When we were out west, we did not spend money on typical tourist-type keepsakes. We wanted to get something that the children would really enjoy and cherish for a very long time. We purchased all of our keepsakes at antique stores along the way and we waited until we found just the right item before making a purchase.
We bought each of the boys an antique wooden and metal gun. These are great guys for pretend play because they look real enough, but obviously aren't, and they boys love them. Ironically, they were made in Tennessee and we drove 6000 miles to purchase them out west!
We bought Hannah an antique little doll that she just fell in love with. It came with a few clothes (handmade mostly) and she takes great care of this little doll. I think it will be a keepsake she will treasure for always.
Then, Sarah selected an old quill pen and a bottle of ink from an antique store in Minnesota, I think. All the states have begun to run together. Anyway, I was kind of nervous about this purchase because it was toward the beginning of our trip and I really didn't like the idea of traveling for six weeks in a cramped van with a little glass bottle of black INK. Ultimately we made it home with the ink intact.
Yesterday Sarah was using her ink to write out some miniature Christmas cards and apparently last night she screwed the lid on sideways. Now our goofy cats have this HORRIBLE habit of jumping on our table and knocking over anything that can be knocked over - glasses full of drink, cups of pencils, bottles of ink... So, you can imagine that when this bottle was knocked over, which of course it was, and the lid was not screwed on correctly, ink spilled everywhere.
I woke up this morning to a huge spot of black ink on my kitchen table. To make it worse, the spill was over the part of the table where you add the leaf so it dripped onto the floor below the table as well. And then, as if it couldn't possibly get ANY worse, the curious cat must have walked all in the ink (evidenced by black paw prints everywhere).
SO, now I have a trail of little black paw prints all the way across my WHITE wooden kitchen floor. These prints lead directly into our living room, which is the only room in our house with carpet. The little paw prints go all the way across our light colored carpet in our living room and lead into my bedroom on the other side, where they finally disappear. (Apparently the kitchen floor and living room carpet soaked up most of the ink.)
Does anyone want a cat? She has already had her shots, been spayed, and been paw-printed.
Sonya
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Dec. 21, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by BrennaM
That is funny! (Well not so much but cute!) My cat does things like that too!