What is the proper etiquette when your cat has made itself comfortable on your chest and you would like to get up and do something? Are you supposed to wait five minutes before moving? Pick it up and find an equally comfortable place for it? After living so many decades, why don’t I know all these rules?

Fortunately the cat moved while I was still deciding what the polite thing to do was. I had branches to chip. Lots of branches. Freshly chipped branches make soft, beautiful forest paths. Even dogs like walking on them.