The cats aren't the only ones who love the warmth from the fireplace. Two dozen stinkbugs emerged from their hiding place the first time I used the fireplace this season. I guess the stinkbugs have learned to hide out of the cats' reach.
An online journal with photos and quotations (Emerson, Thoreau and others); blogging about cats, dogs, assorted wildlife, flowers, plants, food, etc. Although inspired by Thoreau's "Walden," this blog focuses primarily on the feral/domesticated cats and other creatures, visitors and inhabitants, found within Godot's Little Green Acre present-day mountain home, surrounded by trees--but, alas, there is no pond.