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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.

Friday, June 11

Dusty & Dipper


Garfield in today's paper and I couldn't resist. Both our cats are Garfields, but Dusty is the main man. I'm now resigned to getting up anywhere from 2:30 to 4:30 a.m. to feed him. Doesn't seem to matter how much I give him before we go to bed, he still must have this mid-night feeding. And it doesn't seem to matter how I try to hide from him, how I pretend to be asleep, he is very persistent, with his head just inches from my face, meowing a flat and very annoying meow at me, insisting I open my eyes and prove to him I'm awake. Too often, I cave and get up, as much to go to the john as to satisfy him. And since I'm already up, I may as well go to the kitchen and feed the beast. Yeah, "if cats ruled the world?" Oh, yeah, they do.

And while I'm on the subject of cats and my being a subject of the ruling species, here's a picture I took accidently about thirty years ago. It's a double exposure that came out interestingly effective. The green-eyed cat is Dipper, and the ghost behind him is me. But it's unusual that my right sideburn is perfectly aligned with the middle of Dipper's face, and the glasses behind us seem to have been from some long-ago Thanksgiving meal.

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