 The Shaffer Journal
Volume 5 Issue 5 May 1999
I am Abraxas, better know to you all as Abby. I nose I is famous dee world ober. Ebony not wanna admit diss. Sews I chases here hither and yon. Human bean tole me dat dem wordee fings were nice. Anymeow, it purrritty good fun chasing and meowing. We have a really excellent journal or ezine this time. Dare bee lots of berry nice articles and pictures. Just plain meowonderful fun. Peas enjoy... These journals are dedicated to Kitty GreyCat's spirit. She at RainBow Bridge now. We all loved you, Kitty! Click the cat graphic below to visit Kitty's Memorial page.
Kitty Talk
 Kitty born June 6, 1982. Died July 9, 1997. I is Ebony and I fink we got a bang up journal diss time. Dare is dee famous skitter attack. Oh, meow, it twere terrible. Den dare diss box ub catnip dat came from Ren. We been happy eber since. Hehe... Some net stuffers, hockey fings, and great mews in the park. Now before I furrgits, here is all dee birfdays, anniversaries, and holidazes: Tony Shaffer birfday is June 6th, Flag Day 14th, Fodders Day 20th, Art/Jana Sawyer anniversary 24th, young Tim Sawyer birfday 24th too, and Lisa Kilcoin birfday 27th. We all hope you enjoy this journal a whole lot. I Abby was watching Ebony outside hunting nasty gecko lizards. Den what should fry thru dee door but a keys skitter. Day big, ugly, and make lots of noisees. It flew right fore me. I backed up a bit and swat at it wif me paws. But it buzzed around me head. I chased and jumped at it all ober dee trailer. Human bean laughing at me too, but I was determined to get dat invader ub me space. Dat skitter landed right on me nose. Not thinking, I paw wapped it right dare on me nose. Well, I saw puppy dawgies flying all around after dat. I neber did catch dat skitter, but it were fun to try and try. I Ebony fink Abby making up dat story. I was hunting, catching, and gobbling lizards. Dat furr sure, you nose. But I neber saw no skitter come into dee trailer. Dare bee big ones doe outside. I leaf dem alone cause some got two big insect engines and are bigger dan two houses. Ifing Abby did paw wap herself, I meow dat only fair. I neber fought dat puppy dawgies flying around after a paw wapping doe. I not believe that. Abby is full of it! I Abby fink Ebony hab one too many lizards. She not nose anyfing else. Ebony's furrfriend Ren sent a box of catnip. Eben before box came into dee trailer, we knew it were special. Dee smell was mewow! When bean open dat box, I smelled and smelled. I ate a bit too. All dat catnip make me dizzy and I drooling eberrywhare. Ebony was eating it right out of da box. Her eyes got big and all cat crazy like. She drug out some nip onto the table and laid in it. She habing a good ole high time, I meow. After all dat nice catnip, both of us had a really long, extended dreamy catnap. >^..^< Internet Stuff
http://www.update.com versus Norton's Web Service. Update.com is free and Norton's is $29.95 for a year. Update.com finds all the updates for your computer's software and hardware, while Norton's does the same but finds more extraneous stuff that you really don't need. Bottom line: free! We finally got that video camera for internet movies and pictures. Our LogiTech QuickCam Pro works rather well. I must admit it is fun too. The cats don't like to be exposed to the camera though. I did get to video conference with my brother in Ohio and some people in New York, New Jersey, and someplace in Canada. I have sent pictures to all my family in Nebraska and friends in California. I ordered the video camera from GeoCities paying with my GeoPoints. I only had to pay the shipping. So I got a super duper camera for only $15. Oh, by the way, a GeoPoint is something that I earn whenever a visitor lands on one of my many web pages for fun. We get lots of GeoPoints!  Dark Highways Ring of Terror at URL http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?home;id=3;ring=dhrot is looking for really good members. If you have a horror site or close to that topic, please checkout this ring. The ring is a lot of fun and will bring more visitors to your website. Here is Trouble the Grim Reaper Cat in her own meows and mewsings and such:
Meowutations to all you readers. I's Te Reeper Trouble and is spokescat for te Dahrk Hiways websight. Parts of me job is to lets u know about all te new tings tat are sappening. We have a webwring cahlled the Dahrk Hiways wring of Terrer. Tis wring is fur all you people who has sights about horrer, seye fhi or phantasy. We's are looking fur members two join. We's loves to have you in our wring. And we haves a commitment to keep te ring in tip topp shape so's dat yous get viditors and wring gets hits. Tanks fur reading tis. We hopes u can join us! Now de bean must speek, so's I step ohff spokescat poddiummm and seerch fur ants. ~The Reaper Trouble~ spokescat of Dark Highways webpages. Hockey Puck
