April - July 2004
This is our longest photos page yet. It is an emotional page for me. It hurt a lot just putting it together and I cried several times. These pictures were all in my camera since April and many of them were of Itchy's, Electra's and Copycat's final days with us. Until now I did not have the strength to download them, knowing they would be very powerful to me. Perhaps a small amount of my love for our missing family members will shine through the images and cause a tear and a smile to work it's way to your face.
  • Mountains around Bozeman on
    April 17th
  • Itchy hides in his covered bed at the vet's on
    April 18th
  • Itchy at the vet's on
    April 18th, he stayed 4 days
  • Orion no longer fits on the condo!
    April 18th
  • Hamlet and Orion are taunted by Copycat on
    April 27th
  • Copycat below the window taunting Hamlet and Orion!
    April 27th
  • Still being taunted on
    April 27th
  • A bald eagle flies way up over us on
    May 1st
  • Itchy looks at a get well card from Peggy while he eats.
    May 5th
  • Still looking over the card. Thanks Peggy! These were the last pictures taken of Itchy with my camera.
    We love and miss you Itchy.
  • Electra taken
    May 18th
  • Electra taken
    May 18th
  • Orion plays with a pad given to us by Zooker.
    May 19th
  • Orion plays under Zookers wonderful gift.
    May 19th
  • Orion covers himself with the pad. Thanks Zooker! He LOVES it!
    May 19th
  • Prairie Dog in Bozeman.
    May 22nd
  • Prairie Dogs in Bozeman.
    May 22nd
  • Raccoon raids Copycat's food while he lays sick out of view.
    May 22nd
  • Raccoon taking Copycat's food.
    May 22nd
  • Electra in her hooded bed.
    May 22nd
  • Copycat at the vet's in right after we caught him.
    May 25th
  • Copycat at the vet's.
    May 25nd
  • Copycat as the vet tech looks at him.
    May 25th
  • Copycat at the vet's through the bars of his cage in isolation.
    May 25nd
  • Our last picture of Copycat (in isolation at the vets).
    May 25th
    We love and miss you Copycat.
  • Leo waits at the front door for Itchy and Copycat.
    May 26th
  • He waited at the door day after day for a while..
    May 26th
  • The moring Electra left us was the day the cows wre moved 18 miles to the summer pasture.
    May 29th
  • I will never look upon the cows the same again.
    May 29th
  • The day the cows move will always remind me of my last moments with Electra.
    May 29th
  • You can see how weak Electra looks on her last morning with us.
    May 29th
  • Knowing what was to come in an hour or so I took many pictures.
    May 29th
  • Electra was the queen of the house.
    May 29th
  • She always greeted me with a quack.
    May 29th
  • I cannot even begin to say how much we miss her.
    May 29th
  • May 29th
  • Our last photo taken of Electra before she left us.
    May 29th
  • We burned candles daily through
    May. We could not burn enough.
    May 30th
  • Hamlet spent most of
    May laying on Itchy's things and haunts.
    May 31st
  • You could tell how sad Leo was.
    May 31th
  • Even Orion seemed at odds.
    May 31st
  • It rained and I saw 1 rainbow.
    June 5th
  • I hear when your friend leaves he will often send you a rainbow to say they are okay.
    June 5th
  • The rainbow began to brighten as I watched it, it seemed to be trying to get my attention.
    June 5th
  • It arced the whole sky! Horizon to horizon, then it happened!
    June 5th
  • A second raindbow above the first, dimmer and washed out, but there.
    June 5th
  • And a 3rd! Look really hard it the image, there are 3! One each from Itchy, Copycat and Electra!
    June 5th
  • Leo had a grand mal seizure and became very ill!
    June 8th
  • It was a long couple of weeks but Leo is fine now! Thank goodness!
    June 8th
  • A Prairie Dog in Bozeman.
    June 26th
  • It was 2 days before my saddest birthday ever.
    June 26th
  • Orion and Hamlet play.
    June 27th
  • Hamlet wants to stop anf leave.
    June 27th
  • Not Orion!.
    June 27th
  • Leo on the couch.
    June 28th
  • Orion is so dark that unless his eyes are open you cannot see him!
    His nose, lips and whiskers are black too!.
    June 28th
  • In early
    July we had a double rainbow!
    July 3rd
  • Were our cats once again trying to say hello?
    July 3rd
  • I looked for a thrid...
    July 3rd
  • It never came.
    July 3rd
  • Two rainbows were plenty though.
    July 3rd
  • And I shall always think fondly of our 3 babies each time I see a rainbow.
    July 3rd
  • Calliope watches as Hamlet and Orion fight it out.
    July 11th
  • Orion just won't leave Hamlet alone.
    July 11th
  • July 11th
  • July 11th
  • I am sure she is happy to not be involved.
    July 11th


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