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Olive’s Summer Vacation

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Olive Cheating Natural Selection

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It’s okay with me that Olive isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Really. But I DO wish our newest kitteh would show at least a little sense around cars. However, if she’s outside and I get in my car to leave, she tends to choose and do one of the following. Wander out from [...]

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The Difference Between a Hug and a Smack

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I found this photo on my camera recently, and I know what the boys thought when they took it. They thought, “Awww, isn’t that sweet, Henry is sharing his perch with Olive, and he’s patting her on the shoulder! He’s giving her a widdle hug! Awww.” You know how boys are. And they are totally [...]

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Olive & Henry

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Henry, from the day we brought him home from the shelter, was 17 pounds of orange-striped irritable. He’s not cuddly, playful, or even nonchalant. He bites. And he prefers that you just leave him alone, permanently. Henry grew on us like a mild but contagious virus. We actually like him, for reasons that only therapy [...]

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Olive and the Baby Jesus

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This is our family nativity set, dutifully brought out every year, repeatedly organized by miscellaneous boys, periodically misplaced, wholly enjoyed. Joseph is always the most dishevelled looking; once his hair came partially unglued he was never the same. Several animals have disappeared over the years (I personally miss the chicken), and once in a while [...]

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Introducing Olive

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This is Olive. She’s deeply interested in the dangle-y wrist strap on my camera. She would like to inspect it more carefully, with her tiny sharp teeth. Olive came home with me a couple of days ago, much to the irritation of Henry, our giant orange tabby. Henry weighs 17 pounds, is not fat, and [...]

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