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Yup! Enjoying the sun. And it won't be long before the fire pit is going and they can hang out there at night and get a quarter of their diet in moths and beetles.

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Close to 60F today.

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All of them have done it back to the year 2000. I don't know if I'm the one that's instigating it, or them.

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I was surprised that there were cat baskets back then.

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Party time on Long Island in the 60's.

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Another unknown cat, 1960. Sometimes I think they just passed through.

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Wonderful, wonderful place took care of him for any locals - "Animal Heaven" in Hollis, NH. An old former dairy farm, owned by an elderly couple there all their lives. Woman told me they were married between cow milkings in the barn her husband helped build at age 14, then back to work. They have a small pet cemetery and she makes her living doing the cremations. When I brought him there, in his bed, she was petting him for a long time, and the last I saw as I was backing out was her firing up the machine and then going back to pet him some more.

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"Mee-Kesh", although sometimes I'll get lazy and say it "Mick-esh"

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Yes, mom named her. Not sure of the spelling. It's what Dad wrote on the back of the pic. That's how it was pronounced - "Berba-Lee". Or, "Berbie" for short.

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Floppy is home, on the right. They're all together again. Daisy, Robocat, Ivan, and Floppy. They'll all be getting picture urns like Daisy. FINALLY ordered Robocat's yesterday.

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My brother with Tabby, in 1961, He (or she) really did look like Storm!

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"Berbele and Tabby, 1962". Looks like Storm!

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1960 -- "Berbele and un-named cat"

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It was only about 35F, not too cold. The thing was, the day before it reached 70F and there was no snow!

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My sister says the cat's name was Tabby. A color pic shows he/she looked amazingly like Storm, and was very much in love with the family dachshund, Berbily.

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He'll eat all the raw string-beans I shuffle over to him.

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I feel so lucky to have been privileged enough to take care of him and his mother and brothers for all those years. He single-handedly changed the direction of my life, and he knew what he was doing. "Just a cat".......

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I'll have to ask my sister what the cats name is. This was a year before I was born into cat slavedom.

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Just found this in an old family album I've been scanning. This is from 1962. Apparently we've been cat slaves for awhile.

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String-beans on the menu tonite.