"Stop reading", said Rascal

Today Rascal sat on the couch and talked to the birds as I ate my lunch.

Then after eating lunch - yes, the clock is correct.  My schedule is late and my lunch is around 5 pm.  Anyway, after eating lunch today I didn't go sit on the couch to finish reading.  When I did that after breakfast today Rascal then laid on my lap and got lots of petting and brushing and before I could finish reading I fell asleep for 45 minutes.  So this time I planned to finish reading my article at the table.  Well, you can see what happened.  I never got to finish reading the article.  So I had to get up and go outside to do more work.  Later Rascal joined me outside as I removed grass and weeds from around a fruit tree.