Too many photos! Jeddie's Photo book (Murphy pix added)

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Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

Sheila & Beau GA & Jeddie GA

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I finished Murphy and Charlotte's book and started on Jeddie's. First step was going through the folders of photos I have and copying the "best" ones into a new folder for editing. For Murphy, I had 125 photos (15 years) - too many. For Charlotte, I had 65 (18+ years) - about right. For Jeddie I have 170 for less than 3 years! @-)

I think I have about a dozen of him sleeping on his back with his belly in the air. They are all different, well two are very similar, so how can I cut any? Maybe a two page spread of JUST him sleeping with his belly exposed... like a center fold! OK, that solves, that problem. This book may go longer that the 20 pages allowed - so will cost more, but I don't see how I can leave stuff out, you know?

I don't know if there will be a way for me to share the book with you guys after I am done. I will see if there is some way to do that.

I have titled it: Jeddie "Jed" Sullivan Macomber

Which made be realize, just yesterday, that he used to be "Jed Sullivan" (like, Ed Sullivan). How come I never realized that before? How is it that he has been gone a month and I am still discovering new things about him?

Maybe the title needs to me: Jed "Jeddie" Sullivan Macomber... since his name was Jed until I got him and changed it. What do you think?
 
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Ah, Sheila. It makes me happy to see you are making his book. I am not sure what you should do about the name, although I like having "Jed Sullivan" in quotes between Jeddie and Macomber because I think the "Jed Sullivan" thing is funny.

I had the same problem with too many pictures. For me it was quality that helped me pick, but I'm sure yours are all gorgeous.

Can you make an album of just the pictures you choose on Flicker or somewhere?
 
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The books sound neat. Are these bound coffee table books?

Hope you can share because we want to see. At the very least you can attach some highlights here, at best show them *all* here with captions.

You know some places may be otherwise, but I don't think we can have too many cat pictures here. ;-)

To get warmed up maybe you can throw up a few captioned pics of Murphy?

Some of us newcomers don't know much about another of Beau's closest pals. :smile:
 
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Vicky & Gandalf (GA) & Murrlin said:
...I like having "Jed Sullivan" in quotes between Jeddie and Macomber because I think the "Jed Sullivan" thing is funny.
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I did not think of that combo - thanks!

Vicky & Gandalf (GA) & Murrlin said:
Can you make an album of just the pictures you choose on Flicker or somewhere?
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I could, but I am adding lots of text, not just captions, to tell the story.

Dale 'n' Chip said:
The books sound neat. Are these bound coffee table books?

To get warmed up maybe you can throw up a few captioned pics of Murphy?

Some of us newcomers don't know much about another of Beau's closest pals. :smile:
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Yes, bound. Not sure about "coffee-table". They will be 8-1.2" x 11" hard bound.

Dale, I am touched that you remember who Murphy was in the scheme of Beau's life. I will post a few photos of her.
 
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Murphy 1993 (approx 1-1/2)................................and with Charlotte in 1993


With Beau, 2001. About 3 months after I caught him


In 2005


and with me in Jan. 2007. You can see the bump from the nasal lymphoma on her forehead
 
Thanks Sheila!

She was gorgeous. Ticked torby and white, also called a Caliby. So Charlotte reeled in Beau and he ended up with Murphy?

A picture is worth a thousand words. But put a few words with that picture and you have a story.
 
The photo captioned, "in 2005" is just too adorable for words! Thank you for sharing that!

Suze
 
I'll have to look up "Caliby". I know when I first took her to the vet they had never seen a cat with her coloring and didn't quite know what to call her, but since then I have seen two other cats that were her doppelgangers that lived with close friends/relatives, so I can only imagine how many there are that live with people I don't know!

Yes, I love that pix of Beau blissfully hugging her.

Here is a photobook link test: http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/pets/charlotte-7817564
That's to Charlotte's book. Please try the link and see if you get anything. I tried it and of course the site recognizes my computer and logs me in where I can see it anyway, so it isn't a fair test.

If that works then I will be able to share Jeddie's with you.
 
I'm not sure- link works but so far it is taking a long time to load...

I do love the one of 2005-


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IT WORKS! Adorable!!!

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Wonderful! I need to start finding old photos of Sneakers- I don't have many.
 
Oh, yeah, I am not sure if they convert to a PDF or other compressed format type for the "shared/viewable" version, but the working version is a huge file - over 100MB, easily.

