I've gone through the cat folder in my Flickr account and I have selected two of my favorite photos of them to reshare.
I love this one of Mija.
This is trust. This is love. Yes, this totally interrupts whatever it is I want to do since she's lying on my right arm and I'm right handed, but I don't care. This exemplifies our relationship.
I love this one of Pilchard.
Sometimes, especially when I have the potential to be suddenly deployed to a job that may require an overnight stay, I think how much less complicated life would be if I didn't have to call Pam and ask, "Can you feed the girls because I have to go to Iowa for work?" Yes, my livingroom rivals a packing store and I never have completely white clothing. It always has black hair on it. And yet, when I come home and there are faces waiting for me, faces that sleep with me and sit in my lap, I cannot imagine life without cats.
Today is National Book Lover's Day. I am a happy lover of books.
I'm not reading a book at the moment. I finished 2 magazines last night from the stack and seeing how few are left on the stack makes me inspired to work on magazines over my upcoming vacation. Either a book or magazine is good for sitting on the deck in the morning with a mug of tea and a bowl of fresh cut fruit. I might pull a book out of this stash and start it. We'll see.
So, two things that define me have back-to-back days. I'll never remember this so I do something interesting next year, although the Book Lover's Day will fall on a weekend. A visit to a bookstore, perchance? Just what I need, more books. I really need to make a list of all my Discworld books so I don't run the risk of accidentally buying one I have. And I don't remember what the next one is in the Thursday Next series I'm reading. I should buy Erik Larson's most recent book, In the Garden of Beasts. It's out in paperback now, although I haven't read Thunderstruck which is in the stacks above.
If I combine both loves, I really should read Cat Daddy, the book I won from the blog, Cat Wisdom 101.
I was so excited to receive this and, well, it's still in the stack, unread.
But, I agree, 100%, with the late Edward Gorey who designed this tee shirt.
As long as I have a book and a cat, life will always, always be good. Happy National Book Lover's Day to my book loving readers and a belated happy World Cat Day to those who live with cats. If you live with both, double salute.
Beverage: tea
Deb
Yes, cats and books is what makes life worth living! Couldn't do without any of them, although a little less books would benefit my home....
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