2019.09.02 07:00 - A Cat Whisperer

The Guardian for this meeting was Eden Haiku. The comments are by Eden Haiku.

Blinding bright

 

Eden Haiku: Hello Adams! You look so blinding bright this morning!

Adams Rubble: Good morning Eden :)

Eden Haiku: You were in a kind of "changing room" bubble of light were you? Good morning dear :)

Adams Rubble: We are on the same page outfit-wise :)

Adams Rubble: My other avatar is busy elsewhere :)

Adams Rubble: while I was waiting

Eden Haiku: Mysterious Adams :)

Eden Haiku: Yes, on the same outfit page. Same weather too I suppose. Chilly here...

Adams Rubble: I woke up thinking of people who came before us, what the left us, and the people who will come after--what we are leaving them

Adams Rubble: It is humid today so comfortable but not chilly

Adams Rubble: Someone said that the people who deny climate change have no empathy for their descendants

Eden Haiku: Sounds true...

Adams Rubble: I look at the little two year old and wonder what kind of world will be there for her as she goes through life

Adams Rubble: If she lives to be 70 that will be 2087

Eden Haiku: Yes, one wonders...

Eden Haiku: Oh, I never realized my grandnephews and grandnieces will live that far in time...2087! Will there still be air to breathe and water to drink then?

Adams Rubble: The cat just stopped by and said she doesn't care

Eden Haiku: Cats are zen masters

Adams Rubble: she will be Ok if she gets her next treat

Eden Haiku: Short-term vision and yet totally in the present and looking into the infinite all the time :)

Adams Rubble: The cats have a surprise coming in the mail today--a new toy that has batteries

Eden Haiku: No wonder Egyptians worshipped them

Adams Rubble: a feather that pops out of holes randomly

Eden Haiku: Funny :)

Eden Haiku: Lucky cats with considerate pen pals who send them gifts :)

Adams Rubble: are still at the vacation place?

Eden Haiku: Yes, until October:)

Adams Rubble: nice

Eden Haiku: First chimney fire yesterday night

 

—BELL--

 

Skiiding 

 

Eden Haiku: It's getting cooler

Adams Rubble: When do you get snow up there?

Eden Haiku: In the world the two years old of now live, there will be more than obsolete telephone signals towers in desolate meadows...

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: Oh, snow comes about the same time as in Montreal up the hills, Mid-November. But we rent this house only in the summer. I used to ski but stopped years ago.

Adams Rubble: They still get so much pleasure from a rubber bouncing ball

Eden Haiku: Two years old are as lovely as cats: they love to play!

Adams Rubble: :)

Adams Rubble: I have never skiid

Adams Rubble: kied?

Adams Rubble: skied?

Adams Rubble: skiied?

Adams Rubble: skeed?

Eden Haiku: skied, yes :)

Adams Rubble: If you can't spell it you shouldn't do it :)

Eden Haiku: There is much more snow up here than in Montreal.

Eden Haiku: laughs

Adams Rubble: are you much further north than Montreal?

Eden Haiku: Once I had a neighbor up the hills babysit our cat while we were both traveling, he in Mexico, I in France. When I came back to pick up the cat, the snow banks around her house were so huge!!!! It was Mid-March already and still so much snow!!!

Eden Haiku: No, Val-David is 76 kilometers up North. That's a 54 minutes drive or so...But we don't go back to Montreal for three months so it feels very remote :)

Adams Rubble: sometimes the late storms bring the most snow

Eden Haiku: True

Eden Haiku: Contemplating the chimney fire yesterday night I was wondering why the burning pieces of woods look like prehistoric beasts and dragons

Adams Rubble: Once in a while I look at a map of Canada and am amazed at how much is north of the settled area

 

—BELL--

 

Eden Haiku: Yes, many inhabited territories, Except for some remote Innu and Inuit settlements. Would love to go there some day, but it's incredibly expensive. And you have to go there during Summer. And our Summer is so short, it's hard to sacrifice it...

Adams Rubble nods

 

Dogsledding

 

Adams Rubble: I used to fantasize about going dogsledding when i was a child

Adams Rubble: call of the wild

Adams Rubble: Yukon gold

Adams Rubble: I decided I liked art history better

Eden Haiku: One place I want to go for sure isAnticosti Island. Dogsledding yes! I played in the snow pretending I was in a sleigh pulled by Eskimo dogs when I was a kid...

