Strike 3, you're out....

For those of you that have met and/or lived with my big orange tabby, Miles, you know that he can be a handful.  He's young enough that he's still very curious and playful, big enough to cause mass destruction or knock the wind out of you if he jumps on your chest, and loud enough that people might wonder if a child is crying somewhere in the house.  Fortunately, he tends to listen fairly well, loves people and is very food motivated (helpful for training purposes).  Unfortunately, he still doesn't get along with other cats and we've encountered the first incident in Hawaii with the new cat housemate (and third overall cat interaction strike).  No external damages were inflicted as Ivy actually held her own fairly well.  She was a good bit sore afterwards though since she already has arthritis, and has since been reluctant to return past the point of incident in the house- fearing a sneak attack I suppose.
So it comes about that Miles and I will be taking up new residence at the end of this month at a townhome in Kaneohe.  I'm definitely bummed to leave Kailua, the amazing set-up at the house on the lake and my proximity to friends, beach and the quaint town of Kailua.  In that all things happen for a reason though, now I can check out more of Kaneohe, have already met a couple of new people in the moving process and we will get to see if Miles gets along with a dog (who belongs to the new roomie).  So far- Miles seems to enjoy Hawaii though- lots of birds to watch and sunshine to sleep in.  So here's hoping the next move works out better!

On a side note of funny stuff- there's been a recent influx of eye patches in life:
1) man at the bus stop wearing not one, but two eye patches and playing the ukulele
2) story about how acupuncture helps cure more lazy eye than wearing an eye patch over your good eye (sorry, Kris...didn't need to be a pirate after all...)
3) elderly couple driving (very large car, very slowly) in town- man driving, presumably his wife in the passenger seat.  Elderly man was wearing an eye patch, lady= two uncovered eyes.  I was actually a pedestrian when I noted this strange situation...and took two steps back further onto the sidewalk...just in case...