Welcome to my web site. I call it “The Grove of Eglantine” because the town I live in has the word “Grove” in it, and...

this is Eglantine.

Her friends call her Gigi but you may address her as “Her Fawnness”. Yes, that’s her, under the cat bed! You’d try to hide, too, if you were being stalked! Yes, Gigi has a cyber-stalker, a fawn-obsessed person who thinks her picture and identity are his for the taking.

I created this site because my family and friends kept telling me I needed a home page. My response was always the same, “Why?” Well, I’m still not sure why; I guess I didn’t think Gigi was a good enough reason to put up a web site! Silly me. I bet she’ll never let me live THAT down.

This site is mostly about my cats and the cat fancy. I began showing Ab in 1990 and showed my first Somali in 1993. I became interested in pedigrees when I got Ab and realized she was related to my first Aby born in 1976, and that has led me to design my own pedigree program and to share a large database with and learn from some longtime Aby and Somali pedigree researchers. I figured out how to create HTML pedigrees but I don't have any here, due to the cyber-stalker who is after poor Gigi. Here is one I formatted for a good friend. Somehow I got into designing basic web graphics (like the ones here and here). I was the webmaster for The Association for Somali Cats (TASC) and now I am the webmaster for two cat clubs, Jersey State Feline Fanciers and The Somali International Cat Club.

There is more to life than cats, so I am told. Other hobbies include record collecting, and apparently, gardening! I started Bo’s Garden in 1998 with a lilac bush and a few perennials. I added more last year and only time will tell how green my thumb is. There is no Eglantine in the garden, as she is strictly an indoor cat, but there are some nice irises, and a few daylilies and other flowers. Of course, no summer garden at the Chamberlin homestead would be complete without Dad’s Tomatoes!

I hope you enjoy your visit. Click the links at left or below to see some silly candid photos, meet each of my cats or stroll in my garden, Check out my Links page to visit some of my friends’ sites, learn more about cats, take a cruise to Russia or admire the cutest kids on earth, Will and Nick Jones!

2002 Update!

The Jones Kids, and their parents and their cat, have moved! They have a big huge house south of Charlotte, and hopefully soon there will be pictures at thejoneskids.net.

I have a new show kitty! The DOOD was adopted from a rescue group in Laurel, Maryland this past July. My friend Kathy and I co-own him and we have been showing him. Here are some pictures from his first two shows and here are his professional pictures taken on my birthday!