From My Hiding Places

The Sci Fi Party & A Visit from Takoda Crow & before that- Mother...

Think that our cat furiends are right & that we should just pretend that we were there the entire time! We did get to read back through the party finally & it looked like fun & it felt like we were there the entire time! So we had a great time reading back after the fact! Tried to say something to Catster but we couldn't get the message to go through so maybe it was Catster! Don't know....

Crow came over & we had a great time playing chase & knocking things down all over the house & then David Dad yelled at us just because he didn't change our special pee box litter box so we peed on the bed & on some towels & on the floor! Chasing is thirsty work so we ran around all day & he said he knew three cats that were in big trouble & that he spanked cats! Oh yeah? You have to catch us to spank us! Did you ever catch us? NO! Your fault! You didn't change the pee box! Do you actually expect us to pee the same place we poop? We've always had two litter boxes so what's the big deal? Crow suggested it too cause he did that at his house when Meli Mom forgot to refill his & Lilly Cat's pee box. He says that they have yet a fourth litter box for all cats visitors and those who live there out in the hall with a big cover on it now too. That's a good sign for a cat, multiple litter boxes. You have more than one bathroom don't you? Anyway silly David sprayed us with water & missed more than he hit & we hissed at him & like that didn't cause us to run all over the house knocking things down & getting into mischief. David Dad said he would be happy when Crow went home tomorrow.

Mother came to visit us the other day. She walked & we're a little ways from her, but she just had to see me & Caelian & she couldn't get David Dad's phone number to work (it wasn't working) & she didn't want to bother Meli Mom. When Mel got up she went looking for Mother & just fussed at her. She told her that wasn't a short walk & that she should have at least taken Dion on the leash with her. Dion would have had a great time with the two dogs here but Pinto would have been jealous. Mother can't handle both of them together for longer walks, just short ones so she wouldn't have been able to bring Pinto. Mel was upset & so was Mother because all Mother was doing was walking & she had just washed her hair & changed her clothes put on the shirt she had washed out the night before & a couple of people drove by & kept driving by her & stopping her & asking her if she was okay & if she needed a ride like it was the strangest thing in the world to go on a walk. She looked at her feet to see if her shoes were tied & she got really mad especially since someone called the cops on her while she was on the way home and said that a homeless person was walking around in the neighborhood. David Dad said she didn't look homeless at all and that she was walking just fine and that they have some problem neighbors who call the police at the drop of a hat --- sounds like someone near Mother's house who would be happy if the two streets around her became a sea of abandoned houses and no one was around so that she didn't have to deal with people. Yeah, Mother has a neighbor like that too & David Dad's older female relative pointed out that maybe Mother's people hating neighbor could have called the cops because that one called the cops when she went over to see Mother & to look at the feral box out back because she wants a Calico if another feral one turns up & knows that Daddy Rob got more than one feral around their house. The cops left her alone when she let them know she was going to see Mother & the dogs is what she said & she got Dion & Pinto & walked them around the yard and the dogs knew her -- a few weeks back now -- so they went on their way & said sorry to bother her. Problem seems to be we have some in our two neighborhoods that just don't like old people & want them to stay out of sight & out of mind.

But we had a great time playing with Crow! We will be sorry to see him return home tomorrow & hope that he doesn't have to go back until late. Hide & Seek & Chase & bell balls & bat wads of paper around the floor & knock things down & great games we played. We have napped all curled up together & have bird & squirrel watched together although we will be happy when they get the badly remodeled replaced window torn out & restore it back to the old way it was last year!
Love to you, Thomasina

== Mother's hair was dry & she had dried out her shirt over night too so she wasn't dripping water & her clothes weren't torn up or overly faded & even if the clothes had been faded that wouldn't make her homeless. Idiots.