The Missing Pen

I keep several pens on my computer desk.  Most are stowed in a small vase that I use as a pen holder.  It also has pencils, nail files, a white out pen, highlighters, a marker and a staple remover.  

I had one pen out loose on the desk, and a few weeks ago, it disappeared.  I got another out, thinking either I accidentally dropped it in the trash (although I checked the trash and it was not there) or it would appear at sometime in the future.  

Well sometime in the future arrived, and the lost pen appeared.  On the floor, under the desk.  Hmmm.  I had looked under the desk for the pen.  Who knew?

Today, I saw something unusual.  

Haiku likes to play with pens.  She likes to chew on them when I am writing, and she likes  to bat them around, knock them off the tray, and I fetch them and we start all over again.

Today, Taki got into the act.  I had some paper and a pen on the tray next to the desk. And Taki attacked them.  She knocked the pen and the paper onto the floor, ignored the paper, and started batting the pen around.  She played with the pen for 20 or 30 minutes!  That is a long time for Taki. 

After she became tired of playing with the pen, she checked out the paper on the tray, but decided it was not really interesting!  

I know Taki plays but she does not play a lot in the evening when I am home.  I like to watch her play.