Halloween "Treats"

As predicted, Halloween came and went and not a single trick-or-treater came to our door. I'm certainly not surprised, and not even all that disappointed. It just means that I have a huge bowl of fun size candy bars to consume over the next several weeks.

I tried my best to promote our household's chocolaty generosity. I had every exterior light on the house illuminated, and most of the interior lights as well. All in all, I thought our house looked rather inviting. But I guess our little corner of the world is just not a hotbed for Halloween activity.

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Following the Halloween, "trick-or-treat" theme, this morning I made an interesting discovery in our garage. I was walking back from the barn after feeding the horses, when I heard a cat 'meowing' from inside the garage. We don't own an outdoor cat, so the sound of a cat in the garage was unexpected.

As I entered the garage, I looked up to discover the neighbor's cat perched in the rafters. Apparently this cat wandered into the garage the previous night, and had been mistakenly locked inside. I would have been OK with a few dirty paw prints on our vehicles, but this cat unfortunately left us a much more unpleasant, "treat".

At some point during the night, the cat got sick and regurgitated his dinner on my garage floor. Since this cat is allowed to wander outside, he probably gobbles up a wide variety of mice and other vermin. I couldn't quite recognize what chewed up animal was now splattered next to my car, but it couldn't have been in the cat's stomach for very long because it was still, "fleshy".

I'm sorry that I don't have a nice clean way of wrapping up this story of the neighbor's cat in my garage. Like many Halloween stories, it's just plain gross.