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We got through that date and simply have had to be used to Lovey not being here physically. However I wish it hasn't been two years since we have seen and held our beautiful white boy, the one usually depicted with me in my Goodreads and Wordpress thumbnail. Ron & I miss him every day.

August 4: our anniversary as a couple (not marriage) arrived. We enjoyed it very much, getting each other nice and useful things. Ron got me "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Book Store", which I read more quickly than I usually read new treasures and I loved it! For his part, he was thrilled to have a new toothbrush. Happy sixteen years to us!

September 7: A month after came the four kittens' birthday. Immensely sorry Lovey just missed his fourth but it is accurate to say he was with us four years. He is remembered with his living siblings and they had a wonderful sixth birthday! I can hardly believe the kittens whom I saw born, have already become six years old. All our best happy birthday wishes and love to Petal, Conan, and Angel! There is an update from me. How about you, my reading friends?

Remembering our dear young cat Love today and tomorrow with all of our hearts. Today two years ago, was the horror of losing him to sudden heart failure. It would be months before we confirmed our suspicion and one of our only solaces; that he was likely born with a heart defect and heart failure is something no one can stop, even if we had acted sooner. No one expects a young loved-one to go, the first time they are sick. Today was the last time we saw his face alive and held him, July 31, 2014. August 1 is the terrible day we buried him. If anyone sees this message, support is very meaningful to me on either of these days. Never forgetting him is important, the memories being more happy with time. Carolyn, Ron, and our cat family.

Thanks for asking about Spirit. It's a happier date than tomorrow. July 31, 2016 makes two years since Love was alive, who is missed every hour! He was buried August 1, the two hardest dates in my life. I am getting less sad and much stronger. Yes, the rest of Love's family, including the elder recent birthday boys, are permitted outside in daylight hours. Ron & I trained and tested them thoroughly before letting them walk around on their own, especially ensuring they know to come when called.

Since they can be sitting in grass and trees right by the house that is lush in summer, we accept that they step out of sight for awhile. If I haven't spotted them for an hour, you bet that I check because I am a worry wort too. They are so precious to us, our cats. :)

I meant the preview giving the impression of "Bridesmaid"-like humour. You couldn't show the ghost-related scenes as previews because they are the best parts; including scene one! Classically paranormal! Melissa is often funny but a real actress, who did a serious role with Bill Murray as a matter of fact. I think it was Academy Award-winning ("St. Vincent"). In "Ghostbusters III" she doesn't strive for comedy at all. She's a serious scientist and the oddball character is Kate McKinnon. Melissa's only running joke is frustration with how her Chinese food delivery guy never brings a realistic ratio of Wantons in her Wanton soup.

My province doesn't come to mind at all? I refer to it all the time. The ones you peeked at on a map did not include mine. I also wondered which pieces of Canada news from the last year came to mind, as the other part of the memory exercise. Just any two things. We had not gotten back to this. :) Really sorry to hear about all of the shooting in the USA. Maybe you would enjoy our news for a bit!

What's the name of my province, frequently associated with cold weather but also an extreme span of the warm and cold spectrum? Well, it's the beach place to be today! We hit 37.4 Celcius, which is 99 Fahrenheit! We might as well be in Australia or India today! Lovely and a pleasure. :)

Thank you for being at least one, wishing our dear kitties a happy birthday! If one didn't know, that is why I share. That is how I celebrate. I mention a special day and everyone goes "Happy birthday McCartney and Spirit!" respectively. :-) I truly give my boys and girls messages they receive. I spent a lot of time with Spirit yesterday: longer in bed, picking vegetables outside, Ron & I sang him the song, took photos, and later, he and Conan relaxed with me in bed while I read. It's funny that our friends' two cats are here to join the festivities and Ron is off work, which is very special to all of the kitties and I. Suddenly, wild berries and a good portion of our garden need to be picked! Our kitties love strolling around with us will around home for all of that good stuff.

