Free Running

Diablo: What do you think?

Phoenix: I like the carpet. Good for traction, 'pecially when we are racing around the place.

Diablo: Got to be careful when you come flying through the kitchen. Linoleum.

Phoenix: Yeah and the bathroom too. Tile.

Diablo: We never lived in a place with this much carpet. Not the office, the apartment, the RV or the Big House.

Phoenix: Sure beats trying to run on hard wood.

18 Hours

Diablo: Where are we going?

Phoenix: South.

Diablo: I didn’t think South was this far away.

Phoenix: Two long days in the back of the jeep, sitting on piles of boxes, bags and other thing. It is getting old. This makes RV travel look pretty appealing.

Diablo: We should have been in Tennessee by now.

Phoenix: We aren’t going there.

Diablo: Some place new?

Phoenix: Florida.

Diablo: I kind of like the hotels. The fancy floral bedspreads, the big mirrors, the funny smells...

Phoenix: Just give me the hiding space between the headboard and wall.

Diablo: You know, I don’t think she likes you getting in there.

Bird Watching

Phoenix: What do you see out there?

Diablo: Birds.

Phoenix: You have been sitting there staring out the window for hours.

Diablo: Lots of birds.

Phoenix: You can’t get‘em.

Diablo: I like the red ones.

Phoenix: Cardinals?

Diablo: Yeah, they’re pretty.

Phoenix: Pretty….you mean tasty?

Diablo: Heck if I know. Never tasted one.

Phoenix: Hmmm. I’ll go for the Junco. Fatter. More of them. Better odds.

Diablo: Look at’em. They have all the food they want. Fly over to the feeder, grab a seed. Eat it. Get another. Look at all the seeds on the ground. I wish I was a bird.

Artic Cats

Diablo: Brrrr! I thought my little pads were going to stick to the ground. I think my ears were about to freeze and break off like icicles.

Phoenix: Why would you want to go outside when you can stretch out in the sunshine streaming through the window? By the way, just remember not to stick your nose on a cold metal pole.

Diablo: It never got this cold in Tennessee.

Phoenix: Be thankful you don’t live outdoors.

Diablo: Amen. Let’s go curl up in the sunshine.

Phoenix: I got a better idea. I think our cousin left some food in her bowl.

Diablo: Roger that.

Lonely Days, Lonely Nights

Diablo: Do you think she is ever coming back?

Phoenix: She has always come back before.

Diablo: The old guy is okay. I just don't dare sit at the table begging for food.

Phoenix: Yeah, and he doesn't give in to our poor starving hungry looks we give him.

Diablo: It has been nearly three weeks.

Phoenix: Don't worry. She has always come back.

Diablo: But sometimes it had been six or more months. You don't think she joined the Peace Corps again.

Phoenix: You just keep curling up on her pillow and be patient. She'll be back soon.

Diablo: Don't you miss her?

Phoenix: Yeah, I miss her. Come over here and let me clean your ears.

Serial Number...

Phoenix: That was low.

Diablo: A mean and dirty trick.

Phoenix: Microchipped...

Diablo: Right between the shoulder blades.

Phoenix: And tested for rabies too.

Diablo: Something tells me we aren't headed for Kansas, Toto.

Phoenix: No, but our blood samples are.

Cherry Pie

Diablo: Whoa, you are a bad cat.

Phoenix: Can’t believe the old man caught me.

Diablo: Three pies sitting on the counter and he found you up to your ears in the cherry.

Phoenix: It was made with cream cheese and sweet condensed milk and…

Diablo: And you ate so much you puked. I would have gone for the pumpkin. Carefully lick the surface and they would have never known.