Mrrrr Friends,
Temperatures were dropping over the weekend. We had our first light overnight frost, with ice on the porch railing at first light. For a furry guy like me, this is exhilarating. It also made Boo happy because it really cut down on the little buzzing face bugs, which give him welts and a knobby head.
So, we had an outing...which turned into a celebration! Me, Alex, Oom, and Boo all went out to the backyard and the brook and played!
Our excuse - or our people's, they do always seem to need directed activity - was the placement of the recently finished wooden bench that now affords a lovely sitting spot over our brook. Here's Boo making sure the legs are level. That's cat pal Alex in the foreground.
This was Alex's first, self-propelled foray into the backyard. She's a cautious, thoughtful gal - it is a stripey cat characteristic, I think. For the past few months, she's been observing our new world from the back porch of the big house and through all the windows. While she hasn't been out, first-paw, experiencing things, she's been learning. She immediately found a great little spot to watch the goings on.
Me, I was exploring the fringes of the neighbor's yard near the brook. This fine log will serve as a training trunk for vertical framing - a cat mind exercise that facilitates purposeful tree-scaling.
The neighbor people, who are very nice and cook smelly-tasty things, had to cut down a tree. It was an elm I think...there are lots of scraggly elms around here but this one was pretty big...and dead. I like the wood pile and I have my eye on the nearby maple as a scaling tree.
It's always hard to get a good photo of me when I'm moving fast!
Spent some quality time in the brook...I keep seeing critters in the brook...Oom insists I don't, but I think she is, ahem,
wrong.
Here, I am going back to the yard side from my mid-brook, Zen boulder. I have not been over to the "wild" side of the brook. Neither has Oom.
Alex and I hung out a bit and talked about the neighbor cats, Brewster and Ubu.
She and Boo played a bit...
then we all posed for a photo...well, not Oom.
What a fun day!
