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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.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
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!
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