Stories of a cat named Trouble

So tonight after tanning I'm fixing supper...What would be good in the salad...oh yes the chives out in the herb bucket...so out I go in two different colored shoes to cut the chives.  Who do I run into (actually who came running across the yard)  but the lady who lives next door.  She wants to talk about my cat.  The conversation goes something like this....

"How old is that cat of yours?" She asks in a very authorative demanding tone.


"Well he was born the 1st weekend in September, so that makes him about eight months old" I replied. 

"I have a female cat inside the house (I've never seen this cat) who is about 10 months old and does not act anything like your cat." Quick chipped words.

So what does one say other than "Is there a problem with my cat?"  I know he is a little short on the brain matter, and fearless like all teenagers, but what could one little cat do to so anger my neighbor?


"Well the other morning I opened the door to let my cat (Wayne and I call him big cat cause he is just that a big black cat) and in runs your cat.(OK so Trouble is already in trouble).  He had a bird in his mouth, which he promptly let go.  Then the bird started to fly around my house."

One is suppose to say what.???  Actually I wanted to laugh out loud..or burn the cat...by now my neighbor had caught her breath and launched into the second chapter of the story....

"The bird was flying around my house.  Your cat ran across my kitchen table and jumped on my poor little Missy who had never had a bird in the house before. I took my broom to both your cat and the bird and managed to sweep them out the door"

I'm dying!  My cat is a deliquent, my tounge has got to be bleeding and what comes out of my mouth "You really don't have to worry about Trouble infecting your cats because he is netured and has all his shots"

"Do you know how hard it is to get rid of wild bird feathers with three cats chasing them as you sweep?"

There are three cats in that house?  The picture in my head is too much, bird feathers, cats, broom..go Trouble!

"You need to get a bell on that cat.  You really shouldn't let him out of the house again without a bell"

Now I'm a grown women, I've sat in frount of teachers while they complain about kids, I've sat in frount of nuring home administrators when my parents mis behaved, but never before have I had to deal with a neighbor over a mis-behaving cat!!  

I cut my chives and my losses and nearly ran inside the house.  Where I refused to let Trouble out, every good parent knows...there have to be consequences for your actions.

The man thinks the incident show's the depth of charater and hunting abilities of our cat

  Tommorrow is another day!

I'm feeling better than skunk cabbidge!

For a Monday this really wasn't a bad day!  I thought that it would be hard to go back to work after the weekend, but really it wasn't.  I was busy but not overwhelmed.  It's good to have some help..but I'll bet that it will disappear right after I return from vacation.  Oh well I'm going to enjoy it while I have it!


Three years into doing laundry with Wayne and I still enjoy that time together!  We talk most times about hardly anything at all..but it still is a good time.  If we had a washer and dryer than laundry would become just another chore..instead of quality time together..is that a little crazy or what?


I figured out how to get the camera to charge.  I even took a couple of pictures (two include my finger).  Tomorrow night I really want to spend some time working on getting the software for the camera loaded on to the computer.  I also want to get the webcam going.  I know I know always busy.


I walked at lunch again today!  I'm finding it hard to get up from the desk and walk at lunch, but I know that in my head and legs it's the right thing to do.  If I start walking every other night to tan, maybe I'll loose a few pounds...never know stranger things have happened.


We watched the news tonight, all the flooding in Tenn made me think of Eric.  I wonder where he is and what he is doing...Guess he is going to be one of my great mysteries.

Fourteen Days Until we Cruise!

So fourteen days from now we will be on the high seas!  I'm sure that God was looking out for us when we booked this trip...he knew we were going to need this break.  Wayne's mother's funneral well this weekend.  No one had any fights, that we witnessed, but it was obvious that it was hard for some of these folks.  Wayne included.  Wayne would not go to dinner with the group last night.  We went to the reception this afternoon after the funneral, which was alright, because each sibling could hold host over thier own table. All except the spreading of the ashes is done.  Wayne did say to me that he thinks this will be the last time all of these folks are together...that would be really sad. I can't fix his family, I can love him...I need to keep my eyes on what can be done..

Last night Wayne really wanted to go to this special warehouse type sale that they were having at the EXPO.  So off we went, and he spolied me by buying a camcorder.  I'm so excited!  Now I've got to figure out how to operate it.  One of the major problems is how to charge the battery.  I'm working on it ...but only 14 days to go.... It was money that my ambassador told me we shouldn't have spent..but money which we did spend...if I can come home from the Carribean with great video's ... priceless!


Tomorrow it's off to work...only 10 days of work before I cruise.  I can do that space of time I know I can...tomorrow nights project..laundry...Tuesdays project tanning...Wedensday's hair cut...looks like a busy week!!!