Howdy everybody!  :)  I apologize for my long absence from the site.  Life has been full of many things.
I adopted a new kitty about a month ago.  She is currently sleeping on my lap.
For so long I worried that if I fell in love with another cat, I would somehow start forgetting Jeneen or that she wouldn't seem as special anymore.  But I was utterly wrong.  Velvet is wonderful, but she is no Jeneen.  In the same way, Jeneen was no Velvet.  They are both equally wonderful.  
I believe with my whole heart that I will see Jeneen again someday.  And when I do, I can't wait to introduce her to her new little sister.  I know she'll love her!  Jeneen was always very nurturing with other cats.  She loved to play with them, cuddle with them, lick them....  Jeneen will love having a little sister--especially knowing that she comforted me when Jeneen couldn't be here.

A moose cow and her baby have been hanging around our place lately.  I have some good pictures of them that I will have to post.  It was Velvet who alerted me to their presence, actually.  She was sitting in the window, gazing out intently.  
Their tracks are hard to make out in the deep, powdery snow.  But I found one place where the tracks were clear--under the tree loft where Jeneen is buried.  Apparently, it's just high enough that the baby was able to walk under it.  There's snow there, but now more than a few inches, so the tracks are beautiful.  I wish I could've taken a picture, but I didn't have my camera with me at the time and haven't gotten back out there.   

I need to save all my pictures to disk so I can delete them from my camera and take more pictures, but I've been having some difficulty with some problematic software.  Hopefully, I'll get it worked out soon.  :)
God bless you all!

I haven't felt much like doing much with my website lately.  In this calendar year, my family has lost three cats and a dog.  It's taken its toll on me.  After June, I thought I would have the rest of the summer to grieve and heal.  It looked like it would be that way until two weeks ago when we lost the third cat.
Some days I'm just weary.  I've learned a lot more about fear this year than I ever wanted to know.  It comes over me so easily. 
I don't know why I'm afraid; I know that God is with me no matter what and that nothing can happen here that He won't make right in the end.  I'm praying for peace and strength to go through whatever comes my way.  
Maybe what I really need is the courage and strength to let Him carry me.
      
I take comfort in these words, and I hope you will, too:
"But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: 'Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.  For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior...Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you..." --Isaiah 43:1-2,3,4, NIV