You can't leave me hanging about the name of my province. ;)

Oh, don't tell me you assumed this had anything to do with "Bridesmaids" because a couple of the actresses were in it. It is a FANTASTIC paranormal film, paying a lot of respect to the original "Ghostbusters" by also having great comedy.

Happy birthday to our dear SPIRIT today! Our sweet, vocal grey tabby boy is twelve years old today! We can't believe it. He was a special baby and acted like a Dad to the kittens when they were born. He keeps on lighting our lives. We love you, baby Boo!

I have never cared for the variety show "Saturday Night Live". A lot of great people came from there and Canada's "SCTV" ("Second City Television") but the shows were lame, to my taste. I only know the outrageously talented Kate McKinnon from her visits to "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". My brand new introduction to highly memorable comedian Leslie Jones, is the new 'Ghostbusters" film that my fiance & I went to the city to see last night! As an intelligent, discerning, tactfully opinionated person who is a "remember every line and every moment" fan of the original cast: I love this film remake and I love the new actresses remaking it!

It is time to include women in LEAD ACTION AND PARANORMAL ROLES! Non-romantic, non-sidekick, non-love interest, non-need-to-be-saved roles. If disliked a film or part, I say it. It's about whoever does it right; not feminism or anything other campaign. One we could have done without, an actor I like very much too, is Chris Hemsworth. *He* was admittedly even in lines said on film, only eye candy and did nothing to solve the ghost invasion. This film is fantastic, to those who loved Canadian Dan Akroyd's original film and to newcomers being entertained for the first time. It's a must see!

What is *my* province, Erin? I talk about it all the time! You have received mail from it. I'm unfamiliar with "Dear Zachary". I don't watch sad stuff; not even the news or papers. Which makes it awesome I maintain a general knowledge of world goings-on. So.... try two news items you remember related to Canada in the last year. There are huge ones; one just prior to your comment on Thumbelina's birthday. Also think leaders; we have had a lot of interesting news, far more worthy than hearing another word about that TV host, "Donald Grump"!

I am already happy to see you *thinking*. You used to waste more energy explaining "you don't know" than anything else. I remember being perplexed the first time I invited you to try a My Kind Of Mystery riddle. The clue only required you to ask on Google: "author hit by a car" and you would have seen STEPHEN KING. You didn't even try and I thought, "Really? What kind of mystery-solving person is this"? My best friend Judy, whose cats we are babysitting, harps about a bad memory but I have seen that she does is not focus in the first place and even tune people out! No one can't remember what they didn't listen in the first place. She takes no interest in details; something that becomes simple when you do it a few times. So! Name my province and a couple of Canadian news items you can think of, then I'll tell you the few I can think of. They will click for you like the provinces. (Though Lord knows where you thought they were, if not Canada). Nice to know you are from North Carolina. Ron has been there for work.

What progress already, my friend! Presuming you remember my wonderful home, you can name six: Nova Scotia (that's where I wouldn't have minded moving), New Brunswick, British Columbia (hosted the Vancouver Olympics in 2010), Newfoundland, and Quebec.... You registered with some less well-known ones, the Maritimes! The remaining four will be easy next time and our three territories are right at the top of the country. Not mixed any old place like in the USA. ;-)

Yes, provinces are what you call states and we have very few of them. You did name the main French one: Quebec! Yay! Cities from there are Quebec City (Ville De Quebec) and Montreal. Winnipeg and Toronto are of course cities. Which provinces are they in? I talk about mine all the time, you can do it! All I want to see is getting rid of the old "sorry, I'm no good at this" and just trying. Don't think countries: think information in general. Another easy exercise I went to bed thinking of, is to give me any news you heard in the last year, that relates to Canada. My theory is you say "I don't know" but don't try. Those states took me an hour. I was short 8. I remembered Blake Shelton is from Oklahoma and others came to mind. I thought of NHL hockey teams; anything.

