Friday, May 21, 2004
My Step Ins
Well Friends of mine it looks like my Step Ins have a great big EE on them! So this is the maiden voyage with the new Engine under my shaky control. I’ll try to keep us on the straight and narrow. I’ll avoid as many ice bergs as possible!! That is it from the S.S. Step in!
The Talking Tablecloth
Every once in awhile during the day we stop to check on Molly, our feline companion. We leave the light on in the stairway to the basement when we let her down there. That way if the light is on we know Molly is in the basement.
When she ventures outside occasionally we leave the outside door open in case she indicates she wants back in. We try to keep the bathroom, bedroom, and computer room doors on the second floor closed because we hate going up there to check in closets and under the bed when she turns up missing. Also the bedroom is where I store my clowning stuff and Molly loves pulling white gloves out of a box up there and hauling them downstairs like trophies.
There are times you can find her in the living room bay window or on the bedroom window ledge soaking up sunshine or a cool breeze. She will lay on the kitchen mats or in front of the French doors for quite awhile resting up for the midnight runs in the dome all night.
There have been times, however, when Molly has gone missing and no amount of calling will bring her out. So we check to see the light isn’t on in the stairway, the outside door is closed, and she hasn’t been closed in an upstairs room.
So we try to remember little known hiding spots like under the bed downstairs, behind the lazy boy chair, and under one of those ($5) lamp tables with the long cloths on them. No luck in that search. Then we remember the same type of table on the loft/landing. Up the stairs we crawl, over to the table, lift the cloth, and aha! Two green eyes peer out at us.
Now when we have a feline missing alert we just go upstairs to the little table grab a bunch of cloth and we hear a little EEEOWW. Which means Molly has been found because the table cloth said so.