Doug’s World

A bird in the bush, two cats in the basement

Elton’s so in tune with animals. He always seems to know what’s going on with animals, and they always seem to see him as an ally. In our back yard last week, Elton pointed out a bird’s nest in a bush, which we had never noticed before …

We don’t have any AC in our house, and we’d like to keep it that way, for all the same reasons we don’t use any power tools in the yard, drive a hybrid, etc. So on days when it’s hot (like today) and the upstairs bedroom gets warm, we always end the day with some flow-through ventilation up there. But since the cats (especially Fish and Ike) will leap out an open window any time they get a chance, we have to lock them in the basement before opening the windows.

Here’s a photo I snapped this evening when Megan came down the hall with the boys, preparing for their nightly locked-in-the-basement-for-a-while ritual …

A few minutes later … we’re listening to some techno Indian CD, and Megan just said “the cats (locked downstairs) complaining really goes with this music.”

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