I was going to bed with no wife, no young floozie, no 12-pack of warm beer, no .45 pistol, and no bottles of cheap wine when I shot a last photo of the two young cats.



I turned out the lights.

And then I leaped out of bed!

The tomcat must have seen a bug on the wall or a ghost or some goddamn thing that had him all riled up. He leaped like a shot to the stair railing and just sat there while tracking whatever he saw up against the wall. His ass is sitting on an inch and a half of railing and its down a long way if he makes a mistake to his right. There is nothing there - that wall he's glaring at is newly painted and clean



Not ten minutes later the tomcat Trouble is going nuts with a different wall. Strange things have happened at my house with noises and things moving that people have seen and heard but I never saw one of my dogs (from years ago) or a cat become fixed upon a clean slick wall.



That tomcat was seeing or hearing something that I could not see or hear. He was focused and wide awake and scoping the ceiling when he should have been asleep.

Cats are excellant predators and hunters...who knows what is in Trouble's "head" and what could possibly lurking on a newly painted wall....