Photo Hunters WATER

~ Water, cool, clear water ~

Georgia drinking, Napoleon waiting.
This was taken with film,
about ten years ago.

More 'WATER' themes

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Wordless Wednesday

~ Oh how good it feels
the touch of an old friend ~

~Description of picture on comments~
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Tummy and Toes Tuesday

~ Never feed your cat anything that clashes with the carpet ~

Timothy twists and turns so fast,
sometimes he meets himself in the middle.
See more at lisaviolet's Tummy Tuesday!

Cat Tree!

~ Cats seem to go on the principle
that it never does any harm to
ask for what they want ~
-- Joseph Wood Krutch --

OK, so I have a little booth at Nellybee's and go to estate, yard and tag sales to buy things for my booth.

As everyone knows, the furkids are always in my mind so when I found this almost brand new cat tree for $15.00 I had to have it!
There was a problem, someone else had just bought it. After finding out how much my furkids would enjoy the tree, she let me buy it from her!


Inspection is being done by Timothy from a table, Bandit on top, and Anna Sue on the floor.
Thanks Lady, for letting us buy this great Toy!!

Photo Hunters - Empty

~ Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song ~
-- Rachel L. Carson --

Empty?
House Wren nest in a basket on my carport.
Don't know if they got the fur lying on the ground
or
off my goat, Patrick :)


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Rat Poison Found in Pet Food

Pebbles
One of so many that lost their lives

Prayers for the animals that have left us,
and for the ones still fighting this horror....

Golden Lion Tamarin Zoo Atlanta

~ Until he extends the circle of his compassion to
all living things, man will not himself find peace ~
-- Dr. Albert Schweitzer --

Several years ago, I had the privilege of tracking Golden Lion Tamarins at Zoo Atlanta. Pictured above is Houston. She was the mother of 'our' group. Sadly this group did not get released but since then, others have. It's so good to know this project is continuing!

The following is an excerpt from the Zoo Atlanta web site:

Zoo Atlanta has been an active participant in the Golden Lion Tamarin (GLT) Conservation Project since 1992. Through this program, two groups of captive-born tamarins have completed "boot camp" (a free-ranging experience designed to teach them the necessary locomotion, climbing and foraging skills for survival in the wild) and returned to Brazil. Destruction of the Brazilian coastal rain forest has greatly reduced the GLTs' native range.
Read more about Free-Ranging at the Zoo

Miss Emily and Noah

~ It's spring fever
You don't quiet know what it is you want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache,
you want it so ~

This is Miss Emily (near camera) and Noah.
This is my chair I *try* to sit on when at computer.
They are not related.
My website tells how they both came to live here :)
The Bunch

Wordless Wednesday ~ That Gracie!

We have a theory that cats are planning
to take over the world.
Just try to look them straight in the eye....
yup, they're hiding something!

-- Dog Fancy --

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Tummy Tuesday

~ This house is owned and operated solely

for the comfort and convenience of my Cats! ~

Anna Sue kept me company back in October 2004.
Wanna see more Tummies?
This is Lisaviolet's 35th
Tummy Tuesday

(She doesn't fit there anymore)

I have the above quote at my back door with
this added:
If you don't like that, Go Away.

Goats Doing Better!

~ A conclusion is simply the place
where you got tired of thinking ~

Someone asked about Bob and Patrick, so I decided to take them outside their yard for a little walk around. They wouldn't leave the edge of their fence for quiet a while, but nibbled the grass right outside.
Their feet have healed and Patrick (in front) is walking much better.

They are still very afraid/nervous/alert as this picture shows.
The dogs bark at them, but so far they've not gotten back into their yard.

*Paws and hooves all crossed here!*

Cow Cat

~ The trouble with being punctual is that
there's nobody there to appreciate it ~

This is Bandit, my Cow Cat.
He wants to be held all the time!

Photo Hunters ~ Drink

~ Travel light in life, take only what you need.

A loving family, good friends, simple pleasures,
someone to love you, enough to eat, enough to wear,
and a little more than enough to drink ..
for thirst is a dangerous thing! ~

Timothy splashes water on his nose when he drinks,
and yes, that's my ice water :)

Pet food maker announces major recall

By Andrew Bridges, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.

An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.

"At this juncture, we're not 100 percent sure what's happened," said Paul Henderson, the company's president and chief executive officer.

More of the story
or Google Pet food major recall

Vote For The Elephant Sanctuary

~ The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated ~

This is Mona. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama Zoo.

I wrote about her HERE.
ReZoom

Click HERE to vote for The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee!

Thanks to No Jumping From The Bridge for your concern for the Elephants and for letting me plagiarize.

No, Thank You!

~ Remember that everyone you meet
is afraid of something,
loves something and
has lost something ~

I would be afraid to walk out on this steel and glass skywalk
that juts out 70 feet from the Grand Canyon rim.
I suppose it will be there for centuries to come.

Two views of my town. Photo Hunters

~ I love those dear hearts and gentle people
that live and love in my hometown ~

In the Lewis Vaughn Botanical Gardens are native plants of Georgia's Piedmont region. The ponds are fed by the downtown water tower which was built in 1900.

Just around the corner are some most colorful buildings!
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Wordless Wednesday

~ I'm opposed to millionaires,
but it would be dangerous
to offer me the position ~

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Tummy Tuesday at Lisaviolet's

~ Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one's soul remains unawakened ~

This is another 'antique' picture of Napoleon.
He and his sisfur, Georgia, are 15.
This week Lisaviolet has Richies Tummy..
Go look at his cute curled up toes
and that purrfect tummy!
Join us and share your cats picture with us :)
HERE!

Just checking, Mom...

~ To a Cat,


'NO'


means


'Not While I'm Looking' ~

Yard sale pays off!

~ One man's trash...... ~

Finally found a nice item to sell at my booth! A 1940's McCoy Swan and Reeds vase. If the house is open for the sale, I go to the basement first. Sometimes items are there, like this vase, that the owners do not think is worth selling or is marked cheap.
The weather should be getting warmer in a few more weeks which will make it much better for treasure hunting!

So much tragedy in GA today

~A bus with Bluffton University in Ohio baseball team went over a guard rail onto I-75 killing six, including the driver and his wife.
Story HERE
AirTran has offered to fly family members and friends into Atlanta.
~Tornados kill nine in south Georgia.
Story HERE
~Police officer driving wrong way in Atlanta, hits ambulance, and was killed.
Story HERE
~Prayers for the family and friends of these people.

Source of information: WSB-TV, Atlanta

Atlanta gets smoked from 60 miles away

~ Where there's smoke... ~

I came out of Kroger yesterday and thought a house was on fire in our town. The smoke seemed worse in the creek beds and lower areas. Turned on TV when I got home and saw there was a controlled fire of 3,000 acres in Monticello, about 45 miles east of here. People in Atlanta with health issues were having problems breathing. The smoke trailed over our county on it's way right down I-20 to Atlanta.
With the hard rain and tornado warnings out today, the smoke has cleared, but looks like we're in for quiet a storm.

My prayers tonight are for the many people in Alabama that have lost loved ones to this terrible weather.

Yard Sale~Tag Sale~Estate Sale

~ One man's trash . . . ~

Still slim pickins' at yard sales, or as some advertise them,

'Estate Sales'

One little dish with blue flowers, a little cat to hold something tiny, three pictures on tile, a brass stamp holder and a little pitcher.
I like the fruit pictures, but need to put them in my booth.
It's hard to let the little cat go, may buy it from myself :)