Meeting Gus Video, Meet the Family and an Unexpected Gift!!

Over the next couple of days, we'll share Gus' adoption visit with you. Yep, we took several videos (including two by Patrick) and snap shots. Also, Patrick has said he'll take pics and may even post to the blog himself, to let us know what's up with Gus!

Oh, and stay tuned, this coming weekend, we go to visit Abigail's Angels again!!

But back to Gus & Patrick. First, let's Meet Gus's New Family!


Patrick shows us a picture of Tory, who also lives with Patrick and Mimi. Tory and Gus will get to meet each other gradually, over the next couple of days. That distinguished gent in the background is Patrick's granddad!


This is Mimi, Patrick's Mom, my friend, and bald faced liar. More about that later.


Patrick, Mimi and Gus, having a ball.

Before I left, Gus had given Patrick one of his trademark hugs and kisses! I was hoping that would happen!

Mimi reports that, later, Gus and Patrick cuddled up on the floor of Patrick's room for a good while with Gus purring louder than an Evinrude. Finally she shooed Patrick to bed. Patrick has a bunk/desk combo so he's not allowed to take Gus up to bed with him. When Gus can jump up, he can go up. And, this morning Gus came bounding out of Patrick's room to say hello, purring up a storm. Is our little Gus happy in his new home? I think so!!

Next, the Video of Patrick's first meeting with Gus.

When Mimi and I plotted Patrick's surprise, Mimi insisted on doing the camera work. She's the mom, so I said OK and asked that she shoot around me. She said, "Of course!"

She lied.

So Patrick did not know he was being filmed at first and I didn't know at all (figured some hands, etc., but that's all). Had I known I was about to be digitally immortalized, I would have refused. (Probably why Mimi lied.) Or at least, say, put on make up, done my hair and sucked in my gut for the occasion. And Patrick would probably have tried to maintain a shred of his 11 year old composure. As it was, we didn't!! LOL! After extensive consultation with our Space Paws buddies at work, your corpulent author has decided to let you see the real us, since it was an awesome day!



(Oh, and don't worry about Gus' leg... he was stiff from the ride. You'll see him running and jumping in videos shot only an hour or so later! Tune in tomorrow!)

Mimi had told Patrick, early on, that they couldn't adopt Gus, which Patrick accepted with good grace. After Patrick offered up his allowance for Gus' care, she reconsidered but chose not to tell him. Even when he was very disappointed to read that Gus had been adopted (guess he was still holding out some hope), she simply said that Gus had been adopted by a good family, omitting the fact that it was theirs.

Hmmmm, Mimi, this fibbing business is getting to be a habit, eh?? ;-) Worry, woman! Patrick and I have very long memories and we are diabolically creative. You won't know where, you won't know when...

And finally, the Unexpected Gift.

Our gentle readers have come such a long way with Gus and us, in such a short time. We want to thank you again for all your support and generosity! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, we are humbled and you guys rock!!

I want to let you know that the rest of Gus' costs have been covered by my late Aunt Bert via my sis! Over the weekend, Lori handed me a check that more than covers Gus' remaining bills. There is a tremendous amount of work involved in wrapping up a loved ones affairs and I had expected Lori to keep anything that was left, but she said no, this was for the kittehs!

What did I tell you? I'm humbled! The kitteh blog community, my co-workers, my sister... unbelievably awesome!!