I actually started out with the plan of making them indoor kitties, but then they started sniffing the dirt on my shoes when I came home from working in the gardens all day, and actually started hounding the door to sniff the outside air, and I just gave up very easily, because it's what they wanted. They weren't born in a house. And they could die from coyotes and ravens and white trash in rural NH, or from cars in suburban NY and NJ, but I'd rather have a relationship with a shortlived happy Cat cat than a long-lived boring housecat. But that's me and my own personal Cat philosophy.
I honestly wouldn't be happy unless my girls are happy. It's sad, mayhaps, but true. I dug one out of a pile of rubble with my borrowed-gloved-hands, kneeling on hundreds of tiny tiny nails for perhaps a whole hour and am rather attached to both their well-being and catness. I enjoy their independence and a housecat seems like a ready-made dog who's so bored that they're delighted when you come home. And that just seems selfish. And I just have a general philosophy of animals in small spaces. I don't do birds, fish, rodents because of the cages (and tanks, and also the unhugabbleness), or dogs because I don't have the time or energy to satisfy their pack-neediness.
Is it fair game for me to link to flickr photos that are public and have been placed in a flickr community? (This would be as part of a GWW drabble prompt.)
I can't see why it wouldn't be, Perkins. I'm assuming these are pictures by strangers? Hell, I've noticed that a number of photographs present me with a "blog this" option, so I guess what you're doing is well okay.
Hil's post upthread has now got me curious about that Havana Nights Dirty Dancing "sequel"--is it set in 1959 only? Because if so, my new BIL's sister was telling me what life was like in Havana those first few years after Castro took over, and it was initially not a big communist coup. At first.
But, by 1962 (post Bay of Pigs), everything was getting bad very quickly, and she and her husband were getting pressured to move away from their house, which just happened to be on the same block as the house of Castro's mistress, so he was always coming for a nookie break. The entire block was getting the "move away from our leader" vibe from his security squad, so they decided to head to the States. They got out on the last ship that legally left Havana for Florida, as did Jorge (my BIL, who was 3 y.o. at the time) and his parents.
Hil's post upthread has now got me curious about that Havana Nights Dirty Dancing "sequel"--is it set in 1959 only? Because if so, my new BIL's sister was telling me what life was like in Havana those first few years after Castro took over, and it was initially not a big communist coup. At first.
Yeah, it just takes place over a few months, ending like a week after Castro took over. But there are several characters who are just referred to as "revolutionaries" without any sort of mention of what this means, other than "You killed my father; prepare to die."
They got out on the last ship that legally left Havana for Florida, as did Jorge (my BIL, who was 3 y.o. at the time) and his parents.
That just gave me goosbumps. I used to eat at a restaurant owned by a lady who was on the last helicopter out of Saigon.
My grandmother left Germany a week before Kristallnacht. (Her mother's cousin was married to Karl Laemmle: [link]
Laemmle remained connected to his home town of Laupheim throughout his life, by financial support and also by sponsoring hundreds of Jews from Laupheim and Württemberg to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the U.S. (which meant paying both emigration and immigration fees), thus saving them from the Holocaust. In order to ensure and facilitate their immigration Laemmle contacted American authorities, members of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull
If we moved out, the landlady could easily double it.
More than that. It'd go for between 2200 and 2400.
...so, when you accidentally e-mail a large group of people the same message four times, do you send another message to apologize and explain that you weren't trying to annoy them into submission, or just leave it be?
