Fans of Hood Stories maybe wondering how the hood is doing. Well in recent weeks the only #copsinthehood episode featured me being pulled over for an incomplete stop. Other features have been #dogsinthehood and #catsinthehood
Tonight it was
#catsinthehood as one of the many hood cats climbed high into my tree in an attempt to raid a bird nest. I was on the phone when I saw the attempted cat burglar in action. So while carrying on a phone conversation, I leaped into action, moving cars in order to access the water hose, unwinding it as fast as possible, hooking it up to the faucet and dragging it to the scene. I finally put the phone away and like a marksman went looking for my target, I scanned the tree for the cat. Then our eyes met.
The feline looked at me as if to ask, ”What are you doing?” And I looked it as if to say, bird murderer and then turned the nozzle to let the water rip! In a second, water was shooting out at the cat and on me, as apparently I can’t tighten a nozzle all that well one handed. Water was raining down, birds flying and the cat was on the run. In the end, the cat was soaked, I was soaked and the birds were distraught.
As I returned the hose to its place my neighbor’s extremely high pitched ADT alarm sounded without warning. I think I passed that cardiac test not once but twice as it sounded again shortly after my first attempt at sleep.
#lifeinthehood
Former Milwaukee Brewer pitcher Mike Birkbeck is one of a handful of through the mail autograph successes I have been able to record in recent weeks.
