Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Our condolences to you on your loss. We have been through those situations a few times. When we meet in Victoria next week, my daughter and I can exchange a few pleasant feline experiences with you. Permit us to buy you a dram of Lagavullan to help smooth over your loss. Checked Toms pictures, but the shots are of a different calico at his parents home. Jerry Mark Rabiner wrote: > To the many LUGnuts who have had the pleasure of meeting my longtime of 20 > years cat and favorite photosubject, Slides the Calico, she died peacefully > Monday of renal failure. > Which is what usually gets old cats. Their kidneys. She had gotten heart > breakingly thin. > Here is a picture of Slides and me a few years ago in which Tom Christianson > took in my studio. > http://students.washington.edu/tomchr/pictures/Summer2001/Portland/Portland. > htm > I think with his Contax 645 and transparency film. > > Slides and I shared the same pillow since my wife (of 25 years) left a few > years ago. Hard luck story my mom died last year too. I've said this already > on list. Everybody was sympathetic. > > So now its just the boys. Elmo the 100 pound German Shepard and me in this > photo studio household. Elmo seems a little wistful about Slides being gone > but does not mind being the unchallenged master of the household. Slides had > that title before. > I'm the bottom of the totem pole for sure. The runt of the litter. But as > I'm set up to be less "pack like" then Elmo it doesn?t bother me so much. > Elmo is into total domination. He doesn?t play with other dogs. > He wants to invade Poland. > He wants people to throw his ball and has never bitten anybody. > I've decided to not get another cat. I'm getting rid of the kitty artifacts > around the house/stuido but I'm not being obsessive about it. When I see a > toy of hers I don?t get all upset which is nice. > Elmo is 10 and when he goes in 5 or 10 years I'll take a slow trip around > the world in a nuclear powered hydrofoil. And not have to worry about a > critter sitter. Just a Hasselblad sitter. > > In kitty heaven Ahai Tuna is served on demand cooked medium rare on little > snack plates. > Although I think Sides would go for the beefsteak. She loved cow. > Give her a can of Aberdeen-Angus of the sea any day. > I fed her only beans, rice and brewers yeast her first years of her life as > we had vegetarian household. She was the smallest kitty on the block I'm not > sure if that's why. But she had enough attitude for a kitty three times her > size. She normally weighed 8 pounds. > I'll have a slides memorial page going up I got the Nikon 5000 yesterday > night to reward myself for having a dead cat and living to tell about it. I > buried her in my backyard in my pet cemetery. There was no 21 gun salute but > a few birdies flew overhead and dipped their wings it seemed like. > She had to have been the most photographed cat in the north west usa. > > Toward the end after a tough day of not feeling so well during bedtime she > would push her forehead really hard into mine as we fell asleep on the > pillow. I'll never forget that. > > But no anchovies for me please > And > No archive > > Mark Rabiner > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information