A few nights ago, I watched a film about a writer with writer's block. Everyone kept asking him, "Are you writing?" and he wasn't. And neither am I.
But I am going to try.
Maybe the reason that the creative juices haven't been flowing is that we are second-class citizens where Meese are concerned. We long ago accepted (maybe when the vicar who married us announced in his sermon that there are three people in our marriage) that Moose has a couple of well-trained humans, not the other way around. He has his own sofa. He kicks us off the bed. He wakes us up in the middle of the night.
Moose has also acquired a new sidekick. A partner in evil. Yes, I am talking about none other than our neighbour-annoying, bird-murdering, foot-attacking new addition, Barley.
Yep, that's the little bugger there.
He looks innocent and sweet, but apparently he is a devil. To us, he is all cuddly and cute. But to the neighbours he is a menace! A misfit! An abomination!
For no sooner did we rescue sweet Barley from the shelter than the neighbours built a flimsy, bamboo fence to block Barley from going into their garden. He's a crafty one, though, Barley. He figured out how to get around their fence. And the four-inch tall flower pot that they placed for much the same aim. AND the laundry detergent bottle that they thought would really get in his way.
Apparently Barley is the Houdini of the cat world. Or, perhaps less excitingly, he is just a regular cat and isn't impressed by barriers or human interference of any kind.
Anyway, as you can see, I have had my hands full this year, what with having to claw my spot on the bed back in the middle of the night and trying to coerce the neighbours to be a tad more relaxed about our cat (Mr. Neighbour: Tear down this wall). So perhaps you can forgive me for being so lax on the blogging front.
In truth, it has been a busy year. And I will try to blog more. But it may be that the Mooseblog has reached its natural end and must be replaced with something new (like, ahem, a blog about the brewery that we are starting, which also may contain a moose in its title). We shall see. I would like to continue to put my sarcastic pen to this page.
Till next time...
