Sinus Infection One

Human Zero... No, it's not quite that bad. And this is only day 3 of 21 days of antibiotics, so things are bound to get better. And a 4 day holiday won't hurt. The pictures just posted have been stacking up in the camera for weeks, with the batteries dying every time I wanted to post, so it was nice just now to put up a few... As I type almost everyone's asleep - 4 in the bedroom, Nubia in the computer room, Cloud in the living room and Lucy on the dining room table - AreToo's nowhere to be found, but since he was fine a while ago I won't panic. Much. Yet...

Punkin!

Lucy wants a FancyFeast pie for T-Day...

Fireworks!

Plus Angel...

Caption This?

Water Baby

Aka, nuisance...

A Plumpie

Oh, Noes! Sez Lucy

It's... green!

Still Life

Dampish "Kitten"

Snorgles, Anyone?

Blurry?

Or art pic...?

Fleecies

Dey luvz 'em...

Watchee

Watcher

Maintenance

Pinkies

He haz 'em...

What Human Needs (Sniff)

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An Almost Happy Ending

The human was unable to sleep, and so sat in bed reading in the company of her two most senior cats - Petunnia - most senior - on a fleecie beside me - with La Luz - numero dos - a little farther down... In comes Cyrrie! Totally oblivious of rank - or even first come first served - he plops himself in between the girls and starts to knead the fleecie. 'Toonya - not havin' it for a minute - goes for the smack but her claw is stuck in the fleecie and nothing happens. Mama is like... Ooo! Saved by the snag!! Unfortunately Petunnia managed to free herself, and Lucy joined in the smacking - none of which actually connected, but Cyrrie had to disappear from the bedroom for at least several minutes.

We're Back (Really)

So, all this week I've been sick and unable to sleep due to sore throat, coughing, body aches, etc. A couple of nights ago I almost drifted off, when the Angel decided he was bored. He got down off the bed and dug through the waste paper basket for a bit of crunchy, crackly celophane that had previously wrapped a throat lozenge. Crunch, as he playfully squashes his new toy. Crackle, as he carries it around in his sweet little mouf. Not! But the poor human was too sick to get up and fight with him, and besides, there were lots more where that came from, and we both knew it...

Full Moon

Amazingly large, amazingly brilliantly silver, amazingly beautiful, amazing...

It Might Snow Tonight!

(Scream...!) But I did get the porch plants in. And there was a catnip orgy... In order to get the cnip out of the plant hanger I had to cut it way back. Of course I brought the branches in for the guys to play with. (You should have seen the Angel, ecstatically hugging 3 or 4 branches - all longer than he is...)

Flirty Angel

Angel does this thing, catching my eye or sometimes sinking a claw into my leg to get my attention, then pivoting off and heading to the bedroom. There he sprawls out on the bed, the better to be petted and kissed and so forth. We can do this many times in a single morning. This morning Buddy was already on the bed when Angel got there, so while Angel arranged himself in the farthest corner (he always does that) I stopped to give Buddy a kiss first. Oh, noes! Buddy got Angel's kiss! So Angel demanded - and got - extra kisses. Many of them. Many, many...

A Sense Of The Season, They Haz It

To say that we have many cat toys is to laugh. They are stored in big baskets, and there's a pile on the dining room table and another on the bed. In every room there's at least one visible toy on the floor, and many others under chairs and dressers, etc. It is not unusual for the human to get up in the morning and find a toy in the middle of the hallway. This morning it was a black felt bat with red eyes - which the human has not seen in ages...

Sunday Night Window Blogging

It's lovely tonight, so the regular bedroom window is open, and amazingly Nubia and Angel are sharing the window well, nose to nose... Kindred spirits! sez the human. Oh, no, Mom, sez Angel: She's a sociopath, and I'm only a psychopath! (Or is it the other way 'round...?)

Lucy Sez

Fix dis couch, pls, is mussy...

Impressionist Lucy

'Toonya Sez

This blanky matches my beautiful fur...

AreToo Admires Angel's Handiwork

Looking out the other window...

Nubia Sez

Still looks like Summer...

Droid Sez

Is the furnace on yet?

Winter Is Coming

Windows Blogging (Not The Microsoft Kind)

There are 2 windows in the bedroom - the one we photograph, where cats and "kittens" cluster to bird watch - and one right against the bed. I keep the blind down on that one and the curtains pulled, on account of my neighbor's house being like 6 feet away... Angel, however, likes that window: he especially likes it in the middle of the night - when he makes all sorts of noise as he squeezes himself behind the mini-blind, and his sleep-deprived human curses and tries to cover them up with pillows. Recently I noticed that the blind there was up about 2 inches, with Angel lying placidly on the bed looking out. My theory is that in playing with the cord (another ongoing dispute between us) he'd managed to adjust the length of the blind, which suited him perfectly....

Nubia Helps Mama

It was way early this morning, still mostly dark and I still didn't have my contactz in. I was taking vitamins and dropped the jar of e's. The flip top popped open and I could hear the vitamins falling on the floor. For reasons I won't go into here, at the moment I have almost no artificial light in my kitchen. I didn't know if a cat or "kitten" would chomp on a gelcap or not; I didn't know what vitamin e would do to them if they did, but I certainly didn't want to take any chances. Before I could get the flashlight, though, I realized I had an alternative technique available to me: Nubia! I just followed her nosey little nose and together we gathered up a dozen or so e's.

Nubia Learning Not To Bite Update

She had that look - that eyes big and very dark, lower jaw hanging down like a snake about to swallow something large - that I'm going to bite you look. Taking my life in my hands - or something - I bumped noses with her. She looked so surprised...

Human Blogging

These last few weeks I've been like riding a pendulum between utter exhaustion and intense stress - at the far exhaustion end, there's a state a little like rest, but not really; in the opposite direction, at the peak, there's something that suggests energy but really isn't. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend Michael Moore's piece, "15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now" - especially part 3...

Electrical Blogging

Where does one buy rechargeable batteries, anyway? At the dollar store? Probably not. And what is the technical term for those boxy power plugs that you need for computery things like speakers? About 2 weeks ago the speakers in the computer room quit working. I was guessing (hoping) that a plug was knocked loose, probably by a certain "kitten" who shall remain nameless but whose name is Nubia! (I think it should be spelled just like that, in italics and with an exclamation mark!) Yesterday I finally crawled under the desk to sort through all the wires and cables and outlet boards (and dust), and I was right about the perp if not the actual crime committed: there was the power unit, with it's 2 twisted wires - one of which was bitten right through...

Sunday Morning Word Blogging

On account of a) I just took a lot of bad pictures and b) the batteries just died again. (Life span is down to about 12 hours these days...)