This is a tribute to best buddy, Mr. Feist In 1994 a friend brought me the ugliest kitten you could ever imagine. I was told it was a girl. When I took her to the vet, I was told she was a he. He got his name because he liked to play and aggravate me. We didn’t have much of a relationship until he was nearing his first birthday. He had been outside and when I got home from work, he came up to the back door, limping. I picked him up and noticed his leg was injured. I took him to the vet. He had a broken leg, so badly crushed the vet suspected he had been hit by a car. The vet kept him for a couple of days. When I picked him up he had a splint that went from his paw to just above his back. He was practically helpless. Mr. Feist was determined. he managed to take care of himself while I was at work. But, I noticed him wanting to be closer to me. Yes I gave in he sat on my lap, or desk while I tried to get my part time job handled. It wasn’t long until we formed a bond. He started to sleep at the foot of my bed. Wherever I went he was there. I rarely was able to get out of his sight when at home. This continued after he healed. I remember one day we had a surprise snow storm while I was at work. He had slipped out as I was leaving for work. I knew he could get into the garage, and would have shelter. It was after dark when I got home. I searched and called for him. Finally my neighbor who disliked cats, called to me. He ask me to come in, he had let Mr. Feist in and gave him some warm milk, I was surprised when he led me to his bedroom to find Mr. Feist curled up in the middle of his bed, asleep. He told me anytime I needed to go somewhere Mr. Feist was welcome to stay there. They even bought him a little dish and let him sleep in their guest room. The strange thing is Mr. Feist loved to watch TV. Mostly he watched sports with me. occasionally he would watch a movie. I recall a time I was watching a Basketball game, along with him. For some reason I switched channels. Mr. Feist turned around and gave me a look of daggers, as if to say, “What are you doing?” “I was watching that game?” One thing he did not like was Blue Jays. I heard him making a ruckus and looked out and he was being attacked by one. After that he was very cautious when he went outside. I moved one day. Mr. Feist and I had been there about one week, when he disappeared. I hunted and called for him. Couldn’t find him. All sort of things crossed my mind. We now had a small stream running through our backyard. Did he fall in? Did he get hit while exploring his new surroundings? Had he tried to go to the old house. I couldn’t find him anywhere. I continued the search when I woke up, and when I got home from work. My dart league was that night. When I got home about 11 pm. I heard a very weak meow. I started calling and looking. Finally I found him in a cistern. I climbed in to rescue,. We spent many hours together playing, watching TV, and doing my part time job. Mr. Feist always wore a bell. He lost it one day. He was so depressed for about a month, until I replaced it. Mr. Feist and I had been together about 14 years, when he developed a cancerous tumor. I nursed him for about 6 months. Then the Vet said he would need to be put to sleep. It was a hard decision. He was racing me up the stairs that day, and seemed to feel OK. But the Doc thought he would not make it through the week, as his medicine wasn’t working any longer. He said Mr. Feist was having himself a final good day. So after 14 years of close companionship we parted Exactly one year to the date, of his death. I was awakened by the tinkle of his bell. That is my BFF Mr. Feist Mr. Feist July 1994-Sept 2008 Views: 149
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Day Light Savings Time
I’ll start this by saying. If you have a bank and you have a savings account, would you not be able to have at least a little bit of money saved? If you went six months later to withdraw some of that money, and found you had none, WHAT would you do? Would you go see a lawyer, just complain to the bank, or would you have an alternative of some kind? I have been on this futile trip many years, and when I go to withdraw the daylight I have none. So if you have a secret of how to get that daylight let me know. PLEASE! If you are a poor working stiff I’d be willing to bet you don’t like losing an hour of sleep. A shorter weekend. I know of some people who have lost their jobs because their body cannot adjust to the change. People who do make it to work on time are often drowsy, an inability to stay awake, thus increasing accidents not only at work but on the way to work. Till Roenneberg, is CHRONOBIOLOGIST, (that is a fancy way of saying he is an expert of how time affects life). Roenneberg is staff member of the University of Munich. Here is what he has to say about Daylight Saving Time. “Our internal clocks set themselves according to the environment”. “So, our natural chronometers keep time with the sun, not the alarm clocks sitting by our beds, and this is the main reason it is hard for us to adjust”. “The social time changes but the sun does not.” Supposedly, (per our government), The change is to save energy. There has been no proof of any such savings. There IS proof, however, the consumption of gasoline rises. I know most of my friends have to be at work between 6 am and 7am. It is still dark. When it doesn’t get dark until around 10pm it makes it harder to fall asleep at a proper time. Not to mention, have you ever tried to get children to bed when it is daylight? Good Luck. Children start going to school at dark. Not a real safe thing to do. While growing up in a small town, one of the rules was be home by sunset. Now that would mean 10 pm. Too late. Farmers do you have more daylight time to get your work done? Apparently not I see many of you in your fields after dark. Do your animals know you have changed the time on your alarm clock? ARIZONA is the only state that has a state government smart enough to leave the clock alone, and let nature take it’s course. Now for some it is even worse. You take Indiana for example. Indiana is a state which is actually situated in the CENTRAL TIME ZONE. But during the switch from mainly agricultural to manufacturing, the government decided to align itself with NEW YORK, rather than CHICAGO. My friends there tell me a few years ago, their Governor, Mitch Daniels, forced them to change to ATLANTIC TIME, during the daylight savings period. I guess the people never got to vote on it and some of their representatives even faced divorce, It seems the government did not have the votes in the Capitol Building to pass this atrocity, so what did they do. They put a hold on the voting for at least a day so they could bully the dissenters into changing their votes, going against the wishes of their constituents. The result is Indiana is 2 hours ahead of the sun. I would like to see them admit that there is no daylight saving, merely a shift of time zones. EDT = Atlantic Standard Time. CDT= Eastern Standard Time. etc. You get the picture If we have to endure this hardship so a few wealthy executives, can have a little more time to get their GOLF in, then why can’t we at least have a truth in time law. That Is How I See It. Views: 629
