Can I say “witch’s tit?” and not get R-rated? I can’t remember whether that was the favorite weather description of my first (Vermont) husband, or my second (San Diego) husband. It goes way back in memory and it sounds kinda New Englandy, so chances favor the first.
I’ve been absent from Sardine Class for a few days, mainly
because I’ve been working on the newsletter for my local Soroptimist chapter. Along
the way I’ve started, but not finished, three different blog topics, but gave
up and went to bed when I nodded off over the computer. Some is dated but some of
it may be salvageable. I didn’t want to fall behind on Thursdays Out. It’s
becoming my hardy perennial, er, hardy weekly.
There was ice in the feral cats’ water cup this morning, my
first clue that the sunny morning didn’t mean it was warm. Because the rooms at
The Little House where our NeedleCrafts group meets, then eats, can be
chilly, I wore my fur-lined vest. At the last moment, I decided to wear a
jacket, too, and before I got out of the car I ended up with a scarf on as well.
It was cold. And it stayed cold, with a breeze that felt like if blew in off a
glacier.We only had four at NeedleCrafts today and I didn’t take any pictures there. People were out of town or had visitors or doctors’ appointments. I had about an hour between NeedleCrafts and a computer club board meeting, so I came home to do a few things before returning back to town. Someone’s kitty had been killed in the road in just the short time since I'd come home.
It’s been a rough couple of days with kitties. Boots, one of
the original feral babies that appeared a year ago, child of Black Kitty and Little
Mama Cat, has showed an expanding girth in recent days, following a certain
amount of romping about that she’d engaged in recently. That happened last year
some time, too, but she never appeared with offspring. She comes to me for food
with her brother (or sister) , Stripes (who has never clearly revealed a
gender), but if I get too near to her she skitters away, and if I try to follow,
she races away. She announced her arrival yesterday morning in the usual way –
by landing, splat, halfway up the screen door. (Remember those Garfield dolls that got stuck on car windows?) When I went out to check the
food bowl, I thought she had a mouse or some other critter, but it was an
immature kitten, stuck to the tip of her tail, dead, apparently quite a while.
She stood her ground, meowing, as if to say “help me.” I
wanted to grab her with a towel and remove the little baby with a washcloth,
but she would have nothing to do with the towel. She didn’t resist too much when
I held her by the scruff of the neck and pulled the baby free.
Moments later, she was meowing at me insistently, then
moving away a few steps. She guided me with meows and short forays out and back
until I followed her to her hiding place, where she disappeared up under a tarp
that protects her from weather and conceals her from other animals. I left her
hideout alone. It seemed that she wanted me to know, and had trusted me with this information. This evening,
when she finally seemed interested in food again, she let me feel her flat
little sides. Stripes came with her. I talked to a friend at the vet’s. Nature
will take care of Boots’ healing.
Then we will get her fixed!
After the club board meeting, I really didn’t want to come
back home past the poor kitty in the road. So I came home another way, via the
lake, where I had a clear view of the spectacular cloud formations against the
blue sky. I pulled in to take a slew of pictures.
See you soon.
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Coming up today. Hope it is warmer next week.
ReplyDeleteGoodness the pictures of the lake look wonderful, but I guess the water is probably too cold to actually enjoy! Hopefully soon you will get some warmer weather. BTW-your title made me crack up!
ReplyDeleteAshley