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| "Caught!" |
Ever walk into a room and be surprised by what you find? If you have cats (or any critters) you are occasionally taken back. In my case, I usually run for the camera. My computer room is generally off limits to the cats unless I'm in there. Why? Because to my shame, it's usually a mess and I don't want the cats digging through my clutter. If I'm in there, I can always say, "stop that"... or "leave that alone", etc. However, the doorknob on this room has become faulty. It doesn't always catch... so an industrious cat can just give it a little push and find himself a new hidey hole. This is what I found earlier this morning.
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| "I'm sorry... it was just too comfy to pass up." |
Later today when I was passing the room and found the door ajar again, THIS is what I found...
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| 3 startled cats! (Can you find them?) |
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| There's Tux! |
And as you know, Ghost has many faces... mostly grumpy, but this one is a little different... maybe 'guilty'?
Julie is on the pillow and really doesn't care if she's caught doing something she shouldn't. So... only Rose was missing, but I found her in the hall...
At 21 (almost 22), Rose usually isn't part of too much mischief. She knows where her food is, where the litter box is... and how to find her 2 favorite spots; by the Aga or in a sunspot on our bed. She has a routine she follows every morning... between 6 and 7 am she starts howling... letting us know from the spot she sleeps on our bed that it's time to start thinking about getting up. Between 7 and 8 (if we're still not up), she will run over to the Plantation blinds (on both sides of our bed) and start rattling them. This usually gets us up. Once we open the door and let her out of the room, she starts her 'walk about'. She walks around and around the house in a large circle and continues this until I make coffee and give her a tiny drop of Redi-whip (which she adores). Then she will sit in the kitchen and wait for DH to start feeding for the day.
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| "uh... hi mom!" |
Julie is on the pillow and really doesn't care if she's caught doing something she shouldn't. So... only Rose was missing, but I found her in the hall...
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| "What....?" |
At 21 (almost 22), Rose usually isn't part of too much mischief. She knows where her food is, where the litter box is... and how to find her 2 favorite spots; by the Aga or in a sunspot on our bed. She has a routine she follows every morning... between 6 and 7 am she starts howling... letting us know from the spot she sleeps on our bed that it's time to start thinking about getting up. Between 7 and 8 (if we're still not up), she will run over to the Plantation blinds (on both sides of our bed) and start rattling them. This usually gets us up. Once we open the door and let her out of the room, she starts her 'walk about'. She walks around and around the house in a large circle and continues this until I make coffee and give her a tiny drop of Redi-whip (which she adores). Then she will sit in the kitchen and wait for DH to start feeding for the day.
Oh well, I'd rather wake up to a cat howling than an alarm clock any day...
On a totally different note, I want to ask if any of you always answer the front door when a stranger knocks on it? We have a camera on our door, so we can see that we don't know the person. We also have a sign that states 'no soliciting' (more or less). Actually what it says is:
The police recommend you answer the door, so that they (whoever they are) know someone is home, but since there is no screen or anything between you and them, I'm hesitant to do so. Someone was knocking rather loudly on our door this afternoon. We could see that it was a man we didn't know and he had another man in a car out on the street. We didn't answer although both our cars were in the driveway... so I'm guessing it was obvious someone was home. Not sure what the best thing to do is in these cases, but opening the door didn't seem like a good idea. What do you think?
