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Humans! Can't even get the Christmas story straight."
Snip was used to being pampered. He rode on Arthur's shoulders every morning from their apartment to Tilly's house, where Arthur enjoyed breakfast with his fiancée.
"Everyone wins!"
OK, as we used to say in the Navy, "Listen up, you swabs!" This is an archive post. My cats Sabrina and Marcus got all upset when they found out that many of you had no idea of how Christmas had started or why cats were so central to it. I admit that until my …
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It started as a Christmas-time gag, and then it became a runningChristmas joke. For a couple of years I used photos of it on most of the Christmas letters I sent out…but not all. My wife told me just before I mailed them that the ones going to her very religious relatives had to have …
I wrote this in December of 2021, and it is one of my favorite Christmas tiem posts. I intend to write sequel sometime, but just haven't gotten aroung to it. S here is the original: Arthur was an unsuccessful writer of dramatic tales. His plotlines involved so much obfuscation that you needed a guide to …
For the last couple of years, we've had a small tree that lives outside and is then brought inside for the holidays. The annual tree hunt has ceased to be about traipses through the woods looking for the ideal tree to shelter the nativity scene under and is more about wildly expensive sticks that drop …
Last night, I sat in the rocking chair with the kittens on my lap and my dog Max by my side. The Christmas lights and the wood stove provided the only light in the room. It was story time. I mentioned how when the kids were young, and other cats and dogs lived with us, …
We were setting up the nativity scene the other night, and Xenia, our cat, was sitting under the Christmas tree. Stretching elegantly ( does a cat do anything that isn't elegant?), Xenia informed me Christmas was the favorite holiday of cats in many parts of the world. After all if it hadn't been for cats the Nativity would have been an uncomfortable mess.
A few years after the "Shotgun Christmas," I was introduced to another Christmas tree hunt style.
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