Sadly, we started the year with eight cats and now have four. It is hard to get used to for us, as we did enjoy the house with lots of kitties. Samwise is having a little trouble adjusting without his brother, so he needs some extra attention. Getting ready for Christmas here and putting up some decorations. Got the trees up last weekend --- now all we need is some snow!
It has been a sad month here. We lost little Frodo on November 7th, and little Avis went to sleep yesterday. Frodo was just eight years old and Avis was eight-and-a-half. This leaves our house with just four kitties --- Oliver (still King of the House and knows it), Max and Iveta (last two of the first litter of kittens born in our dining room) and Samwise (last of the second litter born in the same room). All are having a little trouble getting used to these two lover babes being gone. They were everybody's friends and cuddle buddies. Frodo had a heart attack or something, so we took him to the vet and found that he had advanced cardiomyopathy. That is a condition where the heart actually dissolves and just fades away. Several of the kittens have passed from this condition, though they were all under a year old. Poor little Avis has been struggling with some kind of mouth or stomach cancer (the same that her sister, mother and a few others have died from). Both kittens were wonderful babies, and God certainly blessed us with every day that we had with both of them. They were wonderful.
Sadly, we started the year with eight cats and now have four. It is hard to get used to for us, as we did enjoy the house with lots of kitties. Samwise is having a little trouble adjusting without his brother, so he needs some extra attention. Getting ready for Christmas here and putting up some decorations. Got the trees up last weekend --- now all we need is some snow!
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Colossians 2:8:
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. BEATRICE: MY HONEY-BEE
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Edward James Eliot
My "favorite" member of the Clapham Sect. Not very much is known about him, but what is preserved keeps a beautiful memory alive of an exemplary Christian man. William Wilberforce Quote:
May I look to Him for wisdom and strength and the power of persuasion, and may I surrender myself to Him as to the event with perfect submission, and ascribe to Him all the praise if I succeed, and if I fail say from the heart thy will be done. For you Jesus Christ came into the world. For you he lived and showed God’s love. For you he suffered the darkness of Calvary and cried at the last, ‘It is accomplished.’ For you he triumphed over death and rose to new life. For you he reigns at God’s right hand. All this he did for you, though you do not know it yet.
Where there is one, there is a majority of one; and when the rights of the majority take away from the rights of the one, then the many will themselves suffer.
~Henry David Thoreau~ I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong. That's home. That's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
~ Bilbo Baggins ~ FAVORITE BOOKS & FILMS
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell) Genesis of a Legacy (K. Ham) Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) Scaramouche (Sabatini) Amazing Grace (2007) Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) Farmer's Daughter (1947) Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) Secondhand Lions (2003) Sweethearts (1938) SCARAMOUCHE QUOTES
He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad. The future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Man never changes. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON
KING GEORGE VI "His conduct on the Throne may well be a model & a guide to constitutional sovereigns throughout the world today & also in future generations." "For 15 years George VI was King. Never at any moment in all the perplexities at home & abroad, in public or in private, did he fail in his duties." |