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Dear Reader,
It was a rockin' rolling, baking, chasing, coffee drinking night at my house last evening. The partying started some time after 8:30 p.m. (I went to bed early with a headache), the noise woke me up at 12:30 a.m., and at three o'clock I was wide awake in the kitchen, pouring myself a freshly brewed cup of coffee and mixing up a batch of my Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins. I didn't get to go back to sleep until 5 a.m. Thank heavens I had that four hour cat nap before the party kicked into high gear.
Night time is party time for cats and believe me, our cats know how to party and how to entertain guests. Barry had a friend sleep overnight. Barry's our tuxedo kitten and his friend, Dayla, is our son and daughter-in-law's kitten. Put two kittens together, along with our other two cats, Abby and Billee, and it's mayhem-craziness only cat owners could imagine. Barry chasing Dayla, two kittens leaping, side-by-side from the fireplace mantle onto the skinny window ledge, then racing into the bathroom, jumping up on the vanity and tipping over the huge sunflower arrangement, crash! It falls on the floor, but amazingly only slightly chips the vase. Cats sneaking into the cupboard as I pull out the flour for my muffins, and finally two kittens strategically stalking then pouncing on the pelican figurine, sitting in the middle of my dining room table, knocking it over and proudly standing on top of it looking at me, as if to say, "Look at what great hunters we are!"
What's a party without food? Turkey with gravy, fish and shrimp bits and nuggets; as I was assembling the buffet table for four hungry party animals, I noticed another critter looking to party, too. A white-faced, teenage possum (whose parents I'm sure didn't know he was out this late), was looking-in through the back screen door, "Hey, I'm ready to party. Is there room for one more?"
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.muffinsandmayhem.com/
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