Trying To Get It Right:

My daughter Joy featured on Wood TV8 for the book club she moderates. Her group was reading New Moon again prior to the movie’s release:

I haven’t dressed for Halloween in years, it hasn’t really been my thing. But when I received a text from my niece inviting me to her daughter Victoria’s 10th birthday celebration I couldn’t resist. Especially since the party fell on Halloween.

So I arrive, fashionably late, to house full of screaming, bouncing-off-the-walls 10ish year olds, some even younger. The house was filled with so much estrogen it nearly cured my premature hot flashes! Lol.

Based on the response I received I gather my Geisha outfit was a hit. And an easy choice since a have a veritable plethora of authentic silk Kimonos, cotton Yukatas and several pair of Gettas and Toris. Since this was a casual affair I did wave off tying the Nagoya Obi sash– they take quite a bit of doing to tie. I mean I was in the mood to play dress up but not that much of a mood! So I choose a tsukuri obi, much easier.

We had a fab time…and I even enjoyed playing Geisha for a couple of hours. Although I will admit, I was eager to get home and wash the makeup off!

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Chronicling the progression of how we came about owning four cats.

After the untimely death of my beautiful Indigo – a pure bread Persian – my husband and I filled the void by rescuing four kittens from shelters. After pouring through the online pages of PetFinder, hoping to ease the pain of my loss, I found a little face I simply could not resist. Not realizing there would more to come.

Our first adoptee was Coffee, a Siamese mix who was slated to be put down the day after I had called. I rushed to the shelter to get him and brought him home.

Our next rescued kitten was Phoenix, he’s a bit of a mystery to us. The older he gets the more Bengal we see in him. Actually we think he’s part dog! Phoenix is affectionately known as the Sheriff.

While going to pick up Phoenix, another kitten caught our eye, that being Pearl. She had been being abused by her crate-mate and we just had to scoop her up and bring her home.

A month or so later I drove down to Atlanta to pick up Coco, our Bengal. Although she is the baby of the pride, she’s definitely the leader…and teacher. She teaches the others all kinds of mischievous things.

So we now have four cats and one dog, little Sugar Sweet “Domino” is a registered pure bread Maltese. He’s the grandpa of the group at 15 “people” years. Although the cats think he’s just a weird looking and strangely acting feline. Weighing in at about six pounds he’s the smallest of the crew.

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CAT CRAZED

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

It just doesn’t get any better than this! Here were the winners:

Phoenix and Coffee (the cat not the drink) on the hunt.