Feb 25 2010
Mysteries
My sister’s car was parked in my driveway this morning, and I’m sure it wasn’t there last night.
She was so stressed and sleep-deprived yesterday that Rob took her to work last night and Jonathan picked her up this morning, bright and early at 6 am, once again making him the best brother ever. So the car’s presence here was even stranger.
Later I found it was because Lu thought she might drop off a load of wood at Megan’s so Rob moved the car to make way for the potential transaction.
And I thought it was because being seen in my driveway had such cachet.
Less mysterious, but still delightful, was the dozen Betty eggs she left on my table. Betty’s hens are laying again now that spring is closer.
In other mysteries, whenever I go to town and pick up an armload of books from the library, as I did yesterday, I almost invariably find more have arrived by the time I get home or check my library holds the next day. How do they do it?
And why do the cats claw the hell out of the wood on either side of the door when they have a woods full of trees all around them? It isn’t just Audrey clawing frantically to go in or out, either, since that is done by clawing the glass in the door for extra squeak. June claws the house, too, and Megan’s cats do the same thing at their house. Why? Why?
The ways of cats are inscrutable. I love it when I let them in one door and they walk straight to another door and ask to be let out of that one. Just because they can, I guess.
3 Responses to “Mysteries”
That’s totally why they do that. The cats, I mean.
As I have said before, cats have a mind of their own and usually do what they want when they want.
They’re taking a short cut I guess. Tiffy and Onion used to always run through the cat flap in the back, then sit by the front door and meow to get out. Maybe they feel they need to get us to do a certain number of things for them each day to keep us in our place!