My city is spelled: WINNIPEG. Skiing is not my thing either. So what? We only hear of things that are our thing? No way! Those western provinces are famous places regardless. The Olympics were recently held in one and an athlete died there unfortunately. Massive news. Many years ago the other skiing famous province hosted the Olympics. News items can be celebrations, politics, natural disasters, about celebrities and I have discussed many of them right here, or in blog posts I invited you to click on and told you about. Think like a mystery reader using clues! When you start tuning in, you still start to notice news about Canada and begin to remember it, firstly because you have a friend here. :) In which province....? And the capital of my province is.... spelled right, that is. LOL.

Speaking of this province, isn't it cool that Ron & I saw a young black bear last night? I'm glad you love my country's review page. Oh yes, really good authors. Which city is the series you like in? Hope your day is great. On the subject of great views and your Mom liking it here (which provinces did she sail past?) I would love for you to read the verses in my card catalogue and see those portraits. I'll e-mail the PDF sometime. :)

We should copy the last paragraphs. We were talking about a lot more. You aren't much of a mystery buff if you don't recall that you know my province! Next, you probably know which city is our nation's capital, which province that is in. Same province that has Niagara Falls and Toronto. Then when you think about it, you probably also know the name of our famously French province. That's three. Famous skiing locations? That is two more provinces. Home of "Anne Of Green Gables"? That makes five. We're no region: we are the world's second biggest country. Q;-)=

My home city is the source of Winnie-The-Poo. Look at the name. The Winnipeg Mint makes your coin money as well as most other countries', which my parents can see from their house. My city also invented the 9-1-1 emergency phone number! We are not an obscure place not worth knowing. Here's your chance to catch up. :) Try to name those few I hinted at. Whatever you don't know, go to my Canadian review page with the map. You will see the rest. I did the same for your country: after looking up Iowa and Oregon, I won't forget them again. :-) The "Hallowe'en" movie is freaky. I'll leave you and your son to it. I play the theme song at Hallowe'en and even that is spooky enough. I think I watched three of them and they were all I could take.

We all speak with the spirit world any time, of course but I love books, fictional and not, about people who communicate much more obviously with them. I have heard a spirit twice (Love: one occasion very loudly and undeniably)! I had a very strong meeting with a loved-one inside a vision (Thumbelina). I sat up from it immediately, aware of what it was. The rest of my life has held the same weak awareness as others. I sense energies and get impressions decently but not standing there and talking, like these books you mention! So I adore that ease of communication in books; except if they add a vampire. Then I'm out! [GRIN]

I have never read and don't recall seeing "Peter Pan" myself. Good on you to read it. There are tons of classics I'll be later at than you.

The layout if awful because it enhances other people's movements, which we used to put in the background and check as we wanted. But I said above that you get to groups just using the "community" menu. Look forward to continuing our conversation that was left off in your "Seeds Of Yesterday" book review. If you want to just copy & paste the last paragraph here, if that's easier, I'm good with that. Don't want to miss it because they were long, personal chats on various subjects; not to mention my 48-state efforts! I hope you find naming our 10 few provinces a breeze. However if that proves hard; times that by 5 and you know what I achieved!

A black bear walked through our property! I haven't seen one in two years. I enjoy a careful glimpse, with its stop brief, then going back into the forest. However I took inventory of our kitties and couldn't find Angel! So I freaked out, even if bears don't go after cats. I found that she was in our library building the whole time. When I collected her Mom, Marigold and Sister, Petal from our library; she had been hiding. Phew! Now I can think about what a nice young, handsome bear that was. A privilege to behold! They are probably nearer more regularly than we see but we saw this one. I said "Bear!" so Ron could enjoy the glimpse too and get the bird feeders off of their pole. He hadn't done it for the night and bears would go for them. That is why they are put away while bears are awake from hibernation (April to October).

That was my comfort with Thumbelina and I was urged to feel the same about Love. Seemingly born with a heart defect that suddenly blew on July 31, 2014 (keep me strong *that* day); I am urged to believe good care brought him 4 years into adulthood. Instead of the heart stopping in infancy. I was an equally good Mother to him so a sensitivity about longevity interferes less with time. I wondered why you said "they". I heard of a 28 year-old cat; I have not had one yet! Other than Love and one precious girl in my young childhood, there was no other death. Every other is still with me! McCartney at 16 is our next eldest, going strong. Thank you for remembering Thumbelina's birthday with me!!!!

