Here kitty kitty

(1951 July 6)

I am afraid that keeping Fraidy Cat is hardly a choice with me any more. Today my morning went hosing out the garage. My dear, what a time we had. Daddy overslept and still had to go thru his long morning [diabetic] ritual. New girl came to help me and he had to wake me as I overslept, having had a bad night. MM overslept because of being up to see fireworks; also fell out of bed and we never heard her.

Well! I got down to the kitchen, LL grabbed his briefcase and ran to the garage, I after him saying, "I am so worried about the kittens" [in the garage].

LL: "Kittens hell! What about me and my trial that opens today?" Tugs at big [garage] door. I throw open the little [side] door. Fraidy darts out. Kits run under car.

LL: "Jesus God! This place smells like a reptile house, and the car is beginning to smell the same way."

Me: "Here kitty kitty. Here kitty kitty. Here kitty kitty. Wait a minute, please!"

LL: "For godssake, does that mean I can't go? I gotta get to my trial."

Me (covering eyes): "Go on, go on." He goes. I peek. Still two kits alive.

The fact is they used to rush from the car but now are used to it. And they are getting more used to it, to their fatal end, methinks. Well, of course I had to clean the garage - my morning gone.

Also (this I am just learning) Fraidy just had another series of sessions with Tom Cats on the hill and more kittens are on the way. Be here in two months. In my innocence I had thought they they had kittens spring and fall, as the book says, but Q says they can go on and on; when young and old they are not so productive. [More on findings homes for Fraidy and her kittens.]