Cozy

Nothing like having a cat on the hearth to make a room feel cozy.
Since it isn't quite cool enough to justify a full fledged fire in the fireplace as of yet, I instead broke out some autumnal scented candles and placed them inside the fire box to give the room a cozy fall feeling.

Tate placed himself where he could both enjoy the candle fragrance and add to the visual warm of the scene.
He is so helpful...

Such a relaxing sight....the candle light shed an especially nice glow to his orange fur.

Umm...not so sure about this particular fireplace staging. 
Well, let me view it as Tate substituting for flames inside the fireplace.
Yeah, that's it.
Nice touch.

 

 

We did get a bid on having a gas line installed into this fireplace.
With the added cost of additional necessary elements and having a few upcoming expenditures we realized we most likely won't be having the fireplace converted in time for this winter.

We hadn't considered an alternative:
Instead of installing a "gasline" we could install a "feline" instead.

Cat are warm, and instead of a crackling log, we could just look at our purring cat.

If I squinted I could almost pretend that Tate was fire moving over our logs...

I think Tate was quite clever to suggest himself in the role of fire to warm our hearth.

Apparently the scented candles eventually got to be too much for the poor guy.
His glowing eyes got a tad strange...

He was on his back staring at the ceiling for quite awhile.
I know candles often makes one feel mellow, but maybe this candle scent went past mellow and on to totally spaced out.