SO, ONE DAY, THERE WAS THIS KITTEN YOWLING IN A TREE...

We've reached springtime and it's been quite windy in the Metrosprawl.

So, we produced this edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap by asking a simple of question. Is that cat sending a message? "Keep napping and stay out of the weather!"

That cat is our readlarrypowell.com Junior Office Cat who, upon discovering there was a new rug in the living room, walked in, flopped over and stretched out for a nap. 
As he once explained, "I'm not too shy to nap."
He became a member of our household in the spring of 2019. He was a kitten, tiny
but loud and clutching a thin  and flimsy mimosa limb in a tree into which he had somehow wandered. He may have been in a neighborhood Feline Tree-climbing Course taught my one of the older local free-roaming felines.
I reached to the eye-high bobbing limb and lifted him off and we've been friends ever since. Easiest kitten rescue ever in my experience.

Stevie Ray Treeboy is named in honor of another Oak Cliff star (Stevie Ray Vaughan) and
the place where the kitten was dangling, grappling and yowling.

I might have pulled him out of a tree, but he sure knows his way around a spell of napping.
Here you see a photo (left) of Stevie Ray napping in the office catbed.
 And, then you see him about to nod off on Martha's fancy couch -- he's staring at her as she reads just out of the frame on the right. 

Ultimately, for this occasion, I am re-posting my favorite photo of Stevie Ray at work. He looks as if he's seriously working at his laptop in the dining room. My theory -- based on the look on his face -- is he is rehearsing for his upcoming audition for a position as an evening news anchor on a major American TV network. Look at him! He's as serious as any anchor you can name in the 21st Century. 
Of course, when he's flat out sleeping as in that opening photo, he's clearly as comfortable with the camera as any late show host ever was. And Stevie Ray confided to me that he'll get interested in being an NFL gameday broadcaster "once the league decides to stop monkeying with the rules. Don't get me started on baseball."

[PLEASE, PLEASE DEAR READERS send photos of your sleeping dogs, napping cats or any slumbering beast you can photograph to [email protected]. We'll spotlight 'em and let you tell their stories in our long-running weekend feature Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap. It pays absolutely nothing -- unless the right lottery numbers fall this week adn then Senior Office Cat William Powell says, "We'll re-think that budget."]