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A Grandmother and Her Cat:
A Story in Photos
HaloPets.com ^
| Caroline Golon
Posted on 11/13/2012 1:51:14 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
For the last nine years, Japanese photographer, Miyoko Ihara, has been taking photos of her grandmother, Misao Ihara, and her white, odd-eyed cat, Fukumaru.
Misao and Fukumaru share a special bond and go everywhere together. Although Misao is 88 years old, she still works in the fields, planting and weeding under the sun, with Fukumaru always at her side.
When I see the way my grandmother is living her life, I really feel that she has a kind of strength that my generation simply cant match, Miyoko tells Nippon.com. She gets up with the sun, and goes to bed when it sets. She loves her cat and the vegetables in her field like her own children.
Fukumaru, who Misao found abandoned in a shed as a kitten, is almost deaf. In recent years, Misao herself has become hard of hearing too. Yet the two understand each other perfectly.
Their endearing friendship is captured in a photo book, Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat.
(Excerpt) Read more at halopets.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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Pix at source.
To: Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; devane617; ...
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:53:48 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; devane617; ...
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:54:48 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
A nice ceiling cat there!
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:56:38 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I only see one picture, even after clicking on the article?
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:57:49 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: autumnraine
There’s a slideshow at the bottom. Do you have Flash or Java disabled?
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:58:53 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Cyber Liberty
I was thinking David Bowie cat.
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posted on
11/13/2012 1:59:41 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
This cat looks like my Snowflake, except mine has green eyes.
To: autumnraine
It is a slide show. Click on the arrow that appears if you put your cursor about midway along the right margin in the picture, or click in sequence on the dots below the frame.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:02:14 PM PST
by
Truth29
To: Slings and Arrows
Mine is the reason I have so many typos. She snoozes on my hands and stretches onto the keyboard.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:10:45 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Never mind, clicked on “photo book”, I have it now.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:11:16 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Slings and Arrows
Thanks. Now and then I need these nice stories just to know there is a world out there, outside of politics. Cute pics, by the way.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:11:32 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
To: Slings and Arrows
A good cat story is the cat returns - a Studio Ghibli anime. Also a great cat bus in My Neighbor Totoro, also Studio Ghibli.
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11/13/2012 2:12:41 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: Slings and Arrows
That is so precious! I have 4 furbabies and I love ever one of them dearly.
To: Slings and Arrows
The cat looks stunned by Hussein’s reelection in the first picture.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:22:16 PM PST
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: Slings and Arrows
ええ雰囲気ですねん
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:23:08 PM PST
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: Jyotishi
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:41:05 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: beckysueb
Three here, and likewise.
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:41:56 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Lady Jag
Grumpy Cat sez, "BFD."
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
11/13/2012 2:48:09 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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