Re: Fwd: Narrow Crotches.....

Oh please - let's not start on raggedy garden duds.
Pat just shakes her head at my attire. Goodwill wouldn't take the stuff
I wear to garden in, especially in the summer. Bag ladies are better
dressed.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: F M Ferrari <fm4re@swbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:53:34 -0800 (PST)

>WELL! I thought it was going to be a start for a discussion on what
>pants to wear while gardening! You know . . . pants that don't quite fit
>right and may show off hints of body parts. Oh well . . .
>
> 
>Fran, OKC
>
>cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com> wrote:
>We discuss cats so often, I thought you might wish to see this.
>Cathy
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Resent-From: mailinglist@victoria-adventure.org
>> From: "Larry Earl" 
>> Date: Fri Jan 9, 2004 9:26:42 PM US/Central
>> To: 
>> Subject: Narrow Crotches.....
>> Reply-To: "Larry Earl" 
>>
>> HA! Made you look!
>> 
>> Not exactly water gardening, but a good lesson for cat lovers, and
>> another reason to remove all narrow crotches on trees.......
>> 
>> Two nights ago, sometime during the night, my smallest orange cat,
>> Kumquat, was climbing one of the Sycamore trees.
>> But he evidently slipped and got himself wedged into a long narrow
>> crotch on the tree.
>> Two small branches were growing vertically, and only one inch apart,
>> for about four feet.
>> I found him at 6:30 the next morning in 30F weather, hanging by the
>> hips, head down and motionless. He was so cold, I thought sure he was
>> dead when I unstuck him. But then he twitched ever so slightly, so I
>> rushed him to the Vet.
>> 
>> After spending a night there he is now home, and alert, but with some
>> hopefully temporary kidney damage, and very sore rear legs. 
>> 
>> I hope this may save another kitty somewhere in the world a similar
>> fate.......
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Larry Earl 
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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