Why have I been writing so slowly, even for me? I've been slightly sluggish, somewhat grumpy, so slow-moving that another normally fast-walking trail buddy abandoned me and went out for pizza last week (I am not making this up), irregular and bleary-eyed. Does a food item need to be removed from the still short "safe" list? No, Pastel-cat has been bleary-eyed, too. It's hard to be positive at a time of year when plants are not growing, but the cats tell me that our Bad Neighbor has been spraying poison with purely evil intentions even after Thanksgiving. Now COVID is circulating again. People have been doing quarantine, and I woke up this morning with no cough, no fever, but telltale hypertension. Wouldn't it be lovely if this year's version of COVID keeps this fool out of circulation all year. He's fat enough that an overnight blood pressure spike could trigger a disabling stroke...
Local people, including the police, appear to think people ought to be able to enforce the law for themselves at night. "If you could set up a camera and get some evidence," the dozy policemen have whined. I have set up a camera, set up a computer that can scan the photo chips on which it stores images, and got some beautiful videos of my House Wrens in action, but only one night photo of a humanlike shape waving a flashlight at the camera. Considering the expense and inconvenience of these cameras, I think the police ought to set them up for any citizen who has trouble with trespassers--humans, or nuisance animals.
We need a law banning all outdoor spraying of anything the person doing the spraying is not willing to drink.
Animals
If the Feline Friday link-up requires cats to come first every week, here's a cute dog to balance things. This was the Scotch Terrier who inspired thescottiechronicles.blogspot.com:
Possibly a distant relative of the Mop, who is less hysterical than it used to be but will still follow me across the yard if it's outside when I walk past, bouncing and yipping.
Hoots
I saw a hilarious You Tube commercial for something called #ProLifeMen. It's
Songs
If a gym teacher says "Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet" to a sluggish student, is he homophobic, or has he been listening to too many of the no-Christian-content "Christmas" carols today's DJs demand?
Seriously, both "Jingle Horse" and "Jingle Bus" have been used as names for missions' and food banks' winter collection drive gimmicks.
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