oh, the times without number...when I think of you..." yup, it's just me, wandering in for awhile.Blogger and Picasa and I are playing games tonight. With Blogger, the game is "I can't load the pictures in order", and with Picasa it's "you can't have the second picture at all". So I gave up...we have ONE. I had wanted to get a picture of my broken dishes today, to share. But that didn't happen. Not much happens on demand or schedule around here lately.
And so I'm sharing my darling Mercedes(Mercy) with you tonight. She came into our lives as a kitten, in the last year or two of the marriage. When he left, she stayed and moved to the quilt shop house with me. She was quite an interesting cat. As far as I know nothing traumatic ever happened to her, but she was a "scaredy cat". She ran from every noise, movement and stranger person. She'd hide and come out when she was ready. She had a very unique trick that sure did surprise me. From somewhere a small red rubber ball came into the house. The kind that is usually attached to a rubber string and a wooden paddle. She adored the red ball, and would carry it around in her mouth, dropping it here and there. More than one the golden stole it from her and just laid there looking all innocent while she meowed up quite the storm. I got wise to him tho, and would just say "drop it" and then she had it again. I'm not sure when it turned into a game, but at some point I threw the ball across the room and she went tearing after it, and brought it back and dropped it at my feet....amazing!! After that it was the best game in town. She'd retrieve it endlessly. I learned I could bounce it just right and it would go into a big RedWing crock on the other side of the room, and she'd dive in after it and come up and out with the ball in her mouth. That's the picture Picasa doesn't want to load. Think I'll stick it in a seperate post. I had her until the late fall of 1997. With the first cornea transplant looming ahead of me, and no one caring much what I was going to need care wise, I had to find a new home for her. There was no way to cover the cleaning of the litter box and no one to do it but me. DD#1 took my golden for a week, until I was mobile again. What you can't do with a cornea transplant is bend over much for a while, and must avoid any thing that could come in contact with your eye. That means Vasoline on your face with Saran Wrap stuck to it, while you shower..just loads of fun...LOL
It was hard to see Mercy go, but tough times call for tough measures. I'm so very much hoping I can get Ebby interested in a little red ball, but in her middle years, I'm not sure if I can or not...but I'm trying..*G*
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I didn't realize you had another kitty years ago - either you've not mentioned her or I've just forgotten. Cats are so fascinating - they are huge daily entertainment all by themselves. I've never heard of a cat that would "fetch" before. My daughter's cat does just the opposite - she plays fetch with both of them but they do the fetching. We got her a couple very cheap catnip mice for her stocking a couple Christmases ago, and the pink one is her favorite toy of all time. Her best game is batting it under the hutch in their kitchen, then laying there waving her tail and waiting until they get a stick and fetch it for her. No matter where in the house they drop it, she bats it around the floor - down the hall and through the living room if necessary - until she can bat it under the hutch again. We've seen her do this for an entire evening as we are sitting at the kitchen table playing games. Whoever is closest has the job of fishing it out for her.
Mercy was a very pretty girl! But I'm partial to gray tabbies it would seem.
My brother cat used to fetch--it was a wadded up ball of aluminum foil that was her favorite. I had never seen anything like it till I saw the pics of Mercy and her red ball.
What a delightful story about the cat and her red ball.
I used to play fetch with my first cat too. They are very clever creatures you know Finn :)
sweet kittie...gosh, what you have to give up for the sake of your health. She must have been such a joy -so those happy memories are still there to enjoy at least..love the red ball photo.
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