If you said: "The 1974 novel by Robert Pirsig, that explores the meaning of 'quality' through a cross-country motorcycle trip," you get 20 bonus points. Yes, we do literary trivia here (as long as it pertains, somewhat, to the topic of the post), as well as music, film, and TV trivia.
It was a delightful start to the morning - only 78º. The average high temperatures right now are in the 100º area. Today is supposed to be a high of 98º; of course, it isn't going to stay below triple digits in the near term.
It would have been a good morning to get out on one of the bikes. But, I am not a big fan of being a "Sunday rider," because of the potential for crowds on the fun roads. Besides, the bikes need to have tires checked, oil checked, and the chain on the CTX lubed. So, while Joan went to the store, I messed about with bikes...
Not as much fun as riding them, but better than no bike content. Hopefully, we are getting to that time of year where a morning ride will be thermally possible.
I can't tomorrow, thanks to an early medical appointment. An ultrasound; pretty sure I am not pregnant, but if the tech hears a heartbeat besides mine, I am outta there.
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Cat Content...
Yeah, it why we're all here. Well, maybe not you, but, for sure, me. Stella has been a bit antagonistic this morning. Not with the humans, but she has been pouncing on Murphy. He takes it until he doesn't.
The most recent cat toy has been very popular with both of them. It started out as a thick felt oval with a cardboard scratcher insert and two noisy balls under the cardboard. There are slots in the thick felt structure, where a cat can get a paw in there and knock the balls around. That didn't last long: both cats figured out how to pull the cardboard out of the felt base and knock the noisy hard plastic balls with bells in them all around the tile floors. We had to hide the balls in order to not be awakened at 2:00 am.
Since both cats like this new toy, they took turns sitting in it and scratching the cardboard. Until that turned into "King of the Mountain." I am not sure which cat did this, but when I looked down, the cardboard was completely out of the base - Murphy was laying in the base, Stella was laying in the dished cardboard. OK, that takes care of the "It's MY turn!" arguments.
Until Stella decides to antagonize Murphy...
If you look close in that photo above, Murphy has his paw sticking out of the slot and Stella is biting him on that paw. Stella is scrappy, but does not realize Murphy is twice her size... when he is tired of taking crap, he can grab her with one paw and flip her around and body slam her. She immediately comes back, looking for more.
Stella did get scolded for "picking on her brother." She does not take well to being told "No!" We put some space between them, until they can play nice again.
Here's Murph with his paws through the slot...
Yeah, the boy has big paws.
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