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Van Gogh

Van Gogh

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by » Tue Apr 16, 2024 06:09 pm

Every night when I go to bed, Van Gogh will be sleeping at the base of my pillow, (which always warms it up) and she dutifully gets up and sits on the night stand until I get in bed, then crawls up and lays head to head with me in my face.  She'll lay there about 10 minutes, then get up and wander off for about 10 minutes, then come back and lay next to me again.  I have no idea what she does when she gets up.

Last night, Van Gogh wasn't in bed, so I go looking through the house with a flashlight.  Couldn't find her at all.  So, I figure the grandson accidentally let her out when he took his dog out.  I went to bed figuring I'll have to get up in the morning, turn on the cat ringtone on my phone, and walk up and down the street looking for her.  After about an hour's sleep though, I woke up to a wet nose on my fingers.  What was she doing all that time?  John

re: Van Gogh

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by » Thu Apr 18, 2024 09:00 pm

Perhaps she was unbder the bed or found a new corner to lay in?

 

David and the CoolCyberCats


Forever in my heart





Cats Nap. Only Humans Put Them "To Sleep": Sterilize, Don't Euthanize!

 

re: Van Gogh

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by » Fri Apr 19, 2024 05:40 pm

Very well could have been under the bed.  That's about the only place I didn't look.  Of course, you can look all over the place for a cat, then find them right behind you watching you look.  John

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by » Mon Apr 29, 2024 07:16 pm

On the way out of town Saturday night we ran into a serious thunderstorm.  I had already checked the radar and I knew we would.  Cheri came with me and after we'd been there almost an hour, Cheri got a text from her grandson working at McDonald's.  The tornado sirens had gone off and they were all herded into the toilet till it blew over.  He wouldn't be off work until 11:00 so of course, we were worried about the furkids.  On the way home, just a few blocks north of the house we ran into maybe 6 inches of standing water.  If I'd seen it in the dark, I would have stopped but suddenly it was just there.  Must have been a clogged storm drain.  We got through just fine.  Everything at home was fine.  Van Gogh stayed under the bed all night though.  Must have been pretty stressful.  Lost of flooding nearby but we're on pretty high ground so that's not something we have to worry much about.  We've had a couple of close calls with tornadoes though, one of which did some damage to the house a few years back, so we take those pretty seriously.  John

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by » Mon Apr 29, 2024 08:01 pm

I am glad everything and everyone is fine! Yes, always take weather like that seriously. I am happy to no longer be in a tornado area out here.

 

David and the CoolCyberCats


Forever in my heart





Cats Nap. Only Humans Put Them "To Sleep": Sterilize, Don't Euthanize!

 

re: Van Gogh

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by » Tue Apr 30, 2024 04:49 pm

Sedalia really is a tornado magnet.  The worst hit a few years before I moved here.  Dad was at the Pizza Hut when the brick building next door was destroyed.  He said there were bricks in the back of his truck, but the Pizza Hut was untouched.  When I first moved here I lived out in the woods and was putting new shingles on my house when I looked toward Sedalia, about 20 minutes away.  It was a beautiful sunny day where I was but I could see it was storming over Sedalia.  Sure enough, it was another tornado that tore the roof off a factory and destroyed the local drive-in.  A couple of years after I moved into my current house, maybe 8 or 10 years ago, a tornado wrecked a mobile home court southwest of me, tore part of the roof off a church a couple blocks from me, tore my front door open and tore my shutters off.  It blew my garbage can away but blew in another, newer garbage can, and the yard was full of someone's canceled checks.  I was away at work but Cheri was hiding in the closet.  Another blew apart a house near town while the kids were hiding in the basement.  Another touched down for just a few seconds and blew down some trees a few blocks north of me.

The closest I'd ever been though, was when I was a kid in Illinois.  The storm woke up the whole family and we were watching out a back window when we saw a big wooden shed in the back yard lifted up, collapsed, then blown to the south.  There was a light in the back yard so we could see it vividly.  We'd have thought it was straight line winds but the next day we saw our pick-up camper next to the house, was blown off its blocks in the opposite direction.  It was one of those big, fully furnished campers, and it crushed my brother's bicycle, while mine was laying next to it, untouched.  I can enjoy a good storm if it's not too violent, but there's certainly nothing enjoyable about tornadoes.  John

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