The heat is on........

So you think two three-pound kittens can't burn down a library? Wrong..... While "Peanut Butter" and "Jelly" were visiting the library, they stayed in my office, and managed to get into REAL mischief. I was out front talking with patrons for over an hour, and decided to quickly check out to see if they were asleep. Looking in the door's window, all seemed serene as they were smugly sitting quietly on the desk and computer. Fortunately, I decided to go in and give them a pat and put more food in their dishes. However, upon entering I smelled fire. At first I assumed the smell was coming in the open window from someone burning rubbish outside. Then, as I approached my desk, I was horrifed to see smoke rising from my leather blotter! The little monsters had been playing with the dangling cord which turns on my green glass banker's light . Apparently, they had managed to yank on it, which turned it on, and knocked it over. The bulb was rapidly raising the temperature of the blotter to the point of bursting into flame. Good thing I went in, that's for sure. Meanwhile Rosemary, our children's librarian, came running in and raced with the blotter out to the back steps. Whew! We laughed, but the Marion FD wouldn't have found it funny at all. (Especially since they had already rescued one of my other guys-detailed in Emma vs. the MFD. )