So close, yet so far ...

Chipmunks have made their home in the planter beside the front stoop of our house from the first summer we lived in Our Humble O'Bode, and very probably long before that.

And they learned almost immediately that the two house cats poised to pounce were being frustrated by the screen door.

Frustrated or not, Boo and Bonkers can't help but glare at the little showoff sitting so tantalizingly close.