Freedom

Today the sun was shining brightly, and when M-M's cat Odyssey managed to get out of the house and into the front yard, we decided to let her enjoy a little freedom. However, give a cat an inch and, yeah, she'll take everything you've got!

We try to keep our cats in the house or in our backyard. This is usually not difficult to do with the two female cats. Pluto, our male cat, however, somehow manages to get past the chicken wire we've stapled to the top of the backyard fence. Today, however, Pluto was in a fey mood. Tom has been working on the roof, installing an antenna (preparing to ditch cable and return to free, but digital, airwaves), and has also been going in and out of the attic. While the attic ladder was down, Pluto raced up into the attic, where he has been hiding all day, probably asleep in some corner. This would not be a problem except that he won't come down by himself. He will prowl around the attic opening, but he's spooked by what he must perceive as a death-defying drop from ceiling to floor. I will have to get him down, eventually, and he will be clawing all the way.

Odyssey, however, was ready to brave the streets of the neighborhood.Oh, wow! While I was typing this post, Pluto sprang up onto my desk. He managed to get down the attic ladder by himself. I could have saved myself some scratch marks the three previous times he hid out up there!