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Flower 55

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Australian Finches

This pretty notecard was sent to me at college in 1980 by Mildred (my step-grandmother).  She dated it "Wed. Oct. 1st" and writes inside:

"Here I am on a very rainy miserable day scratching a little note to you to say hi and hope the weather is better there.  I know we needed rain real bad but I think we had enough for now?  Well, it sure was a welcome to the farmers and rivers that ran dry and what all.  I might have told you about a little white mama cat who has litter after litter and didn't belong to anyone although I have been feeding her and her three little children?  I finally was able to take her to my house and have gotten her to the vets along with her little white female kitten who got real sick outdoors one rainy night.  I'm going to have them both spayed.  Mama cat is pregnant again and got real big although Dr. Johns said he could operate on her.  This would have been her fifth litter and she is so small and helpless.  I had tried for about a year to take her but she was so wild.  I also have her two sons in my house.  One is yellow style and the other is white with big patches of gray stripe and a striped tail.  Well, so much for the new addition.  Hoping you can find some use for this little check.  I remain with love always, Mildred"

Oh we would definitely have found a use for the check no matter how much it was worth!  Mildred was a very kind woman and she loved cats as is obvious from her note.  Mama cat was lucky to have crossed paths with her! 

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