The poor Pittsburgh Penguins finally lost in the playoffs, but their greatest loss might come at a bankruptcy court. Even though Mario Lemiuex has a deal to buy and run the team keeping it in Pittsburgh, the NHL is faced with the prospect of disbanding the storied franchise. Local government is not helping. Yet, let us hope things work out. The NHL conference finals feature the Colorado Avalanche versus the Dallas Stars and the Buffalo Sabers versus the Toronto Maple Leafs. The games promise to be exciting. I can't wait for the exciting Stanley Cup finals coming very soon. Occupational License!
Last time Monroe County appeared to have made it tough for internet companies to do business in their county here in the Florida Keys. I talked with some friends. They made some calls. I found out some interesting things. Since I live in a commercially zoned property, all I needed was the owner's permission by letter to run my internet business. So I did not need all the zoning stuff the tax office told me, but it took a call to Key West to get this straightened out. I heard that the County Commissioners are going to look into addressing this issue to make it easier for internet business to exist here in Monroe County. That is the way it should be. Internet companies have low impact and high revenue streams. It only makes sense, you know. But the obvious doesn't occur to many. Poetry Corner
"Just Life"
April 18, 1999
Life so well begun
Enter into it
Fully and happily
Time no more
Flashes of memory
Brilliant lightning
Strikes our minds
Still see the scenes
Days one upon another
Not wanting to cry
Knowing it is just life
So cruel, so majestic
Reached the highest yet
Paints the sky clear
Life but a moment
One after another
It couldn't be better
Never to end
Never old
Hands lifted into air
But life cruel
And unrelenting
Captures these final
Frames of infamy
Grey sparse wreck
Life at the end
Where did it all go
Memories all that remain In The Park
The days are growing longer and the sunsets are even more beautiful. That means more time by the pool. Time to soak up more heat and sun. The pool is cool most times and good for a short swim. I enjoy the opportunity to read something, anything. I read and study all my trade publications on computers, internet, software, hardware, and all that stuff. I enjoy the local press as well. The free ones are best. Well, free is good for about anything. I finally got the Monroe County Library, Marathon Branch. I got a book on dragons. I am writing about dragons here and there. So the book caught my interest, of course. I rather enjoyed the library. It is small, but literally has everything from videos to internet access. It feels good to have my library card now. I have one of my books there too. I like the new stop lights at the school intersection at 33rd Street. They took down the stop lights at the sheriff's substation. I wonder what are the implications of Marathon incorporating. Is it going to be good for us or bad? Will everyone vote for it or not? The election is November 3rd, I think. Regardless, everyone should vote one way or the other. It is a right, but it is also a duty. My opinion. There seems to be fishing activities and tournaments going on everywhere all the time. Some of these events pay quite well I see. I am not a fishing type person though. So more power to all the fishers who enjoy that sort of thing. Good luck. I do like boating, but that is an expensive bit of fun. The hurricane season has started. The predictions are that this will be a bad season. I just hope it is not. I hate to see anyone, anywhere have to go through a hurricane or even a tornado. Let's pray it remains nice, quiet, and boring plus HOT! Guest Meows!
 This is Larry for Ariel. She and her two cats, Harry and Emily, gave us some wonderful Cat Chat articles this month. We are gratified that we can offer this regular article about some wonderful cats and their human bean with visits by a dragon! Please visit the Memorial Page for Ariel's mother. Click the cat wagging its tail graphic to visit their net home. Thank you. Now here is Harry and Emily with Cat Chat:
Cat Chat 4-4-99
Harry: Hi everybody! Emily will be here in a minute. She's checking something out oh, here she comes...
