Kickass and winter prep

Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, acknowledging their cellular kinship with all living things—trees, creatures, insects, etc., note the preparations for the coming winter that are hard wired into the evolutionary survival programs of most life forms—except for humans.

Trees drop leaves to reduce exposure to contrary conditions, birds head south, bears hibernate, deer grow thick fur coats, bugs crawl into holes as do badgers, woodchucks and skunks.

Every cellular evolved life form is obviously equipped to handle the advent of dark nights, freezing temperatures, hazardous ice and snow and inhibited mobility—except for the keeper and Phyllis and their fellow shivering Midwest fumblers.

With only the most modest of fur covering, a sense of direction limited to finding the bathroom, little or no burrowing ability with their snow shovels, and no means or money for heading to tropical refuges, the keeper and Phyllis’s crowd will huddle around the heat ducts in the coming months and talk about being the most advanced life form.

Some of them will medicate with Korbels.