Puddin: My mom is crazy about books.

It being Fall and all, she was talking about her Hemingway trip.

Her and her father would take trips together with a literary theme.

They did the Tony Hillerman tour of the Southwest,

(he writes mysteries set on the Navajo Nation).

There are no cats in those, so I wasn’t interested.

But I was interested in her Hemingway trip, he had LOTS of cats.

They were special cats, polydactyl cats (that means they had 6 toesies)

She placed lilacs on Ernest and Miss Mary’s graves.

She visited his memorial in Ketchum Idaho where he died.

This is the quote she quotes every first day of Fall,

it is on the base of his memorial.

It was all very intersesting, but …

where are all the polydactyl cats?!

“Best of all he loved the fall
the leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
leaves floating on the trout streams
and above the hills the high blue windless skies…now he will be a part of them forever.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Cat Mom: Today is Thankful Thursday,

and I am thankful for all the wonderful authors

that have taken me places and shown me the world

from the comfort of my home.

We’re thankful that our three girls

had their spay surgeries and vaccinations

and are doing well.

They were so brave.

They are healing and getting back to normal.

Billy’s eyes are improving, his one eye still gets goobies in the morning as you can see. We clean that up and do eye treatments daily, but neither of his eyes are swollen any longer. It takes time for them to heal completely – it took McTavish several months before the cloudiness was gone, so we’ve learned not to worry (much) and give it time.

We are so thankful he got through his infections and is zipping around like a kitten again.

And just look how much he has grown!