Glad it works. Now if I could just bring myself to cut half of Jeddie's photos.... Right now I am going through them and resizing, cropping, color correctly, etc. Every one of them is a trip down memory lane, and a bit sad still.
 
Sheila & Beau & Jeddie (GA) said:
I'll have to look up "Caliby". I know when I first took her to the vet they had never seen a cat with her coloring and didn't quite know what to call her, but since then I have seen two other cats that were her doppelgangers that lived with close friends/relatives, so I can only imagine how many there are that live with people I don't know!
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Do an image search for Caliby. Also called Tortico. Torby and White would be Tortie-Tabby and White. But she was ticked which apparently suppresses the tabby pattern. So ticked torby and white.

And you do know about X-inactivation and why tortie patterns can never be cloned? Every one is different like a snow flake, the patterns are (randomly?) *painted* during fetal development.
 
Sheila & Beau & Jeddie (GA) said:
...Here is a photobook link test: http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/pets/charlotte-7817564
That's to Charlotte's book. Please try the link and see if you get anything. I tried it and of course the site recognizes my computer and logs me in where I can see it anyway, so it isn't a fair test.

If that works then I will be able to share Jeddie's with you.
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Works for me! Takes a while to load but then you can page through at will.

Priceless. :thumbup

I'll want to save a local copy. And some of the photos I'd like to zoom in larger than "behemoth" so maybe when you are all done you can put the originals in a gallery some where as well.

Well done! What a happy family. :YMHUG:

Years on end of only 2 or 3 cats? @-)

All had/have such a great life. :smile:
 
Dale 'n' Chip said:
I'll want to save a local copy. And some of the photos I'd like to zoom in larger than "behemoth" so maybe when you are all done you can put the originals in a gallery some where as well.
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You mean Jeddie's book? or Charlotte's too? I'm not sure about putting them all in a gallery - there will be close to 400 for all three books!

That's all interesting about the tortie genetics. I never thought about it, but it makes sense that they are all unique patterns like snowflakes. I used to know about the X-inactive and recessive/dominant genes and all that, but I have forgotten all of it! It's been too long since college biology class.

Dale 'n' Chip said:
Years on end of only 2 or 3 cats? @-)
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That's so funny because I used to feel that two cats for a single woman was respectable (although I did have three for a year by myself before I got married...). Then I got Beau and when people asked how many cats I had, I sort of apologetically said "three". When Murphy was gone I only went one year with two, then I got the two kittens (rescues from my vet) because I had been primed by the folks on Community to get two kittens instead of one so they wouldn't drive the two older cats crazy. When I got to the the vet to meet Ariel and she wasn't there, but Leanne was, I knew I was going to go home with both of them. And I never apologized for having four cats. When I got Jeddie and people would ask how many cats I had, I would say "five!" defiantly.

Now it seems really strange to only have three. But I can't afford another one right now. I would probably have taken another FD from DCIN in a while, but since they can't help with finances I just need to wait until I have a better income.

Jeddie was a big, vibrant, energetic cat who had a real presence in a way I can't explain. Now that he is gone it seems very quiet here, or dull or something. I think part of that is not having the 12/12 schedule to adhere to and all that. But part of it is that, if Jeddie were here now, he would be right by me sleeping or on my lap and at least Beau would also be in this room. Now they are out front on the balcony or in the living room and I am by myself at my computer....
 
Sheila & Beau & Jeddie (GA) said:
That's so funny because I used to feel that two cats for a single woman was respectable (although I did have three for a year by myself before I got married...). Then I got Beau and when people asked how many cats I had, I sort of apologetically said "three".
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I love the things you notice. There was a point in 2010 when we had 6 dogs and 5 cats. I think I probably did the same thing when someone asked about animals. I kind of always cringed when I said it, as if there was something wrong or weird about so many animals. I always felt the need to go into the "rescue stories".

We're now down to 3 & 3, and it does feel strange and empty.
 
Women can get away with almost *anything* as far as cats are concerned.

If a guy has one cat and no dogs it raises eyebrows. If a guy has more than 5?

I never tell the neighbors how many I have. I seldom discuss it with friends and family, they are mostly dog people anyway.

It's funny how no one bats an eye over 37 barn cats. I guess in that case strangers seldom see them all at once. ;-)
 
So, Dale, how many DO you have? Inquiring minds want to know.

