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We have finally been getting some decent weather here in New England. The last few days have been terrific with temperatures in the 70′s and bright blue skies. It’s so awesome to have the windows open in the house and the car and to wear clothes that are not wool, black, and covering every bit of exposed skin. And my favorite thing of all… goodbye socks, hello toes!

Work has been tremendously demanding and busy lately. Long hours, back-to-back meetings, high profile projects–it’s a lot. Because of this, I’ve been trying to get to work earlier than normal and thus, I am awake when EHH is getting ready to leave in the morning.

Today, after he smootched me good-bye, I hear him calling me from the stairs. One of the cats’ most favorite time of day is the morning where they can sit in front of the sliders in the living room and watch the birds eat from the feeder we have on the deck. This very morning we watched what had to have been one of nature’s finer moments.

This black bird with dark red on the back of its neck, affectionately named The Red-Neck Bird by EHH and I (Avian specialists we are not), gave up on his breakfast and decided to have fun with the felines for a little wildlife entertainment this morning. Oh how we wish we had this on film, but the risk of scaring the bird away while fetching the camera was too great.

Red-Neck stood on the back of one of the chairs we have on the deck and peered in through the glass at the two oversized cats that were drooling at the mere sight of him. For a while he just hopped back and forth as if to say, “Hi there, don’t you wish you were out here with me on this glorious morning?” And the cats sat attentively, tails swooshing back and forth on the hardwood, chirpping at him. This went on for a few minutes and then all of a sudden, Red-Neck spread his wings, jumped up and down in the same spot 3 times and sang a pretty little song. The cats were dumbfounded. It was a real conversation! Red-Neck did it again–wings spread, hopping, singing. The cats responded, “ehh eh eh ehhhhhh”. I was intrigued.

After I sat and watched long enough to wonder why I got up early in the first place, I began to creep back up the stairs to get dressed for work. At this point Red-Neck, as if to tell me the show wasn’t over, turned his back on the cats, shook his little tail-feathers right in their faces, twisted around and then spread his wings again. This time when he sang, he pointed his beak straight up in the air and made a real spectacle of himself. Well, Booger chose this point to make it known that he wasn’t the laughing stock of Red-Neck Nation. He stood on his hind legs, propped himself eye-level to the bird with one paw on the glass and with the other paw, “THWAP, THWAP, THWAP, THWAP!” on the door. Red-Neck took off.

Score: Booger 1, Red-Neck Bird 0.

For the sake of documentation however, the camera is ready and I’m hoping Red-Neck has 7:30am noted on his calendar as the Time To Fuck With The Fat Cats. I’m hoping even harder that he plans to arrive tomorrow by John-Deere tractor with his cousin Billy-Bob in tow to tag-team the beasts inside the glass. Perhaps this time he’ll only quit at the cost of a 40oz Pabst Blue Ribbon and a Tony Stewart cozie. If he’s got a piece of hay in his beak, well then I’m just nine short hours away from documenting the next Grand Prize winning video on America’s Funniest Videos, or at the least, a little tax-free fame on You Tube.

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MP: “We have to name the new car.”

EHH: “Yup.”

MP: “So we have Maurey the Murano and… hmmm…. Bertie the BMW?”

EHH: “Bertie? No.”

MP: “Well I like alliteration.”

EHH: “Hmm. How about just B?”

MP: “Bea. B-e-a. I like it!”

EHH: “Maurey and Bea. Sounds like a retired, Jewish couple from Tampa.”

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“I just came out of the bathroom and was totally lost.”

“Hahahaha. Seriously?”

“I thought I went to the other bathroom.”

“Hahahaha.”

“I blame Monday.”

“This is so going on my blog.”

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