Portrait of me taking out the trash at the agriturismo

Oh, I thought maybe you were taking up the sport of herding cats. ;-)

and, "awwww! how cute!"

Actually, you may want to stay a little while longer, so you can spit at Doug Kmiec as he flies to Malta to take up his new post as Ambassador there.

Sometime after reading this entry tonight, I clicked on one of your blog pictures and wound up in your Flickr album. As I looked through the photos, Patirica Gonzalez' question -- are you a cat lover, or do you prefer dogs? -- popped into my mind. When you go through your photos, I think you are going to be a dog owner if at all possible. The photos of MIchael with the dogs are my very favorites. They seem to like him as much as he likes them. Of course, I recommend owning some of each. When they live together, they get along fine and they are never lonely if their people are not around. We have cats chasing cats sometimes, but never dogs chasing cats. One dog is the peacemaker and just will not allow fighting. BTW, those kitties looked as if they needed some Cat Chow or Fancy Feast. I hope you gave them a treat or two or three.