I am sure you are all wondering

if Oribel is still around here at all. I promise she is, still causing trouble at times; not so much "kitten trouble" now, but more on the lines of "adult, but still young at heart" trouble. (Translate that to "bigger in size, so able to get more places" kind of trouble.) Yesterday morning I woke up to her messing around on top of our dresser. Translate that to, "playing with necklaces, trying to pull earrings off the rack and throw them onto the floor for later, digging bracelets out of the basket to chew on, etc." Last night Hubband discovered that she had knocked a pressed flower/glass hanging off the mantel and onto the floor. Now, we didn't see her do this, but since it has been up there for several years since Hubband brought it home from Cambridge to me without ever having any problems, and she has been seen up there more than once, she is the likely suspect. Last week I heard a funny noise over there and looked to see her dropping a little plastic holder off the mantel onto the hearth, just to watch it fall I am sure. One of her favorite places to take a nap is on the top shelf in my closet. To get there she climbs up the back of shirts on the hanger-rod, onto one shelf, and then over and up to the top shelf. So now I have to check my shirts for blobs of cat fur when I get ready to wear them.
She spends a lot of time hanging out by the door to the deck watching small birds on the deck and in the trees, as well as the turkeys and deer in the yard. Well, she also spends some time in the kitchen window over the sink watching everything as well. Sometimes she runs back and forth from the kitchen window, to the door, to the window in the family room to see if she can figure out where the squirrel has gone to.

Don't forget to check out Whiskers on Wednesday.