Spike’s on full alert this morning at front door
Cassidy Carport Cat returns Spike’s gaze
while Cardinal ignores them both to hop happily in the front yard
Category: family life
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside
sharing the heat on a cold morning in our carport
Yes, in case you are counting, there are three cats piled together on one heating pad on top of a fine cat home never used. Another heating pad is also ignored for reasons known only to the cats.
The legacy of Carport Kitty is alive, well, and warm.
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Ella’s first soccer match
four-year-old Ella with her coach (Daddy Drew)
two-year-old sister Molly on the move behind them
kids that play together…don’t hate each other when they’re four
some confusion about where to kick ball
on final play Ella went down the field and scored
(luckily for her team!)
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Special thanks to another grandmother Lolly for these great photos which captured the joy and innocence of young children. Ella’s Nana and Naynay were far too entertained by the team’s goalie who stood behind the goal to avoid balls being kicked toward him. Focus on the game, grands.
Unfortunately, Coach Drew will not be available for the next few weeks. He’s having a medical procedure related to an injury he suffered playing league basketball several weeks ago. No genetic testing necessary for Ella’s competitive spirit, and fingers crossed for Daddy Drew.
By the way, the Republican Primary in South Carolina coincided with Ella’s first soccer match. The results after the polls closed later that evening heavily favored an ex-president who was on the ballot again – thank goodness for the soccer match in the morning which gave me hope for a future generation that focused on the things where, as Maya Angelou said, human beings are more alike than unalike.
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meet Cassidy Carport Cat
Yes, I have named the cat that adopted our carport as his home. Pretty and I have searched for a loving home for this little fellow for more than a year, but it turns out he found his own home with us. Sigh. I have resisted the pleas of our family, friends, even followers in cyberspace to name him because I felt that would make him less likely to find an indoor home. This week, though, I talked with Pretty, and she agreed Cassidy is a fine name. I added Carport Cat in honor of our beloved Carport Kitty who was our first feline love.
Carport Kitty stole our hearts and then…
and then broke them when we lost her in October, 2022
No more stray cats in the carport, I declared through my tears to Pretty who nodded. But the best-laid plans of mice, men and me go where? go oft astray? oh no, they go to the strays.
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Slava Ukraini. Remember the children.
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for Pretty on our twenty-third anniversary
(1) There once was a woman named Teresa
Who loved a good shrimp quesadilla.
To Cancun she did roam in two thousand one,
And when she came home still red from the sun,
She’d found new love with her best friend named Sheila.
(2) There once was a woman named Sheila
Who loved a good shot of tequila.
To Cancun she did roam in two thousand one,
And when she came home her journey was done,
She’d found true love with her best friend Teresa.
(3) An anniversary of love in twenty twenty-three
The best of the best has been you and me.
Wherever we’ve roamed
We’ve always come home
Together, believing the best was yet to be.
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Happy Anniversary, Pretty. To quote Tina Turner, you’re simply the best – better than anyone could ever have been for me. I am forever grateful that you were the little girl who said yes.
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