An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
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Banging…..Head….Against….Brick….Wall!!
It’s no secret I love animals, especially cats. It’s no secret the Mr LOVES me. That’s how we ended up with four cats in the house, and a variety of come and go kitties that live on the porch. We’ve had 3 out there for quite a while. Mama, Snoops, her son, and Felix. I guess someone forgot to tell Mama that kids are real expensive, and to pace herself. She’s a rather small cat, so you’d think I’d have noticed she was BULGING before a week ago. I thought maybe I had some time to take her to the vet’s and, hopefully, find her a good home, one with a barn and lots of mice or some such.
I took their usual grub out for them, and thought I saw Felix’s leg in the bed. I walked over and imagine my surprise when what I thought was a leg, was an entire critter. FOUR OF THEM!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO MORE CATS!!!! We can’t! Just CAN’T!
Evening Critters
I was outside making sure the moochers (porch cats) were fed and watered, when I looked up and saw a pair of eyes looking back at me from on top of the squirrel proof bird feeder. It took me a few seconds to realize it was a young raccoon. Are squirrel proof bird feeders raccoon proof? After we sized each other up, and decided neither of us was going to cause trouble for the other, he went back to trying to get into the feeder. I don’t think he was having a lot of luck. Glancing down, I noticed another pair of eyes peeking from around the side of the tree. Evidently, I didn’t seem all that threatening, and probably wouldn’t be making a meal out of him either. I’m too big for him to eat, so that wasn’t an issue. These guys looked to be fairly young….teenagers so to speak.
I did my best to get a picture of them, but since I don’t have one of those fancy schmancy cameras, like Serr8d has, they turned out like crap. Oh well. I don’t think the Mr is going to go out and buy one of them new fangled picher shooters, do you?
They sure do have some seriously reflective eyes! Kind of creepy.
They Grow Up So Fast
Little bitty Rowdy 
Not so little bitty Rowdy 
Nothing worse than trying to brush your teeth, and someone takes up residence in the sink, as did Rowdy this morning. 
Don’t Ask!
But, honestly, there really IS a REAL good reason why there is a pink petticoat in the middle of my living room. And maybe, if y’all are real nice, I’ll share that reason….after it’s all over! Heh. Gotta tell ya, the sound of kitties crunching on this stuff is extremely annoying!
That’s One Weird Looking Cat!
Birdies
This morning, I was looking out the window, watching the birds at the feeder, and saw two of the biggest red headed woodpeckers I’ve ever seen in my life. Granted, I haven’t seen a lot of them, but these guys were huge. Well, at least in my opinion. Unfortunately, before I could grab the camera, they took off, but they looked a whole lot like this:
Ok, so they didn’t have the blue suit on, but still….. 
Ever In One Of Those Moods?
P(eople) E(ating) T(asty) A(nimals)
Iowa Lawmaker Tells PETA Not to Have a Cow Over Raccoon Kill
On Tuesday, the animal welfare group challenged the Iowa Republican to “pick on someone your own size, not a small animal seeking warmth in a blizzard.”
“It doesn’t give you comfort in your representatives when a member of Congress finds it amusing to boast of shooting a desperately cold animal who is 100 times smaller than he is and whose only misstep was trying to get into a large, warm house,” Jaime Zalac, a PETA spokeswoman, said a written statement provided to FoxNews.com.
“I hope he’s not on any committees that made decisions regarding cruel and unusual punishment,” Zalac added. “Decent people would call animal control for help, not get on Twitter to boast about having a really, really big gun.”
I wonder if Zalac lives in the middle of a large city, where raccoons aren’t common visitors? Obviously, Jaime isn’t aware that raccoons, quite commonly, carry rabies. Perhaps we should toss a raccoon or two into his home, and see how he reacts.
Last week, King tweeted that a “Crazy Raccoon chewing & clawing his way into my house” didn’t make it out alive.
“Desert Eagle 1, Crazy Raccoon 0,” King wrote, revealing the pistol he used to kill the raccoon.
LOL I like this guy!
Yeah, they’re cute little suckers, but ya see those teeth? They can do some serious damage.
King told Fox News on Tuesday that he’d offer PETA more hospitality than the animal.
“That crazy coon ran up against ‘a man’s home is his castle’ and this man’s castle won. But if it had been PETA volunteers outside in the middle of a blizzard, I’d like to think they would have rang the doorbell, instead of trying to claw into the house. And I would have given them shelter for the night and served them bacon and eggs the next morning,” he said in a statement.
Heh. I know some folks that wouldn’t have been so polite. I might, but it would be depend how loony they are at the time. But then, I’m a nice person too.
Good News!
From The Courier, (related to this post):
Arrests made in livestock shootings
Two arrests have been made in connection to a string of livestock shootings which occurred the last week of January, Hardin County Sheriff Sammy Davidson said today.
Drew Hunt, 19, of 90 McKelvey Hollow Road near the east side of Pickwick Lake in Hardin County, and a 17-year-old male juvenile are both charged with four counts of intentional killing of an animal and one count of criminal attempt to intentionally kill an animal, he said.
Hunt, whose bond was tentatively set at $25,000, is scheduled to be arraigned in Hardin County General Sessions Court this afternoon.
Why did these little weasels think killing someone else’s animals was a good idea? Hopefully, the legal age one will be paying for a long time. The juvenile? Well, I think his parents would be wise to rip him a new one! It might be wise for the court to make him, and his buddy, start working off the debt they both owe to the owners of these animals.
This SERIOUSLY Pisses Me Off!
