13/10/23

We explored more around this place in darkness last night. Taking notice of this cat is quite interesting, and observing how he ticks. He likes to sleep on his family's bed. Noticing the twitching while sleeping is very odd. On looking at my books it appears he may be dreaming. What is dreaming? I have never heard of this. Trixie is trying to get me to understand, but we are gnomes and don't dream. Standing near Zeus, he stretches out all over the bed, and off into a deep sleep. He didn't hear us make a small noise thank goodness. We climbed up on the bedside cabinet and I missed my footing. Trixie was a great help thank goodness. She reckons we are getting older these days, and everything is getting harder to do.

This must be what the Mistress talks about sometimes. Come to think of it, His Lordship does too. After observing Zeus, we wandered down to the Mistress's room at the other end of this house and it is a very long way for my tired legs. Oh, heck she was still awake as her light was on at 1 a.m. She didn't see us, but we saw her reading. Crickey, did she get hold of my books? We waited around the corner for her light to go out. It must have been a good magazine because she took ages flicking those pages.

We got up on the other side when she finally settled to sleep. We watched and listened to her breathing. Quite different from that Zeus character. She was fairly quiet until the early hours when she let out a scream. We nearly fell off our perch with fright. Trixie reckons she was having a nightmare. What is a nightmare? Trixie showed me where to look this up in my book. My goodness gracious me the Mistress must be troubled. What has she got to worry about? She is madly in love with His Lordship and no worries that I am aware of. But then we are dealing with humans, and they are very complicated. It's a tough life being a Gnome.

Today the Mistress had a big sleep in and rested her foot. I thought she must have died because we didn't hear her until after 11 a.m. Zeus went to make sure she was alive and meowed to her all the way to her room. We even heard him purring when he realized she was awake and very much alive.

Zeus on the Mistress's bed

She really likes this cat. He is so friendly, and he talks to her. They seem to have their own language these two. As long as they are both happy, I guess this is all we could wish for. 

The Mistress went out this afternoon. She wanted to clear the mail at her house and say gid-day to our buddies at home. They appeared to behave this time, and no high jinks from what she could see. Phew!!