I like gardening as some of you may know and Sunday was the *big* planting out day, seedlings in the beds and various other plants in containers etc. Chris likes the strangest of plants (my opinion) and among the trailing plants were an Indian Mint and a Cat Mint that he had chosen. He asked me where he should plant them and as they are trailing plants I said they could go in one of the hanging baskets.

This evening as I went outside to water the containers I noticed one of the baskets swinging to and fro rather dramatically (there was no wind!) out of the corner of my eye. On investigation I found one rather large puzzled cat crouching in the basket trying to eat the catmint without falling out of the basket which by now was moving about as if being blown by a hurricane.

The look Domino gave me was "whose bl**dy idea was it to put the catmint here"...

Copyright © Shirley Holland
June 1, 2001