Eh, our cat!
The weather has been horribly cold, dreary, rainy and otherwise unpleasant. One can't change it and has to make the best of it, which is what we did. Monday was the first day of this coming winter season that we fired up our oven.
Well, fired up paints a picture of chopping wood and then painstakingly making a fire but to be honest, I just heaved a bag of pellets ( left over from last winter ) into the oven and pressed a button. High tech and no work.
It didn't take long before the lounge was warming up. There are radiators in every room but somehow one feels the warmth more in our lounge. Mausi and I were reclining on our couch- she like a hot water bottle keeping my lap warm-and reading when the oven started its opening sequence. Noise of pellets dropping and orange sparks of the first flames.
About five minutes later our cat decided to dethrone herself from my lap and made her way towards the other couch, or should I say the couch next to the window and radiator. I was astonished when Mausi suddenly took up station atop the warm radiator...first time since late spring when we turned off the oven!
She does it every season when they are in use, but how amazing of her to associate the firing of the oven with a resulting warm radiator. Clever and cunning but sadly reminding me that perhaps she merely lays herself onto my legs for warmth and not to be close to me. For the next few months her preferred places to catch forty winks will most likely be radiators or the floor of our bathroom which has underfloor heating. ...as long as she is comfortable!!!
A cat's way to relax...
She has honed this balancing act to perfection even if at times the couch is slightly further away from the radiator.
Every ten minutes or so when it gets too hot she turns herself around and roasts her other side...
Biggi
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