Amber has moved in

Lets see now, Amber must be up to about Cat Life No.5. In the time since the last post, she has been acculturated to the inside of the house---that took all of an hour before she took over----and has made it clear when she is hungry and sleeps in the library closet room.
More recently we let her outdoors for a romp and that's what gets interesting. When first let out onto the concrete of the breezeway, she squirrels around on the concrete making sure that she has marked the area good, letting any nighttime visitors know that she is home. After a few rolls on the concrete, she heads for the wooded area to the front of the house. Its pretty dense there and she creeps along stealth fashion, looking for whatever.
Then, she disappears from sight and sound. After about an hour, she can be spotted up in the top of a large live oak tree, perhaps 20 feet above the ground. Sometimes she mews when up that high, but we yell at her that we are not about to call the fire department to get her down. We tell her that she was bold enough to get up there, now be bold enough to get down. We walk away and somehow she manages to get down.
After about two hours of these shenanigans, she is ready to come back in the house, another day well spent.

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