the fires came nowhere near me

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

I have a hundred or so msgs to go before being caught up on OT (and a
WEEK of msgs I haven't even started yet on main list) but I don't 
have time to finish before leaving home for a lecture about
archaeology about  first inhabitants of California ... so here are
some replies to what I've read so far:

Stasia wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/19100 :

<< Yup. The pound is the best place to find fun and loving 
companions. >>

My cats come from no-kill shelters (the late Nan and Obi) or from
people who had to give away their cats (Sasha and Elway) or people 
who rescued a feral cat's litter (Taliesin and Pixy) or wandered in 
on their own (Cinnamon and Fancy), but I am terribly reluctant to go
get a cat at the pound, because, altho' I would be saving one life, I
would feel so awful about all the other cats I was leaving to be killed.

Yolande's post
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/19147 had the
following appended to it:

<< Lèche-vitrine ou lèche-écran? Yahoo! Magasinage. >>

Does that mean 'glass milk or screen milk"?

Cindy C wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/19196 :

<< The most exciting thing is that I saw a dress in a store that was
so weird and bizarre that I tried it on. It was black, floor-length,
with that whale bone rib stuff along the torso (man, that stuff is
uncomfortable -- how did women *sit*?). >>

In extreme cases, they didn't. They leaned against slanted boards
propped against the wall.

<< Then it kind of created this alluring, curvy mermaid kind of thing
in the hips. >>

Ah, Morticia Addams costume. Seasonal (Halloween) merchandise.