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CAT WITH NINE LIVES AND 19 MOVES

We were standing on the back patio visiting with some neighbors who’d dropped by, while Maddy held court in her kiddie wading pool.

All of a sudden, here came our long-haired, orange and white, extremely lazy and relatively fat feline – we call him “Fat Louie” – high-tailing it down the steps from our barn’s upper level. He was being hotly pursued across the back yard by these neighbors’ equally fat but also fleet female black Labrador, Bo.

Fat Louie scrambled around the wading pool and up the beam holding up our patio roof. Then he scampered down and around, and plunged into the wading pool – oops! it’s wet! – thought better of it, and dragged his drenched fur back out. He zoomed over to the house and clambered up to the top of our brick Texas barbecue, clutching the top of it and hissing downward at the panting, ecstatic dog.

All this transpired within the blink of an eye. We couldn’t believe what we saw. Fat Louis is like a Burgermeister. He doesn’t move much all year. In fact, that was as much as we’ve seen our barn cat move in the five years he’s owned us. It’s good to know he’s still got it if he needs it. Whew!

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Prayer request: Lord, we ask you to be with my friend Kathleen, who has lost her godson to a mental illness and the sickening downward spiral of despair. He was only in his 20s, and such a child of promise and leadership. Let her know how much he loved her, and let her know that You are there for her and for the family at this painful and difficult time. (Isaiah 30:18)