Life is Good

Amy een vriendin van me hier die ik 5 jaar geleden al heb ontmoet stuurde me haar verhalen op die ze schrijft. Ik vondt deze zo leuk dat ik hem op mijn blog heb gezet. (wel in het Engels natuurlijk)

 

Life is good!

Where I house-sit, there's a moderate pool. It's about 15 feet in diameter and 4.5 feet deep. It's mostly for paddling around in and keeping cool on those REALLY HOT HOT HOT India days (and there's quite a few of those!).

Sometimes it's full of water -- sometimes it's not. When it isn't full of water, there's a long, thick tree branch placed inside because I learned early on that I have a curious cat (aren't they all?) -- who would jump in and not be able to get out (case in point: wake up at 6:00 am to a meowing MEOWING meowing kitty to find her beautifully echoing voice coming from the empty pool -- well, empty except for the sweet, stuck kitty!). Hence, the over-sized stick ;0)

Now, India and the newest addition Pondy can gracefully walk the plank into the empty pool -- and THANKFULLY right out again!

Last Saturday the pool was empty. Then for the last three days it's rained like the monsoon season! The pool now has about 4 inches of water. The frogs LOVE it! Every day I wake up and go out to the pool to check whose there. This morning there was an additional frog (count: 3); one about the size of a half dollar, the other two about the size of a penny. Oh, they're so cute! You all know my affinity for frogs (now! if you didn't KNOW -- come on! Just look at my email address).

Not surprisingly, kitties like frogs too, huh! That hopping is just too enticing!

Picture this:

Pondy walking the plank -- slowly! ever so slowly (an aside: how many of you know how much cats LOVE water??? NOT!!!). She knows there's water (she's so smart!) -- but she also notices a small creature on the branch (she's so curious!). Ok. No problem -- she's checkin' it out. THEN, India comes on the scene. Directly behind Pondy. Ever so perfectly balanced and poised on the branch. The creature (a frog, in case you hadn't guessed) takes a courageous leap into the safety of the water (do frogs know that cats don't like water, I wonder?) But! AH HA!!! India jumps before she thinks -- straight....into.....the......water!!!

If she could speak, I'm sure she would have said, "Ah shit!" Something you don't know about my little India is that she actually doesn't mind water so much! But now Pondy is a completely different cat! A more traditional cat? Maybe. Anyway, she unequivocally DOES NOT LIKE the water.

And as you might imagine, as soon as India with all her perfect and wonderful animal instinct bounded into the water, this action scared Pondy and within half a milli-second, Pondy was PLUNK -- in the water. India's wet to her belly but Pondy's completely soaked! (she's still quite tiny) and let me tell you -- PISSED OFF! Ever seen a wet, pissed off cat? It's not pretty let me tell you! For a second I thought she would/could scale the 4.5 ft pool siding -- wet, slippery and all but in the meanwhile ....

...me being the terrible mother -- I began to laugh out loud ... really LOUD ... adding insult to injury mind you but hey! you would have laughed out loud too! I mean, India realizing the mistake and Pondy completely taken by surprise! It was terribly funny!

So, Claudio and I literally fished the two out of the pool (trying to comfort their bruised cat-egos) and as soon as they hit dry land they scampered off the way you might imagine -- shaking their legs all the way. Can't you hear their mental chatter: "GET! THIS! WATER! OFF!! OFF!! OFF!! ME!!! SHIT!"

Oh the horror.

Oh the humor.

Life is good.