This morning I finally let the braying cats back out on the balcony, mostly just to see if Fil would make the leap to the tree or navigate her way somehow down the facade to the ground. She did neither. Instead, she casually walked down to the east end of the balcony and lept onto the roof. She looked down at me briefly as if to say, who's in charge now, ass hole, and then disappeared.

I was calm and rational about it. There's no way for me to get on the roof, so I just had to wait her out. I figured in about a half an hour, she'd find her way down to the ground and I could head out and call her. Thankfully, I didn't need to find her. She just reappeared on the balcony in about ten minutes.

I need to find some chicken wire or something and block off her acccess to the roof. I really want to be able to let the cats out there unsupervised, but I can't do it if Fil is going to run all over the show.