By Karen
Day 97
Max Refuses to Relinquish the Couch & Roc Transcends to New Territory
Last night Max was happily lounging on his new couch turf during TV time. But as soon as he left for just a moment to grab a bite to eat, Roc moved in and reclaimed what he thinks is his rightful place.
So Max plopped down beside me. I could see he was perturbed and pondering what to do next. He may have considered just sitting on top of Roc. It’s a move he’d seen Adele successfully pull off whenever she wanted Roc out of her way.
But Roc wasn’t likely to be so chivalrous with Max, and I’ve never seen Max deliberately provoke confrontation with anyone. Finally, he went over to Roc, but couldn’t figure out how both of them could sit there, so he just sat staring at the wall…
In the end, I carried Max to the bedroom, where he recharged his bruised ego on my bed until dawn. This morning he hung out in my office, apparently plotting a new couch takeover at lunchtime, which I’m happy to report went off without a hitch…
Speaking of my office, this morning I left the door open on the closet where I keep all my writer stuff. Roc took the opportunity to scale heights no kitty has ever seen before. He started out innocently enough by leaping onto the two-drawer file cabinet…
From there, it was a short hop to the top of the four-drawer cabinet…
Noticing a bit of space on the shelf above him, he went for it (apologies for the blurriness)…
But he couldn’t be satisfied until he went as high as it’s possible for anyone to go in this house. I’m glad he didn’t realize that trap door above him goes to the attic because he could have easily pushed it up and disappeared God-knows-where. I’VE never even been up there…
But even THAT wasn’t enough. From there he saw vacant inches on the opposite shelf, and I caught how he got up there…
His reward for all this exploration was a faceful of dust and cobwebs. And he reminded me there’s a lot of stuff in that closet I really need to toss. Anyone care for a case of workbooks called Mastering English Skills for Word Processing by Karen Wormald, yellowing but in mint condition?