Excepts from old emails, for Pat to catch up on news Brian has seen in the past. Roughly in reverse chrono order.

~S~

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A snip from a descr of Katy's department:

... there are two huge windows in that office. One faces
sunset, over my workstation. The other has much more windowsill space, is over the radiators, and next to my rocking chair/breaktime zone. I'll put away the photos on that sill, and make it easy to access-- maybe feed her there. That's the one the swallows haunt for nesting, which also overlooks an electric line full of noisy spring birdies.

(At night I am sure the local barn rats use that line liberally, like
pirates boarding a ship.)

~S~

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Yes, she thinks she is in an apartment, because she has never seen the door to the stairway open, nor us go thru it, nor a dog leave thru it. She has also never seen (smelled) our bedroom. She thinks I come home from work and that my home-office is her LR. The nap BR is what she thinks is my BR. She must think Greg is my boyfriend because he feeds her sometimes.

But because she is not going out nor having fulltime doghair, perhaps-- she is also not showing any signs of allergy/itches. She did have ONE skin outbreak when she first came, but before I could get her in to see [vet], it had healed and has totally re-haired.

She just mothers me something awful. One night I went a-napping and failed to open her gate for her to join me-- THAT was Katy Yowling. That is the only time she has seemed the least bit unhappy. She loves it when I occ. bring a dog up to the office, hosts the dog nicely (firmly) and does not look for it afterwards.

She has her own pedestal next to my Bible Study chair, where she provides daily warm, purring fur as commentary while my hand trails thru her fur. She esp. likes it when I can't sleep-- I read Psalms in that same chair at night then, and she approves.

~S~

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Katy is nowhere near going out into Dog World yet-- even the dogs are not out there yet, for more than a quick pee. We are still working on it...

I think the move here came at a good time for Katy. She does not seem interested in being any more active than her present digs permit. She has a fishing pole I exercise her with-- and that seems plenty for her.

~S~

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Katy escaped from one room into a hallway yesterday. She has been quite happy-- no worries!!!-- but I had forgotten the daily take-down of one gate, so she jumped over it to land on the metal bin that stores her canned food. She sat there waiting for us. I think it was a hint.

The cutest vignette I can pass along is one day when I was reading in bed. I have not been able, due to vision issues, to read an actual BOOK in about 10 years. There I was, in a bed, HER bed, with book-- and dog. An aging dog, Faulkner had decided to try that "bed thing" again-- he'd never liked it, younger, because it made him too hot, to snuggle on a bed.

Now, on top of Katy's down comforter, it's just about right. Katy agreed and took the other side-- they were already "office" friends but for me this was particularly sweet. Still-life: "Normal Life-- Girl with Book, Dog, and Cat."

~S~

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The home office includes my craft space. One craft included some cardboard to back long, wide, quilted arrows to convert them into bulletin boards. Katy has been making sure the chosen cardboard met requirements. When Greg brings home the post, there is still enough Katy-tested cardboard to put behind the hanging arrows.

She also had a good time testing my skin the other night. We reached an agreement about what can be tested. :~)

I think HER past skin issues may have been more about frustrated mothering than about allergies, BTW. Her hunting and a number of other behaviors read to me as "momcat."

Work resumed this weekend on the holding kennel, where the dogs live whenever Dog World is under work. That means Dog World will be built next. Right now it's a swamp of past years' winter poop and snow runoff. Katy's intro to it is still weeks off, but the dogs have met her up here in the office, and one cat came up to meet her thru the gate. He is a potential grooming buddy for her-- I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again for the "post." I'm half asleep-- my first reaction to your subject line was, "Which forum did Katy join?" LOL-- she does have access to my puder all night....

~S~

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THANK YOU for the post!!!!!

She's enjoying some cardboard, at present, and my office rug shows it! :~)

... My office used to be a kitchen for a second dwelling here.

~S~

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Susan,

Katy's scratching post was left outside the side door of the church
(next to the traffic cones) this morning.

That reminds me of one thing I should have warned you about, though.
Do NOT leave Katy alone with any cardboard boxes - at least, none that
have anything in them or that you want to keep! You may have found
this out the hard way by now...

[- B]

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Katy dismantled her gate last night and broke into my napping room. Silly me. I should have invited her before I lay down. Now she knows how to do it! :~)

~Susan

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[Those who may feel the need to object to a KatBlog here may appreciate the opportunity to know that Katy is the main link in our friendship with Brian and Pat, who BTW are old hands at internet life. Pat's health concerns will keep her housebound for some time to come as they make their transition northwards, and I know she misses her Katy. So I hope more KKK's will be of interest to her as they keep akkumulating.)