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Paisley's Prose

What about ME??????

HEY, I live here, too. Just cuz I don't climb up and get stuck in the top of a tree I get no diary entries????
Just cuz I am healthy and not sick I get no diary entries??
And, I stay in the house like a good kitty, so I get no diary entries???
Something is wrong with this picture. I am the good cat, I obey Mom, I love everyone, I don't hiss and spit at the dogs, I stay in the house and don't cause Mom to worry about where I am or how I am, and I NEVER get sick. I don't even leave chewed up mousies all over the house.
Soo, what do I get for all this good???
NOTHIN'!!!!!!

MY outdoor experiences....

A few weeks ago I discovered a HUGE hole in the screen on the porch door. It was just MY size and I could leap up, squeeze thru the hole and be FREE!!!
It WAS pretty scary outside so I mostly just stayed on the porch with one eye on my hole. If I saw anything different, or worse, if Mom or one of the girls spied me, I just hopped up and squeezed back inside to the Summer kitchen and pretended I never left.
One day Mom took some duct tape and taped over my screen hole...didn't fool me, I KNOW that duct tape doesn't stick to screen so I just climbed up, moved it aside and headed out. I knew she wasn't happy, but, oh well!!!
A few days later I jumped up, went to squeeze thru my hole and it was GONE!!! Mom had replaced the holey screen when I wasn't looking! Did you know it is almost impossible to rip a hole in METAL SCREEN???? I am here, inside, telling you that is true!
Oh well, I don't mind, I really WAS afraid outside. There are lots of noises, cars, people, and one day the sky was even leaking. I will stay inside with Dijon, thank you very much!!!!

Three months later, NO 70's

I was just reading the last Diary entry I wrote, way, way back in March. The temperature was in the 70's!!! Today is the first day the sun has shone in over a week, AND, the temperature made it all the way up to 64 degrees. Hmmm, me thinks something is wrong here. It is supposed to be SUMMER in our part of the world.
Both Dijon and I have discovered a great new toy. They are little black things with wings and they get in the windows and bounce around when we chase them. Sometimes there are even some with BIG colored wings, and some are shiny black with long skinny bodies. Mom yells at us when we chase those, she says they will get us??? Dunno what she means by that.
I suspect she doesn't want us to have those cuz they are bigger and she is saving them for the dogs???
Anyway, Mom took the plastic off the windows a bit ago and those black things don't sound as loud now when they flutter around up there. It's okay, there is still plastic on the Summer kitchen windows and there are more of those flying things out there, too.
Well, gotta go now, Dijon and Jimmy are headed out to the Summer kitchen and I gotta go, too. Did I tell you, Jimmy is MY new special friend. Dijon was always playing with Smokey and I had no one at all, which meant I had to keep bugging Mom to pat me or feed me all the time. She brought me Jimmy from work and now he and I play ALL the time, even when Dijon is off sleeping with Smokey.