Helpless:
Scene Viewed Through the Locked Glass Front Door of the Kitchen
There’s insurgent action at the rear kitchen door.
First one unrepentant rebel and now I see one more.
My houseguests didn’t secure the periphery completely
and now one paw has breached the screen and opened it completely!
A dog’s whole avarice is culinary. Now they seek it out.
That pork roast on the counter? Gone without a doubt!
That carrot cake I cherished? Demolished in a flash.
The potato salad vanishes. And now a furry dash.
They depart the opened doorway and soon they’re over yonder.
Their tummies adequately filled, I think they do not ponder
what the rest of us will dine on. Dogs are not endowed with guilt.
Should have factored in housebreakers when that sliding door was built!
Prompt words today are cherish, avarice, yonder, insurgent and potato.
Cute burglars!
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This is fiction but based on past burglaries of: six porkchops from a skillet on the stovetop, one entire baked chicken and three dozen peanut butter cookies, not to mention countless pilferings of the garbage can. They are talented housebreakers and if the sliding door to the terrace is not fully pulled close, they can work the smallest crack into an open door. The screen and bars, if unlocked, they can open at will even when fully shut. When motivated, they can work wonders.
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Wow! So clever and fearless.
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I’m clever, they’re fearless… right??? ;o)
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They are clever too! 😃😛
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You’re so lucky!!!
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Look at their cute faces! You could forgive them any transgression.
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You’re right, Sheree. I have forgiven them many trespasses and they’ve forgiven me a few as well.
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😎
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And make sure not to leave food on the counter! I’m glad it was fiction — I was thinking there was more for work for Jesus and his friend!
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They could provide a solution for overeating during lockdown.
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Ha.. You are the proverbial auntie, on their side!
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Always! Have I told you that little Pyshka who only pilfers greens for herself sometimes steals chicken for Barmalei who, in return, lets her sit on top of his tower.
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Okay I need some definition of characters. I take it Pyshka must be a bird? Is Barmalei a dog and if so, why does he have a tower? We need the rest of the story.
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All three are cats: Barmalei, his sister Beba, and little Pyshka who must be vegetarian – she is only interested in greens.
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Really? That’s all she eats? Or the only people food she eats?
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The only people food she pilfers. She is perfectly happy with dry food that has chicken and fish in it and with canned shredded chicken.
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I would guess Beba means baby. Do the other two names have meanings?
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Beba is Odessa-specific diminutive for Bella because she has always been la bella – very beautiful, but when we got her, she was tiny.
Barmalei is a Russian boogieman; he is black, and my husband says that he is my familiar.
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Barmalei would work for Morrie or Diego! I still call them “Balegai” when they are bad, which is Amharic for “rascal, or bad.” “Woosha Balegai!” was bad dog..Fun to astound them with a language other than Spanish or English now and then. What fun to pull out a bit of Russian as well!
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Do they understand other languages?
You haven’t asked about Pyshka’s name, but here is her story: https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/pyshka-sweet-roll-and-a-baby-kitten/
That was exactly 3 years ago, and now she is huge and all solid muscle.
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A scene with different suspects that I know well.
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