mr. pants

here is the latest edition. a little stray that we were just recently able to confirm is a male. he is very shy. but he & rumpelteazer love each other and play all the time & sleep all curled up together. he is slowly getting braver, though we still cannot get close enough to pet him. maybe soon he'll be sitting on our laps. he's been coming in for just a week. spent a month or so living in the building outside, during which time he fell in love and in spite of his overwhelming fear, braved the dogs & followed rumpeltee through the cat door. sometimes he sits outside at the edge of the woods waiting for her to come out....when she does, he calls out to her & then they run to meet. it's cute. he appears to be about the same age. pups & kittens are going on a special trip to the spay & neuter clinic next week.....

getting kind of used to rotting deer parts in the yard.......wish people could dispose of legs & heads somewhere that's not my woods though.....gnawing pacifies the dogs i guess

"derek in india" (see link list) is just "derek" right now....we picked him up thursday....but he's going back in a month or so. ahhhh, spices from india are so much better than ones here.....like a sea rushing over your tongue, each subtle flavor in perfect balance with one another.....but so derek is engaged to a bhutanese girl named choden....which means if they get married he will be one of the very few westerners able to go "freely" to bhutan. i use "freely" in the most conservative form.....bhutan's king doesn't like what western civilization has done to some of the countries around his, and you know, i can't blame him for being wary. westerners have destroyed an awful lot. usurped a lot. killed a lot of people in the name of wicked hypocrisy, oops! i mean god.

lucky there's a family guy.