Comments, please!

Well, looks like we're at the end of another month. I don't know who the "we" is, at this point, because I don't know who's still reading this, besides me, and maybe my family. I've done a little calculating this morning, and it appears that comments on my blog have come to an all-time low. Well, actually last month was the all-time low. This month, July, was the second lowest month for this blog and comments.

The point is, where have all my friends gone? Are you there? ECHO! *Echo. echo. echo.* Because I can't know you're there if you don't comment! Please, make some noise here! I comment you when you guys post on your blog, don't I? Well, if you guys blog at all... This summer has been very slow for blogging, in general, it seems to me. I know I'm not alone in this...

But if you read my blog, and you LIKE it/ think there's something I should do to make my blog a little more fun for you, my reader, to read (such as holding contests, riting mispellt wurds end Grammer, whatever), and you feel like letting me KNOW about it, you know what to do. (But if you need help, there's a link at the bottom of every post that says comments. Usually the word is proceeded by a zero, but if you comment, you can turn it to a one. And you'll make me quite happy. ^_^) Peace out!

Oh, and please don't forget to check out my other blogs, Bettina's Book Blog and Maggie's Poetry Corner, (2 blogs that receive very little attention, if comments are anything to go by), and (PLEASE!) comment one of my posts.

Dutchie is safe! ^_^

Yes! That sweet stray grey-striped female kitten was found! Turns out that the guy next door had taken her in last Saturday, and today he was finally able to get a hold of the owner. Luckily our family decided to take a walk just as Dutchie was being loaded in a van so she could go home. Now we don't have to worry about her anymore. ^_^

I kind of wish we'd been the ones to find her and bring her back to her family. But as long as she's safe, I'm happy. I hope, sometime in the future, that I'll have my own kitty, and that it'll be just as sweet as Dutchie was.

Filming + Dutchie

July 24th's filming for Life in a Day, I think, was a big success. We've kind of been putting off submitting our footage, but today we put one of them up. There's a whole form involved, what your clip is about, what takes place in it, and so forth. But we will definitely be submitting more in the near future.

I sure hope other people have participated in this awesome project. If you did, you now have less than a week in which to submit your efforts.

Sadly, the kitten who visited us 2 nights in a row hasn't been seen around here since. Coincidentally, I've started to notice fliers taped to stop signs asking about a missing grey, striped cat. It looks exactly like the kitty who followed us home. Apparently her name is Dutchie. So we've been walking the same way around the neighborhood and leaving butter near the door (though I've been told we should stop doing that, because it's kind of a waste of butter 0,o), but we haven't been able to find the precious Dutchie anywhere. ~,~ I wish we could've seen the posters a lot sooner. Well, hopefully she's been taken in by someone else and she'll be returned to the owner. Maybe we'll call Dutchie's owner and find out if she's been found. Then I can stop worrying about her.

In other news, we've pretty much finished up digitizing the home movies of when Annette, Adam and I were little ones, and now we've moved on to our parents old videos! ^_^ SO cute! It seems like the videos have classical music set to them, like in silent films, so unfortunately we don't know what our parents sounded like as kids. But they sure look adorable.

We've just recently come home from the library. I've recently gotten interested in Jim Henson, so I picked up a couple of books that are related to him. I'm sure you'll hear all about it in my book blog soon enough. In fact, I wrote a review for a book about Jim Henson just recently. Check it out.

Ciao for now! ^_~

She came back!

You won't believe it! The cat that followed us home last night showed up again at our doorstep tonight! I was so happy to see it again. ^_^ (By the way, I was able to pick the cat up again, and I think it's a she.) Don't ask me why this cat wants to hang around us. I mean, I love cats, and no one in my family's allergic to cats, but there's no way we can keep her, for loads of reasons. We already have birds (Sasha and Sammy), cats aren't vegetarians, and anyway we'll be travelling to Boston in a couple weeks, so it's no time to adopt a new pet. Still, it was a very pleasant surprise to see the grey stray again.

Our dad used to have cats when he was younger. He suggested giving her a little butter to eat. She loved it. ^_^ Good thing too, since it was about the only thing we could offer her. Thus far, I've been calling her Kitty. A pretty safe name to use, I think. I really hope that she'll come back so she can be included in our Life-in-a-Day footage tomorrow. I'm really excited for that.

I'll post pictures of Kitty later. Peace out!

Edit:

Kitty!

While my family and I were walking in our neighborhood tonight, a cat followed us home! I don't know why, but a stray grey striped cat with no collar or ID tags decided to walk alongside us/ behind us all the way to our house. It was so cute! It had a long, bushy tail that reminded me of a squirrel's. ^_^ The only pets I've had in my life are rodents and birds. Never had a cat before. And I wanted to have it so bad!

For some reason, the cat seemed to be panting. It almost sounded like a dog, or like it was laughing in a raspy, wheezy sort of way. I'm not sure what that meant, but it sure acted friendly-like. When we got home, it climbed on top of the cars! So funny. ^_^ I talked absent-mindedly to the cat, and it nuzzled my head a little bit. We tried to give it water, since it must have been dehydrated or something, with all the panting, but it didn't drink any. 0,o

I don't know if I was being too bold, but I was actually able to pick the cat up, and it didn't mind at all! ^_^ Such a sweety! Of course, since it's a stray, and since we have birds in the house, we couldn't take it inside with us. Eventually I got tired of playing with the kitty, so I came back inside. When I went back outside a few minutes later, just because I was curious and wanted to check on it, I couldn't find it anywhere.

I don't know where it went now, but I hope to see the cat again. Maybe tomorrow, or next time we walk down the same street...

I miss the kitty. ~,~