Miss Ellie looks all cumfy here, doesn't she? Ha! Looks can be deceiving. Notice the hairy eyeball burning a hole in my shirt? Notice how she's hiding behind that tail? This is because Miss Ellie is "recovering" from an encounter with Diamond, that feral cat who lives next door. The way Warren tells the story, he'd let her out on the back deck. Miss Ellie usually goes down to the bottom of the stairs, munches on a bit of grass, then comes back inside and ralphs on the carpet. Great noontime routine.
This time she came streaking back up the stairs and flew in the house and disappeared upstairs, probably under the bed.
The rest of the story? Diamond wasn't far behind. Good thing Warren was sitting in the den, waiting for the solvent to do its job on the bathroom floor. He said Diamond pretty much had one foot in the door and was about to give chase all the way upstairs, but was held off by Warren's rattling a chair. Diamond is so wild, she will go after a human in the way. But she thought better of it this time and took off back down the deck stairs.
Now you know why Miss Ellie is hiding behind her tail. If I can't see "them," except for my watchful eye, then "they" can't see me.
This photo shows Hamilton perched on the dining room window sill. Warren says Hamilton is "Watching the Food Channel." Have you guessed there are several bird feeders outside this window?
