Comments on: I promised pictures

By: Jude

Jude — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:23:54 +0000

Looking on Google images for Tara (the Goddess) I came accross your delightful website.

I have an e-penfriend called Tara, (also after the Goddess!) and she’s in the process of great change in her life, and I was looking for inspiration to keep her thinking positive.

I am a cat fanatic and adore your pictures, especially of Merlin. Do you have any more of him?
I have 2 black cats at present, and in all have had 6 black ones, all fantastic.

Last year I lost 3 of my ‘babies’ (cats (

By: Marion

Marion — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:16:10 +0000

Oh, how absolutely lovely to see such flower! I am seriously garden deprived this year, and your soil sounds exactly like mine, right down to the arid part. We have a well; I’m just not sure about it yet.

Your Tara is like my last cat. He was so adventurous and a tiger just like Tara.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:07:41 +0000

Sarah, thanks for that delightful story. I sometimes have visions of coming home one day to find Tara swinging from the ceiling fans. She’s the most adventurous kitten I’ve ever owned. But most of my others started out as indoor/outdoor cats, and she’s indoor only, so maybe she’s just letting off the steam the others used to work off outside, unknown to me. I think maybe I was better off not knowing what they were up to.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:53:20 +0000

Once upon a time, I had an active kitten. Then she went missing. I hunted high and low. I looked in every closet, every drawer, under beds and stoves and behind refrigerators. I opened a can of tuna as loudly as I could, bearing it before me where the odor could waft freely.

Finally I gave up, nearly in tears and plunked myself down on the couch to mourn. A squeak and a rustle alerted me: up on the high curtain rod, almost hidden behind the valence, two ears and a tail gave away her position. I didn’t know whether to strangle her or feed her.

Which urge do you think won out?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:17:03 +0000

Bev — Sunflowers have some sort of magic, don’t they?

Eric — What I wouldn’t give for free water. When we lived in San Diego, we paid less — about half — and there we had free trash pickup each week. Here the trash pickup is an additional billing. What can one do, though? Those aren’t exactly services we can live without.

By: Eric Mayer

Eric Mayer — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:50:58 +0000

Nice photos. I was a bit jarred by your comment that water isn’t cheap. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve always been able to take water for granted where I’ve lived. It’s always been cheap. Right now we have a well, so the water’s free — unless the pump needs to be replaced, then I guess our water gets expensive too. Actually last year we needed repairs, short of replacing the pump, that came to $600, so the water had some cost to it, but that’s once in 8 years so thus far we’ve paid less than we were paying when we were on the mains in Rochester.

By: Bev Jackson

Bev Jackson — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:30:39 +0000

Love these pictures! Yes, salve for the soul!!

That kitten is adorable, and I want giant sunflowers! How glorious.

Enjoy your summer.