Friday, Oct. 01, 2004
Dear Diary:

Apparently I am doomed to live in a country music song. I am about ten minutes away from buying an oversized cowboy hat and standing on street corners with a cheap guitar, crooning the words, �And if it warn�t for bad luck, I�d have no luck at all.�

My cat done gone.

The last time we saw Norma was the night of my surgery. She ran up to greet us when we got home from Montreal and then bolted to the front door, yelling imperiously about how we�d been gone all day and it was freakin� time we got the door open BECAUSE A CAT COULD STARVE TO DEATH AND WHAT WERE WE THINKING LEAVING HER ALONE ALL DAY?

Laughing, we opened the door and she rocketed in along with Zubby and Enid, ate eight crumbles and then tore back over to the door yelling imperiously that it was freakin� time we got the door open BECAUSE SHE HAD PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO.

I opened the door and let her out and I haven�t seen her since.

I didn�t worry much when she didn�t come in to breakfast Wednesday morning because she�s a bit casual about the morning meal, as is Zubby. He�s been known to disappear for as much as 24 hours and we�ve always assumed it had something to do with his onerous homeland security duties.

But when I didn�t see Norma by lunch time that day I did get worried and went out looking for her, walking first up our sugar bush road � mile calling her, and then down our own road. No Norma. I walked down the main road to the end, calling her, and also up a private cottage road that�s � mile from our home. Nothing.

I�ve called our nearest permanent neighbours. I�ve knocked on cottage doors and asked them to keep an eye out for Norma. Tuesday it will be two weeks since she disappeared. I am slowly adjusting to the notion that I might not see her again, because, as the spousal unit says, the woods that surround our home do hold dangers for a cat that�s not wary. We have bear, coyotes, fishers, foxes and owls.

Cats are by nature wary creatures. It is a good life here and almost all our cats have lived very long lives, into their late teens and two have made it to their early 20�s. But we have lost two other cats mysteriously, and I am afraid Norma may become our third.

I�ve been going out for an hour�s walk each day, calling her. I�m sure my neighbours are getting mightily tired of hearing her name.

The spousal unit says that if I want to, we can go to the shelter and choose another cat. Somehow, I can�t do that, not now. It was different when my cat Zoe died. She was most definitely gone and the hole that that bossy little cat left was just too big not to be filled. But with Norma, well, part of me knows that she�s probably gone, but part of me still has a candle in the window. I don�t want to give up on her, not yet.

It�s an odd place to be.

--Marn

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