After my last post, “Wes Feels Like a Hep-Cat”, one of my adopted family was reminded of the 1982 hit Stray Cat Strut. Hepcat somehow reminded her of stray cat, which made her think of me, because I’ve got cat class and I’ve got cat style. Anyways, she started playing Stray Cat Strut really loud. […]
Now that fall has rolled around, darkness comes earlier and it’s time to enjoy glancing into windows once again. Glancing into windows on evening walks with David has always been a favorite pastime of mine. It’s like an invitation to a play where the curtain is drawn, the stage is lit, and the actors play […]
Lizard, lizard show me your blanket. Lizard, lizard show me your blanket. As a child watching green lizards crawl along a chain link fence, this little chant always brought the desired results – a bold display of a red pouch, or dewlap, on the lizard’s neck right beneath his chin (if what lizard’s […]
Sitting atop this llama at the Northwest Montana Fair made me feel like a hep-cat. I couldn’t help but wonder about all of the other poor cats who are stuck lounging on acrylic yarns instead of all natural fibers, like this luxuriously comfortable llama fur. It was so relaxing, I drifted off to sleep. […]
There were two hunters. Both were Montanans. They had gone hunting together in the woods. Soon they found themselves lost in the woods. “Shoot into the air so the rescuers can find us,” one said to the other. “Okay,” said the other, and shot into the air. After awhile, they were still lost and no […]
The strange things began when my adopted “mother”, Eileen, wrapped a robe sash around my body and began walking me on a leash around the house. I obliged, but only because she rewarded my efforts with my favorite kitty treats. I knew something was truly amiss when she pinned pieces of old blue jean […]
Every year we begin our home school schedule the day after Labor Day. Vocabulary is always part of the routine. When I read the headline “Rare Find Discovered Amid Town’s Old West Kitsch”, I knew what the “Word of the Day” would be. I wrote “kitsch” in red marker on the white board under the […]
My! The seasons come and go so quickly here. I’m beginning to feel a lot like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as I call to mind an afternoon last year much like this one, deliciously fall-like, when Eileen and I sat on the porch swing and typed out a Labor Day Poem. It’s a […]
A monster lives in the darkness of the basement. It lurks in the shadows beneath the stairs for months until it decides to clunk loudly up the steps. Once upstairs, it sits for a moment and then begins to wail piercingly and to chase innocent cats. Once it even tried to devour me. The monster […]
A gentle rain was falling as I sat in a fragrant huckleberry patch picking from the mother lode of bushes. It was peaceful and quiet on Big Mountain and I passed the time as I always do picturing bear lips nibbling away at the berries and wondering what happens if humans pick too many. […]
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