Hey Calorically Vast Ones!
It's Mama again. Tonight Mama is introducing a subject near and dear to her abnormally large heart:
Organic Kitty Litter. Yes, Mama 'fesses up...she DOES love her environmentally safe products. Mama has been a recycler for years. Actually, she first started around the age of 5 when her dear mother would give her an after school snack of graham crackers (on a paper plate) and an 8 ounce dixie cup of milk. Mama would consume the couple of crackers and cup of milk during the first 5 minutes of "Romper Room". During the station break, little M, as they used to call her, would NOT throw her paper plate and cup away. Oh no, even then she knew to "waste not want not". Mama had her own recycling method...She'd just go back to the cupboard, drag a kitchen chair in front of it, reach up and get a few more graham crackers and then quickly drag the chair back to the table, pour another cold, white, frosty glass of whole milk and be able to perch her little rear-end on the sofa just in time to see "Miss Nancy" teach her on TV preschool class. Do you see how Mama was able to recycle that paper plate and cup TWICE? She ate and drank TWO snack portions on those dear paper products, her Mother was none the wiser, and Mama was a good girl because she did not immediately toss them out.
Now, many of you may be asking, "what does this have to do with organic kitty litter?" Well, if you folks will shut the hell up long enough I will explain. Yes, Mama can hear you people as you read her blog page. She can see you at your computer screen and knows if you are eating and dropping crumbs on your keyboard.
So, anyway, as I was saying, Mama went to PetsMart a few days ago to pick up some good eats for Bear, Milo, and Princess. While she was there she began perusing the side aisle looking for cat litter when her eye caught the pretty light yellow bag with the green plant stalks on its front. The lettering was clean and simple:
World's Best Cat Litter --made from whole kernel corn! Did you hear that? Whole kernel corn! Mama hugged the bag and quickly went to the check-out with her new earth-friendly purchase. She brought it home, lovingly placed it next to the cat litter box, knelt, genuflected, and then promptly left it in the bag for 10 days while she waited for Milo and Princess to use up the last of the clay/concrete clumping mix.
Today, sainted friends, TODAY Mama gently picked up that beautiful organic bag, carefully opened it up and proceeded to pour that environmentally friendly corn mixture into the litter box. Lord, but that litter is beautiful. The prettiest shades of cornsilk yellow and maize-brown one could ever see. And the smell????
How shall Mama describe it? Like a fresh batch of homebaked corn muffins. Mama could actually see little melted butter bits right there in that old plastic box on the laundry room floor. She even got down on her knees to get a closer look AND a closer smell.
Mama called to her children. "Darlings, come. Look. See. Smell. Run children run before the cats get in there and frickin' ruin it!" And they came. We called our neighbors. They, too, were awe-struck at the wonder of it all. Mama's flat coat retriever, Bear, came over and sniffed, not once, not twice, but three times and then quizzically looked at Mama as if to say, "I shore do smell them corn cakes, Mama, but where'd ya hide the ham?"
As tears of laughter and delight sprang from Mama's eyes, Milo and Princess came prancing into the scene, their tails straight up like flag poles with a satisfied gleam in their eyes. They looked at that litter box of sweet organic goodness, they looked at Mama, they looked again at the box, sniffed twice, and promptly walked out the back door where they probably dropped a load in Mama's prize petunias.
Damn cats.
Mama
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