THE KID BROTHER hasn't been very cooperative lately. I don't think he's shown up for a single FaceTime chat since our visit in July. When I eventually reach him by phone — sometimes later in the day, sometimes later in the week — he's always happy to hear from me and very pleasant, so I'm clearly not on his shit list. In the past, he would initiate the FaceTime call. Since he keeps his iPad turned off and in its original box when not in use, I can't just randomly call him on FaceTime. So, I've suggested we try a planned call, that I initiate, next Saturday. He agreed to have his iPad ready to go at that time. We'll see.
Dudo and Moose, those other brothers, communicate much more readily... although sometimes with no more success.
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EL HERMANITO NO ha sido muy cooperativo últimamente. No creo que haya aparecido en una sola conversación de FaceTime desde nuestra visita en julio. Cuando finalmente lo llamo por teléfono — a veces más tarde en el día, a veces más tarde en la semana — él siempre está feliz de recibir mi llamada y es muy agradable, así que claramente no estoy en su lista de mierda. En el pasado, él iniciaba la llamada en FaceTime. Como mantiene su iPad apagada y en su caja original cuando no está en uso, no puedo simplemente iniciar una llamada. Entonces, sugerí que intentáramos una llamada planificada, que yo iniciaría, el próximo sábado. Aceptó tener su iPad listo para funcionar en ese momento. Ya veremos.
Dudo y Moose, esos otros hermanos, comunicarse mucho más fácilmente ... aunque a veces sin más éxito.
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| DUDO: "HEY! WHERE'D YOU GO?" DUDO: "¡OYE! ¿DÓNDE FUISTE?" |
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| "WHAT'D I SAY?!?" "¿¡¿QUÉ DIJE?!?" |
Gotta admire your brother's care for important things. Is his life otherwise driven by schedule and routine? The cats, look my oldest brother and I discussing the weather. He quit talking to me for almost two years one time over a comment on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteTravel,
DeleteHis life Fe is obsessed with schedule. Lunch, dinner, shower, bed, laundry... bed. Other things get in the way. Chuck used to go months without speaking to my mother. I was the recipient once in the ‘80s. Lasted 4 weeks.
silly gatos! but I am intrigued by that pix next to the cat climbing tree...
ReplyDeleteAnne Marie,
DeleteThat photo is by San Diego photographer Jeff Palmer. We bought in the ‘90s at a silent auction fundraiser for the San Diego GLBTQ Center.
Cat Cats and all their shenanigans ~ love ~ BTW is that a Mapplethorpe in the last pic!? Love it and the juxtaposition of all three!!!
ReplyDeleteRon,
DeleteNot a Mapplethorpe. San Diego photographer Jeff Palmer. But it’s also signed by the model who stayed at our hotel in Palm Springs.
He leaves nothing to the imagination ~ in a good way ~ winks!
DeleteDudo and Moose remind me of myself and my brother as kids, though they're fights are a lot cuter.
ReplyDeleteBob,
DeleteI could never go to battle with my brother, although I did take a number of beatings from him. Never cute.
Uh oh, cat with ears back... never a good moment. Ha! That should be a new warning sign: "Careful! Cat with ears back!"
ReplyDeleteJudy,
DeleteThey go at it daily. And often end up with battle scars.. before going to sleep next to each other.
Doesn't take long for one cat to get tired of "it"
ReplyDeleteAdam,
DeleteMoose quite often does the attacking and then whines like he’s being abused the entire time. Quite often we have to yell at them to stop.
Oh, siblings!
ReplyDeleteDebra,
DeleteSo glad my brother didn’t do this daily... like the cats.
Sort of like our two dogs (half sisters) - we look out and see the big one chasing the little one and then we look again and it is the little chasing the big one. They do this off and on all day long and in between they gnaw on each others legs.
ReplyDeleteAlso - glad you are not on Chuck's shit list; I bet that is a hard list to get off.
DeleteWilma,
DeleteDudo and Moose really go at it often ending up with battle wounds. And, yes, you are so right about Chuck. He can hold a grudge for a long long time.
I have missed you dear!!!!
ReplyDeleteCats look so funny when they fight. But of course, if Moose would just sit his large ass on DuDo that may give him the win. For at least a day.
Mistress maddie,
DeleteI have missed you, too! I told Moose what you said. I won’t repeat his response.
Maybe the cats are fighting over the Mapplethorpe pic.
ReplyDeleteKirk,
DeleteDumb cats. It’s a Jeff Palmer. Not worth such a big fight, but then families have been torn apart for less.
Now if THIS isn't a 'comic strip' in the making, nothing is!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a couple of 'actors'!
And Chuck continues his strategy....
Jim,
DeleteDo you suppose Chuck actually has a plan?
I do. Not a malicious one however. He wants to have some control his own life. And when 'things get in the way' he does what he can.
DeleteThe Cats are so funny, fight snarl and then were did you go ?
ReplyDeletecheers, parsnip and badger
Parsnip,
DeleteAnd then Moose eventually began to yowl from the other room until Dudo curled up with him!
Children, CHILDREN!!!!
ReplyDeleteRay,
DeleteThey still act like kittens.
Cute cats aside, I had to chuckle at "lista de mierda." Hehe.
ReplyDeleteWalt the Fourth,
DeleteI don’t even think that’s an actual thing in Spanish. I was too lazy today find out.
These cats are adorable even while fighting!
ReplyDeleteDeedles,
DeleteI know. And as long as there’s no yowling, I let them go at it.
Typical siblings lol, no actual scratching involved, just boxing. I wonder what changed with your brother? Perhaps a little more independent now.
ReplyDeleteCheapchick,
DeleteSometimes there’s just no making sense of Chuck’s behavior. As for the cats, they sometimes do each other damage. This was fairly gentle play.