Emily: Harry, you be right. Somethin funny be goin on round here. Dat is defnitly Mom's going away bag, and it be full ob clothses!
Harry: That's just what I thought! Mom is going somewhere and leaving us again! How could she!
Emily: She better not be goin to play wif no smelly doggies like da last time
 Harry: Hmmm I heard her and girlfriend bean talking last night. Girlfriend was talking about taking good care of the babies. I bet she was talking about us!
Emily: Girlfriend will be coming ober an feeding us? Dat won't be so bad, den. She alays gib us lots ob good yummy tings...
Harry: That's true. Girlfriend is a furry nice bean friend. But if she is gonna feed us, that means that Mom won't be coming home everyday like she did when she was feeding those smelly doggies.
Emily: So? Girlfriend will take good care ob us and feed us real good.
Harry: Yes, but she can't be here alla time like Mom is. That means we'll be stuck inside or outside part of the time.
Emily: That's not fair! Mom needs to make us a cat door so as we can go in and out like we pleases!
Harry: I been saying that fur years, but Mom just won't listen.
Chester: That's because Mom knows you cats will bring in mice and moles and things if you have a cat door. Besides, if you had a cat door, any old cat could just walk on in!
Emily: I neber thought ob dat! We sure wouldn't want no oder stragly cats wandring into our house!
Harry: I'd keep out any old cats! But I don't think we oughta hold our breaths fur a cat door, that's fur sure. I wonder why Mom is going away again?
Chester: Her nephew is getting married. It's something humans do when they want to live with each other. Remember, I read you the invitation.
Harry: Oh, I member now. Well, then, she'll only be gone fur a couple or few days, then
Emily: Dis be making me furry sad. I don't wanna talk bout Mom leabing us or needing cat doors or notin. Tell us a story, Harry.
Chester: Yes, Harry. You still owe me a dragon story.
 Harry: A dragon story? (sigh) Oh, OK. Em and I found a story that we think you might like. Really, it's lots of stories, but I can tell it purrty short.
Emily: What stories be you talking bout Harry?
Harry: All those dragon books Mom has, member? Bout that place called Pern.
Emily: Purrn? Oh, yeah, I member now. Dat's da place wid lots a lots a dragons dar, right?
Chester: A place with lots of dragons? Where is it?
Harry: I'm not sure. It is somewhere far far far away, on another planet. The dragons are real big, and the beans, they take care of them real good, and make sure they have lots of good stuff to eat.
Emily: Yeah, they're not like that dragon thing in the pome we tol you.
Chester: So the dragons just lie around and get fed and taken care of by the humans in this place? I think I like that
Harry: Oh, they don't just lie around. They help the beans fighting this nasty stuff that fall from the sky. This stuff is nastier than rain or even snow!
Emily: Dat's right! Da dragons, day chews up deese rocks, and den day can spew fire, and day fly around in da sky an spew fire at da nasty stuffer wid dar beans on dar backs.
Chester: The humans ride on the dragons?
Harry: Yes, they are furry big dragons. And every dragon, they each have one furry special bean that is their bean for ever and ever, and the beans love them sooo much that when the dragons get old and die, the humans, they die too cause they are so sad about losing their dragons what they loved so much.
Chester: I think I like this Pern place very much. I wonder how I could get there
Harry: It's just a story in a book, Chester. But it does sound like a nice place fur dragons. And there are all kinds of dragons. Gold ones and green ones and bronze ones and brown ones and even blue ones like you.
Emily: Only there's no cats there, tho. It would be nicer if there was cats there
Chester: I would miss you cats if I lived in that Pern place, but it would be nice to live with lots of other dragons. And have a human that loved me that much. Do you think Mom loves us that much?
Harry: Enuff to die cause she is so sad when we die? I don't know, but Mom do love us, I meow
Emily: Eben if she do be going away (sniff)
Harry: It's OK, Em. Mom will be back. She alays come back. And girlfriend will take good good care of all of us.
