How many comfortable felines does it take to patrol a barn? Is four enough?

Life as we know it
And: Till death us do part (including, or not including: Our pets, ourselves)

DebK of Rosemount: “Taxman and I have a mixed marriage: I like house pets; he doesn’t.

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More than a century later, Diamond Dyes never disappoint!

The Permanent Family Record

Little Sister (“and Big Sister”) has sent us two reports lately:

(1) “In 1902, a young girl thought to tuck away her school keepsakes in an old stationery box.

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Riddle: How do you make a Guinness float?

Fellow travelers
Culminating in: Today’s helpful hints

Writes The Hastings Crazy Quilter: “I was in London the first week of August 2018. It was an unusual time in London: They were in the 10th week of a drought, and it was blistering hot — the hottest stretch of weather they’d had in 41 years. There isn’t a lot of air-conditioning in London, but I was doing OK in the place I was staying (the Captain Bligh House; yep, that Captain Bligh), as I was on the top floor and got a nice cross breeze. Even so, I made note of the pub at the end of the street, because it was air-conditioned.

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