ready to defend democracy!

all three of us:



well, i'm not sure that they are defending democracy so much as checking out some critter on the patio...but they _look_ patriotic!

i should say - i don't usually outfit my cats by event.  this was just a fortuitous conjunction of events.

last night i heard angelina suddenly break into profanity.  i could see fred wasn't anywhere near her, so i was a bit panicked.  turned out she had a thread from her collar (which has been sort of disintegrating) stuck in her teeth.  so i freed her and took off the collar.  this morning i outfitted her with one of fred's old collars.

i've gotten perhaps a little neurotic about keeping them in collars.  they are both chipped, but they would have to be taken to animal control or a vet to have the chip, and the information pertaining to it, discovered.  i figure with a collar, people can see they belong to someone, and if the cat is caught (or, in my nightmares, found dead), it's faster to notify me (the tag has my number).

ANYWAY:  had angelina in a temporary collar, made a note to myself to try to get by the pet store to get a new one.  then this morning, fred came by for pets, and i realized that he had lost _his_ collar.  then the guy i usually work for on sundays called to say he had some other things he had to get done today, so i found myself with shopping time.  so i cruised by petsmart to see what they had...and they had exactly 2 lovely red-white-and-blue collars.  well, how could i resist?

so they are now ready for the election.  i've done my on-line poll-worker training, and have my manuals (which i need to read), so hopefully i am ready for the election.  and i hope everyone else out there is ready to go out and vote - for obama, at the very least, and maybe some other democrats as well. 

i so hope everything goes smoothly this year.  it would be so wonderful to go to bed tuesday night, knowing that change was at hand.