Chester: Do you think girlfriend will feed me chocolate?
 Emily: We'll be sure to meow at her to do dat, Chester. Mom alays leab chocolate around.
Chester: Thank you Emily. You are a nice friend. And thank you for the story Harry. It will be nice to dream about that place.
Harry: You're furry welcome, Chester. I'm glad me and Em could find yous a dragon story you liked.
Emily: Ok, we is getting too mushy here, an it making me cry kitty tears. I wanna play an hab fun now, can we?
Harry: Yes, I think it's time to play. Merow!! Run and I'll chase you!
Emily: You can chase, but you can't catch me! Heehee!
Chester: Well, I guess that's all the cats are going to write this week. We'll see you all next week, and tell you all about Mom's trip to the wedding. Now I think I'll take a dragon nap and dream about that Pern place.
© copyright 1999 Ariel, Harry, Emily, and Chester the Dragon
© Pern and the dragons were first copyrighted by Anne McCaffrey in 1967
Dragon illustration © Luis Royo
Cat Chat 4-15-99
Harry: Hi everybody! We're back!
Emily: We be a liddle late, but we is back
Harry: Just like we thought last week, Mom went away and stayed forever and ever!
Chester: She was only gone six days.
Emily: Well, it sure seem like foreber and eber!! It weren't to bad, cause girlfriend bean did come and feed us and baby us and spoil us real good, most of the time.
Harry: Yes, it was nice to have girlfriend bean here with us. She brushed us and scritched us
Emily: And feed us yummy tings, and snuggled and slept wid us.
Chester: She even gave me some chocolate! I didn't think she even knew I was a live dragon!
Harry: We told you we'd meow to her to give you chocolate! Silly dragon!
Emily: But only she didn't stay here alla time, so dat meant dat sometime we was stuck outside, and sometime we was stuck inside.
Harry: Mom isn't here alla time either, but she is here most of the time, so as we can go in and out and in and out mostly whenever we want.
Emily: We tried to get Chester to open the door for us, but he be too short to reach the opener thingy.
Chester: I'm not short! I'm vertically challenged!
Harry: And his wings aren't grown alla way out yet, so as he couldn't fly up
Chester: Well, I am just a young dragon. My wings will grow out.
Emily: I hope day do before Mom decide to go off an leave us agin
Harry: Mom doesn't never travel much, so hopefully Chester will be big enuff to reach the door opener and turn on the puter for us too next time.
Chester: Mom is talking about going to the Keys to visit with Larry and Ebony and Abby
Harry: I don't believe she's gonna go off and leave us again anytime soon. She never did before, and I know, cause I've owned her a long long time.
Chester: We'll see
Emily: But anyway, we didn't been get to tell what happened while Mom was gone! One day, girlfriend bean, she didn't come ober atall!
Harry: We waited and waited and meowed and meowed, but no girlfriend bean! We didn't know what was going on! Then this strange man, he come in and he fed us
Emily: We seen him before, but he alays be an outside man, from up across da stream. I were sceered when he come in our house! It just weren't right atall, eben ifn he did feed us.
Harry: But we fixed him good, heehee! We runned over his feet and went out, and he had a terrible time getting us to come in.
Emily: Heehee! Dat were fun! He would get one of us in, den da oder of us would go out, so den he tried to get da oder one in, and da oder of us would run out. It were a fun game!
Harry: But finally he tricked us and left us both in, and we couldn't get out no way! And girlfriend still didn't come
Chester: She came the next day
Emily: But only oncet! An we was all stuck inside agin! I don't know why she had to go an do dat to us!
Chester: She had a cold. Couldn't you tell? And Mom said her brother was very very sick too.
Harry: That's no excuse fur not coming and feeding and spoiling us!
Chester: You cats are so selfish! You think of nothing but your needs and your stomachs!
Emily: We not selfish! We's cats! An anyways, what else is dar? We is da most important peoples in da woild! Beans gots do whateber we want alla time, no matter how day feel. Dat's jus da way it be!
