Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
Too Many Cats – Part 2
by admin - 23:22 on 20 June 2011
It's been a long, long day which began when the The Rural Retreat's rampaging rodents decided that 2am was a good time to perform a clog dance in the cavity walls.
Two hours later, Bess was keen to leave the cottage – but not so desperate that she'd use her cat-flap, so bleary-eyed muggins opened the door for her and caught a glimpse of a pine marten who disappeared into the wilderness at the bottom of the garden.
I stayed up a while in the hope of a second glimpse but all I saw was a mystery moggy, chased away by Romeo. Bess returned shortly afterwards and I returned to bed, where I stayed until 7am when she insisted on being let out again. Matchgirl has chosen a good time for business in Shetland.
My good gardening intentions shattered, I spent a quiet day with a book and ignored the Pentax until 9.45pm when Master Marten appeared on the gate. Briefly. Bess was on patrol again and he didn't like the look of her.
He must be a champion lurker, though. Minutes after the fearless feline came indoors a finely-featured small brown face peered through the undergrowth, disappeared, reappeared in a different place and disappeared again before making a dash for The Nutella Tree.
As always seems to be the way this year, the snaps have a desperately slow shutter speed and high ISO but as they're the only halfway decent tree shots I've managed in 2011 they survived quality control. I'd hope that better is to come, but as Midsummer Day is tomorrow the prospects aren't promising.
He was too quick for me to snap his meerkat poses. Maybe I'll be lucky tomorrow, when he comes to dine at 8am or 8pm in gorgeous soft sunlight. If only.
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