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Charlie got some kind of fight wound on his side which required a cone on his head for two days and nights plus a hideous scar and abcess stent. He was a pretty good sport about it.

His brother Dreamer just sort accepted Charlie's condition with an attitude like, "OK, what have you gotten yourself into now, Brother?" But the classics, Buster and Hettie, regarded Charlie as the Robot Monster and hissed and hid.

I'm happy to report Charlie has healed quickly and life is returning to normal in the House of Morty.

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November is here. Time to gather 'round the heat registers.

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This mole is sure one busy animal. It is now as close to my back door as it can get. The cats enjoy using the molehills as outdoor litterboxes, but if they see a hill moving which indicates a mole is active they just sort of bat at the rising dirt in a quizzical way.

Back in the 1980s and early 1990s I had a cat named Ahab who was a superb mole catcher and would deliver them on the porch.

But, I'm no lawn nut, obviously. Most of it is moss anyway. I say, let nature take its course and truth to tell, this is pretty interesting. In my 19 years on this place, this is the first mole to venture here.

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Charlie flips while the others think he's a showoff

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The Fab Four

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Just opened a new bag of catfood

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Chow time for the Fab Four

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The Fab Four Flake Out

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Buster and Hettie go into stone lion mode

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The Fabs Flake Out

Dreamer, Charlie, Buster, Hettie

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Hettie, Buster, Charlie

Favorite Movie Quotes: Buster

"That's it. We're nicked."

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OK, so I took a phone photo of a vent in the foundation in the front of my house. Then I put the image on my computer screen. This makes it an electronic vent, or an e-vent.

Meanwhile, Buster climbs up and stares at the image, forming a strategy on how to catch mice that might use this opening. That makes him an e-vent planner.

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Buster and Charlie, mentor and student

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Buster

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Man, do they have it rough at this house or what?

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The Fabs again

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The Fab Four

Favorite Movie Quotes: Singin' in the Rain

"Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh
Don't you know everyone wants to laugh?
(Ha ha!)
My dad said 'Be an actor, my son
But be a comical one
They'll be standing in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines'"

"Now you could study Shakespeare and be quite elite
And you can charm the critics and have nothin' to eat
Just slip on a banana peel
The world's at your feet
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh!"

Favorite Movie Quotes: Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

"Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans! No more merciful beheadings! And call off Christmas!"