Sunday, November 18, 2007

The foghorn, the yam and the cat

The moon is shining brightly through my window. This would be less peculiar if there weren't at least two foghorns bleating their sad calls. I was out earlier, and the fog was nearly as thick as the veritable split-pea soup. So why can I see the moon? This I do not know. As long as it keeps oil tankers off the bridge, I guess it's fine.

Meanwhile, The Yam is glaring balefully down from the kitchen window. The Yam is as large as a heart, and is similarly shaped. I do not like yams, Sam I am. I do not like them in a box, with a fox in wooly socks. Tomorrow I will dump the change jar on the floor and see if there are enough shiny silver things to buy a jar of chipotle powder. Then The Yam and I will do battle. I think the particular smoky heat of that chile will subdue The Yam. Then I will have lunch.

Meanwhile, the Dowager Princess has been acting almost kitten-like. I very neatly sorted the last three months of mail into organized stacks on the living room floor. Apparently this was an invitation to run around the room, hunch on a pile, use her feet to scrabble the pages in all directions and then run around again. Repeat with each pile. Attack individual pages on romps around the room.

I do not understand the antics of the cat, nor the antics of the fog.

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