Humans have some very strange customs. Miz Melanie has explained the reading resolution to me. It is a concept that no cat would embrace. If we want to do something, then we do it. And if we don't want to do something, then we don't. Miss Melanie says that on the first day of the new month-- and who decided which day should be a new month anyway? Personally I would pick a fine day when the catnip was up in the garden and that would be a new month-- that she will start reading through her enormous tea-be-are (to be read) pile. She says she will also go on a diet.

I don't understand this at all. No cat would ever go on a diet. I don't think a dog would either, though with dogs you can never be entirely sure what they will do. The urge to please humans is ridiculously strong in them.... Miz Melanie asked what my resolution would be and I since I didn't like to disappoint her, I said to nap whenever I felt like it. She gave me an odd look-- we spend a fair amount of time being baffled by one another-- and then said that she hoped I was able to keep my resolution. I thanked her and said that I was pretty sure that I would be able to do my part for the new month and wished her luck too.

And how about all of you? Do you have any resolutions? Any books you want to read?

Snowy