Reply #108: What a great link--thanks! OMG, looking at the pub dates, I think I must have read it as...

[Hekate]

... a really young kid, like, I would have been 9 that year. My dad always subscribed to F&SF and to Analog, and I read them almost from the time I learned how to read. (For women sf readers of a certain age, oh the thrill of Telzy Amberdon and Podkayne showing up as characters. Girls as protagonists, at long last.)

Anyhow, I'd long forgotten the actual plot, but it figures it would be Heinlein. Sometimes one of my siblings will come out with a catchphrase from some long-ago thing we all read -- and the thing about the cat looking for the door into summer is one of those.

Thanks for the memories. :hi:

Hekate