My (perhaps controversial) thoughts as a "newbie" to CA.

Thank you for remembering, Trill! I love the photo and the story. Samantha, our orange fluffy cat does that with the water dish. If it's not to the level she likes she waits and waits for you to do as she wishes.

Molly, in your pocket today!

Trill, my pets sharing their food last nightOne possum and Smokey the stray cat!

I am doing well so far. I am home in my recliner with specific instructions to lift NOTHING. Anesthesiologist use bilateral pain blocker because I am very sensitive to pain meds especially morphine and dilaudid.

I promise to take a page out of Miss P's book and lay about the house

Trill, it's been pretty nice here in the high to mid 40s. The wind has been blowing so it makes it feel pretty chilly still. I had 4 possums and a big yellow cat at my feed tubs last night. They took off when I moved to get my camera so I wasn't able to get a picture! I can tell the difference between the young raccoons that have been visiting since they were very tiny from the ones that didn't grow up on my deck. When I sit down with my bag of marshmallows and open my patio door the other raccoons run from me, my babies run to me! They'd come in the house if I'd let them. Can you imagine having 6 (wild) raccoons running around in my house?!

Trill, I have been watching April the giraffe as well. I sure hope she has that baby soon. I have also been watching several eagle nest cameras. One nest has 2 eagle's that just hatched. They are so cute! I need to check out the panda cam again. I love watching them.

Molly, glad your surgery is over. Take it easy and heal quickly.

Lori, good to hear that you are doing well and that the raccoons are still around.

No, Trill, I missed that interaction between April and Oliver. I'm surprised the keeper allowed that to happen. I have seen her put her head over the door to his stall and they rub their heads together. So cute!

Here are some of the eagle cams -

http://explore.org/live-cams/player/decorah-eagles...

http://www.dceaglecam.org/

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/hays-bald-eagle-cam...

http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/ - The babies in this nest are about ready to fledge.

https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/pa-bald... - This is the nest with the 2 new eaglets.

Last year I was watching an owl nest but this year it has been taken over by osprey. (https://hdontap.com/index.php/video/stream/great-h...)

I love the picture of Miss P laying on her pillow.

Trill, I'm sure my raccoons would definitely run me ragged! 😂

Hi Disneygirl! How are you doing? I'm having a blast with my raccoons, possums and stray cats. I want to catch this one and make him my own lol

I wish I could watch April and Oliver but with our internet I'd use up all the bandwidth in no time and be in big trouble!

Until next time

Lori, I am doing pretty well. What a beautiful cat. The stray that we had been caring for has not been around since the middle of January. I hope someone took him in and gave him a good home. My husband is allergic to cats so we couldn't let him in the house but we would let him stay in the garage when he wanted to. How interesting to see the possum getting along with the cat. My sister-in-law always has several strays at her house and one evening she saw a skunk family on her porch eating the cat food she put out. :-)

Congratulations, Lori! Great picture!

Trill, you don't happen to have a hideously-aging portrait stashed in your attic, do you? You don’t look a day over 50!

Lori, that tabby on your deck is a bit of American history. “Blotched” or “classic” gray tabby cats (as opposed to thinner-striped “mackerel” tabbies) are generally believed to have been originally brought over from England on the Mayflower and the earliest Virginia-bound immigrant ships to control the rodent population onboard. The “domestic shorthair” in North America (i.e., felis catus, good ol' American mixed breed “alley” or “moggy” cat, not just the specific “American Shorthair” pedigreed breed) is a descendant of those first colonial kitties and is not native to the northern half of the Western Hemisphere. Other colorations, body builds, fur textures, etc. were due to the English tabbies having mated with other cats of varied colors in England—many of which were brought to England on ships from other European countries that had their own predominant breeds of felis catus (e.g. Norwegian Forest Cat, etc.) and were descended and interbred therefrom.

I know since it’s feral you probably haven’t been able to get up close & personal, but it’s even money that tabby is a polydactyl—as were the Mayflower cats, whose genes also eventually found their way down to modern-day Key West, which harbors a famous colony of polydactyl tabby cats descended by the colony beloved and kept by Ernest Hemingway.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Trill, I agree with Sandy, you look marvelous!! AND after surgery photos don't count!! I also hate setting up new phones, computers yada, yada, yada! It just takes to long!

Sandy, thank you so much for the kitty history! You make me want to catch him and hug him and pet him and love him and make him my own even more! Now to think of a name for him?? I'm hoping he becomes a regular like Bob The Cat, Smokey Kitty, Yellow Cat and Baby Girl. There's been a few new ones stopping by but they run to fast for me to get a good look. I'm averaging about 40 lbs of cat food a week between the kitties, racoon and possums.

My raccoons have gotten a lot friendlier lately. I have a few that will come in the house to get their treats. I had my DH take video of them for me last night. One of them tried to run off with one of my blankets! It was hilarious!