Fat Lightered
The fireplaces at Bear's Retreat are all working now, and so we have fires in the kitchen fireplace, which bore the female cats but entrance the male.
While the other cats are sleeping elsewhere, Dara comes into the kitchen to watch fires whenever they're set. He watches the whole thing, from crackling kindling to glowing coals, probably cause he's waiting for it to escape so he can hunt it:
And because he is a fool for the cats, Sam now requires to find Fat Lightered.
As it's been explained to me (I don't remember hearing about this in East Texas, though lordy knows there were plenty of pine trees around; Dad, please explain further), Fat Lightered is, basically, pine stumps, cut up to light one's fire, and the loveliness of them, for our purposes, would be 1) entertaining Dara with the crackling of the pine, and 2) giving Sam further cause to tell stories of his youth.
Fat Lightered used to be quite a concern, I take it, involving dynamite and high drama. Sometimes the acquisition of Fat Lightered worked, in which case the dynamited pine stump heaved itself out of the earth and landed on the side of the new hole. Sometimes it didn't quite work, though the kids could then be used to pick up all the Fat Lightered chips. Sometimes it REALLY didn't work, in which case one's pickup truck blew up. (Hint: do not try to dynamite the stump DIRECTLY into the back of the pickup.)
So Sam needs some Fat Lightered, and they don't sell it around here, so he's planning on ordering it off the Internet from Oregon, which I think is not precisely the correct way for a rural South Carolinian to acquire Fat Lightered, but I don't care, cause I'm so amused just even by the name of the stuff, not to mention the potential cat entertainment value, that I'm all for it.
While the other cats are sleeping elsewhere, Dara comes into the kitchen to watch fires whenever they're set. He watches the whole thing, from crackling kindling to glowing coals, probably cause he's waiting for it to escape so he can hunt it:
And because he is a fool for the cats, Sam now requires to find Fat Lightered.
As it's been explained to me (I don't remember hearing about this in East Texas, though lordy knows there were plenty of pine trees around; Dad, please explain further), Fat Lightered is, basically, pine stumps, cut up to light one's fire, and the loveliness of them, for our purposes, would be 1) entertaining Dara with the crackling of the pine, and 2) giving Sam further cause to tell stories of his youth.
Fat Lightered used to be quite a concern, I take it, involving dynamite and high drama. Sometimes the acquisition of Fat Lightered worked, in which case the dynamited pine stump heaved itself out of the earth and landed on the side of the new hole. Sometimes it didn't quite work, though the kids could then be used to pick up all the Fat Lightered chips. Sometimes it REALLY didn't work, in which case one's pickup truck blew up. (Hint: do not try to dynamite the stump DIRECTLY into the back of the pickup.)
So Sam needs some Fat Lightered, and they don't sell it around here, so he's planning on ordering it off the Internet from Oregon, which I think is not precisely the correct way for a rural South Carolinian to acquire Fat Lightered, but I don't care, cause I'm so amused just even by the name of the stuff, not to mention the potential cat entertainment value, that I'm all for it.
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