Scamper

“Scamper on up there,” He says, gesturing to the bed, tapping my leg with the cane.

It always makes me giggle, inside my head, at least.  

Scamper:  Verb  (esp. of a small animal or child) Run with quick light steps, esp. through fear or excitement.

Although i am neither a small animal nor a child, and am not even as small as i once was, that’s what He says He expects me to do.   Scamper on up there, or over there, or out here as the case may be.  

We had big storms here in Where-i-Live very early one morning.  No harm done, just lost a bit of sleep.  Sir untethered me for the event, so i could scamper out if i needed to

Giggling… really i just like saying the word, and the ridiculous mental image that goes with it.

i googled “scamper” images, just to see what i got.  i found all kinds of strange things that don’t seem to have anything to do with my kind of scampering.  Apparently it’s an acronym for something.  Whatever.

There there were children scampering ~ that was not what i wanted, and even Scamper the Penguin was not quite right.

There was Scamper, the Hippopotamus, but i didn’t want to leave you with that image.  

And then there was this:

That image is from deviantart.com, which seems appropriate,  and i’m not sure what that rope’s doing there, but it could certainly be my tether.  Which keeps me from scampering off in the middle of the night.

Now, i’m going to pick up my tether and scamper out to the kitchen for more coffee.  {dissolves into giggles….}