RIP Charlie

A little over two weeks ago, I saw this sign on my mailbox. ...and on a whole truckload of light posts along my street and in the area. The main reason it caught my eye was because the weekend before Geordie and I were walking one street over from mine and saw an orange cat that looked exactly like this. 

Dead. 

It was on the side on the road because it had been hit by a car.

So I thought that was pretty unfortunate and debated possibly getting in touch with whoever was looking for this cat but decided against it as my sister said it would be better to let them think it ran away. My friend Rosco, on the other hand, thought that I should draw a picture of the cat I saw and put it on the poster for them to see. So I drew this: 

Don't worry. I did not put it anywhere public. I only put it on my fridge.

Last week, while waiting for one of the students I tutor at the library by my work, I was looking through the classifieds in the newspaper for houses for rent, and I found this:

It was at this point that I learned that the cat has been missing since the DAY BEFORE Geordie and I saw it on the side of the road. Coincidence? I think not.

Also, they are now paying for an ad in the paper and offering a $100 reward. So they really want this cat back but I know that they can't have it back because it's dead.

So another week passed and the original posters were still up but I figured that was normal because why would you take down posters when the cat hasn't been found yet. ... which it clearly hasn't. My dreams of not being haunted by the knowledge that I knew where this cat was (no longer in this world) and some family or child or lonely old lady was frantically trying to find it, sitting on their front porch staring aimlessly down the street just hoping that Charlie would come prancing back home, and glancing out the front window every other minute seemed to be becoming a reality!

FALSE.

Today I was walking home when I saw something that actually made me stop in my tracks and caused my shoulders to drop an inch or two:

ANOTHER ONEE??!??!?! COME ONNNNNN

For goodness sake stop losing your cats!!!!!!!!

These full page colour photos accompanied by a full page sign are currently hanging on a billion light posts and, again, my mailbox.

Now that it's a colour photo, I'm even more sure that it's that cat.

I wonder if I will see the grey one.

Watch for Nargles

I have not posted in an extremely long time.

Not much has happened. I am in Guelph and Geordie is now in London. I got a second job with a tutoring company so that is keeping me busy.

Last weekend I went to London/Windsor with Geordie. We went to Port Stanley on Saturday morning and then to the Battle of Longwoods - War of 1812 reenactment that we went to last year again. I love the trails in the conservation area there. I got to use my Fuji Instant Camera for the first time in a  little while so that was exciting.
Here are a few photos:

Port Stanley in the spring

 

Port Stanley Town Jail
Circa 1877

Climbing the bridge on the trails at the conservation area

We found this on the boardwalk  =)