I often have to admonish Gigi for clawing the rug and furniture and direct her to use her scratch box. A few days ago, I caught her clawing at my living room curtain sheers. “Gigi! Stop that!!” Thinking that would do the trick, I returned to my work projects.
About two minutes later, I hear a loud “CRASH!!”
“GIGI!!!!”
Gigi has pulled the curtain sheers so hard the entire curtain rod was yanked from the wall. The curtain rod and the sheers are in a heap on the floor. I see from the corner of my eye a whisp of a phantom of Gigi as she runs off to another room.
To repair the wall, I have to do some color patching. So, I get a gallon of dark blue wall paint I keep on hand for touch up. It is a new can. As I open it in the kitchen, the paint spills and I loose about a pint of paint on the ground. Well, this is a fine mess!! The paint splatters everywhere including the appliances and cabinetry. It takes me about half an hour to clean up this disaster.
All the while, Gigi has found a window in the next room in which to sit it out, with a red ball toy next to her, looking outside at a bird that is singing.
How was your week?
Édith is a tortoise tabby (tortie tabby.) Gigi is a flamepoint Himalayan. Gigi has one yellow eye (her right eye and the other blue.) These stories are little snippets of their daily actions. Artistic license applied to the conversations between them.
Mary Lamery is a lifelong resident of Seattle, Washington, USA and native of the Pacific Northwest. Lamery paints regional landscape and figurative work in a manner that leans towards 19th century French Impressionism.