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Thursday, April 14, 2005

ESCAPE!

On the eve of departure for vacation (going to Florida) we come home then run out for dinner with our pet sitter, come back show him where the stuff is and then get to packing. I then realize around 10:30pm that I have not seen or heard from Mabel all night. The boy feels certain he saw her this evening, I'm not remembering seeing her. Off I go through the whole house looking under the beds, behind the couches, under the couches, in closets, etc. No sign of her anywhere.

I fear she may have gotten out through the back door where the dogs roam...

I have no flashlight and to find a black cat in the dark is near impossible. The boy finally discovers his maglight battery and out we go into the back yard.

He: She couldn't jump the fence.
Me: Don't be so sure. She may be fat but she's agile, she's got quite a leap on her.

No sign of her under the deck or anywhere in the back yard. We go out front just to be sure. I go to one side of the house, he goes to the other...

He: (whispers) Pattie!

I go over to his side, where I see along the fence, toward the back corner glowing eyes. She's all hunched down staring into the light, just as I suspected she would if caught in the beam. I slowly walk toward her...

Me: Mable-schmabel...kiss kiss kiss...what are you doing? kiss kiss kiss...Schmabel kitty...

She stands and turns to run... I make more kissing noises and move my hand near her gesturing as if I'm scratching her head...she falls for it and moves toward me. I pet her and then pick her up. She gave very little resistance at first. But the longer I carried her the more she began to squirm. I made the boy get the dogs away before I put her down in the living room.

Stupid cat...waits until the night before we leave to make her big adventure into the back yard...and over the fence...

Shit...

That's what I said at 11:09 PM

Monday, April 11, 2005

Dumb kids

Yesterday was so beautiful I spent a better part of the afternoon sitting on the deck looking out over my back yard...

Suddenly I see movement in one of the houses that are still being built. I wonder if perhaps the owners have come by to check on the progress. When I notice it's 3 teenagers, one boy and two girls, wandering around the contstruction sites. They walk around to the house that's nearly done and I see them crawl into an open window to the basement. I ponder calling the police and go inside to ask the boy what he thinks. He steps outside on to the deck and then we see the kids again. They're wandering the less constructed house now. The one girl begins climbing onto the ladder that leads to the roof of the house. The boy walks to the end of the fence and shouts, "Is that your house?" and the one girl is like "dude!" And the boy says, "what are you doing? That's not your house, you shouldn't be climbing on there."

And the kids run off down the street (and I mean down the middle of the street...not on the sidewalk)

The whole time I'm thinking..."let her climb up there and kill herself...one less stupid person to foul up the gene pool"

But we got rid of the stupid kids. Now I feel like a grouchy old lady...yelling at the kids in the neighborhood. But hey...if they're stupid enough to play around a construction site, they deserve to get yelled at.

That's what I said at 8:34 AM


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