after like 3 weeks of being tetchy, Badger’s calming down into his regular patterns again

when he finally flopped down on his side to get skritched it was striking how tight his muscles were, not hard or stiff by-the-day but just realizing how much a regular kneading counts for

the one thing he seems to have picked up on his sabbatical is tree-climbing, I just went to the bathroom and saw him outside and drummed my fingers on the window like always but instead of acknowledging me or roundabouting through the bedroom window he tried to climb a tree towards me

and before out putting down mulch I saw him climbing a tree three branchings further than I expected and was like “dude could drop to the roof”

and then 6 minutes later looked and dude was on the roof, and I hoped he could get down but 15 minutes later out of sight apparently