The keeper left her downtown meeting to have dinner at her old favorite place now called El Farol, and visited with her friends who own it. Meanwhile we were faithfully waiting at home for our dinners. We always save a little from the morning meal in case we have to fend for ourselves. Actually, Alice taught me this. She had been a starving mother cat and knows how to ration food. She also knows how to steal it. But the keeper did not return to us for quite awhile. No, she was off to Bellevue and to a church who was celebrating Juan Diego and La Morenita with an outdoor procession ( quicker than usual), storytelling, prayers, dancers. and a pinata party.
She stayed around and had good conversations and treats and finally came home to us. She said that the night sky was sooo clear and that the waves looked frozen on the lake. We told her that was nice, but asked for our dinner. Alice and I are thinking that perhaps we should not ask for the hamsters any more but we should ask to donate funds to Whisker City, the shelter that took care of Alice. That sounds pretty noble, doesn't it?
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