Fantastic Weather for the Furball and his Human + a Poll

Here in Louisville we’ve been in what Alex and I consider a “cold spell” for the past couple of days. When we awakened this morning, the outside temperature was 69 F; better still, the temperature inside our air conditionless house was 72 F. In behavioral terms that means that it’s cool enough that Alex is back in bed snuggling with me and we’ve had to cover up with a comforter. [Again, I wish there were another human around here who could have snapped a photo of the furball and me beneath the comforter this morning; with just his nose, eyes, and ears exposed as Alex sniggled in my arm, I’m sure it would have been a fantastic photograph].

Another indication of a change for the better in the weather is that, while I was out running long postponed errands today, then furball was catting around outside—for about six hours he was catting around. When I returned (with 48 servings of his favorite cat food, which may last a day or so) I called him from the front door. No Alex. So I opened the back door and went out on the deck and again screamed his name. From a distance I heard his respond “meow” and my acrobatic cat leaped on the deck and headed straight for his feeding bowel, looking over his shoulder to be sure that his human was following.

When I caught up with him, I presented a package of his preferred cat food, he leaped onto the table and awaited my opening the package to confirm it was his choice for dinner, and they began gobbling the food even before all of it was emptied into his dish. Meanwhile, I put away my other purchases and had just flopped into a chair to relax when the furball clawed my sore leg. “Now what do you want?” I asked. He avoided by trying to scoop him up to be petted and headed for the back door. Yep, he is now again outside catting around—and harassing the dog who lives next door. The weather really has changed for the better!

Alex a Blogger?

There are many more Alex stories I could share, but the hairball has informed me that he wants to tell them to you. With such a positive response to Alex’s one blog post, he demands that I ask you these questions:

1. Should I periodically allow the furball to write a post for Nick’s Bytes, or

2. Should I allow Alex to create his own blog, or

3. Should I ban the cat from using my computer and deny him both.

Since I do not want to make that decision, I have used the neat blogger tool to create a poll that is located at the top of the side bar of this blog. Please vote for your choice and I shall so inform you and the cat who owns me of the results.