What a great story! Loved your set-up. The setting sounds so lovely and peaceful. You really lured me in. What a shock it must have been to see "Goldilocks" napping on your bed!!

Once, arriving at our summer cottage on Cape Cod, I entered the house with a sense of unease. Something or someone had been here! I looked around. I started in the bathroom. The bathtub was covered with little black pawprints! My intruder was I.D'd!! Then again, on the bed, more pawprints. My eyes were drawn to the closed and LOCKED window and Ah hah!! Little claw marks all around the sill! Well, this was a very small house! I searched hi and lo; in every drawer, closet, cupboard, corner, ...NOTHING! For months I wondered how my little furry friend had entered, who he was, and most of all how did he, and HAD he, gotten out!! Well, we finally settled on....down and up the chimmney!

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