This Thanksgiving was very special because of all the visitors to the Crumiller house: Arastu, his brother Tatha, his mom Arati, G&G Miller, and… Dexie and Tash!! Dexie and Tash met Benko and Benoni with mixed results. OK, not great results, but better than I expected. There was no physical fighting but there was a lot of hissing, territorialism, and Dexie and Tash being little scaredy-kitties. I do think that maybe eventually they would become friends but it did not happen on this trip. When we got back home, the kitties were obviously very happy to be back. They’ve been eating and sleeping a lot - I think the trip was very stressful for them.
Of course the main excitement when we returned was that Dexie caught a mouse! Eeek! He was of course parading it around the house, dropping it then running after it when it scampered away, multiple times. We had no idea what to do. I immediately shut the bedroom door figuring as long as mouse didn’t get on the bed it wasn’t too bad. We knew the humane thing to do would be to kill the mouse but I couldn’t bring myself to go near it. Finally Dexie was defeated by his own hubris and the mouse scampered away while he was playing with it, back behind the fridge. It seems like finally the mouse escaped via whatever route it came in originally.
Is there is secret blog that I am not a part of? Because if there is, I just want everyone to know that I don’t care, except I do wonder how Dexie, Tash, Benko, Benoni and Wonderbra are.
From Boston.com, these pictures are really nice. My favorites: 18, Obama and the storm clouds; 20, Will Smith from Men in Black; and 34, the family taking the stage on election night.
Kitty Reportby jenny on November 19, 2008 at 11:15 am
Benoni is at the vet getting spayed. I’m a little worried.
But this morning, Benko got a mouse! I was sitting having my coffee on the couch and looked over and he was playing with what I thought was one of his play mousies, but I heard him growl and the mouse moved — ICK!! He was batting it around and playing with it! I went and cowered in the kitchen, hoping he wouldn’t come in and jump up on my lap with the half dead mouse. But then I went and took a shower and just hoped it would be dead when I got out and that he wouldn’t eat it.
When I came down the mouse was dead but intact — Benko was just laying there with his paw on the mouse’s tail as if he were keeping it from escaping. I put a bucket over the mouse and pulled his paw off and gave him a treat. Then I put a heavy box on the bucket and left to take Benoni to the vet. The bucket’s still there for now but I will have to face it soon.
When I called Jon (before the mouse died) he felt sorry for the mouse. I did a little too but I wasn’t brave enough to somehow kill it myself to end its misery.
The funny thing is Benko’s the couch potato kitty who is getting a little fat, and he can’t jump as high as Benoni and isn’t as agile.
You know what I love to think about while I’m daydreaming in class? How awesome it will be to have a president we can use superlatives to describe! Finally, after eight years of embarrassment, we as Americans can know that our President is the smartest, most capable, and most talented person in whatever room he is in.
AND HE’S BLACK!!! Like I said, what a country.
P.S.: President-Elect Obama’s current approval rating: 70%. Of course that will change, but right now America is on this guy’s side.
Does anyone else want to join me in gushing?!? or is everyone still too exhausted?
This is the funniest spoof I’ve ever seen! It’s titled “If the Matrix were Run on Windows.” I’m assuming most of you have seen the Matrix (if not, you won’t get it). It’s REALLY well done and unbelievably funny.
The best part is that this guy looks kind of ghetto. Also, at the end when he starts looping himself and layering on top of his own work on the fly, it sounds really awesome.
click here for a scan of a photo in the Financial Times, an international paper, of a volunteer with our sign. We made 5000 of them and put them out all over Philadelphia and Trenton.
