IGNORE THE SCORE; EXPLORE THE CAT'S MIND

Here we go with the Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap for the final weekend of November, 2020. Still more than a month left in this spectacularly out-of-the-ordinary trip around the sun.
We are prepared for the holidays, aren’t we? Christmas, Hanukkah and others that we cherish.
FYI, we open with a photo snapped on game day while some members of the household may not have been happy with the way a certain professional football team (not from Washington, D.C.) was playing.  You know which team. I almost can’t type the score, but I’ll go ahead: 41-16. Ouch, that hurt.
That's Porche's sleep-it-off face on the left and Deputy Chief Kittie Leigh Johnson's "leave-me-alone" look on the right. Who knows what's really in her mind. Let’s move on.
While shopping just before Thanksgiving, I was in a grocery store that keeps a large rack of seasonal and regularly-published magazines next to the checkout stand. [LARRY FYI: This store has actual check-out clerks. It doesn’t expect customers to work for the privilege of paying for the purchases. You don’t have to be able to “scan” items.]
Anyway, as you can see in the magazines, some attention is being paid to cats. Christmas and cats. My favorite is the one titled “INSIDE YOUR CAT’S MIND.” At the public library, this magazine would be stacked in the “Mysteries” section. 
I speak with personal experience.
Now, usually we turn to the online calendar Holiday Insights for special citations of a notable day. This time we happened to run across a specific day on the National Today site.
It suggests why there may be two cat magazines available among the Christmas, Cooking and Dieting publications.
December 15 is National Cat Herder’s Day. Here’s the LINK.
Now, resolutely determined not to be herded is that cat Simon, a young man photographed while in his special pose that he calls “The Furball of Meditation.”
Note how his paw curls around his cute face. It is the Paw of Contemplation. 
And his nose is the “Nose of Nasalification.” I have no idea what that means. And I also have no idea what’s inside my big, fluffy, curled-up-as-much-as-he-can-curl cat’s mind.  And, no, he won't help me pick Lotto Texas numbers. He says sudden wealth would ruin my cheery outlook on life. Not sure he actually used the word "cheery."
[DEAR READERS, Please, just for the holiday season and beyond, send photos of your sleeping dogs, nappng cats, slumbering reptiles, snoozing elves, to dallrp@aol.com with bios explaining how you acquired them and how much you love them. We’ll feature them in Let Sleeping Dogs Lie and Napping Cats Nap. It’ll inspire people to open their homes to animals who need someone to love them. And it’ll inspire insomniacs to think they, too, can get some sleep if we can just stop laying awake and staring back at their cats.]
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