Thursday, May 6, 2010

High Spring Roundup! Part 2: Man-stuff

Mrrrrr Friends,

I was right, yesterday  Oom started using that outdoor cat-eater again. There is one upside...all those little pieces of grass on the lawn sure can be fun to chase.

Yep, I was playing hard core in the grass cuttings this morning. Fluttering grass blades can really get a guy going. So much so, that when Oom said she had to go back in to earn kibble for us cats, I inadvertently - I swear - nailed her when she picked me up.

I try to self trim with frequent tree-scaling and log clawing, but those pesky side nails, they do get long and sharp. A man-cat can need his claws, but I get no pleasure from drawing blood from Oom and Boo.

So a certain amount of cat-manhandling then ensued. Boo thought he should give me a catmanicure. No photography was allowed during this personal grooming event. Don't get me wrong, I'm good with the nail trimming but...a dude needs a bit of privacy!

I promised a review of the big spring events, and here's one: the great spring snowmelt and the resulting rushing brook-flow. We had a nice woman over from the Ausable River Association (that's the big river that my brook runs into just aways down from our place) and she noted that if the little dam on my brook was removed, that my brook might become bigger all year round!

I still think I should do some brook trout breeding and stocking...