He's not pissed off, he's POOPED off.

[cabenson]

. Asher has social anxiety and hides whenever someone comes to visit. It used to take half a day after the visitors left for him to come back up from the basement, but he is getting better and now resurfaces with 1-2 hours. Yesterday, one of my bestest friends (and old roommate) stopped by with her 4 year old daughter. Asher did his gun-and-run and came back up late afternoon and was back to his normal self. This morning, Mrs CB is reading the paper when she notices that something smells a bit off. Cut to Asher taking a crap on the throw rug. I would think he might be ill (and a trip to the vet will occur this weeke regardless) had a cat not crapped in the spare room the LAST time we had company. I think he is telling us that he prefers the hermitted lifestyle and that we should quit allowing other humans in the house. I am telling HIM that he gets no special birthday tuna and that his actions have punished not only him, but the other cons cats as well. See, I can put Helen Stewart and Nikki Wade into ANY conversation.

In other news, I took for a little walk outside while Mrs. CB was winterizing one of the gardens. He hasn't purred that loud in a long time. has decided that he loves me again and we watched the Yankees beat the Sox. He then took up residence on Mrs. CB's side of the bed and laid by my head while I watched TV. Bruin has always had to "touch" me, whether to make himself feel secure (he was an abandoned kitten) or to lay claim to me. He usually does this by stretching his paw out and putting it on my arm of shoulder. I love it when he does this.

All the boys are getting their winter coats. I think this is gonna be the worst winter we have seen in many years. Geese were flying south at the end of August and squirrels started stockpiling in our garden over Labor day. I expect a massive blizzard and with that thinking, we are planning a list of Blizzard supplies. I wonder how long a case of Mr. Pinot would last. What? It never hurts to be prepared.

Off to get stuff to make beef stew. Mrs CB was just singing a song about how she would never chuck me out because of my cooking skills and ability to de-bug her computer. I think she missed a verse. I'm gonna keep that in mind the next time she wants to get laid ;)