Dear Readers:
A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I have been quite busy these last several months. The hunting has been exceptional. Of course, I do not hunt deer, but I captured a huge dove and presented it to Cliocatra on the porch. As I lounged, savoring my kill and feeling quite the warrior, she devoured it with relish. Only one feather was left when she was done. Dove meat is one of her favorites!
With the recent rains, the leaves are more colorful than before. I stroll around the neighborhood, taking in the sights and visiting all my friends. I have been to see Pam Downs, and Coach and Linda Lloyd. I visited my Aunt Sharon, who has moved into her new trailer since my last epistle. She has very steep steps though, and I haven't actually gone in to see her. I prefer to sit on top of her car and call to her.
I was able to catch a squirrel the other day, and of course we (Cliocatra and I) consumed all but the tail which we left under the chair for our keepers. Nothing like a good squirrel!
The moon has been full these last few nights, and I love to spend the whole night outside, watching all the wildlife. Armadillos, foxes, possums, coons, and dogs all come by late at night. Sometimes I see other cats, but since I've become so buff, they don't bother me. I am truly a well muscled specimen now!
There is a plague of ticks going on. My keepers are pulling 3 to 5 ticks off of me every time I come in. They got some medicine to put on me that will repel the ticks and I am so glad. I just can't stand a tick.
I have a new photo of myself resting after a long night out. Sometimes I have to sleep all day following a night of frolic and prowling.
Be safe, dear Readers, and as we begin to prepare for the Christmas season, count your blessings and remember in spite of all the awful things on the TV, this is a wonderful world to live in! I'm thankful for you all this beautiful season.
Love,
Your Hotep
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
It's About Time!
My Dear Readers, did you think your Hotep had returned to Egypt never to send another epistle! I myself wondered what had become of me. The Spring this year was terribly wet, and I kept to my temple as I do not enjoy being wet or having wet feet. As you know, there was flooding everywhere and I was hesitant to get out my barge for fear of being washed away. My plane was grounded due to the inclement weather, so I just remained at home, resting and thinking of all of you, hoping you were safe.
And then, just when it seemed that the elements had returned to normal, it became as hot as the desert! I left the temple and set out to make my rounds. The hunting was outstanding during the summer. I was able to catch numerous rats and rabbits, returning them and offering them to Cliocatra on my keepers' front porch. She loved them, but my keepers were quite upset at the mess she made consuming them! I do not enjoy partaking of wild game, but I love the chase and the conquest. Therefore, I offer my spoils of hunting to Cliocatra who relishes game of all kinds.
Coach Lloyd's yellow and white cat came to visit yesterday. It called and called for me, but I was in the bed with my keeper taking a nap and did not hear it. I will make a point of making a visit first thing this morning. I was exhausted yesterday afternoon as I had spent the entire day viewing the Avinger Wine Festival in my keeper's field. There was so much to see and it was rather hot out there.
I have a picture to add which shows the extent of my exhaustion but my scribe is having issues adding it to this epistle. I very often become frustrated with the scribe who seems to have an unclear understanding of how to amend my epistles. Good help is certainly hard to find these days!
Ahhh, a few lashes of the claw, and the scribe miraculously has learned to add the picture! One simply must know when to apply bondage and discipline!
One would think after so many quiet months I would have volumes of information to share, but time has slipped by like water through a sieve and I cannot remember all the days. I will promise to do better by you, my loyal readers, and keep my epistles up to date from now on! Until the next time, rest in the knowledge that I, your faithful Hotep, am conjuring blessings and goodness for you all.
And then, just when it seemed that the elements had returned to normal, it became as hot as the desert! I left the temple and set out to make my rounds. The hunting was outstanding during the summer. I was able to catch numerous rats and rabbits, returning them and offering them to Cliocatra on my keepers' front porch. She loved them, but my keepers were quite upset at the mess she made consuming them! I do not enjoy partaking of wild game, but I love the chase and the conquest. Therefore, I offer my spoils of hunting to Cliocatra who relishes game of all kinds.
