Just to look at me, you probably think I look more like a Maple Leaf ‘If you can beat ‘em in the alleys, you can beat ‘em on the ice’ kind of Tom Cat. But no… I am a Pondering–Wondering–Einstein Cat….and trust me…I got the War Wounds to prove it…a slit ear, scars on my chest where fur no longer grows, a miss shaped paw, even a toe nail that seems to be permanently retracted….but if challenged to a duel, no testosterone driven Tom Cat can refuse and keep their pride intact…
you with me?
However, what you see is not what you get…I am more of a Cat Nerd than a Cat Terminator….and the older I get, the more I don’t do…like…Snow Days, Rain Days, the Arctic Vortex Days of Winter, the Hot as Hades Days of Summer…give me the gentle Breezes of Spring and the Golden Autumn… that is when I come alive, breath deeply, live life to the fullest…or at least as well as a Pondering-Wondering–Einstein Cat can do.
That is why I have a complaint and it is a legitimate beef, effecting not only the Four Footed but the Two Footed who feed us, nurture us, ♥ us…You know the unwritten contract of sustaining life, passed down through the generations of Evolution leading to Revolution to finally Solution…It has given all Creation, optimistic little flowers that push up faithfully, tiny leaves that bud on trees, year after year, the Two and Four Footed…Everyone God… All of us fell into a dreadful cabin fever fugue because Spring got Tsunamied by a Massive Barrier of Ice and Snow, as if we are living and dying in the End Times of Game of Thrones.
So come on…snow in December, brings great cheer, snow in January, expected here, snow in February, you’re almost there, snow in March, you start to sneer…but snow in April, best say a prayer…got it…but don’t want it, okay????
Now Winter came and Winter went (at least according to the Gregorian Calendar dates) and way past the middle of April and what was that…..What was that???
Well, simply put, worse than A Nightmare on Elm Street…two inches of Snow, on two inches of Ice, on Snow topped by, you got it…a four inch layer of Ice. I lost control (that retracted toe nail and miss shaped paw do nothing for balance) the minute I stepped out the door, sliding down the steps like I was on a Magic Carpet Ride…that does little for your dignity in the eyes of the other two cats, smirking behind clawed paws, as they watched from the window. At least I tried.
But no, it is not only me. Step 1) I saw Momma bring her winter boots out of storage, get locked and loaded, her against Mother Nature, a Salt Can to sprinkle kitty litter and salt as if she had holy water to disperse and dispense the ice, tiptoe up to the garage, walking cautiously like it was her first time on a snow board, expecting to wipe out any second…but somehow (I guess because she cheats…)… she has The Weather Channel on her iPhone and understood the risk) she made it to the garage.
Step 2) Now it was time to get the car down the unplowed drive to the unplowed streets…no, not happening….it worked for maybe six feet….and then the tires, gathering snow and hard ice as they proceeded, just spun, like the wheels of the bus that go round and round. Seems like Momma was going nowhere till the snow and ice melt, if it melts. I mean all winter long…the car did not get stuck …. a month in to spring …are we doomed… in for the long haul…It is getting mighty serious when even churches cancel services…are you listening, Sweet Jesus? That is no way to tend the flocks….
Momma hears the Talking Heads say… it is hotter because of Global Warming… it is colder…it is wetter…it is drier….because of Global Warming… but me… the Pondering-Wondering–Einstein, …
We’ve taken no oaths…but as if in Game of Thrones….We are the Watchers on the Wall, as our climate changes unfold before us….
