Shake, Rattle, Row and Ollie - HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Ollie In his favorite Box

Ollie on His favorite couch

For those of you who don't know, Ollie was my rescue cat that I had for twelve years and I had to give him up when I went into the Peace Corps.  My niece and nephew took him in, in an emergency when a "friend" decided at the last minute she didn't want him (just look at the face, who could resist!). God placed him in the right home as my niece, nephew, grand niece and nephew love him with all their heart.  He is just thriving in that love and he has to tolerate two dogs, several horses and even another cat.  My niece grooms him as he does not clean himself and he gets a lot of hair mattes, she is a saint (thank you Janette!!).  And my grand nephew Will takes him to bed with him every night.  My Ollie is so lucky to be picked by such a wonderful family (Thank you again...Love to you all)...

Now back to Azerbaijan, this region has had continuous earthquakes for over a week now, not like the first day shakes of 5.5 and 5.4 but hard enough that the people here are still scared (or some like grandpa just smiles and shakes his head refusing to run out the door). We are also experiencing thunder and lightening and heavy rains (mostly at night) as during the day it gets up to about 70 degrees.  The Education Ministry  has decided that schools in this region will not open until the fall.  Teachers are going to school and are working outside just to do the paperwork, only 10th & 11th forms are there and they sit outside (doing nothing).  I still have my bandanna art project for my Kid's Klub.  So I've talked with my co teacher and we decided we will do it next week.  She will let all the students know and hopefully we can get the students from the other schools to come as well. 

May is half way over and I will be hopefully moving into my new permanent place at the end of the month, working on kids camps in other regions with PCV's and going on vacation to Georgia and Turkey.  And most of all enjoying the warmth of summer.

Life Challenge: Cats are Intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose...Garfield or was that Goofy!