Chester: I thought you loved girlfriend bean.
Harry: We do! She is the best bean there is, even better than Mom sometime.
Emily: Yous said a mouful dar, Harry. Girlfriend is a wonderful bean to own! But dat don't mean she don't hab sponsilities to take care of us
Chester: At least she got someone to come in and feed us. You cats need to be more tolerant of our humans. They have things to do, just like us. We can't expect them to spend all their time doing stuff for us. It just isn't possible. We got feed and spoiled and you both got to go in and out some. We had everything we needed
Harry: But not everything we wanted!
Chester: Mom always says you can't always get what you want. None of us get that. But now Mom is home, and everything is ok.
Emily: Ohh, yes, it be soo good to have Mom home agin! I lub habin her home wid us.
Chester: You see? Everything turned out fine.
Harry: I guess you're right, Chester. Everything is fine now. And I guess we shouldn't expect too much of Mom and girlfriend. After all, they are only beans.
Emily: And they are good beans, mostly. I do lub dem both so furry much.
Harry: Me too. But Mom better not go off and leave us anytime soon again, that's all I have to say!
Chester: Heehee we'll see.
© copyright 1999 Ariel, Harry, Emily, and Chester the Dragon
© Pern and the dragons were first copyrighted by Anne McCaffrey in 1967
Dragon illustration © Luis Royo
Cat Chat 4-21-99
Harry: Hi everybody! Mom has told us all about her trip, what she took when she went off and left us like we told you last week. So we decided as a pub-lick service to tell you all about it, so you kitties and beans will know why traveling anywhere is a furry bad thing.
Emily: Mom put me on a diet (sniff)
Harry: Emily, we're not talking about that now. We're talking about Mom's trip.
Emily: But she did! She put me on a diet!
Harry: That's because you are furry much too fat. I been telling you that fur moons now. So, anyway, Mom and Grandpa bean, they decided to go and visit with Mom's Evil Sister in Maryland
Emily: I am not fat! I'm just healthy like!
Chester: Em, you're almost as broad as you are long! That's not healthy. Anyway, all she did was cut down on the number of Yum-yums you can have.
Emily: She didn't put You on a diet! An yous eats all her chocolate alla time!
Chester: But I'm still growing.
Emily: Well, so am I!
Harry: Yeah, growing sideways! Heehee!
Emily Yous both is mean. I'm not talking to you (walking off).
Harry: Fine! Chester and I will write the column ourselves. So, like I was saying, Mom and Grandpa bean was going to see the Evil Sister, cause they hadn't been up to see her in furry furry many moons. Mom says she is the Evil Sister cause she is ab obnix what were those words again, Chester?
Chester: Obnoxious and overbearing.
Harry: Right! Egg zactly! So, Grandpa bean was sposed to come over to our house by 10 in the morning so as to pick up Mom, only he hadn't even packed yet, even tho they planneded the trip fur two moons! So, Grandpa bean, he didn't show up at our house til 11 in the morning!
Chester: And then he wanted to stop over where Great-grama bean lives so he could drop off a clean blouse for her.
Harry: Boy, was that a mistake! Great-grama, she got mad cause Mom and Grandpa bean wouldn't stay and have lunch with her, but ifn they had, it would have been 2 in the afternoon before they got away, so they just had to leave Great-grama mad and got on the highway at 12 noon. So Mom, she drive most of the way, but then she started getting tired like she alays do in the afternoon, so she had Grandpa bean drive.
Emily: Dat were anoder mistake! Heehee! Cause da whole time Grandpa bean were dribing, he were looking at da scenery stuffers, and Mom had to keep saying Daddy Daddy someone be braking up ahead!
Harry: I thought you weren't talking to us.
Emily: I changed my mind. Anyways, yous can't tell da story right widout me. So anyways, dis went on fur two hours. Day was gonna stop in Raleigh fur da nite, so as dey could rest, and pick up Mom's Good Sister.
Harry: Only when they got to Raleigh, they hadn't neither one been there fur lots of moons, and the highways were all changed, so they got lost trying to find the hotel!
