with much the same portence as when I arrived.
Hands open. No weapons other than my words.
Nothing taken, nothing gained, other that one more day above ground and sober.

Basic dealing with life, as I can do so on my own terms, not yours.

Just need the basics. Food and water and kitties.
Oh yah, I do need my daily kibbles from my companion animals.
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Most others that say they do not are in fact liars.
We all need and love our companion 'other souls'.
Those that can give us hope and dreams and love.

And all that without asking a single thing in return.
Not a nickle would they take or even reckognize.,
A kiss or hug. THAT is all they deal with,. Or need to deal with.
Damn, life should be so simple for the rest of us.

One fine day,........... Lord, please let me dream until at least tomorrow......Please?
And, don't make me cry again. At least not until you come back and kiss my face, Lord.

In this, I pray.

Oh, that Troy gurl.........get her a hug for me as well.
Just give her a look for me.

Amen.
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Message 1503475 - Posted: 13 Apr 2014, 4:30:34 UTC
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I like to call it the do re me factor.
Something that only little children understand.
And only Julie Andrews could sing.
It is there, just not anybody can grasp it though.
I can. Always could. My gift.

You can do it if you wish to very hard. Will it. Reach out your hand.
Either one, it does not matter which.
Now............
You can feel something, can you not?
It's almost there, but it IS within that hand that you have clenched so tightly.
You did, didn't you?
Oh, don't let go just yet.
We have one more step.
It's a kitty thing.
I call it love.
You add that to your clenched hand and then release it.
I do it every morning when I try to wake up.
And watch it fly away from me, taking with it all my fears from the past night.

Now. Perhaps you may start to understand how I make it from morning through the night. And why what I say is not rubbish. They are true feelings, given to you from my inner soul. I simply cannot give you more than that. It is all that I possess, and I give it to you. Without restriction, without regrets.
I give it to you.
Please do accept my gift without wondering just why it is given.

My love comes with the song, BTW. LOL.

No extra charge.

Only a do would call mi a re.`


I do sometimes like to get rich and add a couple of words for each note.....LOL.

And NO..............la ti ti has nothing to do with latte.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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