{"id":18287,"date":"2021-09-04T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:41:29","slug":"episode-423-bill-brooks-retired-two-months-agonow-busier-than-everwith-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=18287","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 423 BILL BROOKS RETIRED TWO MONTHS AGO\u2026NOW BUSIER THAN EVER\u2026WITH CATS"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 423    BILL BROOKS RETIRED TWO MONTHS AGO\u2026NOW BUSIER THAN EVER\u2026WITH CATS<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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\u201cBill, how is retirement?\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cI will never know.\u201d<\/div>\n

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“Marjorie and I drove into Bill Brooks machinery yard while he was rubbing the feral Tom Cat that<\/div>\n
keeps the yard full of kittens and limits the possibility that a mouse could survive.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, that kitten is so cute\u2026maybe Woody would like a companion.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat kitten\u2026no kittens here.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cKeep looking\u2026they see you but do not know if they can trust you yet.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cImagination”<\/div>\n
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\u201cBill, now that you are retired maybe you can get this old blacksmiths forge back<\/div>\n
in running order.  Just a Little job.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cFunny thing , that\u2019s what everybody says.  Look around at all the little jobs<\/div>\n
that have landed here at my workshop\u2026tractors, front ned loaders, road graders\u2026<\/div>\n
little jobs.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cPut our little job at the bottom of the list.\u201d  Deep down I knew he would not do that.<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe cats live under and inside the machines\u2026their home\u2026feral cats that<\/div>\n
knew enough to stay clear of visitors.  That\u2019s why the coyotes never get them.<\/div>\n
Take a look at the one I could get near enough to snap.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, look at the big one nuzzling Bill Brooks\u2026that\u2019s the male.  Not many<\/div>\n
of those around any more\u2026Tom Cats\u2026love Bill but thinks we are intruders.”<\/div>\n

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“I wonder who dropped off this machine for repairs\u2026sort of like poor old Humpty Dumpty.<\/div>\n

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\u201cOnly Bill Brooks could make sense of this beauty.”<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 423    BILL BROOKS RETIRED TWO MONTHS AGO\u2026NOW BUSIER THAN EVER\u2026WITH CATS alan skeoch Sept. 2021 \u201cBill, how is retirement?\u201d \u201cI will never know.\u201d “Marjorie and I drove into Bill Brooks machinery yard while he was rubbing the feral Tom Cat that keeps the yard full of kittens and limits the possibility that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}