tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80373091815490379222012-02-16T07:50:43.711-06:00Short Tales of the Tortoise Cat and an Invisible ChameleonShamanicShift a.k.a. ECPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16739007429148987449noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037309181549037922.post-34113536661228893762012-02-15T18:07:00.000-06:002012-02-15T18:07:46.353-06:00

Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, isn't it easier to live than blog about life? When the Big One is away, though, I feel like complaining. Chameleon: Yes, big ones often blog to complain, but that's optional. Short stories and impressions are more fun to commemorate, I opine. Tortoise Cat: Well, Chameleon, my impression is that the ground is icy and frigid while the air is warmer, but Cat-Grass Season

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Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, I want to blog more often, starting soon...perhaps when the new Cat-Grass Season begins. Chameleon: Cat-Grass Season is some long whiles away still, Tortoise Cat. Tortoise Cat: OK, Chameleon, let us cat-nap-dream on until green grasses sprout. Chameleon: OK, we'll just post a few pictures of you not blogging yet. Tortoise Cat: OK, but pass the catnap first, please!

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Tortoise Cat: Picture windows, window ledges, cushions with blankets...this new, bigger place seems purrfect...almost. But I'm wary...wary of the extra big ones roaming here, Chameleon. Chameleon: Yes...The troubled energy eddies of disturbed souls lurking and looming does stir up red flags amid this otherwise harmonizing calm zone. But the outdoorsy critters are stellar neighbors, do you not

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Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, Cat-Grass Season is over. This new home territory is some colder than wherever that was we lived before, isn't it? Chameleon: Yes, Tortoise Cat, there are more critters and trees here, but fewer degrees. The Deeper-Dreaming Season -- my favorite -- has begun. Tortoise Cat: EYOW, I dread the frosty, icy stones stinging my toes! Chameleon: But, remember, you have some

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Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, our new yard must be raccoon territory -- look who we woke up. What a big fella is eyeing us, EYOW! Chameleon: But this place has lacked feline leadership, Tortoise Cat. That's where you come in. Tortoise Cat: How do you like the "cabin" we inhabit now? Chameleon: We are some ways off the roads most traveled, and I find the place charmingly cosy. Tortoise Cat: Many

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Tortoise Cat: MmmmAHHHYmmm these dried flowery-friends stink stunningly and hum happily, Chameleon! Chameleon: The Monarch butterflies found those Aster flower-fellas tantalizingly tasty while they were bright purple and yellow, Tortoise Cat. Tortoise Cat: OK, but Chameleon, I saw those fluttery fly-guys flapping in blah-ish purple garb, while the Big One saw "bright orange," I heard --

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Tortoise Cat: The garden is still wet, the chilly wind is blurring my eyes and now my paws are cold...! The final days of this Cat-Grass Season are upon us, Chameleon! Chameleon: We'll be inhabiting a new territory before it ends, Tortoise Cat, in a place your favorite season lasts a few whiles longer. Tortoise Cat: Oh, and then that big house and outside we visited will be MINE? Chameleon: I

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Tortoise Cat: That MONSTER CRITTER "Racowlly Dog" -- I fear -- might trespass here again! I'm still scared, Chameleon. But the Big One is unconcerned! Chameleon: That mysterious mid-night encounter happened in a dream, Tortoise Cat. You, the Big One, Raccoon, Owl, the Dog Next Door, and I were all dreaming up a storm together, within the energy clouds of a powerful thunder and lightning storm

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Tortoise Cat: The cat-grass is lusher than ever! Chameleon: No one shows up to pull weeds anymore. That's why. Tortoise Cat: The Big One said weeds are food. There's a long, long, long while of some big, big meals, and more for later, then, Chameleon. Chameleon: For me, too, Tortoise Cat, this green hideout offers an ongoing feast, on the crawl (or on the fly). Tortoise Cat: But the Big One

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Tortoise Cat: I could elude the Big One by creeping deeper into the lush ferns, shrubs and hedges of this garden territory, Chameleon. Chameleon: Tortoise Cat, I would tattle-tale your location, for your own good! Tortoise Cat: But I would only disappear for a while...or two...or some...just for fun. Chameleon: The Big One is too busy to wander around looking for you...while worrying.

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Tortoise Cat: Gnash...YUM...This is the best new cat-grass patch, Chameleon! Chameleon: I must take your word for it, Tortoise Cat. Maybe, later in the season, we can discuss chomping and gulping fresh, plump, tasty bugs. Tortoise Cat: In a while, there will be more and more cat-grass, but these early stalks blur and ruffle me through and through! Chameleon: And I'm glowing greener as my

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Tortoise Cat: Here I am on the rocks, showing the Big One where to put another tile where a pot of selected cat-grasses can grow, right on our territory. Chameleon: Rock garden clean-up begins tomorrow! Tortoise-Cat: EYOW...Chameleon...I might wander next door and visit Tiny Terrier after the Big One gets busy. Were you watching when I leaped into the yew-bush after a sparrow? Chameleon: I

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Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, do you like the new rock and rug arrangement I convinced the Big One to make? Chameleon: You, Tortoise Cat? You're taking credit? Tortoise Cat: Well, I cat-nap dreamed the Big One unrolling the pretty green and purple rug I noticed humming at me, stashed away where I was hiding out a while some days ago. After retrieving the rug, the Big One also shifted some rocks and

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Tortoise Cat: I braved the giant snow drifts to seek my frozen shadow! Chameleon: Tortoise Cat, it's the Groundhog who seeks his shadow today. Tortoise Cat: Well, two years ago, when I heard the Big One tell about Groundhog Day, I started searching for my shadow, too. Now I hope Cat-Grass season begins a while sooner this year, since I could catch NO glimpse of any shadows. Chameleon: That

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Tortoise Cat: How many whiles must I wait before the next Cat-Grass Season? Chameleon: Well, how high can you count, Tortoise Cat? Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, I count to One, Two, Some and More. Chameleon: OK then, I can tell you there are -- most likely -- More whiles to go yet. Tortoise Cat: EYOW...Let us hurry back inside and crunch some treats!

