re: #195 Mattand

Yeah, it’s 96° here now. I should’ve been out at 9 and started the lawn. Don’t know if that’s a good idea now.

Heat-adjace cat story…

Our basement is divided into two halves - on one side is our ‘den’ and the other side is unfinished storage. The storage area has become a favorite hangout for our cats, and it has one small window. And thereby hangs a tale…

I got home from my gig last night and was completely punched out, so I went to bed. I was just about to fall asleep when my wife came in and said ‘There’s a cat on our patio that looks like (our cat) Spock!’ I told her that wasn’t possible because our cats are indoor cats and there’s no way for them to get outside.

(Complicating matters, our next door neighbors got a cat who looks exactly like our cat Spock (grey tabby), so I thought she was seeing the look-alike kitty. And though I told her to just let the cat go, she opened the door to the enclosed porch and let the cat in. I fell asleep, wife came to bed.)

I woke up this morning and the cat was still on the porch. Still thinking it was the look-alike, I went down to the basement to see if I could find Spock. I looked in the storage and didn’t see her, then went and checked the window.

It turns out that the window was actually a piece of Lexan, and the former owners didn’t bother to putty it into the window frame - they just wedged it in. And our Spock got the idea to keep pushing on the window until it gave way and formed a makeshift kitty door. I pushed on the window and it swung open from the bottom, enabling Spock to go on her kitty outdoor adventure.

So I went up and opened the door and let Spock back into the house. The door to the storage area is now closed, all cats are indoors. Spock’s brother Bean sniffed her and got completely freaked out. He now eyes Spock with suspicion. But he’ll get over that, I hope.