These cute kitties need a home, too. A Bonney Lake, Washington, family has an emergency and needs help finding good homes for their five cats! The middle aged couple are big animal lovers and have rescued a number of animals over the years. The husband has leukemia and is scheduled for a transplant. His doctor has ordered him to stay away from animals. Christine's heart is broken. She does not want to give up her cats, yet it is a life or death situation for her husband. Christine tells us that her cats are all well behaved. The cats have all been fixed, have been raised as indoor/outdoor cats and range in age from five to eight years. The kitties are: Zipper, age five female, white with grey spots and pal to Spooky, age eight, male, black with 27 toes. These cats are best friends and would love to stay together! Ginger, age eight, male big yellow eyes, ginger colored. Diddo, age five, white and black. (Kind of shy!) Doddie, age five, female, black and white. If anyone can help, please email us as soon as possible! Leslie Rule's email address Posted by Leslie Rule on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 08:17 These cute kitties need a home. I really need some help from Seattle area animal lovers. A very kind bachelor wrote that he rescued a pregnant cat who had been DELIBERATELY run over in his parking lot. She had a broken leg and chipped teeth. He paid $2500 for her surgery. He can't keep his original cat, the mom cat, and the three teenage cats in his apt.The mom has survived raccoon attacks, getting run over, surgery, and unwed motherhood and she really needs a sympathetic home. She's spayed now. The two girl kittens are white--one with grey ears and spots, and one with black ears and spots. I will pay for their spaying, but I already have five cats and three dogs. Could three of you please step up and rescue these lovely cats--one to a household, probably. I will give a signed copy of my Omnibus to each new kitty owner! I just can't stand to think of all that poor mom cat has been through--she was a stray when she was run over, managing to survive on garbage scraps. Please write to me at Ann Rules Email? There's nothing like a purring cat on a cold and rainy day, and you will never have mice in your oatmeal, either. I know my ARFs will find a way. Posted by Ann Rule on Saturday, June 07, 2008 at 15:12 Memorial Day Weekend The days are getting so much longer. The sun is just setting in Seattle at 9 p.m. I always think about days like this along about December 21, and start counting down. And, yes, I said “Sun!” Sun all day long. I couldn’t go play in it because 3-day weekends are the best writing time. Everyone else is out having picnics and boating etc. At the rate I’m going, I think my next real 3-day weekend will be Labor Day! Did take a short respite today when my neighbor, Janet, who is Willow’s first “Mom,” came down with three Bernese Mountain dogs to play with my two. She had Si, Willow’s brother, Alta, her new pup, Harley, who at four months old is just adorable, and I have Willow and Yogi Bear, and Lucy, whose heritage is unknown. Five big old Berners on one deck. Quite a sight. And then old Buns-the-Cat (who thinks he is a dog) came strolling out and lay down in the middle of the pack. I just love my critters. The other cats, Beanie, Siren, Toonces, and K.C. played it safe and didn’t come out. But they’re showing up now because it’s time to eat. Good news from Oregon. Daryl, Sheila’s second oldest daughter (in Every Breath You Take) and her husband had a baby girl this week. Her name is Skylar. Her Uncle Rick and Aunt Kerry—who raised Sheila’s girls after her widower, Jamie, kicked them out of his house, let me know today about the birth. I’m glad to see those young women have some happy times. I’m watching a really good movie with Mary Louise Parker and Tom Skerrit . He lives in Seattle most of the time, and I’ve met him a few times. Good actor, and a good-looking older man. Can’t have too many of those around! This is kind of a Cat on A Hot Tin Roof only in Wisconsin. Makes almost anyone’s own family look pretty normal. :*) Still looking for anyone who ever ran into John William Branden AKA Jack Branden AKA John Hennings AKA John Jewell AKA John Williams—who lived on Long Island, Florida, San Diego, Gold Beach, Oregon, and Gig Harbor, Washington. Write to me at Ann Rule's email address. All responses will be confidential, of course. Thanks for the Dutch Baby recipes. I’m going to try them! About my diet. Well, it’s not a diet; it’s finally common sense. If you’re on a diet, you tend to fall off the wagon. I try to concentrate on fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, lean beef, turkey, chicken and fish, and avoid prepared foods, and frozen entrees that are so full of sodium. Read the labels and you’ll be shocked at the amount of salt added to food—if you haven’t already. Canned soups are loaded with it. I had my first dish of ice cream in four months this week, and it tasted good—but plain yogurt with fruit that I add is better. I’ve been drinking soymilk, too. I found some potato chips—Tim’s—without salt and I like them. You don’t have to starve yourself—but fill up with stuff that’s good for you like a lot of salad. My downfall is still cheese, but I’ve switched to Mozzarella at least. And a martoonie now and then. If anyone has some good ideas for low calories that taste great, please put them on the Guestbook? With Leslie helping me, we have the emails down to 830 now, and we’re gaining on them. If you’ve written to me and haven’t received a response, please forgive me? I’m trying as hard as I can. It’s a shock about Ted Kennedy, and a shock to see how bent over he is and how slowly he walks. I saw him on the Senate floor once, and he was larger than life—and I don’t mean because he was overweight. Seems like only yesterday he had a full head of dark brown hair, and no wrinkles. Yes, I remember the Mary Jo Kopechne tragedy, but Ted seemed to have matured and taken more responsibility. That family seems to be cursed, despite wealth, brains, property and good looks. He’s about the last father figure they have. We all have