| September 27, 2004 -- Needles and pins.
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Lloyd kept telling me that he was finding pins on the floor. I have been sewing lately but I'm, usually pretty careful about not dropping pins. After all, I'm the one who's always barefoot. Then the other day I came into the room and found Pip on the table next to my pin cusion, pulling pins out of the cusion one by one with his mouth, then spitting them out around him. This is the same cat who was eating the syrofoam wig heads. I'll have to hide the pin cusions.
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| September 19, 2004 -- Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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Ahoy thar, mateys.
Just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have a new children's book out that's a prequil to Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatchers is "a swashbuckling adventure, a fantastical pirate tale." It looks good.
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| September 16, 2004 -- You've got mail.
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Yesterday I went out to pick up the mail and found a priority mail package on the porch. However, the package was not for us, but addressed to our next door neighbor.
Today I went out to pick up the mail and found a UPS package on the porch. This package was not for us either, but also addressed to our next door neighbor.
Will Fed Ex be coming tomorrow?
I checked to make sure we had the right address posted on our house. We do.
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| September 15, 2004 -- Happy Birthday.
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| September 14, 2004 -- It's Su, no E.
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While dancing last night a lady looked at my name badge and said "Oh, I like how you spell your name. My name is Sue, too but I spell it with an E on the end. That's neat how you spell it. I only know one other person who spells their name that way."
Well she's one ahead of me. I've never met anyone else who spells Sue as "Su." Most people ask me if it's a typo.
Later in the evening, she came up to me and said "I think I'll take the E off my name, too!"
Well, now that "Su" is becoming so widespread, maybe I should start spelling my name differently. Perhaps a silent T in the front, (Tsu, like in tsunami). Or a silent P, (Psu.) Or a Z, (Zsu.) Or an H (Hsu.) I already know someone named Sioux, so that's out. But how about Soo, or Suu. Actually, I usually just sign my name with the initial, S., so maybe I should go with Ess.
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| September 9, 2004 -- Vanity Fair
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We saw the movie Vanity Fair this week. It is a "regency" style romance set in England in the early 1800's. I thought it was very good. I haven't read the book so I don't know how true it was to the story, but it captured the feel of the era. The costumes and sets are beautiful and Reese Witherspoon is very good in the lead role. I liked it.
It probably would be better to see this movie with a girlfriend, however. It is very long (two and a half hours) and somewhat slow moving at times. Lloyd fell asleep. And, as the end credits began to roll, you could kind of hear a collective sigh of relief from all the men in the theater.
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| September 7, 2004 -- Hello? Is someone there?
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The kids have gone back to school now. All three of them are gone this year. The house is very quiet, well, sort of. Just a few minutes ago I could have sworn I heard someone coming up the stairs, but no one is home except me. Well, and the cats. I don't know how they do it, but somehow those cats can sound exactly like a person walking through the house. Pip especially is a little heavy on his feet coming up the stairs. This is not the first time I have been fooled into going out to check that no one is there. And, as if that is not enough, now the birds have learned how to rattle something in their cage that sounds just like the front door opening.
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| September 4, 2004 -- There's no place like home.
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Purrs has settled right back in. Yesterday he was very thirsty. He drank lots of water and also ate a little. He is very happy to be home, wanting to be held all the time, and, living up to his name, he's been purring, purring, purring.
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| September 3, 2004 -- Evil lives in our neighborhood.
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This morning at 4:30 AM we were awakened by a cat's meowing. Thinking it was Pip, our vocal cat, Lloyd went out to see what was distressing him. Returning, he said "It wasn't Pip, It's Purrs."
After being gone for 30 days, Purrs is back home. He is much thinner, extremely dehydrated, and showing evidence of human abuse. He had a heavy wire/cord (perhaps clothesline) tied around his neck, tied so tight that his neck is bloody and raw.
Over the past ten years we have lost several cats as have others in the neighborhood. Several years ago we lost two cats and our neighbors lost three cats all within one week. The cats have all disappeared at this time of year (august-september) and many during daytime hours.
They say you must protect your cats from the "three C's," (cars, coyotes, and crazy people.) I have always suspected that the preditor in our neighborhood was a person or persons. It certainly was not a car or coyote that tied that cord around the cat's neck.
It is distressing to think that someone so evil lives in our nice, upper-middle-class neighborhood. And it must be someone fairly close to us since the cat was able to find his way home. I'm glad that I have evidence that my suspicions were correct but I no longer feel so safe.
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| September 2, 2004 -- Election time.
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I don't write about anything political, but after watching the conventions, I have just a small observation. When did they stop wearing those campaign skimmer hats? You know, the ones made out of styrofoam that were always sort of a symbol of conventions?
"I guess it's a good thing that we sold the last of those to that dance troupe.", Lloyd said.
We won't be re-ordering them.
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| September 1, 2004 -- Square Dance Month.
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September is International Square Dance Month.
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