<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:JanieHmkBold;
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:Arial;
color:windowtext;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m sitting in my office this evening, trying to work
(I work from home, and get most of my stuff done late in the evening). My
desk sits in front of a huge window looking out over the backyard, and at the
side are two 2-drawer filing cabinets that extend into the corner of the room,
with printers and etcetera on them. So I’m working, and Patty the
crazy cat comes in and hops up on the corner of the desk and peers down into
the printers. Rut-Roh. Crazy cat leaves and I keep working.
Then I hear something shift in the corner. Hmmm, that’s odd.
So now I’m working and watching out of the corner of my eye, and I see
movement. Rut-Roh again, now I’m really watching. Up onto one
of the printers pops a mouse, and it sits there and looks at me, then
disappears back behind the printer. Three Basset Hounds in the office with
me. Do they pay any attention? Nope. DH out at the
ranch. Call him and he laughs at me, says good luck. Note to self –
buy itching powder at a joke shop and put in his underwear drawer. So I’m
sitting here trying to work, and every few minutes up pops the mouse. Decide
to carefully move some items out of the corner so cats can get to him without
breaking everything -- and in a minute he pops up again. Not a
mouse. A medium sized brown Rat. And my feet are on the
floor. Rut-Roh Big Time. One of the older cats comes in, I pick him
up and hold him and we’re all very quiet and up pops the rat again.
Wolfie the cat sees the rat, and he decides he needs to investigate more.
Rat goes down into corner again and hasn’t popped back up.
Yet. Wolfie goes to kitchen for snack. Pinning my hopes on Wolfie and
his brother, Peeper, they were feral kittens that we rescued and tamed years
ago, and they are fierce hunters – but they’re getting old and lazy
now. Dogs useless, they’re all asleep and couldn’t care less.
My protectors, hah. Patty the crazy cat is watching and sleeping –
I guarantee she’s the one who caught him, brought him in the house and
then let him go, she does this all the time with lizards and bugs. Wanted
you all to know in case I have heart attack and die when the rat runs across my
feet. Gotta go now. Don’t know if drool will help, prayers
will be accepted. And you’d better not be laughing!! JUST
HEARD MORE NOISE!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=JanieHmkBold><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:JanieHmkBold'>Anita Woodrum</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>