Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant

Tonight I am going to capture the cat. I will do so not to harm it but to make friends with it and also using the timer on my camera record the victory. When I arrived at my son’s house tonight to feed the invisible feline I was prepared. I filled the water bowl and I replenished the food, Carefully around the bowl I unrolled the fly paper. I circled the bowl with a double concentric ring of the sticky paper and left the bowl as a bulls eye. Carefully I pulled back smirking at the thought of this cat when it stepped into the adhesive. When I return I will free it and become the hero to it I mentally snickered. As I stood up there was a flash of movement just glimpsed in the peripheral vision of my eye. From the shelf a fur ball jumped onto my shoulder playfully. Startled I slipped and fell to the floor on top of the flypaper. My left hand went into the litter box and found a marble, I think a marble, I hope a marble. As I arose I found that I was impeded by the flypaper that was stuck to my chin. My nose was in the dish and I was mortified There was a bright flash of light. A cool nose prodded my cheek and a tongue of sand paper licked my ear. I managed to get off the floor and I quickly cleaned up to leave with special attention paid to my left hand. I whimpered as I left, ” You win” and I heard a faint Meow in reply. I had suffered the fate of all the Elmer Fudds of the world. My camera also was now out of film. Dare I get it developed?

Other than that I had a very ordinary day. For a Monday this was extremely nice. The morning was chilly and cloudy with a brisk wind off the ocean but the day developed quite pleasantly. I am hoping for some nice weather this weekend as I will have a lot of chores to do Saturday. My wife and daughter are going to a Broadway show Saturday and I expect a list of things to do to appear on my bureau. I wonder if any other men have found that when the wife goes away she leaves a list of things to do. It seems to be rubbing it in: ” I am going out to have a good time and I expect you to do all these chores and stay out of trouble” We’ll

see about that!!!

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