Before he climbed THAT tree, Loiosh climbed another tree.
It wasn’t near so exciting, though. There are two ways Loiosh gets pretty high in a tree: the first is when he gets a REALLY good head of steam going, which is what happened last week. The other way is by going up a tree that’s on a slant. Those? He can just walk back down.
![He's standing on an almost-horizontal branch, looking down.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_133519.jpg)
Which he did, eventually. Took his sweet time, though.
![He's perched up pretty high, looking off into the distance.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_133615.jpg)
Tom, apparently, does not climb trees. Which is weird, he loves climbing the cat tree at home, but whatevs.
![Major Tom is flopped on his side, in the shade, in a depression in the ground. He looks pretty pleased with this.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_145518.jpg)
They do love just poking around & sniffing things. I’m glad I can leave them both unhitched, at least when we’re out in the sticks; they get to do a lot more wandering around.
![Tom's wandering through an open meadow, towards me. He's also slightly blurry, because cats.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_133449.jpg)
I don’t know what got Loiosh’s attention here, but it musta been cool.
![He's standing, body pointed towards the camera but looking off to the left, on ground covered in pine needles.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_132440.2.jpg)
![He's taken a couple steps towards whatever he was looking at, lowering his head to sniff at it.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_132443.jpg)
Eventually snacktime rolled around, with predictable results.
![Loiosh is sitting on the wood shelf next to my chair. In front of him is a container of treats, which he's pointedly pawing at.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_150724.jpg)
But wait, what’s this?
![He's in the same spot, but he's picked up his other front paw & is giving it a funny look.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_150728.jpg)
A souvenir from his tree adventures!
![I'm holding Loiosh's forepaw in my hand, turning it so I could get a picture of the bottom -- he's got a BUNCH of pine resin stuck between his toes, along with several pine needles.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_150752.jpg)
It’s been like, two weeks, & he’s still chewing pine resin from his toes.
Anyway I gave them both a bunch of treats & then it was naptime.
![Loiosh is laying on the wood shelf, draped over my sewing project & the box with my sewing stuff, entirely asleep.](https://www.thevagabondtabby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200728_170948.jpg)
Good thing I was done sewing!
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