A Sammy Friday

Hi, Sammy here,

I have been kind of loafin, do you folks know how to loaf? I mean really loaf? It really is good for you and you can dream up all kinds of ideas, dreams, and possible outcomes. A really good sunbeam also helps – it just feels so warm, and cozy……………

Opps, sorry, I started daydreaming. On the other blog, someone asked who jimmy was. I will let you in on a secret; there is a picture of him posted on the one of his blogs. So, let us make it a game – you find it and leave a comment at the photo and I will let you know if you are the winner.

And no - it is not that guy standing by the race truck waving. That is his best friend Crash. Crash got ill on the way back from Texas; he was puking, shaking, and just miserable. They think they found something else besides the race truck down in Texas; like a flu bug! Crash has been in bed all week and just got up yesterday. Nothing stops the man, but he has slowed down. He also has been really, really busy. He works with a "sense of urgency" and that he learned from growing up in the country. You make hay, while the sun is shining, and take naps when it is raining.

The man was also asked recently to serve on a Science of Mind Church board and he accepted the position. He found himself with manual and a code of ethics he is supposed to live his life by. Since the man was already involved in Baldrige evaluations as a volunteer Minnesota Quality Evaluator, the ethics was no big thing, but he has made some changes. He knows he has some weaknesses and one is saying "yes" rather easily, and another was being too fluid in IM’s. He had already stopped IM’s last summer and has been practicing saying “no” more often.

I hear that a piece of the Antarctic ice shelf broke free and started drifting. They caught it by looking at satellite images from last year. What shocked the scientists is how fast it happened. It was not days, weeks or months – but hours! It has since refrozen into the sea ice, but this is really a thing that may be quite common. The temperatures here have been quite balmy, the man keeps remembering that the weather used to be for weeks on end, well below zero. At least the sub zero weather would keep the vermin out, but now with the warm weather, the border gates are wide open.

I see that the rumor mill is thinking that more troops will be sent into harms way. This country just had a good man die this last week, and he was a good decent fellow. Yes, some folks think he pardoned a criminal, but he did and it was the best thing that could have happened for your country. That took bravery to go against what a lot of folks wanted. Then he did something else, he got your boys out of Vietnam. Us cats have learned that life is circular, and if we do not learn our lesson the 1st time, it just comes back harder the 2nd time. So is this war in Iraq a repeat of a lesson not learned from Nam? What you need now is someone willing to say, hey “this is not working” and get your boys out of there. Maybe in the future, instead of sending your sons and daughters to die for you, the folks that want to fight should be put in a real live cage match and let them just duke it out. It is surprising how things take on a different perspective, when one might be the one being hurt or worse. I know it has stopped me when the alfa cat (the man) has come barreling thru here. I just get out of the way, and let him pass by. A good nap solves a lot of problems for me.

My mommy sent me a catnip mouse for the holidays. It is a delightful treat. Have you ever eaten catnip? It is good – and I am going to go find it. See ya………..