It’s the summer solstice, and today is Cat Daddy’s favourite day of the year because of the almost-everlasting light. This year it’s mid-week, which isn’t ideal for me, but the fact that Cat Daddy is retired means he can enjoy it to the maximum without having to worry about going to work the next day.

Sa Maj also loves this time, because he is usually in peak health and there is always plenty of Important Cat Business for him to do.

Important Cat Business (a.m.).

After the squirrels chewed through our last set of solar outdoor lights, Cat Daddy bought not one but THREE new sets: a string of lights that glimmer softly across the green roof of our shed, half a dozen individual bulbs attached to the wire fence separating the Zone Occupée from the Zone Libre, and a quintet (?) of what look like fireflies in jam jars. When dusk falls, the garden comes alive.

Louis Catorze loves nothing more than to sit outside and take in the light show which, I’m sure, he thinks has been prepared in his honour. He settles in the garden long before sunset, after going about his Important Cat Business in the Zone Libre and his Rodent Duty, and he remains there long after dark, for much of the night. Sometimes he is even out all night.

Cat Daddy didn’t create the light show for Catorze. But it’s funnier for people to think that he did, so that’s what I tell everyone. And it’s certainly what Catorze believes, irrespective of the truth.

Here he is, enjoying his spectacle de lumière and wanting to be part of it. Happy Solstice to you, and I hope you enjoy your day as much as the little sod is enjoying his life.

Important Cat Business (p.m.).
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26 responses to “Long et chaud été”

  1. cat9984 avatar

    Happy Solstice! Glad Louis enjoys his lights; they’re very nice.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! 🌞

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  2. Mary McNeil avatar
    Mary McNeil

    Thise are soectacukar lights ! Ubr=teresting that Catirze is also appreciative of long daylights !

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh yes. He is hardly ever home these days!

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      1. Mary McNeil avatar
        Mary McNeil

        Ye Gods ! I must have been dozing off when I typed that. Apologies for not proof-reading. But apparently you understood it…maybe I was tyranslated to Catorzean.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          If you can speak Catorzian, you’re doing better than most of us!

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  3. Lou Carreras avatar

    We have the same lights, but Xenia is strictly denied access to the outside at night, the dog, Max, seems to love them.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Is Madame able to see them from indoors?

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  4. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    Happy Summer Solstice to you all xxx

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! ☀️

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  5. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Happy Solstice to you too and congratulations for Cat Daddy’s light show.
    Even if our garden doesn’t look as gorgeous as yours, for the time being, our cat Timon also likes spending much time outside.
    😺

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! I hope Timon is having a good time outside.

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  6. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Don’t worry, Timon seems to have only good times 😀
    [ by the way, his ginger friend we used to call Rourou is named Pieter. ]

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Pieter is a great name but I like Rourou better!

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  7. Sally Goodman avatar
    Sally Goodman

    Happy Solstice! The lights are gorgeous. xxxx

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! 🌞 👑

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  8. Herman avatar
    Herman

    Happy Solstice, my friends in the UK. Jimi sends his regards to Louis. Jimi also loves to stay outside late in the evening. Normally he returns around 19-20h back inside but nowadays I have to go catch him after 22h. I always enjoy being in a garden with garden lightning, just like Louis.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! You have to go and catch him! 🤣🤣🤣 That’s so funny! Clearly his Important Cat Business is very Important.

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      1. Herman avatar
        Herman

        Well, I tried to entrap him with the Ratatouille Pixar Blu-ray but he wasn’t interested and stayed outside… 😉

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Well, of course he did. He had Important Cat Business to attend to!

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  9. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Great lights 🙂 Happy Solstice to you and Louis Catorze, the most beautiful black cat in the UK!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Merci, et Joyeux Solstice! You can’t have seen many U.K. black cats if you think he’s the most beautiful! 🤣🤣🤣

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  10. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Oh what a lovely light display, befitting sa Maj! Important Cat business does seem to be going much later into the evening.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Sometimes it goes all night! I rarely get my morning wake-up call from our mutual friend these days!

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  11. Belle avatar
    Belle

    Happy Solstice to the Famille Royale Catorze. A well tended garden at twilight is magical…perhaps that’s where his portal is 😸

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Joyeux Solstice! Yes, it’s quite likely that his portal is somewhere there!

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