Evening Entertainment

You wanna know how Sweet Farmer and Odd Chick entertain themselves? Well, besides the obvious, one of the things we like to do is sit out on our front porch in the evenings. I make Cherry Chiltons (that's a salted glass with lemon juice, fresh cherry juice from Cloudcroft, a little vodka sometimes, and diet 7-up). We sit on a wooden bench that Sweet Farmer gave me for Mother's Day eons ago, and watch our new little kitten. She's named Obie (short for Obie Juan Kinnobie). Her favorite thing is to try to sneak up on the pigeons who are sneaking up on the porch to steal dog food.

We laugh and urge her on to be a brave, strong kitty. But she forgets what she's doing if a moth flies by or she sees her tail or a leaf dances across her peripheral vision, and the pigeon wins again.

And then Odd Chick has to draw and watercolor a pigeon after we go in.

That pretty much sums up a great evening for us, except of course, the obvious.

(Okay, the rest of the story... Sweet Farmer and I had to go bale and rake hay at 8:45 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. because the moisture came in at that time).

I told the kitty "bye" and the moral to the story is: sweet moments don't grow on trees, somebody has to pay for the cat food.