losses and sadness but it seems that they have more. Two of his children have had cancer, and now he does, too. I still feel sad that John Kennedy Jr. died so young. And Joan Kennedy is a pathetic woman. My mom and her Danish sisters were forces to be reckoned with like the Kennedy sisters, and it was kind of rough on the sisters-in-law that weren’t as confident or in control. I don’t think any of the Hansen girls realized how formidable they could be. I feel sad, too, to see James Garner look so old and in pain at 80. I think he’s a good guy who’s been through a lot. He had a horrible stepmother who blunted his life. Have you ever looked in a magazine at all the beautiful people there, and realized you wouldn’t want to change places with any of them? I know I do. Our own flaws and troubles are so familiar, and we’ve learned to deal with them. Oh, Oh. This movie is getting sad. I think old Tom Skerritt is one mean SOB, and the grandma is off her rocker, too. Maybe I’ll have to switch to Most Outrageous Videos. Well, it’s getting full dark now, and I’m going to gather up the dogs and cats that go next door, and take them home, and feed Beanie and Siren who much prefer to stay in the cabin. Something about girl cats wanting privacy, I guess. I hope that we all remember what this holiday is about, and that you are having a good time, too. All my best, Ann Posted by Ann on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 21:56 Sunshine! Hi Everyone! eally have Spring Fever today, and I've just been wandering around smelling flowers and admiring the Dutch Iris, Columbines, Narcissus, roses, and Bleeding Heart. I should have been planting my bedding plants, too, but I kept remembering I need to write like the wind today. As my fellow Washintonians will attest to, we didn't get the 90 degrees today the weather folks promised, but it's in the mid-70's which is balmy for us. I hope it stays warm until Christmas to make up for the Spring that never was. I need some help, and am recruiting all those in certain states who may have information for me. A man who went by many names may be familiar to some of you, although it's a long shot. His names in the past were John "Jack" Branden, John Williams, John William Branden, Dr. John Branden, John Hennings, and, possibly, John Jewell--or any combination of these names. He was born in February, 1945. He lived on Long Island when he was a boy--then in the Tampa/St. Petersburg,/ Sarasota/Naples, Florida area from the sixties to the mid eighties. He moved to San Diego, California, and then to Oregon, and, later, to Gig Harbor, Washington. He has worked as a tax assessor, a Naturopathic Dr. and as a Nutritionist, and he usually uses the title: Dr. He may have graduated from the University of Southern Florida in the late sixties or early seventies, and he may have attended the University of New Mexico. He worked for a company called Mannotech for about five years in the 1990's. He is about 5'10" tall, slender, blond and balding. I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who may have known "John" in the Naples, Florida area in the mid to late eighties. I'm also interested in hearing from anyone who knew a man named William Michael "Bill" Thaw, born about 1933, who died in Palm Beach in about 1987. He also went by Michael William "Bill" Thaw. These two men may have been friends and business associates in the eighties. Please contact me at the above email address if you have any information. I am the ONLY one who reads my email, and your name will not be revealed to anyone. I wanted to remind those of you who say they cannot find my books that they are ALWAYS available, although they may be temporarily sold out in stores. You can go to www.amazon.com and order them, or you can order them from any bookstore. The next book to come out will be MORTAL DANGER, due before Christmas, and a month later, my updated (to 2008) version of THE STRANGER BESIDE ME. I will add many incidents told to me by women who got away from Ted, and some new theories on his motivation. You can find a list of all 28 of my books in print on my website here under "Ann's Books." I don't have a source for you to find the hundreds of fact-detective magazines that I wrote for from 1968 to the 1990s, but all of my Ann Rule's True Crime Files series will have the cases from those magazines that are the most fascinating--updated and re-written--included, along with brand new cases. I'm still weighing a half-dozen possible cases for my next hard-cover book, and should choose one soon. Sadly, there are so many murder cases out there, and I can only write a small percentage of them. My new dog, Yogi Bear, is happier every day, and now I have three dogs and five cats. But I also live on three separate lots so I figure that's one dog, and about 1-3/4 cats per lot. I wrote until ten last night, and heard a cat yowling outside. I was scared to death that the raccoons had gotten K.C. (Kitten Cat), my young black kitty because he didn't come when I called him for an hour and a half. I took the dogs and a flashlight and walked all over my property and down along the water, and still no sign of him. Just about ready to cry when K.C. strolls into the house casually, and chirped "You weren't calling me, were you?" Wish I had Heather from Mt. Vernon here to help me garden. She seems to accomplish huge projects so easily. I am happy to see that a lot of the flowers I planted from seed last year have come back: snapdragons of every color, all kinds of poppies, straw-flowers, Calendulas, and scores of "volunteer" Foxgloves that grow almost six feet tall with white to pink to dark rose flowers. My kids all gave me garden stuff for Mother's Day. I just need about a week off writing to plant the new stuff, and that's difficult to achieve. Better get back to writing, now. Keep posting, because I always start my day be reading your posts. Your kind comments are so much appreciated--and starts another writing day off so well! Your friend, Ann Posted by Ann Rule on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 17:48 View Journal and Archive

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