These sunny, warm mornings just won't stop. I guess warm is relative - Oom wears a wool coat on most mornings for our walk. I just don't get why humans don't have fur...perhaps in evolutionary time they'll start growing some?
I'm not the only cat wondering what's going on with the whole Adirondack December/no snow thing. Here's my neighbor cat Brewster. He's as clueless as me about what's next.
He's a big, good-looking guy, fast on the paws, long tail (kinda fluffy for my taste). I think he or his housemate Ubu (Ubu doesn't believe in photos) has a little thing for Alex, cause one of them keeps bringing small, dead mammal presents to the back door.
On the up side, the good weather keeps my people working away in the yard which provides fun for cats. They bought one of those little iron boxes for fires. I'm not sure why it is still in the basement and not hooked up to the chimney hole...they keep muttering about bricks, stove pipes, and money. But they are gathering wood to burn in it someday.
There's a lot of dead wood in the yard and, while this can play a useful ecological role - providing tasty insects for Nuthatches and homes for cavity nesting Sapsuckers - there's so much that, not using some for firewood would be a waste. So, there's been a lot of sawing and carrying of downed wood. I do my share, by testing most of the pieces and making sure they are securely stacked at their final destination.
Relative to the whole process of humans hauling and stacking wood and carrying around other big objects: a human will be carrying something big and, then, all the sudden, shout "heads up!" What's that about? I mean Oom or Boo says it, I look up dutifully to the trees, the sky, or the ceiling when I'm indoors, and then, invariably, they'll run into me, muttering about me not getting out of the way. How can I get out of the way when I'm looking up?! Humans can be so confusing at times.
Whatever.
The time of the week is ahead where Oom spends more time outside with me for a couple days. She has some project planned in my brook for the weekend. Here's the picture the web weather gods have posted for the next several days:
We cats can hope.
