Humans are Strange

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The humans are getting all excited about spring and things turning green. All the standing water from the spring thaw is starting to get a nice coat of green pond scum too. There’s even some green mold on the north side of the tree trunks where the sun doesn’t get to dry it off much. The grass is turning from brown to green. Wait a couple weeks and they’ll be gritching about having to mow the lawn again. Or muttering about the “green” they’ll be spending to have somebody else cut the grass. And some of them look decidedly green when they think of all the work spring cleaning entails. There’s just no pleasing them!

Personally, when I think of spring, I think of purple. The early crocuses and snow iris poking their little heads above the remnants of snow piles really give me hope. And the lilacs smell so good! Another good smell in spring is hyacinth, and we have purple ones there too. The tulips come next, with purple ones mixed in with the pink, red, white, and yellow ones. Finally the pansies and violas (known as Johnny Jump-ups) appear with their purple and yellow “faces.” Flowers are pretty and make me happy.

But the best thing of all is the very pale lavender flowers on my catnip plants. Some days I just go outside and lay face down on my nip! I think I like it better fresh than dried. But some times Meowmie will make us “nip-sicles” by folding a sprig of catnip with 6 or 8 leaves on it in a paper towel and microwaving it on high for about 6 seconds. Then she holds onto the stem, and we come and eat the leaves right off it. And the smell is heavenly!! But she has to be very careful and watch it through the door of the microwave so the paper towel doesn’t catch on fire. A friend of hers tried this and just put them in for 10 seconds, and they had to wash the kitchen curtains to get the smell of smoke out of them.

So, from this feline’s perspective, purple is the “happy” color of spring. Let the humans think of green and all the work it brings with it. We all know that humans are strange!

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