Long Time No Blog

Well, mom’s done it again. She’s skipped
months without updating my diary. Bad mom!
Actually, she’s had to wait until she can get a
hookup from home. Work has been too busy
for her to be tending to my diary. She’s still
working out the bugs. Technology becomes
so obsolete so quickly! Right now she has
OS 9 on her Mac and this is not friendly to
the blogger site! There will definitely be
things to be worked on before this becomes
a smooth process.

We’re all trying to stay cool at the homestead.
It is another hot, hot, hot summer. Mom and
dad have had people in to try and mitigate the
heat. They found out that getting central air
in their old home would be too expensive
and that nobody was willing to come out
until the autumn.

They have been working on alternatives for
beating the heat. It has proven to be
expensive as well. Doing anything for an
older home is proving to be expensive. Just
getting new screen doors is a major
undertaking. Sheesh! Everything is not
square. Especially for an old house built on a
hill!

Now I get to complain about strangers! As
my friends might know, I do not like anyone
to come and visit that does not live with me
in the home. Since mom and dad are trying
to get things fixed up and better for us all,
I have had to endure many strangers in my
space. Even getting the internet hookup at
home meant strangers. This is very annoying
to me and does not make me happy at all.
I do think that the new screen doors are
super awesome, though! We get to look
outside!

So besides the heat, intrusions, and all that
goes with it, what have we been up to? I’d say
more of the usual! We’ve all been in for health
exams, dental work, and shots. I got
something called a microchip. “Everyone has
them”, mom said. Mom and dad found out
that Velvet and I do not weigh as much as
they thought. They were calling us the “9
pounders” and this was incorrect. I weigh
7 pounds and something and Velvet weighs
a bit over 8 pounds. The only reason that
Velvet weighs more than I do is because she
has a tail!

Nimbus has been dramatizing Lightning. He
has a new form of domination, the screen! He
stalks Lightening through the screen door
when mom is around. Lightning likes to hang
out by mom when she is by the door. Nimbus
stalks him.

Nimbus will stalk him, then pop up and give
him the “evil eye”! Lightning play-bows and
barks! Velvet and I like to watch this very
entertaining spectacle.

If you think that humans are the only creatures
on the face of the planet that have “drama”,
think again. Relationships are complex and
communication is not always smooth. Think
of even all the complexities of a “boy/girl”
relationship”. Add diversity to the equation.

Nimbus still likes to face off with Lightning
in the living room. Canine and feline playing
styles can be very different! Guiseppe is super
reliable. He comes and escorts Lightning out
of his dilemma. One of the funny parts of this
situation is that Nimbus always gives Lightning
the “soft paw”. No claws extended! Nimbus
wants to play.

Lightning wants to play when he gives the
play-bow and barks. This goes back and forth
and back and forth again! Both communication
styles can annoy the playmate. This leads to
“drama”.

With this bit of philosophy I have to close.
I’ll be easy on mom and let her go off to her
other duties.

To all, be cool this summer,
Dakota, Pixie-Bob