George

I was asked recently if George is okay--since I regularly post photos of Bear but rarely of George. (During the warm summer months, George's black fur heats up so quickly in sunlight that he hides away most of the time.) As luck would have it, both cats have been especially eager to go for walks these last few days...

George is quite fine. All spring and early summer I was a little worried about him. He didn't seem his usual self. He seemed to have totally conceded alpha-cat status to Bear and was letting Bear push him around. I wondered if he was feeling old and tired; he turned 13 in August. These last several weeks, though, he's been acting like his old self...

including not putting up with any of Bear's schenanigans.

This weekend, George must have been channeling Bear. He snoozed wherever he could bake in the sun...

...and he made a pest of himself--getting in the way as I was working on cutting small roof rafters.