Pennessewassee in the window, by the alter.

Please meet my newest familiar. Her name is Pennessewassee. She was born in Freedom Maine. Not near the Maine lake that is her namesake. She became part of our family on 15 August, 1998. She is a tiny bundle of mischief. One of her favourite kitten games was playing eeek! a mouse. A person throws a toy mouse (exclaiming eeek a mouse!) she chases it, and catches it. Now this is the unusual part: when she catches the mouse she carries it to her water bowl and drops it in. She bats it around in the bowl (watching it swim?) then she gets it out with her paw (rescuing it from drowning?) finally she brings it back to a person to throw again and repeats her game.

Her current favourite game is fetch. Yes, fetch. As in dog. A person throws a stick (an unused hot glue stick) down the stairs and Penne runs after it and brings it back, only to have it thown again. She likes a little twist to this game best though. Relay stick. One person working on the computer is interupted by Penne dropping a glue stick at their feet. That person then picks it up and throws it to a second person who is across the room. The second person throws the glue stick, and Penne retrieves it, bringing it back to the first person (at the computer) to begin the game again.

She is almost always playing either with people or Penobscot*. They love to play tag together. Other times she sits with Damariscotta* and preens, in an imitation of refinement.

Penne's latest passtime is helping garden. (In the windowbox garden.) She sits and waits while I deadhead the King Edward Blue Elves. She then eagerly devours the remains!

Penne can also be a very meditative cat. She loves to sit on the alter and meditate. Her meditation really has a different feel to it then when she thinks. Which she is always doing when she is not running about. She will find something like the fan and think and think trying to figure out how it is doing that...

* Damariscotta, is a cream Maine Coon. She was born in Maine near Damariscotta. She became part of our family on 22 October, 1992. Her favourite pass time is traveling. She simply adores traveling. She especially appreciates the finer hotels she has been smuggled in to. She makes herself right at home. She loves all people, and she loves visiting or having company. She also has to spend time ruling the world. She commands and supervises all that she surveys with refinement and modest supremity. She loves to sew. (Well, she loves to help people sew.) Especially if they are using velvet, silk, satin, or lace. She is a lady who enjoys the finer things, with gentile grace. Of late she has spent much time training Pennessewassee. (She recognized the futility of trying to train Penobscot years ago.) Pennessewasse however is responding to training and can sit with Damariscotta displaying quiet refinement.

Penobscot, is a patched, brown mackerel tabby, Maine Coon. He was born in Maine near the Penobscot River. He became part of our family on 15 May , 1995. His favourite passtime is sitting on someone's lap, purring and patting the person with his big pie pan paws. If the person puckers their lips he will "kiss". This involves touching his lips and nose to the person's face. He is a huge big ball of furry love. Being up on someone's lap is his obsession. If you can get him off your lap, he loves to chase bubbles that are blown for him.

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