I’m a little late getting this posted, but so it goes.
Cat ROOM. June 28th Two o'clock Friday
'starved we are Precious, yes.'
Still five cats (and the same five) as last week:
MAVERICK & GOOSE,
SMOKEY & JACK
and JANE MARIE (our semi-seniors)
They ate as if not fed since day before, and this seems to have been the case.
So after they gave due attention to their food bowls they wanted out and wanted attention.
We had many viewers. Janice shared information to several about volunteering.
As for the individual cats,
JANE MARIE wanted OUT. And Attention. And Games, esp crinkly paper and string. She and I were buddies today, and spent a lot of time together. She let me know the string game met with her demanding standards. I'd say she has an ounce of pounce for every pound of cat.
SMOKEY AND JACK.
Our young and lively pair liked the string game and also as much of the crinkly as they had time with. Smokey bites paper (some cats do, but it's fairly rare). Late in the shift, Smokey and Jack showed great enthusiasm for the laser pointer.
misc
Jane (and Jack) showing an interest in Outside. Unfortunately too many dogs in the store today and we decided to err on the side of caution.
Chatted with one visitor who identified herself as a fellow volunteer from the Tukwila cat room. Didn't think to ask her name.
HEALTH concerns.
Jane Marie: spilled cat litter all over the place. Despite this there didn't seem to be much of it.
We worked on her ears some more; think they look much better now.
--John & Janice
1 comment:
Hi Mr. Rateliff,
I just finished a read through of the History of the Hobbit. I had a couple of questions about Beorn, I would like to ask. I was always curious to his size, and I noticed you didn't make any assumptions there. Based off Bilbo's description, and my own measurements and extrapolation, Beorn would have to have been 11-12 feet tall. Is there any thought that Beorn may have been a giant, or descended from such when giants were a big people in the legendarium related to humans in the way hobbits are as a small people?
Is there any chance Beorn could have been a being like Tulkas in middle earth in the lessened form of a man in the way that the Istari were lessened? I know one of the great things about reading Tolkien is they his writing stokes the imagination. When I read the Hobbit as a child, and again as an adult, Beorn still seems a mystery to me. He is a being that Gandalf clearly respects and at the Battle of Five armies, it seems as if he was the famous Tolkien U-catastrophe. All seemed lost until his arrival and the strength and ferocity of his arrival was also accompanied by his roars sounding with the power of guns and thunder, an almost similitude to the sound of heaven in the book of Revelations.
Anyway, I loved your books and appearance on the Hobbit movies extended material! Thanks!
Walt
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