Coach Lloyd's yellow and white cat came to visit yesterday. It called and called for me, but I was in the bed with my keeper taking a nap and did not hear it. I will make a point of making a visit first thing this morning. I was exhausted yesterday afternoon as I had spent the entire day viewing the Avinger Wine Festival in my keeper's field. There was so much to see and it was rather hot out there.
I have a picture to add which shows the extent of my exhaustion but my scribe is having issues adding it to this epistle. I very often become frustrated with the scribe who seems to have an unclear understanding of how to amend my epistles. Good help is certainly hard to find these days!
Ahhh, a few lashes of the claw, and the scribe miraculously has learned to add the picture! One simply must know when to apply bondage and discipline!
One would think after so many quiet months I would have volumes of information to share, but time has slipped by like water through a sieve and I cannot remember all the days. I will promise to do better by you, my loyal readers, and keep my epistles up to date from now on! Until the next time, rest in the knowledge that I, your faithful Hotep, am conjuring blessings and goodness for you all.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Winter Days
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Oh Dear Readers, I hope you are keeping warm during this awful cold we are having! I have attached a link to the epistle I received from my cousin in the North Country, where the snow and blizzard is even worse than we have here in East Texas. I hope you enjoy his picture. He looks and acts very much like yours truly!
I have spent much of the last several days on my plush blue cot which matches the blue font and is wonderfully warm. The sleet frightened me. Being Egyptian I had never heard of or seen it, and when I walked out onto the porch I immediately turned and ran back inside. But this morning I ventured out on my skis to view the countryside. Of course, I'm referring to my large back feet which make wonderful furry skis! I went cross country to see if I could spot any mice or rats, but they were in their woodpiles all safe and warm. I skied home for a large breakfast and a delicious feast of liver and chicken. Then I retired in front of the fire to let my morning meal settle and wash my skis.
On these cold days, I love to watch the birds. Cedar waxwings, yards full of robins, cardinals, sparrows and red-wing blackbirds are there to enjoy. My keepers have a bird feeder and it's easy to see all types of small birds there. The robins stripped my keepers' holly tree of berries, and the cedar waxwings have stripped the cedar trees at Steve and Patty's house. Blue jays swarm around the feeder, only to be routed by the cardinals, one of the most fierce of all birds!
My keepers added a small amount of rubbing alcohol to a spray bottle of cold water and cleared their windshields immediately. The roads are very icy and really no one should be driving about.
Please be careful in the ice and cold. Stay inside and have some hot milk and enjoy these quiet cold days of winter. They will pass soon enough. Your Hotep thinks of you warmly.
Oh Dear Readers, I hope you are keeping warm during this awful cold we are having! I have attached a link to the epistle I received from my cousin in the North Country, where the snow and blizzard is even worse than we have here in East Texas. I hope you enjoy his picture. He looks and acts very much like yours truly!
I have spent much of the last several days on my plush blue cot which matches the blue font and is wonderfully warm. The sleet frightened me. Being Egyptian I had never heard of or seen it, and when I walked out onto the porch I immediately turned and ran back inside. But this morning I ventured out on my skis to view the countryside. Of course, I'm referring to my large back feet which make wonderful furry skis! I went cross country to see if I could spot any mice or rats, but they were in their woodpiles all safe and warm. I skied home for a large breakfast and a delicious feast of liver and chicken. Then I retired in front of the fire to let my morning meal settle and wash my skis.
On these cold days, I love to watch the birds. Cedar waxwings, yards full of robins, cardinals, sparrows and red-wing blackbirds are there to enjoy. My keepers have a bird feeder and it's easy to see all types of small birds there. The robins stripped my keepers' holly tree of berries, and the cedar waxwings have stripped the cedar trees at Steve and Patty's house. Blue jays swarm around the feeder, only to be routed by the cardinals, one of the most fierce of all birds!
