MOBY DICK BROWNING

happy birthday to you

happy birthday to you

happy birthday to moby

happy birthday to you

a pictorial view over the past five years

mister moby dick

one sweet boy!!

FOURTEEN SLEEPS LEFT IN CANADA

That's right

Fourteen sleeps in our cozy  flannel covered bed before heading to the

 US of A

to the warmth of the 

Arizona sun

Graham and his Dad went up the mountain to retrieve his trail camera

They walked 75 to 100 feet into the woods

Picking up the camera

They stopped by Rapnik Lake

Lots of tracks

Elk

Deer

Moose

Also a huge hornet's nest!

Iris......Jennifer's cat downstairs at the shack

Little photo of Joe and I taken Christmas 1963

Just became engaged!

Jen spent the week with us at the shack

We left her each night and slept up at the big house

She had 4 cats and 2 dogs to keep her company

Ha.....Gwendolyn came with us!

Iris seemed to be everywhere

Jen didn't think she ever slept

On the trail going up to Munson Mountain

This was a first for us .........

Beautiful pine tree

Whenever I look up it reminds me of a children's morning show

that our children watched

The giant would say......

Look up Look up

Lyndsay remembers..........

It was called 

The Friendly Giant

View from Munson Mountain looking over to the city of Penticton

Looking up the lake towards Graham and Lyndsay's home 

Interesting about sunsets

At the cottage between spring and fall we see the different spots where the sun sets 

Saturday morning Papa Graham Ethan Garen and Granny went out to the SACA

The owl rehabilitation centre

Here we have burrowing owls

On the drive home Graham spotted Rocky Mountain Big Horns 

Up the mountain road we went

Beau would have driven by the lake each day on his way to Osoyoos for hockey practice

A herd on the side of the mountain

A stop at Tickleberry's for ice cream

Strawberry and Mint Chocolate

This morning's view of the vineyard

In a few weeks we will be seeing this view

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Just two photos of interest

(I think)

I sent a parcel to Beau in New Jersey

The lady at the post office had a fine time 'decorating' the parcel with 

CANADIAN HOCKEY STAMPS

When I got out my down jacket I found this attached

Beau's hockey pin from 'way back when'

Beau said it had to have been at least 11 years ago that he received the pin

The pin will stay right where I put it!

HONORABLE CAT

Honorable Cat

I am Cat.

I am honorable.

I have pride.

I have dignity.

And I have a memory.

For I am older than you.

I am older than Gods; the Tree Gods, the Stone Gods,

the thunder and lightning and the Sun  Gods

And your God of love.

I too can love

But with only half a heart

And that I offer you.

Accept what I am able to give

For were I to give you all

I could not bear your inevitable treachery.

Let us remain honorable friends.

Paul Gallico

Garen and Oscar

Oscar came to the O'Rourke's as small kitten

from a farm up the road

WeiQuay an O'Rourke cat

Sadie a Browning cat

Stephanie found her walking the streets of Sarnia

Took her to the Humane Society then adopted her

Susie at the cottage

We found her at the Humane Society in Chatham

Sadie living in Arizona

Elliot and Susie visiting the Schroeder family in Connecticut

A Brister/Buchanan cat

Linda Stothers' cat Fionna

Elliot O'Rourke

Susie...................ol' blue eyes

Susie is now 20

Susie was found wandering near the 401 outside of Chatham

Gray cat

A feral cat

He lived outside our home on College Ave. for years

Curtis made him a house that sat on the back porch

Sweet Pea

An O'Rourke cat

She came from the BCSPCA in Penticton

Bing 

He traveled from Nova Scotia to Stag Island as a kitten

Gail Thomas' cat Macy

Cat sitting on a fence in New Zealand

Cat at the Greek Monastery near Florence Arizona

Day trip with John and Charlene Pleasence

Dadcu Thomas made this rocking horse for Ethan

Sweet Pea almost going for a ride.........

Tobin

Jennifer's cat

Rescue cat from Whistler

(Whistler Animal Galore)

An American cat

David Schroeder brought her indoors from the freezing cold of the Oregon winter

I call her 

CAT

because I can never remember her name!

She is now a Connecticut cat

Nash...............a Brister/Buchanan cat

He was 'shipped' to them from Alberta

a family thing!

Iris

She was brought to WAG as a two week old kitten

Her Mother had died

She belongs to Jennifer

Iris with Stella who is also a rescue cat from Squamish

Ah.....can always count on Bing to come running when I am making the bed or changing the sheets

NEVER FAILS........

Susan Jeffrey's cat

Susan has had many a cat or kitten arrive at her door

Isis

People seem to know that Stephanie Brister is a cat lover

The beautiful Iris

She is a domestic cat

Must have Siamese in her genes

LIFE IS GOOD FOR THE CATS

THE LAST LAUGH

My friend Kathy gave me a book of animal poems that she collected and hand wrote

for my birthday December 27, 1992

the poem

Honorable Cats

was taken from the book

a treasure indeed.........