A good friend is a connection to life,
a tie to the past, a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
-Lois Wyse

Bud Beth777 is my emergency contact


My name is Diane, but go by 'di'. Native Kentuckian, Alabama is home many years. m.54yrs, two children, five g'children, and a li'l girl kitty, Darby, a 2yo Turkish Van (never heard of that one!). Our vet, whose shelter we adopted her from, gave us no warning, but after a week we knew something was up. I googled her breed temperament: 1st paragraph, "Put away breakables if you have a Turkish Van in the house." ummm... too late. Geeez, our tabby cats were sane! lol It's an adventure, but with lotsa love for our Darby aka "Dobbie-Dobbie".
Li'l Girl Darby


"ANIMALS... in a world far older than ours, finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, live by voices we shall never hear."
-Henry Beston 1928



I love... a child's soft kiss, lunch w/friends, the silence of falling snow, playing Yahtzee with Hubby and g'kids, heritage flowers, stillness of deep woods, puppy breath, cat purrs, flip-flops, cut-offs, 4-part harmony, Appalachian mountains, wintertime, University of Alabama Crimson Tide football; genealogy research, the computer and all its gadgets, apps, widgets and toys, & my ancient PSP 7.04.♥