Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:17 AM 1/3/2008, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: >My PurrFur and my daughter's Lily (toy rat terrier) are like sisters. >Sometimes they fight but most often they're best friends. When we lived in Roanoke, the cats lived on a sun porch and constantly teased my dogs. The one surviving dog has a REALLY strong resentment against the cats, and they know it, viscerally. So, we keep them at a distance, even when both are in the house at the same time. My wife keeps blaming the dog, which is stupid, but so be it. I get alone with my cats, Sadie Sue and Fat Fred, as I tend to ignore them as I have always ignored all but two of the cats who have appeared in my life. This makes them really anxious to be my buddy. I can restrain my enthusiasm. We get along. Back in the longago, about the time Ted Grant qualified for his Old Age Pension for the twelfth time, I was a teen-ager. This was the early 1960's and I was interested in astronomy and had one of those fabulous Swift 839 60mm refractors. I'd get up at 2 in the AM to view something, and my sister's cats would invariably wrap themselves around the legs of the tripod. More than forty years later, whenever I take out my Questar or my 3" Swift 831 (and YES that took me years to find!), my current crop of cats again wrap themselves around the tripod legs. Some things never change! They get bored when I ignore them for a while and go roll around in my wife's flower beds. (These are NOT 'clean' cats!) They spend their days with access to the garage and thus they have access to my telescopes. These are firmly planted. These cats do not puke or piss. Nonetheless, they never have access to the room I laughingly call my library -- all the books are in great disorder and many are still in boxes, with more bookshelves to build -- where I keep my camera gear. So, no cat can puke or piss on my photographic equipment. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!