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Posted on 12/01/2006 8:08:18 PM PST by Soaring Feather
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I love the poem. I think it is so true.
My cat's name was Cherie.
How are you doing today, Lady?
I discovered this morning I did not have heat, called the landlord who now has the situation in control. House is warming up!
Have you bee without cat for a long time?
NEWS
Telescope 'backplane' successfully tested
U.S. scientists say the "spine" of the James Webb Space Telescope
has become the largest structure ever tested in freezing
conditions. The support, called the backplane, was tested at
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to make sure it won't
move in the extreme cold conditions of space. Researchers said
the test showed the backplane's movements were so small they
were measured in nanometers. The structure will support the
two-story high telescope that will involve 10 different
technologies when it is launched in 2013. The backplane was
tested in temperatures as low as minus 405 degrees Fahrenheit
in a special vacuum chamber at Marshall's X-Ray Calibration
Facility. All of the telescope's technologies must pass the
same test to ensure they can work in space. The Northrop Grumman
Corp. is leading the team that is designing and building the
telescope under a contract with NASA.
If you want not to cry, don’t read it.
I'm getting on in years
My coat is turning grey
My eyes have lost their luster,
My hearing...just OK.
I spend my whole day dreaming
Of conquests of my past
Lying near a sunny window,
Waiting for its warm repast.
"I remember our first visit"
I was coming to you free,
Hoping you would take me in
And keep my company.
I wasn't young or handsome.
Two years I'd roamed the streets.
There were scars on my face,
I hobbled on my feet.
I could see your disappointment...
As I left my prison cage,
Oh, I hoped you would accept me
And look beyond my age.
You took me out of pity,
I accepted, without shame.
Then you grew to love me.
"I admit the same."
I have shared with you your laughter,
You have wet my coat with tears.
We've come to know each other,
Throughout these many years
Just ONE more hug this morning...
Before you drive away...
And know I'll think about you
Throughout your busy day!
The time we've left together is a treasured time at that,
My heart is yours forever, I Promise....
This old cat.
--KC (sievert) Bingamon--
"For Misty-Dawn 1998"
Oh..My..How sweet!
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Winter Of Life
Lord, he is old and weakened, Please make his trail mostly level If it rains let the drops be gentle, Please Lord, if he must suffer, He doesn't deserve to be hurting, I raised him, Lord, from a puppy Author Unknown |
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Oh darkness
you drape all in soft ebon grace
covering the all too clear pains of day
and the harsh things our hearts may say
slipping a cover across my face
you do bless
I bow to you
for you are the softening we need
to rest our weary hearts for yet another trial
and recover our selves from emotions that rile
let us pause and remember to heed
all we must do
Pets, who needs them
had a mess of them
that dog that remembered me after six years in the Navy with tears
the cat that spit when she was angry and she was angry at everybody
the kitten that slept in my shirt pocket or hung around my neck like a scarf
the dog that liked to sleep on my pillow and snored, just like me
or the one that loved to run the open hills of home scaring rabbits up for me
the cat that looked at me with wise, wise eyes and wink
or the one that sneezed itself off the footstool more then once
or the one who loved to ride the blankets as you made the bed
Pets, who needs them
Hi Meg!
Welcome to The Dragonflies' Lair. ;)
Hi Seadog Bytes, Welcome to The Dragonflies' Lair.
Thank you for the lovely poem.
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'Cujo' reunites with family after 6 years
AP
(1/29/07 - ST. LOUIS, MO) - Cujo was a frisky 7-year-old when he sneaked out of his owners' south St. Louis yard in July 2000. Now, thinner and grayer and with a tale that would be fascinating if only he could tell it, the golden retriever is back with the Barczewski family.
"It's a miracle," Noreen Barczewski, 41, said at Friday's reunion. "We found him!"
Six years and a side trip to Columbia can do a lot to a dog, but it was unmistakably Cujo. There was the heart-shaped patch of white on his forehead, the white fur on his toes, his manner of greeting people by rubbing against them cat-style.
Cujo's homecoming was orchestrated by Dirk's Fund, a golden retriever rescue group that has found homes for more than 900 dogs in the past decade.
After slipping away from home, Cujo somehow ended up 120 miles in Columbia in the home of an elderly woman. When the woman entered a nursing home, the dog was sent to the Central Missouri Humane Society in Columbia.
Bob Tillay, president of Dirk's Fund, spotted the dog by then renamed Willy on an adoption Web site and arranged to have him brought to St. Louis.
"Sweet old man! He knows how to sit and shake," the Web site cooed.
The dog's ears were so infected he couldn't hear. His coat was so matted he had to be shaved. And Dirk's Fund paid to have some cysts removed.
The group eventually took Cujo/Willy to a nursing home in Clayton, to serve as a pet for residents. But things didn't work out the dog needed a yard where he could run off the leash and his picture went up on the Dirk's Fund Web site.
A week ago, Noreen Barczewski's brother-in-law, Michael Barczewski, went to the Web site on a fluke. He'd been looking for a dog to adopt and saw the picture of the old dog with the white heart mark and white feet. Michael and his wife, Gail, had been the original breeders of Cujo. He recognized the dog immediately, and the reunion followed within days.
Now 13, Cujo had never been forgotten by the his original family especially Kayla, who was just 4 when the dog disappeared. Kayla insisted on hanging the retriever's red felt Christmas stocking each year, confident he'd someday come home.
"I had something in my heart," the fourth-grader said Friday, patting her pet's soft golden coat, "and I knew he wasn't gone."
Oh my, such a wonderful story, thank you.
So beautiful-both the poem and the graphic, thanks Lady!
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