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Catifornia Dreamin' Clowder

On Joon 20, 1998, a whole buncha aunties an unkles got together fur a clowder at Aunti Kim B's howse in San Jose, Catifornia. Aunti Kim lives wif herbob an Dr. Stinky, an they have a nice big Out wif a patio where there wuz lotza room fur alla aunties an unkas an d*gs (yes! there were d*gs there too! Aunti Kate brot hyoooge d*gs, or so we were told).

Sherry our Hoomin flied down to San Jose the day before, an she was met atta airport by Unka Tony (who lives wif Biker Coon an Wendell) an he had Aunti Fran an Unka Ray (who live wif Punkins an Puddi Cat) wif him. They all got into Unka Tony's big purrrrrly white catilack metalmonster, an after our hoomin checked in to her hotel, they went for a long long pritty drive throo mountains and woods an liddle towns. They stopped at a grate store called Purrsnickity (in Los Gatos!) that had lotza cat fings to buy, an our hoomin spent lotza plastic there. An then they met some other clowderers fur dinner at a restaurant called Outback where they ate bigbig fried onions an bigbig stakes! An then Unka Tony took Sherry our Hoomin back to her hotel and she went fast asleep.

The next morning Unka Tony picked up our hoomin at her hotel an they went for anuther ride inna metalmonster (we don't understand why hoomins like to ride in metalmonsters so much -- they haf furry strange ideas of what's fun!). This time they went to Aunti Kim B's howse, an they helped set up things for thuh clowder. �Well, Aunti Kim (who wuz thuh offishul Hostess [DingDong]), an Unka Tony an Aunti Micki (who were Assistant DingDongs) helped. �Our hoomin mostly sat around an tried to see Dr. Stinky an tried the food to see if it was okay. Some help she was!)

Here's a pikchur of Unka Tony and Aunti Micki (who lives wif Thistle and Shamrock)�inna kitchen!

Then alla Aunties an Unkas started arriving and there were lots and lots of them. They all ate lots of food, and Dr. Stinky's mybob made barbeekyew chikkin onna grill, an Unka Tony dished out his speshul biker chili, an even our hoomin brot some smoked sammun from thuh Pacific Norfwest. An other aunties brot chocolate cakes an brownies an froot tarts an there was lots an lots of food. And efurryone brought lots of kitty pikchurs to show off their kitties and efurryone oohed and ahhhed over alla beeyoutiful kitties. (Uv course!) Here are some clowderers oohing and ahhhhing ofur kitty pikchurs:

Onna left there's Aunti Rosemary (Alex, Cody & Bebe's hoomin), Stinky's Mybob, Aunti Momma Jo (uv thuh JMCC), Aunti Stacey (Cygne & Sebastian's hoomin), and Aunti Mary (wif thuh blonde furs; Muzzin & Giabetto & Zamboni & Smudge's hoomin). Onna rite there's Aunti Rosemary agin, an Unka Tony, an Julian (that's Feeyawnsay, who belongs to kitten Fergus now), an Aunti Misha uv thuh Mooncrystal Kitties.

Thuh furst pikchur below is of Aunti KimB (right) and Aunti Kate of Finn's Speshul Nip (left) at the bar on the patio (Aunti Kim finks somefing sure is funny!). Thuh second pikchur iz Aunti Mary an Aunti KimB an Aunti Micki.

In the middle of the afternoon some of the aunties (inclooding our hoomin) went to a winery nearby and tasted wines an they had a reel good time and felt furry good (an a liddle sleepy) afterwards. �So they went back to the clowder an had more food to eet.

Here are two pikchurs of Dr. Stinky (thuh hoomin is Aunti Momma Jo who lives atta Jesse Memorial Cat Complex).�Stinky wore a beeyoutiful bloo bandana fur the occashun. (Thuh pikchurs are all a liddle dark an fuzzy -- some uv it's our hoomin's lack of pikchur-taking skills and some uv it's thuh dumscanner at her werkoffissplace.)

An here's a pikchur uv Aunti Momma Jo all by herownself (Tally sed we had to put that in cuz that's her muther-in-wink!). An next to it is a pikchur uv one uv thuh 26 Anns (Major & Christofur & Mahler & Hunter & Schmutz's hoomin), an Aunti Fran an Unka Ray (Punkins & Puddi Cat's hoomins):

Finally, after a longlong day of clowdering, it got dark an alla clowderers left the clowder and went home. Our hoomin stopped by Unka Tony's place before going back to her hotel, and she met Biker Coon an Wendell, Wendell's thuh sleek black kitty, an Biker Coon (also known as Gato)�iz thuh fluffy brown n gold n black Maine Coon kitty. Thuh hoomin holdin Biker Coon iz Unka Tony uv course.

And the next morning Sherry our Hoomin flied back to Seattle. We were here waiting for her, and she was really glad to see us and be home again, but she had a wonderful time at the clowder too, and wants to do it agin sometime.