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Gosh - not very many posts. I'm looking boring here! Actually I have been pursuing other goals and "tending the farm" which is the cats, the dog, alley cats, and a few plants and now hummingbirds! Dee's deployed so I've been handling it. I have pictures sitting on my camera waiting to be edited and so on. My other goals? I've been pretty faithfully dieting and exercising and not even blogging about it too much on my other blog, Fitness Jones, because you know, time spent sitting here typing is time NOT spent working on my goals! This weekend, I'll edit some pictures.

Berkeley, Pepperdine, and Mae West from the alley are fickle and sometimes come and shout at me for food but then seem to resent that it is Aldi brand kitty chow. Berkeley is just a beautiful wild thing and I am always amazed to understand she is no more tame than a lion in the wild or sadly and less grand, a raccoon more likely. She is, however, a cat and I cannot help but relate her to my lovely healthy house cats which are somewhat less wild.

Daisy is growing up but still drives me crazy.

Margeaux is my shadow, following me everywhere and sleeping next to or somewhat on me at night. Vegas yells at me for attention and I cannot give her enough - although she is greedy. Laura is happy with less and doesn't demand endless strokes.

I've quit biting my fingernails for a few months now - but still tear at any dry skin around them - but hey - as a lifelong nail biter, the fact I have to trim them down for my weightlifting is unbelievable. I'd simply bite them down - more satisfying but not at all predictable.

I'm also trying so hard to get 8 hours of sleep at night and have taken to reading briefly at bedtime - I'm now reading Best American Short Stories of 2002. It's mediocre. I keep reading on to the next story, looking for a gem. Thank you to my local library.

Twin

This servile cat is the spirit twin of Margeaux. This is the expression we often see on Margeaux's face - when Dee sent me this picture, I tried to note the differences (mainly the ears) but the similarities are too clear. As she follows me wherever I may be (right now she is beside me, she sleeps next to me, and has become my shadow), I see her put on this expression and know domestic cats are not at all far from wild animals.The alley cats truly ARE wild animals. Luckily, we're bigger and have opposable thumbs.