Toby: I'm starting to get used to indoors again.
JM: Does it remind you of our long ago condo life?
Toby: Not much.
JM: What's different?
Toby: A lot.
JM: Tell me...
Toby: No screened patio! No cat tree! for starters. Then, there's the problem with bugs.
JM: What?!!!!! We don't have bugs!!!!
Toby: That's my point. No big, fat, juicy cockroaches.
JM: Ugh! And those were all contaminated with bug killers from condo maintenance.
Toby: Now it's my turn to say, Ugh.
JM: I'm almost afraid to ask, but...What else is on your mind?
Toby: Last night you didn't let me sleep on the bed! What's going on?
JM: Hmmm. You pestering me to wake up and feed you.
Toby: Food's so exciting! And you're asleep waaaaaaay past dawn.
JM: I can't change that since I can't sleep until the wee hours of the night.
Toby: Well, I miss you.
JM: Awwww. I miss you too. But I don't want to be crabby from being waked up way too early. Let's take a nap on the couch. You can nap on my chest like the condo days.
Toby: I'm all in. Naptime! Now!
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In our time of extremes, it feels steadying to know the moon continues to wax and wane. The clouds of the last week mostly cleared and tonight's waxing, 97% full moon was visible again...
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