Last Night

In the middle of the night I heard this thump and instinctively knew it had to be investigated. It was AreToo, back in the corner. I rescued him, but left the bookcase and television ajar for now - even though I'm sure he would have rescued himself eventually...

On Coughing And Adaptibility

(Which returned with a vengeance yesterday and today.) When I first started to cough - loudly - the guys would literally leave the room. This morning, Petunnia was on my lap when the coughing thing seized hold - she stood up, sunk her claws into my (thankfully only) robe - and rode it out. When I stopped, she simply laid back down and got comfy...

Video...

Alas, I have tried and tried. I have spent ages pouring over help pages... At last I discovered some indication that there may be a problem with YouTube linking to Blogger that has nothing to do with me. So we'll wait a bit. In the meantime, we'll store up the vidoes, and post any cute stills we're lucky enought to capture! And there's always the stories to tell - like how AreToo is following in Buddy's footsteps, teasing Cloud like Buddy teases Petunnia!

"Kitten" Stuck In A Corner

Our computer room is a bit crowded, what with 6 book cases, 2 arm chairs, a never watched television, desk, printer table, etc. In the corner behind the television, there's a little bit of space for a lamp. The kittens have all gotten back there, which is bad, because they can jump in from the bookcase, but to get out they have to go under the desk - with all the wires and cables. So I try to discourage them from going back there. This morning I just missed stopping AreToo - no longer a kitten - from jumping down into the corner. The problem was, he didn't come back out. Instead he stood on his tippy toes, with his little paws on the book case, looking pathetic. I tried and tried to coax him around to the desk side, but no. In the end I had to move plants and a heavy mirror in order to be able to move the television enough to help him escape. (I didn't even take his picture, standing there with that "rescue me" look in his big brown eyes...)

Cloud

Sleeping in an unusual location...

Beard?

Milk Chin?

Video Attempt Update

Tried earlier to repost the original - 3rd try - nada. And just now I tried to post a new one - taken on the webcam! - again, the error message, same old same old... But I will try again!

Webcam!

Thanks to Christy, we have a webcam! But the usb cord is short (I'll see about getting a longer one) and our options are limited at the moment. So I'm saying, Guys, jump up on the bookcase, abuse some plants, and they're like, No, we're so good, don't you know, we'd never do anything like that...!

We Take Our Own Picture

Me and Angel in the rocking chair, rescuing Cloud, if you know what I mean...

We Were There First

Go to I Can Has Cheezburger - http://icanhascheezburger.com/ - today, August 28th, 2007, and look at "I'm In Ur Chare" - then look at this - http://922cats.blogspot.com/2006/11/tribble.html...

Puck

What do you think?

Angel At It Again

He couldn't resist chasing Petunnia's tail up onto the bed. When Petunnia was way way less than pleased, he quickly looked around for a cover story. Oh, this is what I really meant to do! he said, dive-bombing Cyrano... (Cyrrie not pleased.)

Bummer, Cont.

I tried again to post my little video of the boyz wrastling - I got an error message saying report it to Blogger support, with this blog id and this other number, I forget what it was... Well. Blogger support turns out to be somewhat unnavigable - at least to an amateur like me - with no place to plug in the numbers I so carefully copied. My best guess is that maybe the clip was too long, but that is a total guess since I saw nothing mentioning video on the help pages I was linked to.

FancyFeast: Food? Or Sport

By the time they finish running around stealing from each other, surely they've used up more calories than they've consumed. (Except for Lucy, major plumpkin.) (And except for Buddy, totally sweet and such a pushover...)

Bummer!

Tried to post another video and don't know what went wrong...!

I B'n Combed!

Looks Like A Book On Petunnia

But it's not, really...

What's So Interesting In The Bedroom

AreToo, Angel, and the tip of Cyrrie's nose all pointing in the same direction...

Lunch

Human shares a piece of pepper cheese with Cloud, but only after carefully picking out all the pepper... (And where is Cyrrie?)

Not The Droid

But closely related...

Droid

And vacuum cord - if only he's use it for something other than to play with...

Breakfast

Cyrrie wants fruit taken off the table...

