Missed Opportunities

There I was, ensconced in my Lazy Boy, watching TV, probably listening to the music as the credits rolled for Alice in Wonderland, a four star movie. The back door was cracked open, just wide enough to admit the largest of the small pets. Suddenly, a cat burst through the door with another cat on his tail. The first cat belongs. But the second cat, a fuzzy yet rampaging black one, does not.

Crumby hollers in panic. What the dern heck? The black intruder cat turns on a dime and is out the door before Crumby’s heart can start beating again. Must have thought, Whoa! How did I get here?

Then too, earlier Crumby was howing the switchgrass. Hard work. But there was a mourning cloak butterfly exhibiting interest in the leavings. Mourning cloaks like sap.

Well. Sadly, because Crumby wasn’t ready, he missed opportunities to photographically document both the rampaging cat and the new mourning cloak. Too bad, especially because the extant mourning cloak documentation is low quality.