Poor William's Almanack, February 24, 2006, Complex Cats

Ben Franklin's bifocals Friday, February 24, 2006

[1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller, born in Hanau, Germany]

[1803 - US Supreme Court first rules a law unconstitutional in Marbury vs Madison]

Winslow Homer's - Eight Bells
[1836 - Winslow Homer, painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

[1874 - Honus Wagner, Hall of Fame shortstop, born in Chartiers, Pennsylvania]

Admiral Chester Nimitz in Battle Dress

[1885 - Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet in WW-II, born in Fredericksburg, Texas]

[1917 - Russian revolution breaks out]

[1933 - League of Nations tells Japan to pull out of Manchuria]

Complex Cats

I awoke to find the Cats
Had constructed a high-rise
Complex in our bedroom.
high-rise (Soho)

Hunter had the Penthouse
By reason of his seniority.
Come to think of it,
He looks a little like Guccione.
Bob Guccione Hunter (the suave one)

Joseph, still a kitten,
Had a very cute tabby flat
On the forty-first floor.
Joseph - yeah, yeah, cats rule and . . .

They never asked my permission.
They think I am their doorman.
They are right.

William's Whimsical Words:

Thank goodness they haven't evicted us by asserting the right of evident domain.

Hunter and Joey in penthouse