Mike and I went to the auto show this morning, had a lovely lunch at Lulu’s Noodle Bar, and then went over to Robin and Diana’s so Mike could troubleshoot their computers. Afterward, they took us to dinner. When we finally got home 12 hours later, we discovered… Mayhem on the porch. The little punk must have slipped out of the house this morning when we were leaving. He’s none the worse for wear, but…
I haven’t had much to say lately, except to complain about the weather and my car, or gush about my cats. The weather: It’s been crappy. Looks like it’s getting better, with another crapitudiness episode to come later in the week. The car: 1998 Saturn SL2 with 90,500 miles on it. ‘Nuff said? Still runs fine and gets about 25 mpg in the city, but I really don’t want to spend another winter in it.…
Mike and I fetched my new chair from the Mart-opolis On The Prairie this morning, with many thanks and a tank of gas to the friend who loaned us her SUV for the task. The chair is now installed, and the cats are, let’s say, “intrigued”. They’ve sniffed it. They’ve shinnied under it. They’ve stretched out upon it. They’ve tentatively inserted their claws into it, and been swatted, shooed, and sprayed with canned air for…
It’s the wee hours of the morning between dark and dawn. I’m awakened by an urgent “scritch-scritch-scritch” of kitty claws on plastic. There is very little plastic in the bedroom, and certainly none approved for kitty usage. I open my eyes and force them to focus — just in time to see Mayhem, perched atop the humidifier, successfully turn the knob from “low” to “high”. He then stands proudly upon the unit with a kitty…
Cheap robopet wind-up toy: $3.48 on clearance Time spent watching two cats stalk, swat, and poke the cheap robopet wind-up toy: Priceless. (Okay. Now I definitely need the Roboreptile…)
