Sunday Café – 17/6/18 – Fathers Day

Good morning – my dad loved cats! And trains and playing the sax and scouting and nature and the ocean. And Mom. And his kids. And his grandchildren!
Comet’s daddy was a giant black cat. Like father like son!

I miss my dad so much! Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since he passed!!! He was an animal lover, and cared for the many cats I brought home over the years …. never berated me, always welcomed them and made a place for them …. he was a very strong but gentle man ….. and I will say, I’ve married the same …. Mr. AV indulges my cat obsession (even tho he grew up with dogs) and is kind/gentle to all our furrbabies …. and he is a GREAT father – taught my Daughter what a good husband should look like (and she’s married similar) and taught our son how to be a good man and will be a great father (when the ‘right’ girl comes along) …. I am blessed

… right now, Mr. AV is nap/watching his US open golf (love it), Son is at his new home working and I’m relaxing and reading …. a good Sunday in AV world.

Concats to MS and family, I will enjoy virturally your new addition until I am blessed with some of my own 😉

Hope everyone is having a restful day, and all those fathers out there – we love and appreciate you!!

Good morning all from a cold, wet and dark Winters morning. I am considering lighting the fire soon and that leads me on to possibly cooking tonight’s dinneer on top of it. Mmmmmmmmmmm warmth and cooking food.
JJ, love your Dad’s loves. 🙂
Seems we all come from families where Dad loves cats, I guess we learned by their actions, isn’t that how it should be.
Oh Wow, it would be my late Dad’s 103rd birthday today. How appropriate.
Happy Birthday and Father’s Day Dad.

My Dad adored our cat WhiteFoots, especially when she retired from farm life to go and live with them. They had a very close relationship and were so good for each other.
KZ and AV, I totally understand how you feel, it’s been 15 years since Dad passed away.
AV, it will happen some time. 😉 😉 The most difficult part is biting your lip to stop yourself from dropping hints.

One loaded chili con carne in the Le Creuset and sitting on top of the fire box. My version of a Winter slow cooker.
I am surprised at the small number of posts the last few days and wonder if people are having trouble with the site. I know I have been but KJ has let Kittermaster know.
Shadz almost had a namesake at friends of KK’s in Canada recently but the stray cat which was going to become the barn cat turned out to be the neighbours and went home. She was going to have her own cat door in the barn and knowing the owner she would have been spoiled and loved.

JJ, sitting outside with lemonade with flittering birds around you. I am enjoying your description at the moment as it rains yet again. It is one of those cold wet temperatures that you feel in your bones here but the fire is going, ticking over slowly while the aroma from dinner is just making itself known. Lunch time now.

Heavens to Mergitroid! Wasn’t that a cartoon?
Yuck on the cold rain, but there’s nothing like the feel of a cozy fire to take the bone chilling dampness out of the house while dinner on the stove fills the house with a heavenly aroma.

My father (like my mother) never turned away a stray cat or dog in his life. When he died, a few years after my mother, my sisters and I had to find new homes for 7 cats and 3 dogs – and, of course, we already had our own households of cats and dogs. My parents also opened their doors to the children of a distant relative who was going through a difficult divorce, and to a school friend of my sister’s who had a dificult home life.

Great pics. Particularly love the football-watching cat. ‘ButButBut – I’m dad!’: Stray kitten Oscar tried to suckle from my old Solomon for several months. Oscar was one very confused cat, and Solomon was very tolerant.

Heaps of rain here – we’ve had approx 2 inches over the last couple of days. Now heading towards MS. Sorry about that.

Has intermittently been very hard to get past the opening screen; a bit hit-and-miss. Bandwidth problem?

Good old Snagglepuss.
Great story of how you and your sister got your cats PG.
KZ, yuk, high humidity. Our days of that were not all that long ago, our Summer continued well in to Autumn and then suddenly Winter happened.
Oh how wonderful watching the Baltimore Oriole nesting and now the babies fledged. Oops Harvest ! Gilbert ! naughty boys.
😥 😥
PM, sounds like you came from a home with plenty of room for sharing love.
What ! More rain for us PM, how kind of you. Hopefully it will all fall before it gets to the East Coast where I live.
Ahhhh, so you have been having difficulties too PM, I couldn’t read anything at all unless I signed in first, the ‘Forums’ button was not operating at all, even when using my cell phone.