Adams Rubble: mush

Eden Haiku: https://int.search.myway.com/search/...pr=sbt&trs=wtt

Eden Haiku: I hate the way Google gives you a lot of adverts BEFORE the images you are looking for...

Adams Rubble: my computer is slowing down to a stop

Adams Rubble: ohh at the mouth of st lawrence

Adams Rubble: brb

Eden Haiku: Yes.

Eden Haiku: There are lots of deer there!

Eden Haiku: Here is a Wikipedia link to Anticosti Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticosti_Island

Adams Rubble: back--it is raining out there here

Adams Rubble:we are loaded with deer here

Eden Haiku: Oh...It rained here this morning.

Adams Rubble: they walk calmly down the middle of the streets

 

—BELL—

 

Deer are a menace in this number

 

Adams Rubble: up and down the sidewalks

Eden Haiku: Lovely deer :)

Adams Rubble: like they own the place :)

Adams Rubble: they are lovely and a thrill to see but they are a menace in these numbers

Eden Haiku: Not in New Jersey? You mean on Anticosti?

Adams Rubble: the deer say that about people

Eden Haiku: In New Jersey really?

Adams Rubble:no here in NJ

Eden Haiku: wow!

Adams Rubble: the does regularly produce two fawns and sometimes three

Adams Rubble: no place to go except to the streets

Eden Haiku: It's dangerous here too. They can cross the road right in front of you.

Adams Rubble: yes, I have had a close call on the bicycle

Eden Haiku: It happened to me last time I rented a car...

Adams Rubble:we hit one once

Eden Haiku: Oh!

Adams Rubble: it came running out of the woods like a ghost shadow

Eden Haiku: That must be a terrible feeling and scary for your safety!

Eden Haiku: What happened?

Adams Rubble: Safety for us was not an issue--it cost over $1000 of damage and the deer was killed

Adams Rubble: it went somersaulting across the road

Eden Haiku: Phew... but still traumatizing...

Adams Rubble: yes

Adams Rubble: funny but we were watching out for deer

Eden Haiku: They are very fast!

Adams Rubble:could never have stopped with the way it came out without warning

Adams Rubble: we could not have stopped that is

Eden Haiku: A suicidal deer...

Adams Rubble: now the deer are in much greater numbers

Eden Haiku: Any idea why?

Adams Rubble: when I was in a little woods a few months ago, thirty deer were following me around the woods

Adams Rubble: every time I stopped and turned around they were the same distance away

Eden Haiku: Oh yes, I remember that. Must have been scary...

Adams Rubble: So I sang Rudolph the red Nosed Reindeer to them

Eden Haiku: laughs

Adams Rubble: I wasn’t scared I don't think. I was thrilled

Adams Rubble: Later I realized that someone must have been feeding them in that woods

Eden Haiku: Yes :) But still in a so large number...

Adams Rubble:the woods have since been bulldozed for housing

Eden Haiku: sad...

Adams Rubble: so where did the thirty deer go

Adams Rubble: out to the streets

Adams Rubble: tasting all the luscious plants in gardens around :)

Adams Rubble: the little one is thrilled seeing the deer

Eden Haiku: ah yes! Understandable: we bulldoze their territories, they invade ours...

Adams Rubble: but also pretty happy with seeing squirrels

 

Icebergs melting 

 

Adams Rubble is looking at the map and wonders where Anne of Green gables lived

Eden Haiku: Sometimes a small male fawn scares me away when I follow him into the woods to snap pictures...

Adams Rubble: was that Prince Edward island?

Eden Haiku: Anne of Green Gables lived in Prince Edward Island further East. yes

Eden Haiku: Been there once, giving a poetry workshop. Nice place!

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku:Icebergs were still floating in Mid-May when I took the ferry back to the mainland...

Adams Rubble: ohhhhh

Eden Haiku: They built a bridge now. I wonder where the icebergs float now...

Adams Rubble: they are becoming rarer

Adams Rubble: or more frequent

Adams Rubble: more ice melting

Adams Rubbles:scary

Eden Haiku: They are...melting away yes...Scary.