From our local paper:
Livestock is being shot for cheap thrills
The Hardin County Sheriff’s Department continues to investigate a string of livestock shootings. According to reports, Ronnie Johnson of xxxx County Home Road told officers somebody had shot two of his horses during the night of Jan.29.
Johnson said he believed the first horse, a Belgian mare, died from a gun shot wound to the chest and said the second, a spotted Belgian colt, suffered a similar injury to the neck.
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J.P. Crotts of xxxx County Home Road reported his pregnant Black Angus cow shot earlier the same morning. At the scene, officers spoke with Kenny Talley of xx Covery Chapel Road and Eddie Milan of xx Covery Chapel Road who both said they noticed one of Crott’s cattle down as they drove by the previous night.
Then on Jan.31, T.F. Rich of xxx Moore Road also reported two of his donkeys shot after he said a neighbor saw a pckup truck pull up at 3:30am earlier the same day and fire twice.
According to Rich, officer and the owners of the slain animals found .30-06 casings at each of the three shootings.
While Rich says Crotts’ cow suffered a gunshot wound between the eyes, both of his donkey died from shots to the neck.
What kind of garbage goes around, shooting animals, just for the ‘fun of it’???? For many people around here, these animals are their livelihood! I honestly pray they find the scum buckets, and shove them UNDER the jail!
If anyone has any information about these slime balls, I really hope you’ll do the right thing, and contact the Hardin County Sheriff’s Department! 731-925-3377
Problem Solved…
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Dinner anyone??? 
(Ick Was Here)
Jamaica – Day 5
Last night, we had a terrific dinner on the beach to celebrate the Mr’s birthday. Today, we went snorkeling. Well, he went snorkeling. I spent most of my time fighting the current and that stupid mouthpiece thingy. I think I ended up swallowing a couple of gallons of salt water. Ok, perhaps not that bad, but it wasn’t a pleasant experience, to say the least. We like it here better than Negril, but the snorkeling is much better over that way. I did manage to take a few pictures before I gave it up and climbed back in the boat. Gotta get ‘em developed though.
So, we get back to the room this afternoon, and who is waiting for us?
What is it with that stupid chicken? Yeah, he’s a mite fuzzy, but I recognized him. 
Perhaps Chris’ curse really IS working? Hmmm… Hey…woman! Behave yourself!
After a much needed nap, we decided to fore go the mega party going on in the parking lot, and headed over to a quiet little place on the beach side. Have to admit, it wasn’t the greatest fare we’ve had here, but it was edible. While sitting there, minding out own business, I heard a woman sitting behind us say, rather loudly, “Where’s the rest of it?” It took a few seconds for me to see what she was talking about. A young lady was being seated at the table next to ours, and I swear, she was wearing the shortest yellow slip I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean, seriously, even when men are commenting on the lack of cover, you KNOW there is an issue. I’m rather grateful she never felt the need to bend over!
Of course, there was the required towel critter waiting for us. I know what it is! It’s an elephant in a turban!
Granted, we haven’t really been all that active this trip, but it’s been extremely pleasant. It’s not that I’m not paying attention to what’s going in the rest of the world, just at the present time, I’m not giving a happy crap! Heh.
Little Helper?
I’ve spent the majority of the day trying to get all the laundry finished before we leave tomorrow for Memphis, and head out to Jamaica early Wednesday morning for two glorious weeks for sun, fun, and just a plain, good ol’ fashioned, vacation. So, of course, while I want to make sure we have clean sheets for the bed when we get home, I’d also like to get ‘em folded, so we won’t have wrinkled sheets. I know, who cares if they’re wrinkled, right? Well, I think it’s something my mother got embedded in my head as a child. Hey…at least I don’t IRON ‘em, like she insisted. Pfft! Fat chance of THAT ever happening.
So, while trying to do my job….I get attitude from a feline. Big shocker, eh? Gee, our kitties aren’t spoiled….much.
And to add insult to injury, one of the little guys is sick. Problem is, we can’t figure out which one, so they are both off to the vet’s this afternoon for a good once over. Come hell or high water, we WILL be on that plane Wednesday.
Christmas at Ick and Brat’s Place
I’m sure you’re aware by now that we are spending Christmas with my daughter and Ick in law in Texas. One of my traditions, if you’ve been around for a while, is irritating the bejabbers out of Ick by dressing up his over stuffed cat, Rocky, in a variety of things, antlers, a flashing bandanna, etc. Well, this year, I got him a Santa suit that was WAY too small. Naturally, that would not do! So, when Brat dragged me to Wally World yesterday, I just had to see what they had left by way of dressing up critters. Yes, these are dog outfits (do people really put tutus on dogs?), but with the size of this cat, he could pass for an over sized raccoon!
Short Person put the Santa suit on her cat, and it fit her kitty, Salem, just fine. Not that she was happy wearing it, but hey….
Unfortunately, Wal Mart didn’t have any more Santa suits of appropriate size for Rocky, so, we got him a “smoking jacket”. Looks like a 2 year old’s tuxedo to me, but oh well.
Much better fit, don’t you think? And it wasn’t ME that dressed him this time. It was all Brat’s doing! So, she gets the blame! Heh.
Rocky, The Moose Santa
He’s gotten fatter. I think I’ll just have to hunt down a bigger size. No, he was not happy at all. Well, are you happy when YOUR Santa suit is too tight? Didn’t think so!
Y’all know I do this, not to annoy the cat, but to seriously irritate the Ick in law, right? Heh.