My keepers added a small amount of rubbing alcohol to a spray bottle of cold water and cleared their windshields immediately. The roads are very icy and really no one should be driving about.
Please be careful in the ice and cold. Stay inside and have some hot milk and enjoy these quiet cold days of winter. They will pass soon enough. Your Hotep thinks of you warmly.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
A Horriblus Week
My Dear Readers,
This week has just been horrible! Your Hotep has had all kinds of awful things happening. Do you ever feel like sometimes the Fates are just playing with you? That no matter what you do, things are going to be awful for a period of time? Well, the Hotep has had just such a series of events and suffers from feelings of despair and often pain. Let me share what has happened to me, and why my work and rituals have suffered in the last week!
First, on Thursday last one of my keepers went to Marshall and picked up a Jackal at the Super 1. It had either run away or been abandoned. For whatever reason, the keeper felt compelled to bring it home. Hoteps loathe jackals! They are enemies of all Hoteps and all felines everywhere. So why, I ask you, would my keeper bring a Jackal into our happy Hotep home? I cannot imagine, but it upset everything. Cliocatra was even more livid than I. For once, actually, we bonded and shared our keeper's bed one night, just to avoid that awful Jackal smile. Here is a picture of the offending creature. My keeper called it a Catahoula Lepard Dog, but it was a Jackal. No use whitewashing it.
My keepers kept saying it was very sweet and well-behaved, but I knew better. It licked me and tried to wash my ears. You do not approach a Hotep in that manner! But in this matter, your persistent Hotep prevailed. The jackal was taken to Dr. Seymore's Vet clinic for boarding until a home can be found for it. Hopefully in another country!!
Then, no sooner had the jackal been sent to perdition than my left back leg began to hurt. I was limping badly, and my keepers could not find a problem, so then what happened? Your Hotep was hauled off to Dr. Seymore's too! Dr. Seymore should sell shares in his practice to my keepers! They already own part of it.
Your Hotep had been accosted by the evil yellow feline from the lot next door to my home and I was getting another abscess on my leg! Plus another on my shoulder. I was fussed over by the ladies who work at the vet's office. They love me for I shower blessings on them whenever I am there. They were exclaiming over the fact that I've been working out at my food bowl. I have bulked up this winter and now weigh 14 lbs. A Hotep must keep in shape and be a manly Hotep if one is to perform priestly duties and shoot dice at night!
Dr. Seymore gave me 5 shots, plus put a magical substance between my shoulder blades to keep all fleas, ticks, and mites far away from me. I am at home, resting my leg and recovering. I went out this morning for a short walk but became tired very quickly. My keeper put some pain medicine in my ear and I am readying myself for a deep slumber. The Hotep dreams of you, his dear Readers, and plans new blessings and rituals. The first one is a way to eliminate that yellow feline!
And so, my Gentle Readers, you now know the saga of how the Fates dealt with your Hotep this week. I am sure to recover soon, and will be about my priestly duties once again. Until then, remember that life is wonderful and when terrible things happen we can always learn lessons to benefit us later. So if a jackal comes your way, or you get an abscess, look at it as a learning experience and think of the composed and slightly drugged Hotep, and smile!
This week has just been horrible! Your Hotep has had all kinds of awful things happening. Do you ever feel like sometimes the Fates are just playing with you? That no matter what you do, things are going to be awful for a period of time? Well, the Hotep has had just such a series of events and suffers from feelings of despair and often pain. Let me share what has happened to me, and why my work and rituals have suffered in the last week!
First, on Thursday last one of my keepers went to Marshall and picked up a Jackal at the Super 1. It had either run away or been abandoned. For whatever reason, the keeper felt compelled to bring it home. Hoteps loathe jackals! They are enemies of all Hoteps and all felines everywhere. So why, I ask you, would my keeper bring a Jackal into our happy Hotep home? I cannot imagine, but it upset everything. Cliocatra was even more livid than I. For once, actually, we bonded and shared our keeper's bed one night, just to avoid that awful Jackal smile. Here is a picture of the offending creature. My keeper called it a Catahoula Lepard Dog, but it was a Jackal. No use whitewashing it.
