Pics of J and Sanome's terrible, horrible, no good...

...very bad day. We got these new pics of J from another couple who went to visit their son. Thanks! J is in the blue shirt.

Yeah, this is more the silly grin that we usually see. We love you son and pray that you are safe and that you are home soon.

Ok, Sanome (pronounced sanna-may, we usually call her "sanna"). For about a week or 10 days she has been twitching the skin on her back and licking and biting at her tail. It had a little scab on it that seemed to be healing. Until a couple days ago. She got quite "neurotic" with it and the tip of the tail was bleeding quite a bit. This morning we woke up to blood streaks all over one end of the house. It took about 15 minutes to mop it up and clean it off stuff. We decided it was time to take her to the vet. Sano has a new nickname now. We're calling her "Stubby". She had about an inch of the end of her tail amputated. Poor baby. Here are a couple pics of her new, shorter tail. It hasn't ruined her appetite.

She was a pretty long tailed cat so it doesn't look too bad.

She's still twitchy though and even went after what's left of her tail once. We told her no and she stopped. I think she may need a nerve pill or something. I hope the bleeding stuff stops. I've been making cloth diapers for our O and she got in the box last night. I'm going to have to wash several of the diapers. Goofy thing.

The word we hear from Haiti about the riots is that they are safe at the O and were hoping to be able to get some diesel for the generators and some bread. They assured us that there is plenty of rice and stuff on hand to last for a while. They still could see some burning tire barricades. Keep praying.