absolutely floored!
Turns out apparently the months of construction tearing up the entire street have unanticipated fringe benefits even beyond improving the sewage lines.
Every other 4th of July (and Memorial Day and Labor Day and Whenever They Feel Like Fireworks Day), when the down-the-road neighbors bust out the hours of fireworks? I don't see Bunter all day, and possibly not the next day either.
This year? He's sitting in the door archway calm as can be, looks over at me occasionally, but completely blase about the whole thing. The machine-gun types, the hissing-screamer types, the silence-then-kablam types? Nothin'. Cool cat is cool.
^o-o^ (aka the smiley of "cool cat is so cool he wears shades".)
He really has mellowed out a TON this past six months or so. I figured the Lap Nao effect was a winter thing, but he's still just as demanding in the middle of July, which makes me alternatively exasperated when trying to do masters-degree work around firmly-planted-cat-butt and thrilled that he's finally trusting me -- even when I pick him up and snuggle him a little.
(Nail trimming is still a three man job unless I catch him in an insanely blissed out mood and get through one foot at a time, which only seems to occur once every six weeks or so.)
juthwara and longstrider? Thanks again for giving me the best Christmas present ever. :D
Every other 4th of July (and Memorial Day and Labor Day and Whenever They Feel Like Fireworks Day), when the down-the-road neighbors bust out the hours of fireworks? I don't see Bunter all day, and possibly not the next day either.
This year? He's sitting in the door archway calm as can be, looks over at me occasionally, but completely blase about the whole thing. The machine-gun types, the hissing-screamer types, the silence-then-kablam types? Nothin'. Cool cat is cool.
^o-o^ (aka the smiley of "cool cat is so cool he wears shades".)
He really has mellowed out a TON this past six months or so. I figured the Lap Nao effect was a winter thing, but he's still just as demanding in the middle of July, which makes me alternatively exasperated when trying to do masters-degree work around firmly-planted-cat-butt and thrilled that he's finally trusting me -- even when I pick him up and snuggle him a little.
(Nail trimming is still a three man job unless I catch him in an insanely blissed out mood and get through one foot at a time, which only seems to occur once every six weeks or so.)
juthwara and longstrider? Thanks again for giving me the best Christmas present ever. :D