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She's wearing the dress Heidi was given when she went to be a companion to the rich girl, Clara. She's made to appear like she's bisque, but she's actually vinyl. The dress is velveteen and is even more gorgeous in real life. Beautiful doll. I received her for Christmas in the mid- to late 1980s when I had just started collecting dolls on a serious basis. I still have her box,

P.S. We need a Shirley Temple flair 😺

Puff was the first cat my mother owned after she married. She described him as sweet, playful, and rather goofy. She was able to walk him on a leash like a dog. Sadly, he passed away due to kidney disease when he was just a year old. She was heartbroken. In appearance, he reminds me a lot of our current bicolor, Lucky.

He looked so much like his mother.

He's come a long way from the tiny 6-week-old kitten with ringworm (that took a month to finally eradicate) to the gorgeous guy he is today. He is outgoing, feisty, opinionated, and bossy and thinks he's in charge of everything and everyone. None of the other cats will argue with him. Felix and Sandy don't care and the rest are intimidated by him. He's chatty and loves people. He adores his huge bed, which is topped by my old pink blanket. He has two sock monkeys, one he chews on and the other he carries around while he yells. He then shoves it under the door so we can't open it. He's a jerk, no doubt about that, but I love him.

Peanuts was very different from Smokey. He was easygoing and rather timid with a live-let live attitude towards life. He got along fine with the dogs. However, he and Smokey were enemies. This was entirely Smokey's fault because he hated other cats. We kept them apart 16 years.

Peanuts was a German farm cat my father brought home in 1967. My mother said that Peanuts would have to travel with the family because she was not going to rehome another cat. So when my father, who was in the USAF, was transferred back to the USA, Peanuts came with us. Unfortunately, while his humans went to California, Peanuts ended up in NYC. We have no idea why. My mother raised cain about it and Peanuts was delivered to her by helicopter.

Peanuts loved lying in the grass, especially when it was sunny. My brother Steve took a large number of photos of him one afternoon just enjoying a warm spring day. I have included three of them here. I also included two photos of him with my mother, who was one of his favorite people.

Peanuts passed away in late 1983 at the age of 16. The move to our new house was too stressful for him and he had a hard time adjusting. Ironically, he is buried next to his old rival Smokey in our pet cemetery. I often wonder what they would think about that!

As you can see, he was a very large cat. He was two years older than I was. My mother referred to him as my older brother. He was fearless and tough. He had a pathological hatred of other cats, but loved people, especially women and children. He liked dogs and enjoyed very friendly relations with both of ours. Smokey and I were inseparable until his death of cancer at the age of 16. It broke my heart. I still miss him after all these years.

The title says it all. Gorgeous dress with matching parasol and hat.

Very cute photo. I love how the first boy is leaning up against his big sister, and how all the kids are doing their own thing. Only two of them are looking at the camera. The last one is looking at their sibling like, what are you looking at?

He's a lot skinnier now.

Albertina Rasch (1891-1967) was an Austrian-American dancer, choreographer, and company director. She was born in Vienna, Austria, of Polish Jewish descent, and began performing at the age of 14. She opened her first dance studio in Manhattan in 1923. She performed at the Moulin Rouge, in George White's Scandals and several Ziegfield productions, and also with Josephine Baker. Her Broadway credits include "Rio Rita" (1927), "The Band Wagon" (1931), "The Great Waltz" (1934), "Jubilee" (1935), and "Lady in the Dark" (1941). She did a great deal of film work and was described as the "only established female dance director in Hollywood. Her film credits include "The Merry Widow" (1934), "Rosalie" (1937), "The Great Waltz" (1938), and "Broadway Melody of 1940" (1940). She was married to composer Dimitri Tiomkin from 1927 until her death.

She's come a long way from the injured, starving kitten who showed up right before Labor Day 2021. We can't imagine life without her.