tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post4388751576827166479..comments2024-02-24T15:58:56.712-08:00Comments on The Good Typist: Book Boon, Poem Haunting, The Trouble with BuddyKristen McHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467256747399406710noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-63708705121323192272015-10-18T12:23:10.042-07:002015-10-18T12:23:10.042-07:00This reminds me of a time when I had quoted one of...This reminds me of a time when I had quoted one of Emily Dickenson's poems and you had commented that it is really easy to forget just how great she is. It is such a nice thing to love a work and come back to it years (At our age: decades!) later to find that it is still wonderful.<br /><br />You know Andrew has a <a href="http://needlecrafter.com/" rel="nofollow">needle craft website</a>, which used to be quite active, but still has a lot of vintage designs. I don't know if that is the same thing. Each year at the fair, I talk to the women who do fabric demonstrations, but I never really understand it. Although I did recently learn how knitting and weaving are different and why knitting came later. Hooray!<br /><br />I remember several years ago, you had a cat that seemed like it certainly was lost, but who had gotten trapped in a neighbor's garage. That was amazing, because I had given up hope (I'm not good at hope). In fact, I even mentioned it in one of my rare poems, "Muffin Is Dead":<br /><br />Kristin can tell you<br />When her Muffin fled<br />And stayed gone for two weeks<br />Muffin was not dead.<br /><br />But that's the exception<br />Of which you have read<br />Cause generally speaking<br />Muffin is dead.<br /><br />As for your problem, I have a few thoughts, but I don't know how good they are. Can you lock him in the bathroom? It doesn't have to be the bathroom, of course. The main thing would be to keep him in an area where the vacuum is not. That would at least have the advantage of muffling the noise. It might also be helpful to put him in a cat carrier. It might make him feel safer. Also: there are special vacuums that are quiet -- or at least quieter.<br /><br />That's a brilliant cartoon! I used to house-sit for a couple of cats that were just like that. The couple who owned the place clearly got up much earlier than I did.<br /><br />I've been missing the last week because I had a hard-drive crash. So all my RSS feeds got taken away. But I'm back up! I love this brave new world of cloud computing; other than my RSS feed and having to deal with a slower computer, I wasn't much affected.<br /><br />Oh! I have a recent true-life mouse story. It isn't up yet, but at 4:05 today, it will be: <a href="http://franklycurious.com/wp/2015/10/18/my-mousehunt/" rel="nofollow">My <em>MouseHunt</em></a>. It only ended this morning!Frank Moraeshttp://franklycurious.comnoreply@blogger.com