My keepers kept saying it was very sweet and well-behaved, but I knew better. It licked me and tried to wash my ears. You do not approach a Hotep in that manner! But in this matter, your persistent Hotep prevailed. The jackal was taken to Dr. Seymore's Vet clinic for boarding until a home can be found for it. Hopefully in another country!!
Then, no sooner had the jackal been sent to perdition than my left back leg began to hurt. I was limping badly, and my keepers could not find a problem, so then what happened? Your Hotep was hauled off to Dr. Seymore's too! Dr. Seymore should sell shares in his practice to my keepers! They already own part of it.
Your Hotep had been accosted by the evil yellow feline from the lot next door to my home and I was getting another abscess on my leg! Plus another on my shoulder. I was fussed over by the ladies who work at the vet's office. They love me for I shower blessings on them whenever I am there. They were exclaiming over the fact that I've been working out at my food bowl. I have bulked up this winter and now weigh 14 lbs. A Hotep must keep in shape and be a manly Hotep if one is to perform priestly duties and shoot dice at night!
Dr. Seymore gave me 5 shots, plus put a magical substance between my shoulder blades to keep all fleas, ticks, and mites far away from me. I am at home, resting my leg and recovering. I went out this morning for a short walk but became tired very quickly. My keeper put some pain medicine in my ear and I am readying myself for a deep slumber. The Hotep dreams of you, his dear Readers, and plans new blessings and rituals. The first one is a way to eliminate that yellow feline!
And so, my Gentle Readers, you now know the saga of how the Fates dealt with your Hotep this week. I am sure to recover soon, and will be about my priestly duties once again. Until then, remember that life is wonderful and when terrible things happen we can always learn lessons to benefit us later. So if a jackal comes your way, or you get an abscess, look at it as a learning experience and think of the composed and slightly drugged Hotep, and smile!
Friday, January 30, 2015
Happy New Year
Oh Gentle Readers, did you think the Hotep had forgotten you? I want to wish you all a Happy New Year, and I must tell you, the month of January has to be the longest in the entire year! But here we are at the end, and I want to bring you up to date on my doings.
Of course, it's been very cold this month, but I have my wonderful ginger fur coat to warm me, so I rise at 4:30 every morning and wake my keepers to let me outside. Sometimes they don't want to get up, and I have to give them a gentle bite to get their attention. It works beautifully. I go out into the cold morning to hunt and look at the new day. If my hunting is not successful, I go back home about 8 am to be let in for my breakfast. I have dry food plus a can of some wonderful soft food. My favorite is turkey and livers.
Then it's back out again for the rest of the day to make my rounds of the city. If you notice my picture above, I have located a mystical blue font which has a never-ending source of delicious water. I sit on the edge of a chair and drink my fill. The flowers, Pink Perfection camellias from my keepers' garden, make the water taste wonderful. I love the blue font!
I have had a great hunting success this month. I brought home 3 rats to entertain myself on the porch. I do not eat them. I turn them loose and practice catching them again. Usually my keepers finally bring me inside to give the captives a rest. Most of them live next door at Steve and Patty's house, and they go back home when I'm done with them. It is a most excellent entertainment!
Yesterday I positioned myself along the wall by the door into the hall and waited for Cliocatra to come through. When she did, I jumped out and surprised her, causing her to go completely airborne with all her fur sticking straight out. Oh my how I enjoyed that element of surprise, but she was so angry I had to run quickly behind the chair to avoid her slashing and hissing fury.
Here is a picture of Groucho (Cliocatra) thinking of ways to hurt me. She has powers almost as strong as mine, and so I torment her but not enough to cause her to cast a spell on me!
Please enjoy the coming month and soon it will be glorious Spring. Thoughts of winter will be far behind, days will be warm and sunny, and it will be time for my keepers to plant their garden. The Hotep wishes you warmth, happiness, and a tax refund in April!
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