Where's all the tail around here?  I was planning on laying some pipe while the missus is out of town!

Yesterday on my DeviantArt account I posted about Louis Wain, the tragic artist who specialized in cats.  Thinking of him depressed me, and what with Halloween coming up and my room full of kittens I felt that I was being crushed under the weight of the world.  I was walking into our supermarket and said, God, please give me a sign.  Tell me things will get better!  I looked down and this earring was laying on the ground.  Well, this is a sign if I ever saw one.  I don't know what it could possibly mean, but it's a sign. Encouraging. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210816-the-ancient-symbol-that-was-hijacked-by-evil

 Hmmmm....

Welsh rarebit or Welsh rabbit is a dish consisting of a hot cheese-based sauce served over slices of toasted bread. The original 18th-century name of the dish was the jocular "Welsh rabbit", which was later reinterpreted as "rarebit", as it contains no rabbit.   None.

From Nightmare World, a Leisure Town story. https://www.leisuretown.com/   Leisure Town is the brainchild of Tristan Alexander Farnon, and it's a fucking riot.  Welcome aboard.

  My picture of Yermak drowning.  Blogger lost the post I put up of this in 2013, and they will not answer or return messages about this problem.  They suck.

Monday night I buried a kitten. I was 'working' on my blog when our neighbor knocked on the door.  Ms. Virginia and her husband had a ceramics company during his lifetime, and they made the most beautiful painted animals I have ever seen in mass production.  Her house is a menagerie of these elegant little statues, I have never known such skill in a home based endeavor before.  She had brought home 4 kittens from her friend's place, the friend was out of town and she was going to take care of these little furballs in her friend's absence.  I heard her talking to my brother.  I was already wearing my engineer boots, so I went back to her house with her to see what had happened.  In the back of her car there was a box of 3 crying kittens, and one that was stretched out and cold.  She told me she thought that one of the adult cats had smothered it, and while that was possible sometimes a kitten will just die.  I know, this wasn't my fir...