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Tortoise Cat: EYOW! All I want to do is cat-nap and dream cat-grassy dreams! But the Big One has been bugging me to blog. Chameleon: I notice the Big One is also behind in blogging. What a funny coincidence! Tortoise Cat: What is a co-incidence, Chameleon? There is now happening...And otherwise, whiles of napping, hunting, hiding, strolling, eating, lapping, smelling, listening, poo-peeing,

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Tortoise Cat: After my first horrible chilly-dim-season, long whiles ago, I have steadfastly refused to step on snow. Do you remember those experiences? Chameleon: No, but an angel told me horses let you ride over the snow back then, Tortoise Cat. Tortoise Cat: Yes, my second Big One was a horse. Then, when cat-grass season sprouted up suddenly I wandered off. Chameleon: And you met me, next.

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Tortoise Cat: Most of my favorite plant-pals have already gone into hiding, underground...But their drying, dying bits and pieces have started emitting the most surprising, perplexing, extraordinary aromas...! Chameleon: Relax and allow those potent transformational essences to induce amazing, shapeshifting dreams, Tortoise Cat! Tortoise Cat: OK. EYOW. Am I really flying, Chameleon?

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Tortoise Cat: EYOW. Cat-Grass Season is all but over, Chameleon. I was so sure this one would last forever! Chameleon: Longer-Dreaming Season is about to begin. Your cat-naps will deepen and grow more fun, Tortoise Cat. Tortoise Cat: I prefer sun-rays warming my fur and living vegetable aromas to dreams, Chameleon. Chameleon: But, Tortoise Cat, in your dreams you best the taunting Robins with

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Tortoise Cat Sniffing Dry Asters Tortoise Cat: Whew. I forgot how delicious those dry flower buds smell! Chameleon: Those are Asters, Tortoise Cat. Pink and purple Star Flowers. Can you smell the different flavors like the bees, butterflies and moths do? Tortoise Cat: When I bury my whole head in the plant, curl my tail and ruffle up my nose, I imagine I can. But, this means Cat-Grass

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Tortoise Cat in the Autumn Garden, Harness Free Tortoise Cat: Being able to roam the garden harness-free with breezes ruffling my furs was wonderful! I hope the Big One wants to take more furry pictures of me soon. Chameleon: When you climb a tree too high and get scared and yowl, I wonder...Is THAT sort of rumpus your idea of fun, Tortoise Cat? Tortoise Cat: So, tell me Chameleon, how did I

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EYOW...Trees are the funnest neighbors on the block! Tortoise Cat: I'm never "posing" for the Big One's picture-play when I rush up a tree. So, I never show off my best side. That's what the Big One exclaims, often.   Chameleon:  Yes, Tortoise Cat, as pretty, cute and adorable as you are, you are remarkably non-photogenic. But that adds challenge for the Big One's photography "play" — and not

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"Squirrel went in there," meowed Tortoise Cat, "But I can wait a while and wag!" Tortoise Cat: Why did the link list disappear on our blog, Chameleon? Chameleon: The Big One explained Blogrolling.com might be linking by mistake to a bad website that could cause computer problems for our visitors. The Big One removed the blogroll until that problem is fixed. Tortoise Cat: Could we link-blog

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Tortoise Cat in the Courtyard Garden Savoring Autumn Breezes and Sunrays Tortoise Cat: Other cats prowling keep me up all night, asserting my territorial rights. I would rather greet the raccoons. Chameleon: Those raccoons steer clear of you lately, Tortoise Cat, probably because of the terrible names, terms and threats you howled at the family when they trotted by a while ago. What a rumpus it

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Tortoise Cat and the Next Generation of Thistles Tortoise Cat: Chameleon, I smell hints of colder days blowing in soon. My paws and whiskers can feel the dark, snowy, icy season that I refuse to acknowledge by granting it a nick-name stealthily, steadily creeping up on us! Chameleon: Oh, play on, Tortoise Cat. This year's Cat Grass Season will last some fun whiles longer. Weeds and grasses are

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Tortoise Cat in the Rock Garden on a moist, muggy August afternoon Tortoise Cat: My new favorite seat in our Rock Garden is the old red cushion the Big One almost threw away. Chameleon: Good save, Tortoise Cat. It's too hot for your fur-suited, warm-blooded body to stroll, let alone prowl or play, so nap and dream on. Tortoise Cat: My custom cat-grass patches are thriving within reach, so I'm

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Tortoise Cat rests in a favorite territorial garden nook. Tortoise Cat: The Big One mentioned moving to another territory! Why? Chameleon: The rumpus of city life...? Winter snow impeding progress...? I don't know, Tortoise Cat. It must be an old longing for the first home territory. Tortoise Cat: What do you mean, first home territory? Chameleon: It's wherever one is when exploring and

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Tortoise Cat Foot Bath in the Rock Garden Tortoise Cat: Why did the Big One delete our other blog so swiftly, Chameleon? Chameleon: If Blog-City isn't going host individual bloggers anymore after a year or so, why stay on? Now is always the best moment for a new beginning! Tortoise Cat: When will the Big One turn our old blog into an ebook? Chameleon: We must keep pestering the Big One for

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Image by Shamanic Shift via FlickrWe've started getting things set up here to leave our old blogging territory and start over, ASAP. So check back for more, soon! The Big One backed-up our old, longstanding weblog for future publication as an ebook, then deleted the site. Maybe we can re-publish some favorite posts. We apologize for broken links. Stand-by.

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