Jaden's Brithday

The black and white baby picture is of me at about six months.






Jaden had her first birthday on Valentine's Day but we celebrated it yesterday at Kelly's parent's home. They call Jaden Little Rita because she looks so much like me when I was her age. She's a blue-eyed blonde. She didn't want anything to do with her individual cake. She wouldn't smear it or eat it or anything. She started to cry because she was in the spotlight. Kelly's family is very talented in music. Her parents played the guitars and sang and the kids joined as well. It was a very enjoyable evening.

Jennifer's Birthday

Happy Birthday to Jennifer. She is 39 today. She is my fourth child. I love her and her wonderful spirit of energy and her smile.

Hope you have have a wonderful birthday Jennifer.

Randy and the Spider

Randy is a softie for any animals even insects. He found a little brown spider in Brownie and felt so bad for the spider that he carelfully took it and placed on a warm shelf in the shop. He told me that when it comes to people, he doesn't have that much concern. Animals can be trusted better so he says.

Brownie is now registered and in working order. I am so glad she can drive off again and I hope we can take her out camping soon.

Cats and More Cats: His, Mine and Ours

These are our cats: Annie,
Dory, Gimli, Sonny, Megan, March, Bud, Blue and Wellington. Annie just came to us a few days ago. She is a Siamese/Burmese mix. She looks a lot like Bud only she is much fatter and darker in color. She is about two years old. We just had to get her after seeing how pretty she was. She adjusted immediately to our home and other cats. Dory was Matt's cat and was afraid of their dogs. We took her in. It took her about two weeks to adjust but now she is doing fine. She is black with big yellow eyes.She is about 2 years old. Gimli is my little boy who is about 4 years old. I got him from Marty. He is a small tabby who loves me a lot. He likes to sleep on the cable box. Sonny is my little blue point Siamese. He is about 1 year old. He is very beautiful with a nice soft coat. He purrs really loud. He likes the sink and computers. I got him after losing Cesar last June. Megan is white with charcoal markings. She is kind of shy and skittish. She is very pretty and purrs loud. She likes to lie on Randy and dig her claws in. She belonged to him first and now is here in Utah with all of us. Her age is unknown. Mr. March is another of Randy's cats. He likes to get in the sink and have water drip on him. He is a big tabby. He likes to lay on Randy. His age is unknown. Budman, Bud for short, is a dark Siamese/Burmese mix. He is our special needs cat. He is very skinny but eats a lot. He has trouble with his hind legs. He loves to sleep between us in the bed. He has had some health problems. He is Randy's special boy. He is probably really old but is still hanging on. We don't know for how long. He was Randy's cat in Arizona also. Then we have Blue Boy, Blue for short. He is a long haired Russian Blue. He is quite shy and very loveable. He loves Megan and she loves him. He likes to sleep on Randy's pillow and he likes to suck his paw as a pacifier for comfort. We don't know his age. Randy got all his cats from a resue over a year ago. Last is Wellington. What a brat! He loves people. He likes to be teased and he likes to tease. He was my cat but he has really taken to Randy. Monica gave him to me. He had been mistreated and used to be kind of mean and scared of things. Now he just loves everyone. He used to just love Alex. He likes men. He likes to sleep in the bathroom sink and is an escape artist and will try to run outside each and every time we open the door. He is 7 years old.We love all our cats. They are much quieter than kids or dogs and really good companions to us. Randy cleans up after them and our home is probably cleaner than most homes. We are probably crazy for having so many cats but we do take good care of them and we they have a good home with us. We should have a cat farm so we could help all needy cats.

Brownie

Poor old Brownie, our old 1989 Chevy Silverardo. She took us lots of places and pulled our trailer behind her much of the time. Once she was new and shiny. When Alex died, she must have been sad. Nobody to driver her and keep her in shape. I gave her to Tammy. I had hoped they could use her and they did for a time. I wanted them to keep her but they brought her back here and with her just sitting there in the back, it was sad. She would have to be put out to the wrecking yard soon.

Randy loves to work on cars and he wanted to get Brownie into working shape. So he is buying her and going to get up to snuff I hope. He might even give her a new paint job. I guess she needs to be painted brown again so she can still be called BROWNIE.