2025: Cat + July 4= 4 Sleepless Nights

So thank goodness this year hasn't been as atrocious; thank heavens.
Kitty closet days was the 4th of course, and a few hours on July 3 and a lot of hours July 5.

Speaking of...someone setting fireworks off at 5am, and then tonight it has been 10, 11, midnight

They are not constantly going off, thank goodness, but enough to where it's messing up our cat's routine and woke everyone up

Oh about that "independence" thing, never applied to my ancestors anyway

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This is funny; it was some farther away fireworks that went boom....boom
I was in the living room with Moonflower, rubbing my stomach (ugh the 4th of July meal as small as it was flared up my gastritis) 
and Moonflower went "was that you?"

😹😹
Me: You mean that noise we just heard?
Moonflower: Shakes her head yeah
Me: that was fireworks!! 😹
Joe: Just wow 😹