My Wife flew to Dallas to visit her friend and her friends Mother for the weekend.  The flight is 'kind of' free (her friend works for American, so American does not get any money, just the feds and the airport which usually amounts to $100-200!)  She flies down there 3 or 4 times a year leaving my son and I to have a bachelor weekend, which is fine. 

But this one was different.  First because my son was not down this weekend (it being Mother's day, his mother gets him).  OK, so it was kind of a boring weekend.  And then she came home.

She called Sunday afternoon, and told me the flight and the time she was arriving, and inquired about my aunt (who just went into the hospital).  That was the extent of the conversation.

Then she came down the gangway.  Carrying.........an animal carrier!  Surprise!  It seems her friends father, who lives in Oklahoma, found a baby stray cat.  A real baby!  It is only about 3 weeks old.  The father, living alone could not keep it, and the friend, with 3 German shepherds, was afraid to!  So my wife said she would.  Sally is a cute little girl (yes, her same now is Sally) and we are bottle feeding her for now.  But she is very little.  4 of the other cats have now been introduced to her.  The Alpha Female (there was only 2 females before) does not care for her, but since it looks like her cousin, she will get use to it (yea, we now have 4 Mary Cats).

Sally slept most of the night in the carrier, but my wife let her out about 4am.  At first she was bounding from my wife to me, back and forth.  She tired of that after half an hour and went back to sleep.  Where?  Curled up on my wife's neck!  Her new mother!

So that makes 4 of our cats that were 'rescued' from certain death.  The other 3 are about 3 years old now, and getting fat and lazy.  Along with my wife's 3 'boys' that she has had for almost 10 years now, that makes 7!

I think it is time to move my retirement 401ks to Purina Cat Chow.  Might as well get something back for the money I am spending.