The Sky
is the Limit ©
By
Michael Casey
Well, I’m
listening to Sky, yes clouds make lots of rain, especially when it’s thundering.
Or if you are as old as me, John Williams et al. So, what shall I talk about
today? I haven’t decided yet, but Totoro the cat sneaked in, I keep her out of
this room, “the study” as I want a refuge and a nice place, that no cat paws can
reach. We’ve managed to stop her from clawing the living room sofas, but the
kitchen chairs have claw marks galore, even though we invested in a cat
scratcher by food bowl. But cats don’t care, do you think I’m a dog? I’m a cat
and I’ll scratch that, and if you put me out I’ll Leap a Fence and pretend I
live with the neighbours here there and everywhere, then I’ll come home when it’s
time for bed. Just for the bedtime bowl of milk. I’m not a stupid dog, I’m Totoro
the Ninja cat. It’s her 6th Birthday soon, I said the girls could
have a pet, a dog if I died or a cat if I had a heart attack. Weeks after that
joke, the joke was on me an unplanned quadruple heart bypass. So be careful what
you say, of you’ll end up with a cat scratching your furniture. But I digress.
So, I’m
talking about pets then? No, but cats do grab your attention, even if it is by
clawing at your bedroom door to be let out at 5am. Or setting off the motion
sensor lights at 2am, then refusing to come in, because there’s something she can
spy from up on high on the garden fence. So, as you shiver with the back door
open for her, she just shows you her backside and continues stalking whatever was
over the fence, as she wears a fur coat.
I just
went to the kitchen for another hit drink and Totoro is outside the door giving
me her big eyes, wanting to come in. Like a guard dog, but positioned next to the
radiator, she is a cat after all, and cat’s have heat sensors in them, they
find the warmest place to go. We have 2 metre tall cupboards in the kitchen,
but to the cat it’s a challenge, a small Everest to climb, and besides hot air rises
so she have a climb just because it’s there. Cats are nosey too and they always
enjoy a view. A neighbour may build a high fence, but for a cat that’s just a
challenge, so quicker than any Marine she’ll have a look and stand upright like
a meerkat just to prove, any cat can look at any queen. And should you leave a
door ajar, or a window open, then say hello pussy.
All in all cats love challenges, and they are company and make a house a home. Though my friends Lech, Boris and Gregorgi prefer wolf like dogs, because they can pull a sledge when Winter comes. Now is there a point to all of this? Man’s best friend is a dog, though I would have had to die before my girls got a dog. The point is this, The Sky is the Limit. Cats never give up, they look here and there and leap fences, they put their noses into everything like a Search Engine.
Even yandex.ru
can find me, and they have, so I wrote to them today to encourage them to share
what they found. The Russian translation of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker
and 2000 other stories for free until Russian Media get in on the act and share
Lech, Boris and Gregorgi with the masses. Their offices are near The Tolstoy
museum, so I’d be in good company. In essence I’ve been a cat, sniffing around
and climbing trees, checking back, or is it Checkoff and wasn’t he a Russian in
Star Trek where the sky is the limit.
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