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Hi I’m back did you guys miss me? Things have been pretty quiet around here but I think they’re going to start hop. Let’s see Breaking Dawn opens in the movies this Friday Jeff cooked muffins, without a oven, Colombia lost to Argentina, Jeff still hasn’t found a turkey for Thanksgiving so you can see thing are getting a little busier around here. It hasn’t rained in about a week so the river went from dirty brown to dirty green. They really need to start cleaning up along and the in the river part of the problem with doing that is that a lot of recycling is done along the river and whatever is left sometimes ends up in the river. Plus you have a heavy runoff when it rains and the poorest people seem to live right along the river. But being poor in Colombia doesn’t dampened the Christmas spirit. Hey I got to go chase a fly and piss off Ruby by jumping on the dining room table I’ll be back later.

Well as you can see Christmas is underway and its only Nov 13 I can’t wait to see what this part of the world looks like on Dec.24 I’ll have to get Jeff to go over to John’s house and take some pictures of our balcony. It looks like Ruby’s just getting started not that Jeff doesn’t like to decorate but he’s more into under the tree type of decorating. He says he’s going to wait a couple of days before he starts putting up the trains I think he’s afraid Hari will mess with them before Christmas, he should worry more about me then Hari I mess them up every year it’s my job I’m a cat. It looks like the towns are really starting to get ready Ruby says they have to start early because of all the parties and they don’t want people climbing ladders and such after a Christmas party. Oh here’s a little note to one of my readers that’s not a bell in the picture it’s my collar animals have had to carry ID longer then you guys.  Jeff takes the pictures if you want to know and if you want know, why he doesn’t show up in more take a look at this one, the guy looks like a blimp it’s scary he almost doesn’t fit in the shot. I think everybody’s decided to do secret Santa down here for Christmas you could go broke trying to get gifts for everybody in the family. Of course I won’t be included in that, first I don’t have a job and second I’m a family favorite so everybody should buy me something, come on guys a little catnip for the holidays please.

He won't have to gain weight to besanta this year

well this will be a sort one i have to go and hide everybody

is here to put up the Christmas tree I’ll talk to you all later

Ok  I’ve been fed had a good night s sleep woke Jeff up at 7:30 the suns out and they’re going out to visit friend all and all looks like a great day to be a cat in Colombia. I even had a pigeon stop by this morning to say hello he had to be at least twice the size of the one s I used to see in NJ. Most of the birds that I used to see every day in NJ are a little bigger down here except the ones that look like morning doves these are a little smaller and they don’t coo they screech and the turkey Buzzards that I’ve mentioned before are big enough to pick up a small child. Thank god they’re afraid of people and I think they’re afraid of me; at least they don’t land on the building. Well what am I going to do today while I’m waiting for Jeff and ruby to get back, I think they went to see Rodrigo to send Jeff’s Kindle back for repair (he sat on it OUCH) ,let’s see I could scratch some furniture or cough up a hairball in the middle of the living room. Maybe I’ll just lay around and  do nothing, I’m really good at that well until they get back I really don’t have anything else to talk about maybe I’ll catch you guys later.

You know I mentioned that Monday was a holiday well so is next Monday Its independence day for Cartagena. They average at least one holiday a month down here, yet they still manage to get things done although according to Ruby from now until sometime in January it’s just one big holiday. They celebrate Christmas a couple of ways down here. First of course, this being a Catholic country, is a religious way with a great many church functions. Secondly It’s an excuse to drink and party every night and day. Thirdly, and I think most importantly, they celebrate it as a children’s holiday with all sorts of events going on. As I find out more from Jeff and Ruby I’ll pass it along also I hope he will remember to take his camera with him when he goes out if he does I’ll post the pictures on Facebook and my blog. Its dinner time and I have to and make a nuisance of myself until Jeff FEEDS ME.

. The fires make the air smell good but they aren’t good for air quality, that’s something I think they’ll have some problems later if they don’t start enacting some laws regarding air quality. It would be a shame for this country to get like the rest of the industrial world and start suffering from poor air quality. Anyhow back Jeff and Ruby yesterday being Monday and a holiday down here(All Saints Day) they went to Ruby’s father’s house for lunch. While they were there Hader, Nelida, Marusio and his girl friend plus two of her uncle’s whom she hadn’t seen in a few years. Jeff sat as her 70 year old father and his 78 year old brother walked up the hill to the house. I say hill but it’s got a 30 degree incline, they had no trouble but Jeff and Ruby almost needed oxygen when they walked up. Elda, that’s Ruby’s stepmom, made a soup called Mondongo Jeff doesn’t like it so she fried some chicken with rice and salad for him. Elda is a really sweet person who raise canary’s and has a parrot, parakeets and two dogs, she just love animals and Ruby’s dad. Jeff really likes there they sit outside and the view is great they were watching storms  try and get over the mountain and  they would get just over the edge and the clouds would make the top of the mountain disappear. The views in this country can be spectacular but it’s all in the timing or in Jeff’s case if he remembers to bring the camera. Ruby enjoyed because she got to sit around drink beer and aguardiente (sort sambuca on steroids) and tell stories with her relatives. Well all things have to come to an end and they came home, good thing to I was getting hungry and my litter box need to be cleaned. After they fed me and they went and got ice cream the rest of the night was normal, that’s TV for a couple of hours then bed. Monday has started out rainy and doesn’t hold promise for much improvement. So Jeff, who’s not feeling too well today, is sitting in his recliner typing my story while I chill out by hi feet nice and warm. If anything spectacular happens the rest of the day or I wake up and feel like telling some more about what’s happening down here I’ll make sure Jeff posts it. In the mean time I’m just going to purr a little to make Jeff feel better and then its nap time

yummmmmmmmm ducksI guess he got upset with the Yummmmmmmmmm part