TheBanyanTree: Every Morning

[auntiesash]

What a great ritual to start the day.  Thanks for sharing this wonderful
vignette!

xoxo
sash

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Roger Pye <pyewood at pcug.org.au> wrote:

> (Eight months have passed since the kittens joined us. I think they will
> always be 'the kittens'! As in 'The Kittens Are Hungry' Woodstock tells us
> three times a day (breakfast, dinner and supper times) without them lifting
> a paw themselves.)
>
> Every morning the Alarmcat wakes us some time between 6 am and 7.30
> depending on the season or the amount of light coming through the windows.
> The Alarmcat = Caspar the black cat named after one of the Wise Men, black
> all over except for the largest golden eyes imaginable, a plumber in a
> former life (drinks water by dipping a paw in the bowl and lifting it to her
> mouth, sleeps on occasion in the bathroom sink etc) and terrified of storms
> - but nothing else. Certainly not kittens.
>
> Backing up the paw lightly stroking my face is a drumming noise from the
> laundry and, separately, a bokking/clattering sound from the garden. I get
> up, put slippers on and trundle off to the kitchen. The indoor companions
> all get dry food. Hills science diet biscuits (senior) go into Caspar's
> yellow dish on the freezer, Advance small breed dog biscuits into Miss
> Ruby's silvery dish on the floor. Whilst they're eating I put Whiskas junior
> cat biscuits into a double blue dish on the floor. When the Yorkie exits
> stage right I open the laundry door, the drumming of paws on it is curtailed
> and two bundles of tabbiness pour into the kitchen heading for the blue
> dish. Woodstock briefly follows until I put his magnesium free senior
> biscuits in his green dish and close the door so he may eat in peace, as
> deserves the patriarch.
>
> When they've finished the biscuits they all get a little milk though
> Woodstock blatantly and Caspar surreptitiously both leave a bit of it for
> 'the kittens'.
>
> Then I go outside and liberate the four Isa Brown chooks!
>
> roger
>



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