It's raining pretty good this morning and the temperatures started in the high 30s/low 40s at 8:30 AM.
Why 8:30 AM? That's when I finally got out of bed. There was no 3 AM critter working int he wall/floor but there was a crash of material from a stack beneath the normal mouse corridor. Perhaps my 3 AM critter opted for a new commuting route to its workplace and got spied by one or more of the watch kitties. Perhaps they put the fear of Ceiling Cat in him and he decided to go elsewhere. (There was no sign that the cats actually caught the little bugger, however. Even if they had, they would have played with it til death overcame it. The last one they did catch, in the fall of 2006 I believe, was left at the bottom of the stairs as a gift and didn't have a mark on the body.)
When the alarm went off at 5:45 AM it was raining so I shut it off and rolled over. Chester protested feebly and then shut up and allowed me to sleep until 8:30. He's a good boy...most of the time.
I do believe that today will be another day to do some cleaning up of burnable trash (papers, cardboard, etc.) that will also help to keep the cabin warm and dry. Unless something drastic happens and the spigot of Mother Nature is shut off soon, it's far too wet to be traipsing about in the woods.
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