The week started slow, and I had to press on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning in order to end up with a good collection of photos for today’s Feline Friday.

Lots of good shots, but this is my favorite.

It was not long after 9 a.m. and I was cleaning up breakfast dishes. When I turned away from the sink, I saw Kiko splayed out on the kitchen counter and her perfect reflection in the shiny glass top of our relatively new induction range. I was lucky. The stovetop was clean, and Kiko stayed put as I walked over to grab a camera and then got the shot! Usually picking up a camera is enough to break up a scene like this, but this time my luck held.

The rest of the Feline Friday photos are down below.

But first, let’s see. The Scratch Lounge that you see in several photos this week is very popular. All the cats stop to do some scratching, but Kiko has a particularly strong attachment to it. She is the only one of the cats that transitions from scratching to lounging several times a day. She has a couple of favorite spots. One is on a rattan chair across the room from the television, where she sleeps almost every afternoon. The other is the Scratch Lounge, where she often takes up her position after dinner and plays until she falls asleep. I’ve been taking iPhone pictures of her antics, and one of these days I’ll have to post a set of those!

I recently had to order a set of corrugated cardboard replacement inserts as the cats quickly and enthusiastically ripped up the old ones. Yesterday I checked the price online, and discovered to my surprise that a new Scratch Lounge costs considerably less than a set of cardboard refills. One of those economic oddities that come along now and then.

In any case, just click below to browse through the week’s cats!