I'll be on vacation from July 8th to the 16th, but before and after that, I am always around. So what I am saying is: GET HERE.

Liese, I'll be in Columbus June 30-July 4 and in Indy July 4-July 7.

My brother in law is going to accept a job in a place I do not want them to go. BOO!! I even found a job here in Seattle that is right up his (very specific) alley. But apparently he looked into it and didn't think they'd pay enough?? But if they're going to be in an inconvenient and inaccessible place where I have no friends, I'd rather it be in the same city as my parents, for convenience sake?? Humph. They haven't told my parents yet, we shall see how it goes over. (They are not moving to a place they especially want to go either, but I guess it might be a couple years and then somewhere else? Hard to say though--and I feel like once you're in an area, hard to get you out, yknow? If you e already moved once?)

I like chili dogs the best. I'm with you, Connie, on hot-contest chili, but apart from that, have eaten my share of varieties.

Speaking of cats I just realized I haven't seen Penny not Anna. Anna's been dead for 6 years and I still call Penny Anna. all day. She slept on Mom's bed. And I think I saw her this morning but I was really out of it. I'm finally not sleep deprived as much. She's allowed down in the basement now (although with the outside door closed) but Mom was getting stuff in her car.

So she's in the basement or the house hiding. She got outside. Or she's in the basement and something happened to her.

It's been raining pretty much all day so I'm not sure where she could have gone. Mom put her cat out so maybe he would find her and bring her home or at least get her attention.

So cat~ma would be really nice.

Hopefully she's just curled up someplace ignoring us because I ignored her all day.

askye, does Penny have a favorite treat? My hidey cat will come out when he hears the treat box rattle.

Or open a can of tuna. (Or, if she's like our cat, *any* can, though you may feel her wrath when it turns out to not be tuna.)

Yeah we did the food thing, not the tuna thing I do't think we have any tuna left. But we poured food around and I even went to the bathroom. For some reason that will bring her out.

I may go outside and pour food in a bowl and see if that brings her running.

Rattled food. It brought Mom's cat to the door.

Can't leave cat food out or it'll bring racoons and possums to the door. Or maybe skunks.

I think tomorrow if she doesn't show up then it will be a more exhaustive in the house search. I think if she were trapped and able to meow we would have heard her.

Sometimes they don't meow

come on out Penny

Come on, Penny. Stop worrying your human.

Cute baby story: Mom has been singing itsy bitsy spider to ltc every time she has changed her diaper since she was born. I started doing the same with ltc when she started to become mobile because it keeps her distracted enough that she doesn't try to escape. ltc has been trying to do the hand motions for a while. Well, the last couple of days she's been doing the itsy bitsy hand motions when she needs a new diaper! I couldn't believe it when she started doing it.