I would never live anywhere but in my home and native land. In fact I am an hour from the city in which I was born and raised. However there is one province I would be willing to live in because there is so much that is special about it. I'll save mentioning provinces until after you get a chance to name our easy ten. :) Before Love died of course and rests here, I was tempted to move there. Neighbours were so noisy and dogs barked to such an extreme daily degree that it ruined our life for two years. I even looked up a property I wanted, for a good price. My job doesn't matter but Ron's does and he would be a hard sell. Before Love died. Now, I can't. I'm not ready to be separated from what remains of his physical self for some time. I'm unworried about distance from family because both brothers could afford to visit as much as they liked and my parents could stay for as long visits as they liked. That house would have offered space!

Pre-house buying and large cat family, Ron & I used to vacation all around our province annually and fly on a more adventurous trip every two or three years. Couldn't afford it like many people but have gone places a great deal more than others. Including ours, I have stood upon six countries. Our ties are about loving Canada, not unwillingness to move within it or visit other places.

Are your copies up for trade? I know there is a such things as some novels in this genre that I delight in. I may groan about them but my house is full of them. Picture-sharing activity to come. LOL.

Yesterday Goodreads all of a sudden changed to the new view you must have been referring to about two week ago. I dislike it too. It is true that groups aren't on the screen; I used the "community" menu and hope the rest of our group cares to. Secondly, instead of focusing on updating my own business as it should, I get a tiny corner and it is other people's updates that blaze across the viewing space. I see no way to change that except to bring it down to the lowest possible choices: top friends only and review updates only. If there is a place asking for our input, we need to say these displays are not what we want.

The day after Canada day is highly special in a personal way. Today, July 2nd, thirty-four years ago, a cat dear to our family was born! She physically lived twenty-one of those years. We promised her, in an engraving, to remember her lifetime throughout all of our larger ones and we do. I am sharing this because telling people about this wonderful family member means people are still hearing of her, longer than her biology could have continued. Physical limits cannot interfere with our love nor new people's acquaintance of dear souls. Twenty-eight is the longest-lived cat I have heard of, so here is her name still spoken well after. Happy birthday to you, Thumbelina!

On the subject of where I am from: it is Manitoba and this is July 1st. HAPPY CANADA DAY! from our country on its one-hundred-and-forty-ninth birthday!

Ah yes, two girls from whom I haven't heard in ages. They won at this time two years ago. Nina is a sweet friend who must have graduated as a doctor recently. I hope to hear from her. It's been a year. Rest assured, I will send out the call for everyone and sundry to "show me their stash" again! I love seeing where people keep their books, how many they have, how messy: I just love it. And would love reactions to mine too, piles I that I have to say have worsened since the photos I took.

Rain joined my first year of Ethereal. We enjoyed writing several times. I haven't heard from her since she was in hospital with infections 1 1/2 year ago. Probably no longer blogging. She comes from a Wicca family and sent me healing Reiki energy as soon as Lovey died, a fact I still can't believe, to look at his face in pictures. Such a key part of our family. Actually, we lost him two weeks after I wrote the last post above! July 31, 2014, buried August 1, 2014. Rain unbelievably got us through his funeral. She picked us off the ground at our worst, making us calm through unimaginable pain. I will forever be grateful to her for that. She loves helping people and surely helped me. She spoke of a kitten she lost (my Love nearly turned 4) and how she felt she had failed him; a horrible regret I had pondered before we figured out he had had a heart failure. A God-send person all around.

I think it is spiders and insects who are rightfully scared: most humans have a habit of killing them on sight. Eek! Other than mosquitoes, which will not shoo away and sending woodticks down the drain, I don't. I would try to get them on a piece of paper and flip them outsider the door. However if you didn't know what kind your spider was, with biting ones a possibility in Florida; no doubt it was scary to drive away wondering where it is!