Holding her Ground….

It has been cloudy and grey and cold here all day. Son Duncan set and lit the fire in the wood burner early this morning. Maisie almost immediately staked a claim on the fireside mat. One of the cats usually gets to settle on the mat first. Mid-morning Duncan departed for Dunedin. His holiday was far too short. He’ll stay tonight in Christchurch at my brother’s home. I walked Maisie upstream of the Burleigh Bridge late morning. We hadn’t walked there for quite a while so she had lots of interesting scents to check out.