housekeeping

[cellio]

This is why we can't make the bed in our house:

He usually crawls under the covers at night and is often there in the morning. In the last few weeks he has started returning there immediately after his breakfast. (I don't understand how he breathes under there, but obviously he does.)

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[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

That's Erik, right?

[cellio]

Yup.

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, my best friend's mom had a rule that you had to make the bed unless there was a cat on it. Sometimes my friend would go *get* a cat just to avoid making her bed. Alas, my mother had no such rule. I envied my friend. :-)

[cellio]

That's what I would have done too. Were her parents soft-hearted or not very good at dealing with rules lawyers? :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Cats ruled in that house. Her mother was not soft-hearted about much, except the cats. Though she wasn't a crazy cat lady - I don't think they ever had more than four or five, at least of the *indoor* cats. This was out in the country, so who knows how many outdoor cats they had.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... warm and cozy....

[cellio]

Indeed. In the summer he won't even join me on top of the covers, but winter is a different story.

[amergina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jon loves being a lump, too.

[cellio]

Baldur and Embla are happy to be lumps on top of the covers, but Erik is the only one who tends to burrow. (Baldur did when he was younger; I don't know what changed.)

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

LOVE this! :-)

[cellio]

Usually he completely submerges, so when I saw the end of the tail sticking out I just had to capture it. :-)

[jillzz.livejournal.com]

Purl is the same way :)

[cellio]

You've settled on a canonical form of P.*rl? Or do you just rotate? :-)

[steven.livejournal.com]

Mine does the same thing. He's never too warm, it seems!

[cellio]

Given that they're heat-seeking and have a natural body temperature higher than ours, I'm always pleasantly surprised when one of them decided to curl up next to/on me. In winter, I mean -- I totally understand a desire for heat transfer in the summer. :-)

Awwwww

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Diana usually sits on top in our bed. But I like the tail shot.

Re: Awwwww

[cellio]

He usually burrows completely under. Yesterday he left a visible marker. :-)

Baldur parks on top of the covers at my feet, and Embla will sprawl in the middle of the bed if and only if there are no other occupants.

[alice-curiouser.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahahaha!! I frequently sit on a cat for just that reason.

[cellio]

Long ago I learned to test lumps before sitting. :-)

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

The only reason it doesn't happen in my house (says Ista) is that every night the Man evicts me from my nice warm spot at the foot of the bed, just past the Woman's feet and in front of the space heater. He makes me go out into the hall, and then he shuts the door and pulls it tight.

(Sniff.) So I have to sleep on the guest bed in the Girl's room, next to the radiator.

[cellio]

Erik to Ista: yes yes, that's very unfiar of the Man, but surely you can slip in there for the daytime portion of your sleep time? Not all 23 hours are at night when he doesn't want to share, after all.