FReeper Canteen ~ Music For The Troops ~ *St Patrick's Day, March Madness, and Comedy ~ 18Mar06

To: Army Air Corps

I'm excited and it sounds like you are, too. We have gotten nearly an inch...which is very good for our deserty conditions. WOOHOO! Hope y'all get enough to satisfy the cotten and wheat farmers up there. They were praying HARD!

2,401 posted on 03/19/2006 1:00:50 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)

I am actually happy to see pools of water on the streets - this is a sign that the soil is getting saturated.

2,402 posted on 03/19/2006 1:08:32 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

To: Army Air Corps; LUV W

Told you the rain dance would work.

2,403 posted on 03/19/2006 1:12:20 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)

To: TASMANIANRED

As always, you were spot on!

2,404 posted on 03/19/2006 1:13:28 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)

To: Kathy in Alaska

Thanks Kathy - #2274.

2,405 posted on 03/19/2006 6:17:32 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)

2,406 posted on 03/19/2006 6:18:31 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska (~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)

Good one Drumbo - haven't heard that since I was a mere stripling!

2,407 posted on 03/19/2006 6:24:58 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)

To: Lady Jag; MS.BEHAVIN; Dashing Dasher; TASMANIANRED; LadyX; EsmeraldaA; MEG33; LUV W; ...

Hello, Lady Jag:

Your photo has been whispering to me since you posted it

Katski, come out and play!!

I had spent the day on the Diamond Run
Watching bundled up Humans trying to ski is fun
And riding down hill on their shoulders, more fun than that
Because everyone wants to ride the Ski Lift with the Lodge's cat

It was a wonderful day of Ups and Downs
When dark thick clouds rolled across the mountains and towards the town
When the Humans wisely decided they'd had enough fun for a day
Then moved down the ridge in an orderly array

We all rushed from the Ski Lifts and made our way
Around the Lodge's fire place without delay
Shaking off snow and ice, when I heard a feline voice
Implore teasingly, "Katski, come out and play!!"

My ears turned to the voice and I was off in a bound
Through the front door. Snow swirled in the icy mist with a whispering sound
When I found Fiona, her fur and whiskers shimmering with frost and ice
As she leaped and plunged into a snow drift, her secret vice

Leaping and jumping from holes in loose snow
Soon kept me warm as I decided to go
After Fiona all around the Lodge and Chateaus
Our breath making fleecy steam in the silvery glow

When Fiona's Fun Meter had finally been pegged
We drifted into the Lodge, it was far beneath her to beg
For the Towel rubs and attention by the roaring fire place
Accepting it all with sublime Feline grace

Jack Deth~03/20/06.

2,408 posted on 03/19/2006 9:34:02 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)

Wonderful...you ARE the cat.

2,409 posted on 03/19/2006 9:38:44 PM PST by luvie (In... military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, idealistic, strong.GWB)

Hello Jack,

Sometimes (most times) you are such a mystery to me....;)

2,410 posted on 03/19/2006 9:46:55 PM PST by EsmeraldaA

Do you ever get tired of my being amazed and impressed by your wonderful poetry? I hope not, because I'm compelled to say what I feel!

That's a photo of Inga, who is/was one of the cats who lives at the observatory on the top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. They have nasty winters up there, but the cats don't seem to mind too much.

2,411 posted on 03/20/2006 8:13:28 AM PST by Lady Jag ( All I want is a kind word, a warm bed, and world domination)

Hi Jack! Thanks for the poems. :-) I hope you are doing well.

2,412 posted on 03/20/2006 9:01:13 AM PST by tuliptree76 (Tagline Wanted: Now Accepting Applications.)