The New Addition

No, it's not the baby. We have a new kitty, Olive, that we adopted last week. Or should I say that she adopted us. She has been hanging around the backyard for over a month. After establishing she didn't belong to anyone, we tried to find her a home but couldn't find anyone who could take her. She is so sweet and funny that even though this is bad timing with the baby due any day, we finally gave in, named her and took her to the vet. We think she is about 9 months old. She is slowly learning to be an indoor cat and she and Lucy seem to be doing ok around each other. We are such suckers, but who could resist that face.

Bye Sweet Ramona

Our baby girl left us yesterday. After 12 years it was very hard to let her go but it was time. She was diagnosed with a pretty severe case of irritable bowel syndrome (similar to Chrohn's disease) more then a year ago but had had been doing well on medication. Sadly over the last few weeks she stop responding to her medication and went downhill fast. She was about as sweet as they come and had the best purr ever. She pretty much purred anytime you talked or petted her. She was sweet and mellow and loved sleeping on the couch and laying in beams of sunlight on the wood floors. We are very sad and will miss her.