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mrmpa

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11. The cat is named Radley after...........

Reply to Bertha Venation (Reply #5)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 10:22 PM

Aug 2012

Boo in "To Kill A Mockingbird". She is a voracious reader (niece not Radley)and has a Masters in Library Science and is Asst. Head Librarian at the Library in an adjacent community. So I knew the name would have literary meaning.

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Just learned that we're becoming a blended family........... [View all] mrmpa Aug 2012 OP

Be thee ware, for there be dragons. NOTHING is safe anymore. Nothing, I tell you! AAAAARRRRGGHHH!!! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #1

LOL.............. mrmpa Aug 2012 #2

I've got two five-month olds in the house (siblings) - NOTHING is safe - NOTHING!!!! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #3

hahahahahahahahahaha Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #6

Ah, me believes ya thinks that I jest! Ye be doomed, I tells ya. DOOMED! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #7

Oh, no, doomed only because we're in the same boat! Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #9

Are you one of those crazy cat ladies? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #14

And proud of it. Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #15

The only pet I've ever given up was my boa constrictor (Lucifer Beelzebub) HopeHoops Aug 2012 #17

Remember, the cat thinks they are behaviorial scientists Taverner Aug 2012 #4

Woo hoo! Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #5

They're terrorist pin cushions from hell, but aren't they so cutey wootie woo? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #8

The cat is named Radley after........... mrmpa Aug 2012 #11

Nice. Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #16

they may live in our houses, but they do not live in the same world as us rurallib Aug 2012 #10

Just remember that you have dogs, mythology Aug 2012 #12

"blended family" sounds like Riftaxe Aug 2012 #13

If it doesn't work out at least she can just flush it down the toilet. cbdo2007 Aug 2012 #18