Sunday: Hili dialogue

14 thoughts on “Sunday: Hili dialogue”

1. So she still sits in the window until someone goes and gets her? She is a diva. But she’s probably a better singer than that other diva.

2. It just occurred to me, Andrzej, would it be possible to build a little cat walk from that window to the back door where there could a bell to announce her return? It could be a safety issue for Hili, why she prefers to wait on high. Such a ramp could save you many trips out in the cold. Just wondering….

   1. There is no back door. I’ve suggested that they put a “cat flap” in the kitchen window so that Hili could jump in there and go through on her own, but I think there are technical issues with the window that prevent that. No, for the forseeable future the Furry Princess of Poland announces her presence by jumping on the front window and waiting till someone carries her in. It doesn’t help to open the front door and call her!

      What a diva!

      1. Oh, I see. And the front door is probably too far from the window and a cat-walk might look somewhat unsightly. I probably wouldn’t want to cut my window pane either, to install a cat flap, but it would drive me crazy to have to go fetch several times a day. I wonder if covering the window would help break her habit? Once she spies them through the window, it’s a lock, and no can budge!

3. Up to this point I was unaware of the existence of Ms Grande. Oh how I miss the old days

   1. You’re better not knowing.

   2. I don’t listen to commercial radio but my wife does, on her commute. My wife doesn’t watch old movies (“old” meaning “in theaters before 1977”) and didn’t watch much TV before about 1990.

      So we’ll be watching TV and I’ll say, “Hey, that’s Shelley Berman!” and she’ll say “Who’s Shelley Berman” But then we’ll see, say, Ariana Grande, and she’ll start singing along, to which I’ll say “You know this song?!”

      We are the Mr. & Mrs. Jack Sprat of pop culture.

   3. I’m always impressed that Jerry knows of these people. I’m usually behind the times.

4. Looking at the Hili photos this winter, I wondered whether, in a “typical” year (say a quarter of a century ago or so), Dobrzyn would have more snow throughout the winter months.

   I guess I’m asking about the effects of climate change in Poland, within the last decade. Just in the last decade here in South Texas, I’ve noticed several effects – we get snow quite rarely, but the earliest frost dates have shifted later (for example).

   1. There just is no pattern. One winter we can have -27C and snow non stop from November to the beginning of April, and the next barely any snow and the temperatures around 0C. This winter is mild as was the winter 2013/2014, but the previous one was very cold with plenty of snow.

      1. Thanks for your answer, Malgorzata!

5. I’m not familiar with Grande’s music, but is it “schlock” music? I’ve only ever heard that term used in reference to 1980’s hair metal/pop rock like Poison, Cinderella, Ratt, and the like. Perhaps I don’t have a proper definition of “Schlock”, but whatever it is, I doubt I’d enjoy Grande’s music as much as I enjoy the pure ridiculousness of the 80’s schlock rock, not in an artistic manner, but because it takes me back to my childhood. Sad to think that while my grandparents in their dotage longed for the good old days, slowly dancing together while listening to Glenn Miller, and the youth of today will be reliving their heydays in front of their grandchildren doing a wrinkly geriatric twerk against each other to Miley Cyrus or Ariana Grande…just ew.

6. Ariana who? Am I supposed to have heard of her?

   Regardless, Hili quite clearly has a great many redeeming features. Does Ariana? And who wouldn’t relish the opportunity to carry a cat around?

   b&

7. Madame Callas was sometimes ‘difficult’ but even she never asked to be carried. Of course if she had, it would have been with some style on a palanquin.

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