Hamlet!

Where for art thou Hamlet? Where for art thou my sweet cat?
Oh, I seeth thee upon my keys and upon my 'windows' pane.

My computer has been Hamlet-ized, thus preventing much of my online activities. It's annoying, but he sure is cute!

A Year Passes... time moves on.

It is so hard to believe that Mom has been gone for just over a year now. So hard to believe. It feels like it's been just days and many, many years all at the same time.

I took the day off of work Friday, May 4th, the first anniversary of her death. My sister and I then took a road trip. It was a rainy and foggy day Friday, not much fun for driving really, but it didn't matter. Wendy and I were together and we took Mom with us.

Mom was not only with us in heart as she always is, her ashes were in the cremation jewelry that I got us both and we took the rest of mom's cremains with us on the trip. It was a blast. Mom is oddly quiet, she didn't ask to stop at any of the Casey's convenience stores we went by. Mom didn't even comment on how the view of her old home town looked and the cemetary where our family is buried.

Wendy and I went to put flowers and crosses on the graves of some relatives, a bit early for Memorial Day, but it was a day of rememberance. It was amazing, in a sad way, how in the old township cemetery where our Grandpa and many other relatives are buried that the keepers of it have stripped it of many of it's trees and a lot of the bushes and shrubs that were there for many years. It looked nearly naked!!!

I miss my mom still so very greatly. I know I will always miss her. God had gotten me through with great friends and "family" and with the hope of one day being with her again.

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Ich liebe dich, mutti!

Hamlet

My cat is so funny! Before I got him, he had, had a broken leg. He still favors it at times. He hops on 3 legs or limps on the one that had been broken. Then there are times when I see him hopping on 3 legs in front of me, but when I am out of eye shot, he starts walking normal! Or how about those times when he is doing his laps around the house and on the walls!!!! Goofy cat.


And a few words from my curious Hamlet...

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...as he inspects my desk and stands on the keyboard. Actually he said more than that, but "mommy' decided to edit otherwise this page would be very wide due to his words. Just imagine a lot more fours, pluses and sevens. Hamlet seemed to like those the best.


Please bare with me, I'm a new 'mommy', so I have lots of pictures to share!!! He's been such a joy to have. I believe it when they say pets are good for a persons well being and health!!! He's done a lot for me already and it's only been 8 days since I've been his.

the 3 pics above he is laying and or sleeping on mommy's lap

More Snow??!!!!!

Well, after not even a week from the last snow and ice storm, we are being hit again with even more snow!!!! As of the 6 PM news my hometown had gotten 12 inches that's approximately 30.5 cm of cold white stuff ...and it's still coming down!!! We are in the 12-16 inch 'zone' for amount of snow fall before this system moves on and stops.

I am thankful that it's not as much as the east coast. Still, it is more than we've had for quite a while. At least there is the old saying about the month of March... in like a lion, out like a lamb! Woo hoo!!!

The pictures below are from the last weather system we got, 24 Feb 07. I'll post more pictures later after I get out tomorrow in day light to take some. Just think 12-16 inches more on top of what's shown, what a joy to live in Iowa!!!

A view from the front deck.



A view of the back door and steps.



A neighbors backyard.

Snow is beautiful... but one can tire of easily and very quickly.

I'm a Mommy!!!!

Meet Hamlet.

I adopted him yesterday, Tuesday February 27th from the local Humane Society. We aren't yet fully aquainted, but I have learned lots of things already about my Hamlet.

He is great at hiding!!! He found a spot under my kitchen cabinets where the toe boards are missing. Thank God for his long white whiskers that luminated in the light of a flashlight!!!! After extracting him from there before his visit to the vet, he found the spot to the left only he couldn't be seen. This picture was taken after I had removed some items I had stored there.

He is a snuggler!! Just what I was hoping for. After the "nurse" (vet tech) got the initial information from me, then left, and before the vet came in, he was snuggling up to me and into me. He had forgiven me for various hiding place extraction techniques.

He is vary curious!! Of course!! New home! New owner! New everything! Lots of exploration!!!!!!

He likes to play!!

He has the cutest face!!! The area where his whisker come out is very prominant!!







He likes his mommy!!!! Or at least to sleep in my spot on the couch!!










I just can't hardly believe how much I love this cat when I've only had him but a mere 30-something hours. I think it started in the Humane Society shelter last Friday, he picked me and I became his. He's not mine, I am his and I am thankful that I am.

2007

I'm a little late, but to all who may read I hope your New Year is the best and most blessed ever, Happy 2007.