Here's a video I took of Widget two nights ago.

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Here are some pictures of Widget, by popular demand.

She's locked in our bathroom (it's a very big bathroom) with food, water, and a litter box. We were told to keep her in there a week to let her get used to the house, and to make her introduction to our other cats easier ( Read more... )

Today Sebastian fell totally in love with a small kitten at the animal shelter where Teri volunteers. He's a charming little cat; he climbed up onto Teri's shoulders, and jumped onto mine, and purred like a little buzzbox. His name is Widget ( Read more... )

Did you know that if you squeeze a cat rythmically while it's purring, you can increase the volume of the purrs considerably?

Not too hard, of course, or the purrs will stop.
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He's down to 101.4° and sleeping with his feet resting on Sara. Here's a photo.


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As I gave Sebastian his goodnight hugs and kisses...

"Stay?" I have no way to represent just how pathetic the pleading note in his voice was; he was begging me to stay with him ( Read more... )

As I was reading a bedtime story to Sebastian last night, he suddenly turned to me ( Read more... )

Last night the region was hit by a rather spectacular thunderstorm. I've heard louder thunder, but I don't think I've ever seen that much lightning - it was practically stroboscopic ( Read more... )

For some reason Sebastian loves stories about my family when I was a little boy. And I love to tell them to him...even after he demands a hundred repetitions. :D

I'm just going to write this the way I told it to him this morning in the car, twice. Nothing fancy.
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Saturday afternoon we went over to Teri's mother's house for a while. While we were there we talked to her neighbor; she was looking for a new cat. She was interested. Her name is Terri too, by the way. I'm not sure how she spells it, so I'll spell it with two "r's" to differentiate her from my wife ( Read more... )