Yawn!

And such a cute pink tongue...!

Relativity

According to the human, there is a difference between sitting on Lucy and almost sitting on Lucy, and it's a good thing. According to Lucy, the difference between almost sitting on Lucy and not sitting on Lucy is the more important concept. Lucy's revenge? Sitting on the human...

Good Morning, Gorgeous

When the human and Cloud passed in the hallway just now, the human of course paid her all the usual and appropriate compliments, while Cloud went into slow motion with an ear cocked back as she carefully considered and agreed with every word.

Even More Sunny

More Sunny

A Sunny Little Droid

Also Quite Talented

Professional Snoozer

Hope

The human would be happy to share breakfast with Cloud this morning, but Cloud is disappointed over and over again - couldn't just one strawberry or blueberry or piece of melon magically turn into something edible?

Pulled One Over

We had FancyFeast tonight, with all the usual chaos (human needs to have 922 hands, really), but this time, as I got the last 2 dishes ready to take to Buddy and Cloud in the living room, I saw Cyrrie abandon his dish and head for living room, where, as usual, he'd push poor Buddy off to the side. Instead I picked up Cyrrie's unfinished saucer, put that down, let Cyrrie muscle in, and gave Buddy his own fresh FF. Cyrrie happily cleaned his own plate, never guessing that he was, in fact, cleaning his own plate...!

Ammonite?

Mugged By "Kittens"

Another Nose!

Shopping

I.

Human is in a super-market, in the garden area - surrounded by beautiful geraniums, hybisci, marigolds, impatiens (bizzy-lizzies, right?), tomatoes, peppers, etc. And what does she come away with? A scraggly, unlabelled catnip! (She really didn't need the label.)

II.

Later, in the store proper, she ran into a coupon lady - with a cart full of crunchies, FancyFeast, treats and toys, this lady asks if she happens to have a dog or a cat... Right. When she says, Yes, "a cat", she gets a $5.00 coupon for a brand of crunchies that she has, in fact, already put in her cart! Now, really, how cool was that?

Feathered Serpent Chronicles

And the winner is...!

Serpent poacher!

Serpent escaping?

Angel in possession...

Bird Fans

Cats and "kittens" say, Hooray for Sparrows!

So Considerate

When Angel knows he's in trouble, he runs and flops - usually someplace like a dresser or the piano - convenient for his human to pet him, etc.

They Go Too Far

It's late. The human came home late, but now she has her contacts out and is barefooted, and going down the hall she steps on something soft and faux-furry - obviously a cat toy, yes? No. She picks it up, and it's a... puppet! An ancient hand puppet, a tiger puppet, with green glass eyes, half-torn-off ears and an unravelling orange yarn nose. Ancient, grubby and adorable, and, for many many years, perched on a dresser untouched by cats or "kittens". Until tonight!

Snoozy

Pretty Paw

IAGTHC

Early this morning, Buddy was being a serial-teaser of Petunnia, so, when he followed her into the bedroom, the human followed him to make sure he behaved. She sat on the bed, petting Petunnia on the bed and Buddy on the floor. Then Cyrrie came in and laid down on the bed beside Petunnia. All very sweet and good, so the human decided to stay a while and read a few more pages of her book. Then in comes Angel (incoming), who jumps over Buddy, lands on Cyrrie's head, and starts to wrestle. Everybody leaves in disgust except the human, who has nabbed Angel. Angel says, I have cute capital and I intend to spend it!

So Sweet

When you come home from work after a long day and go into your bedroom, and there on your pillow is a snake - it means they really really love you!

What Is Prank?

Christopher Smart wrote in the poem Jubilate Agno:

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in...

According to the OED, one definition of prank is "capricious or frolicsome actions or movements of animals".

For he is of the tribe of the tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Tiger Angel...

For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery...

For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest...

Another Bad Hair Day

When you have only 1 comb, and you use it to comb your cats, and then you forget to put it up, and then they play with it and it disappears, well.

Can You Tell?

Our vacuum is broken!

Enough Already!

Of that thing in my face...

Cooperative

2 seconds before this, Angel had the snake in his mouth and was racing about with AreToo in hot pursuit, so cute! Of course as soon as I had the camera in hand and turned on, the snake toy became totally boring and everybody totally disappeared... (Afterthought - everyone uses their attic stairs as an extra bookcase, don't they?)

A Maintenance Morning

A2's go to the vetz for their follow up calici virus shots - the technician just took them into the back while I waited - highly suspicious that she just wanted to love on them! Then it was shopping time - 28 lbs of crunchies and 25 of the new organic kitty litter - how long will that all last?

Windowing

When the human opened the window this afternoon, she thought that Angel got there first, with AreToo squeezing in behind him - then she realized Cyrrie was also present, hidden behind the curtain. Sweet little guys, every one! (And who else has ivy growing inside their bedroom?)

Buttercup

Varietal: Blurry

Poppies!

The Bad Boy Thing

Angel has it, big-time! Human falls for it, equally big-time...!

It Was My Bad

Human here: I had just watered the hanging plants in the living room when Cloud came in and scratched the scratching post! Pleased, I said, Cloud you're such a good little cat - intense, but so good.Then I went into the kitchen. Then I heard a very intense crash from the living room - when I got there, one of the hanging plants was down, with broken clay, dirt and water all over the end table, window sill, floor and curtains. And Cloud no where to be seen. And Petunnia lounging around looking innocent in an extremely self-righteous way. But how can I blame Cloud, when I clearly dissed her and she had to do what she could to salvage her rep...

Back From The Vetz

Buddy just had his checkup - healthy! (And he was so scared, and everyone thought he was so cute...)

Catalyst

An event occurred in the hallway just now. By the time the human arrived there were upset and offended cats and "kittens" exploding in all directions, like sub-atomic particles in a cloud chamber: Cloud and Cyrrie, Petunnia, Lucy, everybody mad at everybody else. One other "kitten" was involved, fleeing in the opposite direction. Let's see: AreToo was up in the attic, Banshee on the dining room table, Buddy on the couch, so that leaves...?

Eye Of The Dragon-Lion-Kitten

Our Official Month

June!

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Spring Combing

Got handfuls out of Bansh this morning...

Way Sad

Because I bird-listen with the guys, I believed there was a nest of somethings very close to to our front porch, maybe even under an awning. Today when I left for work there was the tiniest little baby bird that must have washed out of the nest in the torrential rains we had last night, so tiny it took me a minute to figure out what it must be. It was dead, of course. One little voice less...

He's Washing It!

New Toy

It looks like AreToo is chomping on the new feathered serpent, but -

Luz!

Shouldn't she like the light?