November 1, 2005
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Since I can’t concentrate on what I’m supposed to be doing, I’ll get this other stuff out of the way.
When I got up this morning and looked at the outdoor thermometer, I saw
that it was reading 3.6° (that Fahrenheit) and I thought, “Brrrrrr…
cold” until I noticed the minus sign. Then, I thought, “Oh,
that’s not so bad.” Y’see, low numbers are good, when they’re on
the below-zero side. As the sun rose, the numbers rose and
temperature fell with the morning thermals coming down off the
Talkeetna Mountains. It peaked (bottomed) out at around nine
below, and is up into the mid-teens above by now, with the sensor in
direct sunlight.
“They” say that woolybear caterpillars reveal when we’re going to have
a cold winter. I dunno about that. This is our own
wooly-bear cat, Muffin, and she has told me that she’s expecting a cold
winter. Although this is indubitably a fat cat, she’s not as big
as she looks here. Her winter coat is thick this year, and when
she is out in the cold with it all fluffed out, Muffin is enormous.
Perhaps the reason that Nemo refuses to go outside at all is that she
knows that there is no camouflage value to her day-glo fur. Or
maybe it’s because she has no winter coat. She is sleek where
Muffin is fluffy. She has staked out this compartment in the
sweater hanger in Doug’s closet as her own. If I fill it with
sweatshirts, she pulls them out. She has liked this little
hammock ever since she was a kitten, when it wasn’t quite such a tight
fit. It may look like she fills the space, but I have seen her
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Comments (6)
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My kitty is super-fluffy this year, so I wonder if that means we will have a colder winter than usual this year. She’s a big ball of long black fur!
i’m wondering – from the signals received by my furry reincarnation of Attila – that it’ll be enough cold in this side of the Ocean too….
Why is it better colder, below zero? Oh I see (after re-reading it), it’s a perspective thing on the small number. I am such a summer person it’s pathetic. Maybe I should live way north for a winter just to never take my own winters in Ohio for granted ever again.
Muffin is beautiful and looks incredibly soft.
Sounds like you should be changing underwear more often.