Oh, the disgrace! The intolerable shame! I am a cat! C-A-T! Not a mule. But Stella seems to think that I am some sort of animal to be sat upon. She laughs and squeals, and has a grand old time, but I have to bare the utter humiliation while Mandy snaps my picture!

It is high time to talk about something else.

The last week or so, Mandy has been taking Stella in the big tub outside. Stella seems to love it, and tries to dive into the water head first. Peyton is very concerned about this, and he just watches Stella very closely. In fact, he gets closer to the big tub with her in it than he would if Mandy was in it alone. (And he watches closely then too!)

Yesterday Mandy blew up a huge drinking dish for us outside. We were so thrilled to have a large dish to drink out of when Mandy came and set Stella in our dish! She splashed around in this dish for a long time. Evidently this dish was not for us.

This morning I was able to save Mandy and Stella for an enemy! A dastardly frog had hopped into the bedroom, and I, only I, was brave enough to pounce on the frog, capture him, and save Mandy and Stella from impending doom! Sam did rush in at the end to take the frog outside and get most of the credit for this capture. But do not let this fool you, without me Mandy and Stella would have been at the mercy of this intruder!

Well, Peyton and I have much to do today.  I’ll be going for now.

Elway