The Cat That Does Laundry
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008By
Todd De Haven
You’uns all know about our five cats and how we can converse with them, etc. For a long while, I thought Fran and I were unique (no, I didn’t say crazy…but we are that too). Well, I’ve found someone else with very smart cats and a smart dog. But one of these cats actually does the laundry! I’m not spoofin’ you either. I believe the story if only ‘cause it’s teller is none other than Darlene McLeash Brown or, as most of us know her. “Honey Darlene.”Honey Darlene has a distant relative famous in Greene County’s entertaiment industry, the old gopher toothed, the incomparable, U-Geen Owens. When I asked her if U-Jeen drops by much these days, Honey replied that the dog won’t let him on the property. I told you that dog was smart.
Anyway, Honey Darlene only acquired her cats a couple of years ago when their feral momma’ had them in the wall of the house! She had to get some help rescuing the cats so, locking up the dog, she called U-Geen. He came over and rescued the cats from inside the wall behind a sink. Seems like after rescuing the little critters, he thought he still heard another one and took down another section of wall. That section led into the room where the dog was being sequestered and when both dog and U-Geen realized they were facing one another, well……..let’s just say U-Geen’s screams are still echoing around the county. Honey Darlene says he hasn’t been back since.
One of these cats, the runt of the litter named Little Bit, just loves doing the laundry. I’m serious as a heart attack folks. I mean when Honey Darlene goes to do laundry, he jumps up on the machine and putting his paw on the laundry detergent, says, “Alright, measure one-half capful and pour it into the machine but only AFTER you’ve put in about five gallons of water.” When she’s done that, Little Bit will tell her to throw in her clothes. Next, that cat will tell her to pour some of the fabric softener in the dispenser (insisting she use only Downy when washing the cats’ blankets). Finally, our magnificent feline tells her that five minutes after the cycle starts, she is to pour in a quarter cup of bleach. Honey swears she listens to Little Bit and what’s more, her laundry comes out perfectly when she follows the little runt’s directions! Now how’s that for a smart cat and …… for a smart woman for listening to her smart cat?
We all want to thank Mariah and Megan Schrodt for the hours of hard work they’ve spent helping our Linda Gail Kirk stuff and close envelopes during our recent membership drive. That’s some real tedious work there and all of our animals send to them a gigantic WOOF- MEOW! for their efforts!
Don’t forget everyone, next Friday and Saturday are the two days of our Mother of All Yard Sales out at the Greene County Fairgrounds in the same Exhibition building where our Fair booth is located (the building on the hill closest to the carnival/midway area). We have yard sellers with all kinds of wonderful stuff! And you don’t have to travel all over the county at today’s horrendous gas prices either. We’ve got it all in just one place at the fairgrounds! Not only that, but when you get hungry we have both breakfast and dinner covered! In the morning we’ll have homemade ham and sausage biscuits, juice and coffee. Then around noon we’ll segue over to our world famous flame broiled hamburgers and hotdogs with all the trimmings along with chips and soda. And all this at prices that take into account our slumping economy. Look at the ways you have to save and save big: great stuff from our yard sellers at rock bottom prices and hot, delicious food at prices that haven’t even been close since…….well, our last yard sale right here! Don’t miss it!