This is not actually Max and the deer but this is about as close as the two were this morning. When I looked out the bathroom window, I saw Maxine hunkered down in pounce position and just a few feet away Fawn Doe was laughing at her. I was leery about getting the camera not knowing whether Max would try to pounce......didn't want to take my eyes off her. In my mind , I'm wondering, how did she get that close, what is she going to do now, how is she going to get out of this? Cliff and I watched for a few minutes until Fawn stomped her hoof and we figured that was a defensive signal. Did Maxine not realize how much larger this animal is than her? We would have liked to have seen how this played out, but I was bothered by the stomp, so Cliff went out, walked quite close to the deer until she walked away. Maxine must have thought she had won the stand-off because she turned to us and meowed proudly, wagged her tail as she followed us back to the porch. Dumb cat.....can't even keep the squirrels off the feeder.
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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