Lost Kitty

Our daughter, Jenni lives in Manteo. She has two cats, Mojo is a four or five year old grey tabby who's never set foot outdoors. Luke is a three months old buff kitten.

Jenni was out of town on business on this past Monday and Tuesday, so she had a friend come by to check on the cats, feed them, etc. Somehow, Luke managed to sneak out the door while the kitty sitter was there, and disappeared into the night. The friend call us about 9:00 Monday night distraught about the situation. She enlisted the aid of several neighbors, and they all searched for Luke, but of course he was nowhere to be found.

On Tuesday, Hilda went over to Jenni's house and tried to make things seem as normal as possible in the hopes that Luke would come home, with no luck. Jenni got home about 7:00 pm, well after dark and of course she was very upset about the situation. She walked all around the neighborhood calling and looking, to no avail. Just when she was about ready to give up for the night and just hope he'd get hungry and come home, I happened to look out the back door and there was Luke, sitting on the back deck looking for some food.

Jenni went around back and he bolted into the shadows, but with a little coaxing she was able to get him to come to her and had him back in the house in a few minutes. After eating his fill and using the litter box, he started playing with his toys, and everything was soon back to normal.

All's well that ends well, I guess.

Hello

Well, I've finally done it. I've set up this journal, so now I guess I'm going to have to start posting to it.

It feels like the first day of Fall here in Duck, after the entire month of October has been gloriously warm and beautiful, we've had a couple days of rain and now today is cool and breezy. We've been staying inside mostly this weekend because of the weather, except for Friday evening when we rode down to Sam & Omies (for those who don't know, that's probably our favorite restaurant anywhere) and had a delicious dinner. Hilda had broiled Spanish Mackerel and I had grilled puppy drum with some kind of a mango sauce What a treat that was!

We're kind of in between adventures right now, but Halloween is coming up in a couple of days and then our calendar is pretty full for November and December, so I guess there'll be a good bit to write about for the next few weeks.

Till later...