Cats of Tuscany - (Hidden) Beauty of Europe
Funny, I noticed I have a series of photos of cats from my travels at Tuscany, Italy.
That one-legged flying not-cat, hopefully not caused by a feline creature...
Surprise, surprise, one in color, but those eyes... Right ;)
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Cats! Always good. You said and shared the magical word.
A great, creative Sunday/week.
Did you finish the roof?
Yes :) Cat is a magical word, almost divine, right ;)
I still have work to do but lately the weather isn't very friendly, too hot for any work outside after 9:00 AM. It was 40 C today. Can't be productive enough, I start preparing and then I have to stop as I start to swim in my own liquids, phew... Then a bath, another cup of coffee and the day is half-gone...
Thank you, @wakeupkitty! :) Have a wonderful week!
We seem to share the same day... passed by soon but I compensate by staying awake through the night (and waking up late LOL).
Thanks for the update and enjoy the sun, I am sure the roof will be ready in time.
:)
Some of the summer nights here are quite hard, and that isn't related to the temperatures, at least directly.
At least one night for each week, one or two martens go on the roof and unless I take my strongest torch-light and scare them away, they run for tens of minutes. Quite loud bangs, seems they jump and sprint. I have no idea what they do up there, nothing to eat really. Just having fun I suppose, they are highly intelligent animals. This "ritual" usually happens around 4:00 AM and sometimes I can't get back to sleep no more.
By the way, I had to buy an ultrasound electronic device that keeps them away from my car as they managed to find a way in the engine compartment and started to rip some thermal insulation.
The second big factor is almost every night someone parties outside in their gardens. Usually the loud music stops around midnight but sometimes it does not. :)
Have a great week!
Martens are great animals and you can easily tame them. For sure they like it under your roof.
Who knows they can scare the neighbours away.
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Right :)
They are very playful for sure, it's just two-three activities that come too much for me, like the roof dancing, stealing the engine insulation of my car and crapping everywhere on the patio. Everything else is ok, LOL
Today I chatted with the neighbors, the martens check regularly their roofs as well :)
Seeing peaceful, leisurely basking in the sun, or just lying on the street, alley cats says a lot about a country. The last time I set foot in Greece, for example, the state of the street cats added another "no" to the list of questions about whether I like this country. Yes, it has beautiful seas, incredible beaches (I'm not sure I've ever entered their water, but I would definitely enter such water more than in Bulgarian ones), their food is delicious, the service is top-notch, but the cats around can refuse you from wanting to sit in a restaurant, walk the streets, etc. It's just obvious that the locals don't respect these alien royals, and it leaves a rather strange feeling to outsiders. I've heard that it's not like that in Turkey. It's not like that in Spain. It's not like that also in Italy, particularly Tuscany, as your wonderful photos of these royal street figures clearly attest.😺👑📸
Thank you for the nice words about the photos.
Your observation is correct, last time I was in Greece, there were too many stray cats. To the extent I wonder how they don't fight at all times. Too many, too many...