Three Kitty Kompany

Yo, dude. I'm Blackie.   (For more about Blackie, click on her picture.)  I'm the Operations Manager, the Chief Operating Officer and the Grand Poobah of the Three Kitty Kompany. (For more information about the Three Kitty Kompany, click here.) 

Mom and Dad asked me to greet you and start you on your journey through our Website.  With me is my adopted sister, Yoda.   (For more about Yoda, click on her picture.)  Yoda is the Manager of Silliness, Comptroller of Cute and the Lesser Poobah.  If we are really lucky, Yoda won't get into any trouble while you are here.

Mom and Dad created this Website to show everyone Dad's photos and to tell some of their many stories. Their motto is:

Life is an adventure - DEAL WITH IT!

If you have followed the pointers, you know about both of us kitties and about the Three Kitty Kompany. Now we have to introduce you to Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad are Jan and Jack.  Mom is a retired chemist. She loves to cook.  One of her professors once told her that chemists make the best cooks.  Mom always uses a recipe to cook from.  (Unfortunately she doesn't have any recipes for fillet of finch, braised bunny or marinated mouse.)  To see some of her favorite recipes, go to Three Kitty Kuisine.

Dad is a retired computer scientist.  As one of the people who worked on the Internet for about 30 years, he loves to be "on line".  When Dad retired, he started building a high-tech model railroad.  The first few weeks, it was in the living room under the Christmas tree.  (I hate it when Mom and Dad bring a tree into the house every winter.  Don't people know that trees are supposed to stay outdoors?)  Yoda was afraid of the trains.  (I wasn't afraid. I ignore what I don't understand.)  Then the railroad moved to the loft over the garage.  When we moved to Point Arena, half of the barn was designed and built specifically for the railroad.  Recently, Mom and Dad have been calling it Three Kitty Rail. I guess that means that I have another subsidiary of Three Kitty Kompany to manage.  Eventually, Mom and Dad hope to have photos and information about the railroad here, on the Website.

Mom and Dad are "professional volunteers".  Mom's current volunteer "job" is with the Coast Community Library (where she helps with fund-raising and works at the front desk).  She also occasionally joins the Gualala Arts Center volunteers with fund-raising (making gingerbread houses).  Mom even wrote a "book" for them that tells all about baking, assembling and decorating gingerbread houses.  A copy of it, in .pdf format, can be seen here.      

At Christmas time, Mom locks herself in the spare bedroom where she makes Christmas ornaments, jewelry and other gift items for various charities to sell at their Christmas Faires.  Instructions for constructing some of her ornaments will be published at Three Kitty Kreations.

Although not a volunteer job, Mom loves to weave.  Yoda and I love to play with her tools and her yarn.  Mom has decided that the style and techniques of the Navajo are her favorite.  Some photos of Mom's weavings can also be found at Three Kitty Kreations.  Dad uses his carpentry skills to make some of Mom's looms and her tools.  Mom loves having weaving tools that are "made with love".

Dad does a lot of photography.  Of course, we have a Three Kitty subsidiary for the photos.  Please check Three Kitty Photo for pictures of plants and gardens, animals from land and sea and more photos of us kitties (and all our predecessors).  Along with photographing fauna and flora locally and in exotic vacation locations Dad also does photography for many of his volunteer "jobs".  In the past, he has photographed disaster drills for the local American Red Cross chapter and drills and fund-raisers for the La Honda Fire Brigade.  He has also photographed the nesting, hatching and other activities of the Western Snowy Plover for California State Parks.  Among his recent photos are the activities at the Gualala Arts Center, where Dad has photographed both fund raisers and productions at Gualala Arts Theater (where he sets up and operates the lighting for the performances while Mom works backstage moving furniture, actors etc.)  Our subsidiary, Three Kitty Kommunity, keeps the photos of Mom and Dad's volunteer activities.  You can see them by clicking this hyrax.  

When they aren't doing something else, both Mom and Dad are part of the volunteer rescue team for The Marine Mammal Center.  They get to go out to the beach (I NEVER visit the beach.  It is wet, noisy and way too sunny for a black kitty.).  They assess the health of an ill or injured marine mammal (usually a Sea Lion, Harbor Seal or Elephant Seal) and sometimes, with a group of friends, they capture the animal and drive it down to the animal hospital about 100 miles south of here.  They come back with very interesting smells on their clothes.  As Mom says, the marine mammals are big, mean, strong, fast, have big teeth and they smell VERY BAD.  (They are what they eat.)  To see photos of their marine mammal  patients and adventures, click here.  

Dad also serves on the Board of Directors of the local ambulance group, the Coast Life Support District (CLSD).  Because we live in an "unincorporated" part of Mendocino County, CA, there is no local government.  And because the District is funded by tax money, Dad says that the CLSD is the closest thing to a government that we have.  As a board member, he is even an elected official.  After over 30 years of railing against the government, now Dad admits that he IS the government.

We live a mile from the Pacific Ocean just south of the city of Point Arena (about 125 miles north of San Francisco, CA).  You can see some of Dad's Point Arena photos with a click of this hyrax.    Point Arena is the fourth largest city in Mendocino County.  (There are only 4 cities in the county.)  It is also one of the smallest cities in California.  The population of the city is around 500.  But many hundreds of people live outside the city limits in "unincorporated" areas.  Our neighborhood has about 50 houses.  I never venture far from the door - and then only with Mom as an escort.  It isn't that I am afraid of the bear, the bobcat, the coyote, the fox, the deer, the raccoon, possum or the skunk, I just like Mom's company.  To see Dad's photos of some of our "not the" human "neighbors", click here.  

Mom and Dad purchased the land for our current Corporate Headquarters on in the year 2000 and spent 3 years designing our house and barn and having them built.  They have spent the next 5 years doing the landscaping, building the gardens, cutting trails in the forest and generally making the land and the house into our kitty-friendly home.  When the process began, we started a new corporate subsidiary for the construction effort.  The saga of our home construction (that quickly became an epic) can be found at Three Kitty Konstruction.  Photos of our current and previous Corporate locations are also part of Three Kitty Konstruction and can be found by clicking this hyrax.  

Jan's Travel-Rama.

If you want to comment on our Website, please feel free to contact Wookie at 3kitty.org 

Editor's Note: After several years, this is the first major revision of 3kitty.org.  At this time, none of our original three kitties are still with us.

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