My younger sister has 2 dogs and 4 cats - all rescues. My older sister only has 2 cats now, but used to have 4 (and had 5 briefly, I think) - also all rescues. Sh, literally, found the last four on the street. One of those became FD so she had joined on here. he was on PZI (the old kind), but passed away in 2010 from FIV complications.

We have a family friend, now in her 80s, who has 8 cats (having lost 2 in the past few years). She volunteers at a shelter and has an open heart for cats. She has arrangements for others to take them at any time should she become unable to care for them, but she will live into her 90s, I am sure. She is not a "crazy cat lady" by any means. She is a former Dean of Women at Northwestern University. I aspire to be like her - although she has a house (and not a condo) but I don't think I could ever have 10 cats :roll:
 
I have one more than allowed without a breeders permit. Only two more than you had last year. ;-)

For more than a decade I only had two.

Growing up I believe we had as many as 40 barn cats at one time, 25 of those kittens. How many of those could we catch? Maybe 5.
 
That's not too many cats - as long as their is adequate room, litter boxes, affection and food (not necessarily in that order :mrgreen: ).

When I was growing up I think we had 11 cats at one time, but that was too many and there was fighting and one or two ran away. I remember walking around our block with my sisters looking for one cat that had recently run away and seeing another of our cats that had run away a long time before. She seemed happy in her new home so we just kept walking even though she was a beautiful silver tabby.... :roll:

And we had three litters of kittens at one time one. Two were born on the same day and the third two weeks later. That third mom abandoned her kittens and left mom #1 to care for them along with her own kittens. There were 11 kittens all together. Gives you an idea of why we had so many cats. We found homes for most of the kittens, but not all of them..... this was 40 years ago. Long before spaying and neutering was common or expected.
 
That's the thing, no one spent the time trapping barn cats so they could be fixed even if anyone could afford that.

Today my Aunt does keep inventory. All her barn cats are somewhat tame, fixed, and go to the vet. But they also have unpenned dogs so there aren't many strays passing through.

With ours only the mother cats usually stuck around. The toms roamed far and wide once old enough. And nature could be cruel, it was always survival of the fittest.
 
Dale 'n' Chip said:
Women can get away with almost *anything* as far as cats are concerned. If a guy has one cat and no dogs it raises eyebrows. If a guy has more than 5? I never tell the neighbors how many I have. I seldom discuss it with friends and family, they are mostly dog people anyway. It's funny how no one bats an eye over 37 barn cats. I guess in that case strangers seldom see them all at once. ;-)
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For the better part of 18 years, I had 2 dogs & 2 cats. I have 2 different dogs now, but the kitties in the neighborhood kept showing up at my door, barefoot & pregnant! When people ask, I just say "I have a house-full". Some people persist, but others get it. Most people I know think that anyone with more than 2 is a little crazy... suffice it to say I'm a LOT crazy!!! They aren't allowed to reproduce, but I have to say, the ones that came WITH their moms were much easier to care for than the bottle-fed babies! That was A LOT of commitment!!! Some have moved in with other friends, but most have stayed with me. And I wouldn't have it any other way! (unless they came with their own housekeeper!) ;-) :lol:
 
New "problem". I got all he photos in - went to about 8 extra pages, I think. They are put in, for the most part, chronologically although I did a few groupings of "like" images.

The problem is that it lacks a story. It lacks THE story. I feel that it needs more text - specifically the yearly synopses that I am posting in the shawl group as I work on his memorial shawl. You haven't seen those, of course, but they are a few paragraphs to a page covering each year and then the final chapter (his cancer dx & tx).

This will mean adding about 5-6 more pages, I think, but I don't see how I can not do it.

The thing about Jeddie was his "vibrancy" and his connection to me and the other cats. That's intangible as far as photos go. They become "just" photos of a handsome kitty. I guess I wanted this project to capture him completely and that is not possible in this format. Maybe an illustrted novel......
 
Sheila-

Cats are like kids. You can view photos all day long but they really tug at your heart when you know their story.

You know Jeddie's story as only you can. His book will be magnificent and a shining testament to a most wonderful guy in your life. His highs and lows are etched on your heart and you will tell it to us so we can know him as you did.

I, personally, would flip through a short novel about Jeddie- that is how special he has become.
 
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