cat habits

Escape from sleep, and it is dark. Get up by hooking the heels under the bed and lever the torso into a vertical position. It is dark because summer time started last weekend and now an hour has gone. Get up and start to look for the cat in the dark, She had been missing last night, and there was no knowing whether she had turned up or not. Go into the sitting room, there on the couch is  a cat shape, a lighter spot or maybe just some kind of cotrast. Reach down and her head is there, feel the skull bone through the fur. Scratch her head twice, glad that she is there. Turn on the coffee machine on the way back to the bedroom,

Go to the shower and wash, wash away the stickiness of sleep. And then dress for the day. Black jeans, black and white striped linen shirt socks and black shoes. Not forgetting those underpants, of course.

Return to the bedroom after making a cup of coffee and cutting a slice of bread and then buttering it.

Sit at the desk, look at the computer for news.

The cat jumps onto the knees, she wants her morning fondling. She lets her front paws hang over the edge, her chin resting on her humans thigh. Later, she rolls over, then curls up and purrs.