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 a burnt offering to my lady the local fluffy red and black girl-kitty from next door

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#cat #beef #espetada #bbq #madeira

obviously not actually bbq kitty lol 
 Kitty! I see a full size cat! 
 fluffy, medium hair... i'm pretty sure it's female because only females have black and red colour (the color is carried in the X chromasome only), i'm kinda fond of that whole black and red thing, in dogs it's called brindle

i left some snacks out for her the other day and i guess it was her because she came back when she smelled bbq so she's learning that bbq means generous human with beef offerings may offer beef

i hope to have her wandering in and out at some point, i'm not gonna own a cat until i own the land the cat is attached to but i can at least charm one that is attached to the land nearby 
 I've heard that cats are hard to adjust to new places, so that's good. I always enjoyed renting in households that had permanent resident pets. 

I lived in a place that had a brown lab called Argus, a tortoise, and maybe a cat, can't remember. The tortoise would spend his time in the garden or some corner of the terrace. 

I'm sure there was a cat to keep out the mice. 

Speaking of stripes on a cat, I saw a cat with gray and silver stripes on its head and shoulders, and then fluffy mixed gray fur on the rest of it. I never saw a cat with half/half before. 

Unless it was a sliver striped cat that got its butt in a cinder pile. I think it was a wild cat in Austin by the bushy tail and unkempt air. A survivor from our coyotes. 
 that sounds like a typical russian blue cross

i had one like that, he had a lot of white, and silver, and grey, i called him "Hochi" and he was born in my apartment as i brought the mother in knowing she was pregnant and she was half or quarter russian... this was not long after a lot of ukrainians had showed up in Varna when i was there

i decided to leave Hochi to the neighbourhood also... his two siblings both died very early because i didn't know how important it was to keep them warm, i could have i just didn't know, i was too nervous about mamma being anxious but ... oh well... the two carcasses got stuck in the freezer and when solid were sent out to a sailor's grave in the black sea, poor dears

russian blue cats are a distinct colour but it is a variant of grey, there is also many multicolour breeds, but mostly black and red is definitely almost always female, same as your classic tourtoiseshell 
 In the freezer, ey. I don't know how you wrench out a chuckle from unknown corners of my sense of humor.  
 i had two little helpless animals basically die of hypothermia in my house two years ago, and that was 6 months after having a cat die next to me while i was trying to keep it alive after a paralysis tick

i refuse to die, at this point, and so when things seem rough, i try to chuckle, and when things are ok, i make wry jokes and see the irony in everything

gonna try to do my best to be a joker anyway, i was quite proud to get on a list called "jester" recently... people like to read my stuff because in between the wtf is lots of silly lols 
 haha yeah, this place was cheaply constructed but it's also mild climate here and i appreciate the sound of rain on my roof 
 rain on roofs is beautiful like well tuned church bells 
 haha, are the wallnuts the kind that turn black and kinda stain things?