You want jelly with that . . .

Here's a sad tale.  Or tail, if you want a bad pun.  We wondered where one of the cats were last week, cause it was really cold and they all usually keep pretty close to the front door - so much so, that when we open it, they tumble over each other and try to sneak in - all at once in a frenzied mass of paws and whiskers. But, one had been missing.  Well, a couple days ago, we saw a black clump in the tall grass by the trees, but didn't know what it was.  India decides to go check it out and here it was a cat that had gotten her head stuck in a peanut butter jar and couldn't get it off.  I couldn't believe it.  The poor little thing.  Talk about your nine lives.  For Pete's sake.   She must have gotten into one of the garbage cans out back and somehow found the empty can and couldn't resist.  India pulled the jar off and we let her into the house to warm up and clean up.  She shook for hours.  Can you imagine the trauma?  She's fine now, but I imagine she'll switch to something else to eat for breakfast . . .

Heat wave!  46 degrees today!  Can you believe that?  We were nearly sunbathing!  Absolutely beautiful.  One of those days when you go for two walks, play football, sit on the patio and stare at the wispy clouds against the azure blue sky and smell the cool crisp air.  Ahhhhh.  Marvelous.

Black Friday.  I avoid it like the plague.  Always have.  Hate massive crowds.  Hate shopping.  But - when someone accidentally broke the food processor, and the sale catalog enticed me with a 50% off sale of all appliances, well, I just had to go.  My goodness there were a lot of people.  Frantic people.  All crazed and spastic.  People people everywhere!  And the funny thing is, I saw a lot of people I knew and each one of them said the same things -    "I never come shopping on Black Friday, but. . .  I hate shopping, but . . .  I can't stand all this craziness, but . . .    Isn't this insane?    I can't believe I'm here, cause I don't usually do this, but . . . "  And yet, there we all were, arms and carts loaded with stuff.  I say we're brainwashed.  Or more likely -  it's a conspiracy.  That's it.  And here's an example.   Gary was looking at computers online, and found one he decided to get, but got distracted and didn't order it right then.  Now - note -  this was 4 days before the biggest shopping day of the year.  You know, when everything is on sale for the lowest prices of the year.  Well, a couple days later, he gets an email from this company with their Black Friday specials and that very computer was on sale!  Hey, we thought, that worked out well!  Well, except for the fact that it was 100 dollars MORE than it was BEFORE it went 'on sale'!   I know.  Scary, isn't it?  Beware people.  Beware.  :)