Pigs, Baseball Players, and Cats
We need a break from the book reviews. So here is a video about Tammy Hann Harlan, the Appalachian Pig Lady. I’m privileged to call her my friend.
These college baseball players had a dance-off at a tournament during a rain delay, and it’s pretty funny. It starts off slow, but I was laughing out loud by the middle. Never underestimate the capacity of young guys to be goofy.
And, from my own computer archives, here are some sayings about cats:
“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” _Anonymous
“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.” _ Jeff Valdez
”In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.” _ English proverb
”One cat just leads to another.” _ Ernest Hemingway
”Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.” _ Mary Bly
”Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.” _ Joseph Wood Krutch
”People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.” _ Faith Resnick
“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” _ Hippolyte Taine
”There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” _ Albert Schweitzer
”The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.” _ Ernest Menaul
”Time spent with cats is never wasted.” _ Colette
”Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.” _ Missy Dizick
”You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” _ Colonial American proverb
”Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” _ Joseph Wood Krutch
”Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.” _ John S. Nichols
Lastly, some business: For the rest of this month, my blogging will not occur on anything resembling a regular schedule. In July, I will likely go back to my usual Wednesday and Saturday postings.
June 3, 2009 - Posted by esheley | animals, cats, humor, pets, random thoughts | abused animals, animal rescue, Athens County, baseball, cats, college baseball, dance off, farming, pig rescue, pigs, sayings about cats, Soul of Athens, Tammy Hann Harlan | No Comments Yet
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This is a picture of Priscilla, who lived to be an old lady cat of 19 1/2 and passed away on July 21, 2008. As Dave put it the next day, she was a great cat. I was privileged to adopt her in 1994, when her first family moved overseas and decided they couldn’t take her along. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife or a real “Rainbow Bridge” or any of that. But love lives on, and so I would like to dedicate this site to Priscilla and my first two cats, Hillary and Rabbit.
Like most blogs, this one includes random thoughts and observations, but its primary purpose is to provide book reviews for animal lovers. Please feel free to add comments or make suggestions of books that are animal-friendly.