Self-Censorship

I have this amazing picture of Banshee the Beautiful - all fangs and tongue and long pink gullet - yawning, of course - which I just can't bring myself to post...

Lucy!

Combing Lucy

All day today I combed Lucy - well, not all day all day, but I would comb her for a while, getting out fistfuls of hair, and then she would be so estatically out of control I'd have to give her some down time... Still not finished!

Video!

Earlier today I was at the computer when Angel came in and started to play with the wire thingy. (They can ignore it for days or weeks, but then suddenly it will catch their attention and they'll go crazy for a while.) Since it was finally action I went to get the camera! Of course, when I came back to the computer room, Angel, who had been playing wildly all the time, stopped utterly still, turned to stone, in fact, staring at me and the camera. Then, for reasons all his own, he started up again, and I was able to take my little video clip. (The unintended audio came from the radio being on - anyone recognize that voice?) After that it took me a while to realize I didn't need YouTube to post the clip to the blog, but it's on YouTube, too...

Video?

Sighted

Strange creature in computer room last night...

Storm

We had the worst storm of this summer tonight, although I understand it was much worse just a little north of here. I lit a candle just in case, and then we all - almost all, Banshee disappeared - just sat together in the living room, waiting it out. (Lucy insisted on sitting on my lap.)

Cyrrie!

He's not feeling crabby, really, it's just that darned flash...

Banshee!

An almost good picture of Bansh - she is astonishingly beautiful in person, and inexplicably unrecognizable on film (it's not really film, anymore, is it?)...

Angel!

His human is so hopelessly besotted...

AreToo!

Oh noes! I cried, when I accidentally deleted a very successful pic of my Baby Droid - this one isn't bad, but the other one was lots better...

Forgiven!

She kneaded my robe this morning, and tonight, as I sat reading, she snuggled up beside me, ignoring the proximity of Petunnia, AreToo and Buddy...

Blink!

Isn't that a book?

Bugs?

The one in the hallway, that Angel is hunting, that one the human can see, and deal with (Sorry about that, Angel). The one in the bathroom, that Cloud and AreToo are after, is totally invisible...

Morning Faux Paw

Human screwed up big time this morning. Our routine is this: human takes shower, and, wrapped in bathrobe, goes back to bed with a cup of coffee and something to read. Usually, Lucy shows up, to lapsit and knead the bathrobe (Mine! All mine!) This morning, finding AreToo lying right outside the bathroom door, the human scooped him up and took him to the bedroom for a cuddle. The look on Lucy's face when she trotted in expecting her quality time! Very gently the human eased AreToo off to one side and beckoned Lucy to come sit. There was a long pause, dreadful to the human's heart, but Lucy finally jumped up on the bed. Her kneadings were somewhat muted, however, and the human is still agonizing over her moment of thoughtlessness...

Buddy!

Not Pod Buddy...!

Canteloup In Bag

To Cyrrie's great disappointment... (Pod Lucy in background.)

Pod 'Toonya

Pod Cloud Returns

It's True

When the human was away, the grandhuman claimed that cats and "kittens" were only eating out of their old familiar bowls, not out of the cute new ones that the human had bought so there'd be plenty of extra crunchies available. And it's true! If all the old bowls are empty, and the human transfers crunchies from the new to the old, they'll get eaten. Only sensible little Cloud seems willing to eat out of new bowls...

Wicket Goes Home!

http://meerakai.blogspot.com/

Been Sittin' On This (Hint, Hint!)

Coming soon to a blog near you: The happy ending of the story of Wicket! Asap, a link! (It's really going to be way cool...)

Why Is She Taking My Picture?

Again!

Droid's Dilemma

What to play with, what to play with...?

Is Angel Learning?

Last night we played with the laser beam. It must be a generational thing, because the older guys could care less, while the "kittens" just go nuts (we played until the battery gave out). When, on 2 occassions, Cloud and Angel collided in their frenzied pursuit of the little red spot, Angel (thud) went down in a position of perfect submissiveness (and Cloud totally ignored him, intent, after all, on catching that spot).

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