Cookpot or Cat Bed?

   I have been working at a fast pace to get the winter garden in the ground and redo most of the Little Bayou House.  It makes me feel good that the garden is at that point where it needs to just do its garden thing and the house is almost ready for holiday company then decorating for Christmas.  Whew!  Doing all of that left me weary, to say the least.  So, a new chore came to mind. 

  Hurricane Katrina (years ago) left me with all sorts of stuff.  Being one who hates to waste anything, I tried to repurpose or reuse my "finds".  There were treasures to be found in all that destruction!  The mountains of debris held so many things that just needed to be reworked to be perfectly good again.  It did surprise me to find so many cast iron pots among the debris.  How in the world did they float across that Bay (which is the only place they could have come from).  Cast iron is heavy!  It does not float!  Still, I dug out several nice pots and matching lids.  Some were cleaned and refurbished and given to those in need. Some I kept.  One nice sized dutch oven with lid was plopped in the back of the greenhouse and forgotten.  It was waiting for an opportune moment to be refurbished. Well, that was to be today!...at least, I thought.

  Since bringing the heavy pot up to the front steps, the thing has been claimed!  No, the original owners did not stop by and say "Hey, that is my pot that I lost during the hurricane!" (If that had been the case, I would have gladly returned the fine cookpot!)  No, Bat, the Bayou Prince Cat, claimed the dutch oven.  

  I guess placing the pot in the bright sunshine warmed it enough to be the perfect (purrfect) napping place for a chilly cat.  Bat climbed in and promptly took a snooze. Well, you know how that goes.  You cannot move a napping cat for any reason so the pot sat for another day.  Hopefully, tomorrow will be the day that I buff the rust off and then oil and bake the pot and lid.  Since we are having a bit of a cool spell, it is the exact time to do that as the heating can be done on the old woodburning stove.  Soon, another fine cooking vessel shall be put to use.  That is the wondrous thing about cast iron...it lasts forever with the proper care!  Now to find that cat another bed.  I have to admit that he did look mighty comfy in the pot!