Last night, an extraordinary thing happened in our house. This thing is in extraordinary in the sense of "this has never happened to anyone before in all of creation." However, it IS extraordinary in that this thing has never happened to anyone in this house before, at least, not that I know of.
We were all sleeping, sort of, at 4:00 AM. Katie has a cough which means that there is lots of "Mommy!" and lots of waking up, and lots of snuggling to get back to sleep, etc. However, at the time this local-extraordinary thing happened, it was indeed 4:00 AM and we were sleeping. Mostly.
But then none of us were sleeping, because downstairs came the sound of Angel "playing", which in this case consisted of her running around downstairs pell-mell, her little bell jingling wildly, things being bumped into that probably assumed they would be left alone at 4:00 AM, just as we, wrongly, did.
The sounds downstairs stopped for a few moments, only to be replaced by Angel, just outside our room, meowing. Now, this last part is not the least bit extraordinary. She meows all the time, especially at 4:00 AM, but in this case, she went on meowing and meowing for what seemed like 10 minutes in a row, even to shouts of "enough!" and "Angel, Stop!" and other useless cat-be-gone tricks.
Eventually, I got up, because it was pointless to continue to pretend to sleep with her essentially calling me from about 10 feet away, and walked over to where she lay, crouched over something.
Yes, you guessed it. We've had 2 mice in the house in the time I've been here (4 years now.) The first raced around our basement for months before we finallly killed it. The second, this poor fellow, probably didn't last a day before our new cat got a whiff of it. It didn't have a chance.
Amazing what instinct can do. When we had tossed the mouse away, Angel lied down on the carpet there and waiting to be petted and cooed at for having done her job--an expectation to which we obliged, having been awestruck at the facts of nature that has, as I mentioned, most assuredly happened before to other people in other places.
But not here.
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