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Cats

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February 17th, 2021

I am wide awake since three in the morning, but sleep is slowly getting the better of me. Well, it´s about time, or hubby will have to endure my sour mood all day long. It is almost 5 AM, the birds aren´t awake yet, few cars are on their way, their hum just having lulled me to sleep, when a ghastly sound comes from the garden. Tuxedo cat is pacing off his territory again, his raspy meowing jolting me out of my dreams. He does this each and every morning, and believe me, no one will sleep through his howling, you have to be plain deaf to miss it. Maybe half a metre of snow might dampen this cat´s wanderlust, unfortunately we almost never have that much of fluffy white. After having finished his tour Tux is off to our neighbour. I cannot fall asleep again. Half an hour later: Vaire cat is sitting in front of the bedroom door. Or better, she´s jumping up and down, trying to open it, which is nearly impossible, because hubby has installed the handle in a fashion this cat is no more able to achieve her goal, which is to get into our bed. Widely awake again I get up to feed the striped monster. Vaire feeds, Namo is not to be seen. I get back to bed. A short time later a pungent smell makes it into the bedroom. I get up again. Oh joy, Namo cat has done a dump, one part in the litter box, the other not. I clear the box, I clean the floor. Then to bed again it is. Finally, I fall asleep. Now it´s seven thirty, time to get up. First thing I notice is that hubby has not properly closed the drawer of our old desk. Second thing I see is that one of the cats has puked onto the desk. And, because hubby has not closed the drawer, all over the pens, too. I wipe the desk, I wipe out the drawer, I wash the pens. Then I go down to make breakfast. Hubby feeds the cats, now both of them. Cats aren´t hungry. When I fetch the toaster I see the reason why. During night cats have found the bag with the jelly donuts. Donuts into the bin, bread into the toaster, ham and cheese onto the table. When I bring in coffee and toast the ham is gone. Cats are off. I give up. As long as Samsung and Sony were with us the four cats did not steel but tussle. Now that the two are back to their owner Vaire and Namo sleep all day long save for those moments when food is unattended. They pounce, they gobble down what is not meant to be theirs then hide for the next hours. If we are lucky, the things they devoured will stay in the stomach. If not, see above...