Sox-Stash

This morning, I wake up a little earlier than usual. Which means that, for a change, I am a little bit ahead of schedule, so I am thinking, hmm, perhaps I will get to work at 6:30 instead of 7. However, when I open my back door to head out into the world, here comes this kitten, bounding toward the door! In fact, he (she? who knows, seemed like a he) gets about halfway into my house before I can corral him and nudge him back outside. “No, no, kitten,” I tell him. “My cat doesn’t like other cats.” He is persistent, though, so I decide to give him some leftover tuna ’cause he’s prolly hungry or something. And he sniffs around on the tuna, his front feet on the pavement and his hind legs still on the porch, his butt in the air.

He is black with 4 white paws, so I immediately name him Sox. And I do so knowing how unoriginal that name is, but at least it’s “Sox” instead of “Socks,” which at least seems a bit more creative.

Anyhoo, Sox follows me to my car, and I prepare to fend off any attempts to climb inside. Instead, he decides to try to climb onto the hood and slips off, falling to the ground. And next, he strolls around the patio; of course, by this time, I have gotten out the camera to snap some shots of my new pal.

Then he looks up at me, and I notice that he has the cutest little white moustache, so I am more determined than ever to get a picture of him ... but then he scampers off to the front yard and quickly climbs up one of my evergreen trees. And he soon appears to want to get back down from the evergreen tree ... but he cannot seem to figure out how to get down.

So I take some pictures.

He looks a little demonic in this shot, but I can see the ’stache.



And then this one reminded me of Father Guido Sarducci’s “Find the Pope in the Pizza Contest.” Except with a cat ... uhm, in a tree.



: )

My wake-up singing song for today was “Hold on for One More Day” by Wilson Phillips. I think it was because I woke up thinking, ah, if I can hold on for just one more day, it will be VACATION TIME! (Actually, though, at that point, I had two more days, but ... whatever.)

And that song prompted a mini-WP medley which next included “Release Me.” And next led to “Must’ve Been Love,” which actually is NOT by Wilson Phillips but instead is sung by Roxette. And that song had me humming the love song to Pretty Woman, which actually was the best song in the entire film but apparently was not even included on the soundtrack!

Grrrrrrrrr!