"Mom, for a minute there I thought Tailless was lost. Then I realized I accidentally put her in the dirty clothes bin. She was hiding in a towel I threw in."

Never a dull moment when the kittens hide in the dirty clothes piles. I've had them squeak at me when I picked up clothes to take downstairs. Nothing like laundry piles that squeak at you.

Bud continues to be an ear sucker. #2 Son has trained him to come to his name and just generally spoiled him. Forrest wants to be held all of the time. She will make a great lap cat for someone who is home a lot and can sit and pet her.

The adult cats are in sneak attack mode, trying to scarf kitten chow every time they can get away with it. Hope, the sausage on legs, is especially bad about it.

Pets are not quite reliably potty trained 2 year olds sometimes.


Today is

Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day

Fatigue Syndrome Day

Garland Day

International Nurses Day

Limerick Day

National Hospital Day

National Mushroom Festival

National Nutty Fudge Day

National Night Shift Workers Day

National Receptionist Day

National Windmill Day

Nonsense Day

Olde May Day

School Nurses Day

St. Francis Patrizi's Day (patron of reconciliations)

St. Nereus and Achilleus' Day

St. Pancras' Day (2nd Ice Saint; patron of children, oaths, treaties)

St. Tammany's Day (patron of democracy)

Woodmen Ranger's Day


Anniversaries Today:

Richard I (Lionheart) of England marries Berengaria of Navarre, 1191
Jagiellonian University is fouded in Krakow, Poland (oldest in Poland), 1364
National University of San Marcos is founded in Lima, Peru (oldest in the Americas), 1551
Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned King of Bohemia, 1743
Coronation of George VI, 1937


Birthdays Today:

Jason Biggs, 1978
Kim Fields, 1969
Tony Hawk, 1968
Stephen Baldwin, 1966
Emilio Estevez, 1962
Ving Rhames, 1961
Steve Winwood, 1948
George Carlin, 1937
Tom Snyder, 1936
Burt Bacharach, 1929
Yogi Berra, 1925
Mary Kay Ash, 1918
Katharine Hepburn, 1907
Florence Nightingale, 1820


Today in History:

Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome, 1328
Rao Jodha, a Rajput chief of to the Rathore clan, founds Jodhpur, India, 1459
Philip Lenzi places the first ice cream advertisement, in the NY Gazette, 1777
Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers; it later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses, 1789
The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15, 1870
Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, 1881
In the North-West Rebellion, the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat, 1885
Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, 1932
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin, 1941
West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations, 1965