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Not Red Lobster like the now defunct restaurant.
This is, obviously, a cat toy.  And let most cat toys, it often disappears for months (or even years) at a time, only to suddenly reappear.  It’s one of those Cat Mysteries.

I’ve decided to try to get back to actually posting daily pics. I figured I’d start with a theme.  Taking a cue from Kat, I’m going with a color: red

These are the gloves I use when washing dishes.  I have turned into my mother.

I have to admire this kid’s (I assume it’s a kid) marketing.  I fully intended to go over and get something, but completely forgot.  Sorry, kid.  Hope business was booming.

Recently I posted about 2 cats that some shelter “colleagues” and I are caring for while their owner is in the hospital.  Well….we’re still doing it. This is the other kitty; she’s super sweet and very cuddly. I just hope that once the owner is feeling better, he sends the shelter a big fat donation.

There was a community block party tonight, with  lots of local organizations present; also music, and lots of food.  One group that attended was an equine therapy group, and of course they brought a couple of their therapists with them.  This is Pablo.

I volunteered for a shelter event today: a screening of this year’s Cat VideoFest.  Before the film started, and before the previews, there was a series of shorts being shown.  They all involved (ironically) dogs and they were all incredibly bizarre.  Shown here:  the one was the woman dancing and singing while surrounded by people dressed as poodles and dalmations and whatever the hell that is on the left; and a bunch of dogs animated to dance in some kind of playground? Missing are the one with the woman tap dancing around her Jack Russell, and the Bollywood dance number that went on around a Golden Retriever (I have video of that one if you really want to see it).

Even though he’s an indoor kitty, Ferrous still seeks protections from the downpours we are getting this evening.

A call came into the shelter today from a social worker who is helping a patient in the hospital.  He’s worried about his cats and was hoping someone could go check on them.   Turns out I was driving right by there this afternoon.  Another volunteer had been there a few hours before, and said the black one is desperate for attention, so I came by around 3:30 to hang out with him.  His sister was hiding under the bed.

From the little boat Jeff rented, we got a really good look at this colony of cormorants; you can clearly see a couple nests with Junior cormorants in them. We discussed how these birds suck at taking off and landing, and how dumb it is that they aren’t waterproof (the one with its wings open is doing so to try off).  It’s a good thing they can fish.

We knew that when Claire invited us to walk some trails with her that we’d be stopping every 5 feet while she investigated something that no one else would notice.  So it took 2 hours to walk a 1.5 mile trail, but it was really cool and interesting to learn all this stuff that Claire knew.  Thanks, Claire!