catification of Beechwood continues

The main ingredient has arrived - a cat!

We collected Mallory, a brown Burmese kitten, from Adelaide last week and she is proving to be an immaculately-mannered little darling. She's a stomach-on-legs at this tender age of 11 weeks, eating prodigiously without the competition of 4 brothers, using the litter tray, playing fiercely and sleeping just as intensely.

The cat gym was a doddle - ignoring the dinky ladder and straight to the top by the end of day 3:

 

tentative day 2

top of the tower day 3

 

triumphant day 8

 

 

Meanwhile, builders Geoff and Nathan were hard at work creating the outdoor cat enclosure. Plans were fluid, plenty of room for their input, which we welcomed - it's now more of a cat Taj Mahal than we envisaged and it's great!

 

They hauled old planks encrusted with ants and huntsman spiders out of the timber shed and converted them into a stunningly funky mismatched wall of palings which Alison ensures me is "right on trend" , in our case a matter of using what is already on the property. There look to be enough cat walks around the top and steps up to them, makes you want to be a cat and try it out yourself.

 

 

funky wall with cat steps
there will a fernery here when we get some decent soil

 

cat cathedral?

ferns waiting for their new home