Emily: So day stoppeded and asked fur direk-shuns, and day finally got to da hotel. An as soon as day walk in, da beans dar day say Oh! Someone bin looking fur you! Yous got messages!
Harry: Heehee. Mom and Grandpa didn't even have to say their names, the people just knew, cause Mom's Good Sister had been looking fur them since 3 in the afternoon, and it was almost 5:30!
So then they were all together, and Grandpa said he wanted to leave the next morning by 9:30
Emily: But he obersleeped, and den he took fureber to get ready, an at one point, Good Sister and Mom lost Grandpa all togeder!
Harry: So, they finally left the hotel at 11, and Good Sister
Chester: Can I just type GS? Good Sister is too long to type all the time!
Harry: Sure ok, that's fine. So GS, she drived the whole way, so Mom didn't have to yell about cars breaking in front of them or nothin, but then when they got to Maryland, they got lost trying to find Evil Sister's house.
Chester: I'm just gonna type ES for Evil Sister from now on, ok?
Emily: Ok, Chester. Well, day finally found da house, and ES, she were fit to be tied Mom say cause day was late. Course Mom say ES be alays in a tizzy. Heehee! So from dat moment til day left, ES and her husband bean, day talk alla time, non stop like, bout nothin atall!
Harry: Mom said they gripped at each other, and tried to act all hoity toity like by saying Oh we paid this much fur that, and that much fur this, and this car that is three whole years old is getting kinda ratty so we's gonna trade it soon, and all sorts of silly stuffers like dat.
Chester: Grandpa got annoyed the very first night, cause ES wouldn't shut up. Mom and GS had to calm him down. But then the next day, ES's husband bean took them to DC where the Smithsonian museum is, and they went and saw lots of airplanes and space ships and stuff.
Harry: That was better fur Mom and Grandpa, cause GS took ES off away, and the husband, he likes spaceships and stuffers, so at least he talked about something more interesting than what they'd paid fur something. So then after they had lunch at the moosuem, they went next door to the Hishern
Chester: The Hirschhorn. It the Modern Art Museum at the Smithsonian. And Grandpa was so tired, he found a couch and fell asleep while Mom and the husband walked around.
Emily: And Mom would say Ooo, dat's really nice, I like dat and da husband would say I don't get it. And Finally Grandpa woked up and he said one of da sculptures looked like a pipe wrench, eben tho Mom tried to splain it to him. Heehee!
Harry: So then the next day Mom wanted to go see the Viet Nam memorial and the Korean memorial cause she hadn't never seen them. And ES, she wasn't gonna go but then the Prodigal Son called and said he was in town and he wanted to meet them at the memorials. I don't know what a Prodigal Son is, but from what Moms says, it must be some bean that is a real jerky character.
Emily: Yeah, Mom say he be eben more obi-noxious dan his parents, and manipoolatib too! An funny lookin!
Chester: I'm not quite sure that Prodigal Son means obnoxious and manipulative, but that is what Mom says about this nephew of hers.
Harry: So anyways, since he was gonna be there, ES went, and she posted herself like a scent -inal on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and waited fur him while everyone else went and looked at all the stuffers. And of course he was 40 minutes late! And Mom said it was real real crowded there, with just like thousands and millions of beans everywhere, so when they were about ready to leave, she stopped at this little building what had flyers bout the Korean memorial, and it was so crowded that she didn't see the family waiting for her. She thought they had just kept walking to the car, so she tried to catch up, and couldn't find them.
Emily: And so then Mom were losted agin! An she were getting kinda upset, but Grandpa bean, he got so upset that he tol da husband to shut up! Heeehee! But den day found each oder again, and Grandpa, he were so upset he jus kept goin on and on bout how come Mom didn't see them. But anyways, eberything were fine, and dat nite day had to go to dis really fancy schmancy restaurant in Annapolis, an Mom say she hab had better food fur lots less tuna den dat place, but ES and her husband, day gots to be hioty tioty and ifn day pay a lot fur somethin they think it be da best.