Eden Haiku: Will seem legends to two years old when they grow up. Like elephants and giraffes

Eden Haiku: We are the lost world of Atlantis...

Adams Rubble: hmmm

Eden Haiku: Not wishing to trigger you climate anxiety Adams, sorry :(

 

—BELL-

 

Rocking chairs and lap cats

 

Adams and Eden  vanishing in "onigokko"

 

Adams Rubble: Once MesoAmerica was all farms until something happened. They used up some resource--water? Anyway they died out or moved elsewhere and the farmland reverted to jungle. I sometimes wonder if that is the way the earth will go. Once it rids itself of human beings, it will just heal itself

Eden Haiku: Maybe yes...Mysterious ways of nature...

Adams Rubble is scary

Eden Haiku: Freezing like a deer in the spotlight

Eden Haiku: Adams on her bike is chasing me!!!! Ahhhhh!!!

Eden Haiku: onigokko

Eden Haiku: You will never catch me!

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: stop

Eden Haiku: Out of breath :)

Adams Rubble: pant pant

Eden Haiku: Good for my back to run a bit though...

Adams Rubble: it's nice you have another month in your little paradise

Eden Haiku: There is an antic rocking chair as an addition to the rental this summet

Eden Haiku: I love rocking chairs! So good for your sympathetic system.

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: With a cat on my lap that would be perfection!

Adams Rubble: wish I could lend you these :)

Eden Haiku: You have vats on your lap all the time lucky you!

Adams Rubble: they are not lap cats though--they get scared and claw their way free

Adams Rubble: they are floor cats :)

Eden Haiku: Lap cats are pretty rare

Adams Rubble: if you put our cats on your lap they immediately think, oh no they are going to eat me

Eden Haiku: I scare them and they always prefer my companion who can be perfectly still..

Adams Rubble: cats are finicky

Eden Haiku: Tell them I'm vegan, no chance to be eaten by m e :)

Adams Rubble: the one cat comes up to meet me in the morning though like a dog but then gets finicky

Eden Haiku: Nice to be greeted like that :)

Adams Rubble: yes, I always remember to be grateful

Eden Haiku: Grateful to be alive and to have a welcoming cat :)

Adams Rubble: the other cat lurks at the bottom of the stairs, jealousy seeping out of every pore

Eden Haiku: No?

Eden Haiku: You can "read" cats feelings. You are cat whisperer Adams!

Adams Rubble: I am putting feelings inside their heads :)

Eden Haiku: My companion is one too. He's really good at it. He's now training as a deer listener. That's harder…

 

—BELL--

 

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: Well, it sounds right on :)

Adams Rubble: It will be rutting season soon so we all need to be careful :)

Eden Haiku: So glad I met a cat whisperer this morning :)))

Adams Rubble: they are going to get loony

Adams Rubble: given the number of fawns, it seems they are quite good at it :)

Eden Haiku: Rutting as in mating season?

Eden Haiku: I noticed the deer skins are getting darker already and some red leaves in the maple trees..

Adams Rubble: yes, rutting as in mating season

Eden Haiku: It's the end of Summer in a few weeks...

Adams Rubble: all the bucks hanging out on the corner outside the drug store

Adams Rubble: whistling at the does

Adams Rubble: then it's off to the chase

Adams Rubble: Thank you for being here today and being welcoming as always :)

Adams Rubble: Thank you for introducing me to Anticosti Island too :)

Eden Haiku: Thank you Adams. Funny picturing the bucks outside the drugstore :))

Eden Haiku: Have a great Monday !

Adams Rubble: you too :)

Adams Rubble: so grateful I do not have to start a new semester tomorrow

Eden Haiku: Maybe we should organize a PaB retreat on Anticosti some day? He he

Adams Rubble: :)

Eden Haiku: Enjoy your day and your cats!!

Eden Haiku: Thank you for being here :)

Adams Rubble: you enjoy your paradise and rocking chair :)

Adams Rubble: I wonder how Riddle is doing

Eden Haiku: No more new semesters yes, that's a joy!

Adams Rubble: He should return sometime this week

Adams Rubble: bye for now :)

Eden Haiku: He's traveling for quite a while I think? Oh, this week. We miss you Riddle! Hope you enjoy your journey!

Eden Haiku: Bye for now Adams :)