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Stuff & Things

Blue Luna Belle

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Over 2 years ago, my Avon lady saw someone dump a kitten  in a city lot, she scooped up the l’il, 3-week- old, tabby scruff, took it home, and cared for it for a month.

She showed me this photo:

That FACE tho! 😍

And this picture:

OMG!

…asking if I knew anyone who could care for or foster it (she wasn’t sure of baby’s sex) as my Avon lady is actually, mildly allergic to cats…like she gets a sore throat/stuffy nose…not like my other friend, Natasha, who never got to visit me cuz she would have stopped breathing. 🥺

ANYWAY…Avon lady’s other gig is singer in a band, so she can’t really keep a cat, even though she loved the li’l peanut!

SO…I asked her to bring that baby to me!

She arrived in this box…
With this scrap of white t-shirt (her binky)…
and I put the fuzzy bed in her box.

I loved having this sweet girl in my little 2nd floor apartment. Emily was NOT sure at first:

“WTF is THIS?”
Such patience!

But Blue gradually wore her down:

“I will totally be nice, I promise.”

She charmed us both:

And she ABSOLUTELY grew up too quickly. 🥺❤️

My sweet love.

She’s absolutely tabby, down to her gorgeous black toe-beans!

Loved her box as long as she fit inside of it.

My baby loaf!

Pretty girl!

She loves to sleep on Mommy like a baby.

And to go outside.
Loves to hang out with me while I make art (has multiple chairs of her own, of course. )

She loves her Daddy, too. She wakes HIM up for breakfast every morning. 🤘

She is my perfect, best girl.

My sweet, baby Blue.

Blue, Emily, Family, Joey, Stuff & Things

December 2024

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  1. Coffee. Freshly roasted, freshly ground, freshly brewed.  The smell of Folgers, in the red, metal can…opened with the green, electric can opener, is a CORE memory for me.    I started drinking coffee when I quit drinking (1/9/00) and am now a snobby addict.
  2. Hearing aids. I’ve had mine for a month. I can hear the frogs out front now…
  3. The green of new grass.
  4. I am perpetually grateful for food that is made for me by others.
  5. The distinct purrs of each of 3 cats.
  6. Everything? Ok…trees.
  7. I was blessed to have a pretty stellar childhood, at least until the divorce when I was 13. Memories of growing up with My Brohim and my revered parents make me happy.
  8. C’mon! That’s a ridiculous question for a Librarian!
  9. The ranch house that I grew up in on a 1/4 acre lot in the middle of Kerman, CA in the 1970s & early 80s.
  10. Coffee.
  11. All winter light celebrations.
  12. Shonda’s homemade chocolate with cinnamon and chile.
  13. The ability to entertain myself.  I don’t know if that’s a Gen X thing, a la “I’ll give you something to do.” or just me, but IMO, when you’re bored, you’re boring. 
  14. Snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains.
  15. I have always adored autumn. I understand other places with 4 actual seasons, but I love when the rain comes to the San Joaquin valley in the fall, turning the golden grass on the hills to their winter green.
  16. My legs that take me everywhere.
  17. That my reinvention of me never ends.
  18. Dang! Another ridiculous question! This time for an Artist!
  19. When I pet Emily, then try to move away, she reaches out her white paw and touches me in hopes that I’ll stay.
  20. My Matt
  21. These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs
  22. The stories of my family & me. Like how they left baby me with my godparents while they went to Disneyland.
  23. Traditionally, My Brohim and I are in contact with each other on xmas day. Anything more than that is frosting with sprinkles, baby!
  24. I’m supposed to wax poetic about how challenges make you stronger, but I’m not quite feeling that right now TBH.
  25. Every moment laughing with Matt.
  26. Making art with acrylic paint.
  27. My hearing aids are  very small.
  28. A zoom meet with my Art Folks.
  29. Emily Doll Starr
  30. I’m very good at finding things.
  31. NEW YEARS EVE. I enter 2025 absolutely grateful for my little life.