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As spring pushes into summer, we are all restless. Gracie has spent much of her time in our backyard. We have cat-proofing on the fences designed to keep her in the yard. Threats roam the neighborhood, both four-footed and four-wheeled, but the back yard is safe. We’ve redesigned the grape arbor this year to give the grapes more room to run above and to provide shade to the cats and dogs below. Gracie approves.
The crickets are droning, the sun is setting, and there is peace here in the garden. For me, anyway. I’m not sure that Gracie has peace on her mind.
Peace With My Life 
Charlee: “Hmm, a cat-proof fence with a net on top? Chaplin, do you think we could use that to catch butterflies?”
Charlee: “I’m willing to give it a try!”
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Something down below might have been in big trouble! 🙂
I love that you have an outside area for Gracie to safely hang out in!
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Probably so. We can confirm her abilities as moth-slayer, but I suspect she disposes of the evidence for her other conquests.
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Gracie is beautiful! It’s so nice you can allow her to go outside while keeping her safe in your fenced-in yard.
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Yes, it has a special net that keeps her from going over the fence. She enjoyed being outside, as does Nami. We have tried so many solutions to allow the dogs to go out but not the cats. This is the only thing that works. The cats use the dog door and stay in the yard like the dogs. Unlike the dogs they can elevate themselves, so Gracie goes up above the dogs into her own leafy kingdom.
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Gracie is beautiful, but I agree that she doesn’t look like *peace* is her primary thought.
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Glad you found a way to keep Gracie safe. XO
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Meee-yow wow those are sum lovelee grapeviness Gracie! An Miss Karel it sounds like you have made a Purraside fore Gracie an THE otherss! Yore wunderfull 🙂
**purrss** BellaDharma
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Great that you can make a safe space for them. Gracie is a wise pussy cat.
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It’s too dangerous outside the yard: foxes, coyotes, and cars await. As for Gracie, she has gotten big enough that our elder cat doesn’t smack her any more. Gracie is wise enough not to challenge her for much more than the right to my lap and the food bowl.
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Gracie is waiting for the grapes which is just future wine.
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Yeah. She’s turning into a good garden cat.
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Why didn’t you let us see the whole arbor? I would love to see it. I think Gracie was about to stalk a bird! Favorite desert!
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How nice for your kitties that they get to enjoy being outside safely just like the dogs.
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They demand nothing less!
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Me thinks she sees something interesting!
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Right? A mouse? Cricket? God only knows what’s lurking in the back yard. Hopefully not a snake…
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Imaginary bugs!
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LOL probably real ones!
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Mine chase imaginary ones all the time.
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That is great that you have a cat proof fence. I wish I could do that.
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The cats would always try to outsmart and out-run us to get outside. This was our compromise.
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I know the feeling. We built a screened room at our last house which helped. This house is more difficult to do something like that.
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I’m sorry. Our cats have always been quite demanding about outside time.
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Looks like what many cats and schnauzers have on their mind – their prey drive. Wondering if she caught anything.
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She didn’t bring anything home if she did. We often find large moths in her food dish (dead), which cracks me up. Like she’s saving it for later in the approved place to leave food.
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Yes, that is pretty funny.
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