[Sca-cooks] What do you want for Christmas, - a big black slipper?

[Suey]

My son is in the states but this year he did not ask me what I want for 
Christmas. I want a pair of Walmart black slippers. Last May when in 
Philly for his graduation I stocked up on slippers cause of all the soot 
here so I always have a pair in the wash and another drying.

Now Robin, our kitten, enters my closet every morning when I open the 
door to pick out my clothes and steals one of my black slippers size 7. 
When he first started doing that he was half the size of the furry 
thong. He triumphantly carries it from the closet as a captured bird of 
prey and jumps up onto the bed like a miniature pony with it dangling 
from his mouth. Then he proceeds to attack it like a big lion leaving 
all the furry black parts all over the white sheets =-O
until I can retrieve the slipper.

We have never seen a cat who likes shoes so we die laughing every time 
this happens but attempt to not let him see!

Robin is a real character at four months now. Yesterday, we took him to 
the cemetery as we must pay for the cleaning of the family pantheon once 
a year. At first he was fascinated looking at the tombs of all of 
Peter's ancestors. Then as we walked through the cemetery passing other 
family pantheons Isabel Allende's 'House of Spirits' started moving 
again. Literally the land started shaking under our feet here in 
Santiago, Chile. Robin got scared, so did Peter. . .
 
We went home.

A big tremor shock our house at about 1500 hrs and the land did not stop 
shifting until 6:30 am when we felt the last big tremor.

The last major earthquake was in 1985 and this year we are do for 
another so everyone is really scared. Robin was ok until the last tremor 
just after sunrise. The bedroom ceiling lamp swinging back and forth 
scared him to death. He jumped under the bed and would not come out 
again until it was time to retrieve 'his' big black slipper!

Robin is happy again, chomp, chomp!
  
Suey