Chester: These sure sound like some pretty strange human people to me! I don't understand how paying lots of money for something can make it good when it's not.
Harry: I don't unnerstand either, nor even does Mom. She says she's never going back up there again! So anyway, they had had so much fun that Grandpa was ready to get the heck out of there at 9 the next morning, and GS, she drove real fast and they got to Raleigh quick. And then the next day Mom drive all the way real fast and got home by about 1, which was great with us cause girlfriend bean hadn't been by to feed us!
Emily: Yes, meow! I were sure glad to see Mom home. But she were so sausted dat she jus now recovering from da whole mess. So dat's why it not good for beans nor kitties to do no trablin. Specially ifn you has to bisit your Ebil Sister!
© copyright 1999 Ariel, Harry, Emily, and Chester the Dragon
© Pern and the dragons were first copyrighted by Anne McCaffrey in 1967
Dragon illustration © Luis Royo
Cat Chat 4-27-99
Emily: Hi, eberybody! I tinks Mom hab gone bean-crazy, but Harry say she be sick.
Harry: I didn't say she was sick! I said she has Spring Fever.
Emily: Well, if she hab a feber, den she be sick!
Chester: No, no. Spring Fever is something humans get when the weather gets nice after winter. It means they want to get out and do things they didn't do all winter when it was cold.
Emily: Well, she sure bin doin dat! As if it weren't bad enough dat she went off and leabed us fur a whole week a little while ago
Chester: It was only six days.
Emily: I liked da ole one better too! An she been putting pitchurs in out litterhouse room too, an a plant! What does we needs a plant fur in our litterhouse room?
Chester: She says she wants it to look nice.
Harry: We don't care what it looks like, so long as it feels and smells like our litterhouse room! She's jus doing this cause she has Spring Fever. She always has to move stuff around and do what she calls "nesting" whenever Spring comes. Just wait, Emily. The worst is still coming.
Emily: What woist?? What could be woise den all dis vacuuming and dusting and movin stuffers??
Harry: Painting! Mom always gets into a painting mood when the weather turns nice.
Emily: Oh, no, not painting! Las year she painted our litterhouse room an it smelled turrible fur eber an eber!
Harry: I nose! I members. And then she painted her bathroom, and our whole bedroom smell awful.
Emily: But she already hab painted las year. Why do she hab to paint dis year??
Harry: I don't know, but she always does. It's more of what she calls "nesting."
Chester: I heard her talking to girlfriend about painting the living room. And then getting a big area rung to match.
Harry: Another rug? She jus bought a rug!
Chester: This one will be bigger.
Emily: I likes rugs what I can tunnel under and stuffers like dat, once day stop smelling funny, but da libin room! Dat a big big place! She gonna hab to move alla furna-shur agin, and mess up our cozy house and turn eberything downside upwards, and besides da whole house will smell! Oh, Harry, how can we stop her?
Chester: We could hide her brushes and things.
Harry: But she keep them in a cupboard what we can't get into.
Chester: Maybe if I try real hard I can open it. You'll have to show which cupboard.
Emily: Dat's a good idea! Now, where does we hides dem? We could put dem under da couch
Harry: No, she'd find them when she pulls the couch out to paint. We could take them out and hide them in the woods, but her big brush, it's awful heavy. I don't think I could carry it furry far in my mouth
Emily: I nose! We can hides dem under da bed! She can't get under dar atall! We can drag dat big brush dat far, fur sure!
Harry: That's a good idea, Em! OK, now, Chester, I'll show you where she keeps the brushes and stuffers like that, and you open it, then me and Em
Emily: Shhhh! Mom's coming! Umm well, eberybody, dat's all fur dis week. See all yous kitties and beans next week.
Harry: Right! Bye eberybody! OK, Mom, you can have the puter now. Em, Chester, come on, I got somethin to shows you
© copyright 1999 Ariel, Harry, Emily, and Chester the Dragon
© Pern and the dragons were first copyrighted by Anne McCaffrey in 1967
Dragon illustration © Luis Royo "The Mountains of Ao"
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