Tue 27 Sep 2005
What Did She Learn?
I had a dentist appointment at noon today, so I didn’t come home for lunch. With Pat’s attention taken up with watching granddaughter Diana, the cats didn’t go outside today.
Almost all of them, anyway.
After supper, Caitie stood by the back door and MEOWED and MEOWED and MEOWED. I tried to tell her it was raining, then opened the back door and let her sniff through the screen. Not that I really believed it would make a difference.
Eventually, I grabbed an umbrella and opened the screen. For maybe a half-minute, it looked like she was enjoying herself, running across the yard to the landscaped area we call the Island.
Then she crouched under a butterfly bush for a few seconds, looking more dissatisfied every moment, before springing up again and running back to the house — to the locked front door, where we waited until Pat let us back in.
