Cats, thunderstorms, and life.

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I know this isn't the first time Sassy, the youngest of my cats, has heard thunder.  But perhaps there was other noise to distract her.  Today, however, she was mightily afraid.  She crowded around poppo and mewled, wanting me to make it all go away.  A bit of a caress, a few itches behind the ears, and she would be off, brave enough to handle the intrusive noise again.  Every once in a while she returns to get some more bravery.  Sam, the eldest of my cats, just... notices the noise, perhaps looks.  She has the experience of an elder cat dame.  Still, with the rain comes chill.  She wants poppo as a woman might want a fleece throw.  Warmth!  And her feet are soooo cold.  Reminds me of some parts of women, on cold nights, on the back, come to think of it.  The parts that can turn my stomach so fast women have confused me with Flash Gordon for it. 

Shoveling, however, is probably off for today.  It would be a mess to work out there after this much rain, most likely.  The good thing is it will soak in, softening the soil for when I can get to it.  It does add to the weight for shoveling though too.  Life is about tradeoffs, ones we don't always get to choose.  I am not sure, in any case, if I can get to much today.  I am feeling good, but noon can't come soon enough.  Exhaustion is haunting all but, perhaps, the first hour or two after I wake.  Even then I am in my normal morning mode, meaning I am of little use.

At least it is favorable sleeping weather.  There definitely is that.  My guess is that when summer finally cranks over, sleep will become a rare and wonderful thing.  Heat is a brutal stealer of sleep.  I went through a minor oddity this morning.  Do you remember the degaussing button on older monitors?  Remember how the screen would shake?  Yeah, well my eyes did that.  It's not funny.  Well, actually it WAS funny, though the doctors may not agree.  I'm not sure what is up with that.  So long as it doesn't continue I suppose I am fine.  The body just does weird things once in a while, innit?

Later.