Easing my way back from spring break. This week shall be a little light fare, in which I will share fun and pretty pictures with you, and link to other people’s hard work in order to provide a bit of substance. Sort of like taking you out for dinner, but serving dessert at home. I hope you’re in the mood for sweet, because I have definitely got it.
Spring’s finally arrived. There are dandelions blooming all over the place, and Luna’s enjoying her first spring with them.
She was a bit flummoxed by it at first, but really got in to it after the initial WTF.
On nice days, both kitties spend a lot of time in B’s back yard. There are trees and rhodies and other sorts of bushes ringing it, and a nice expanse of wild grass around the deck. We spent a barefoot bit of time out there, watching the kitties play. It strikes me that this is the first time I’ve really run around barefoot in Washington.
I didn’t have to worry about stepping on bees. Luna was on the job, chasing them around.
I don’t think she really understood what she was dealing with. It was bloody adorable – although probably not so much from the bee’s perspective.Whilst Luna sniffed seed heads, fled the dandelion seeds I blew at her, and chased bees, Kirby inspected the perimeter.
He’s become the Responsible Adult™. When Luna’s outside, he’s usually nearby, ensuring she doesn’t get in to trouble. He might shop himself out to the neighbors, hoping that laying on the cute nice and thick will result in treats, and he loves a good ramble round the neighborhood, but Luna doesn’t get to enjoy these things. He hovers. He worries. He’s hilarious.
He also doesn’t know how to sniff a dandelion.
I’m certain he was looking for treats in them thar fingers. Then I tapped him with the flower, and he was all like, “What? What am I supposed to do? WHERE ARE THE TREATS???”
Finally, he posed properly, in hopes that this would earn him a treat.
He’s only ever about the treats these days. He’s learned how to snooker the household, going to each resident and guest individually, and claiming he has had no treats that day. He works the cute and sweet until he gets what he wants. It’s obvious it’s worked, as he has gained about 5,000 pounds. His kitty daddies are now restricting his treat intake, which means he’s resorted to waking B up by scratching and howling at the door, in hopes that sleep deprivation will break his will.Meanwhile, Luna was busy stalking the dog next door.
She took a few moments out to wonder what on earth I expected her to do with the large yellow tickly thingy on a long stem.
She’s going to look ginormous when she finishes growing, but she’ll vanish if we get her wet. She’s all whisper-soft fluff. It makes her head, which is mostly short-haired (aside from her ears), look ridiculously tiny.
The B household has a new laser pointer kitty toy, which drives Kirby batshit. He can’t understand why he can’t catch the thing. Here he thinks he’s pinned it down on his trackball cat thingy.
I drove Misha nuts with the reflection from a Kindle screen on the porch last year. I love how kitties respond to moving light.
Speaking of Misha, she is well. A bit skinny and stiff in her old age, but still able to gallop madly through the house at times, fight, occasionally play with string, and definitely loves getting high.
This was right after she ate a lot of catnip and was staring around the place like there were all sorts of new and bizarre things in it.
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time as a cat-bed lately.
It’s nice, most of the time. I catch up on reading or sewing or suchlike, and she purrs away, and we are very snug. She even lets me beep her nose without undue violence.
And she watches Buffy with me whilst I work on the scarves I’ll be selling as part of my home-based business scheme. Sometimes, Buffy even watches her.
Mind you, this isn’t always our lives. Sometimes, I have to get up to pee. Sometimes, she does. Sometimes, I go round catching up on the housecleaning, and she follows me around yowling, wondering WTF has gotten in to me. She’s been very curious of late, exploring more than she has in years, willing to try new things. I like this. It’s nice to know her brain’s still ticking over nicely.
We’ve done things other than pal around with cats, but not much. Cats are great for helping soothe away the cares of the world, and assist in the mental recharge that is spring break. I expect the lazy hangout times will continue well into summer. It’s part of what makes life worthwhile.
Yay cats! :)
OMG Luna’s ear fur!
Awwww, kitties!.
Off-topic but highly annoying: I’ve been getting auto-play audio ads on your blog the past few days. Perhaps they’re video as well, but I’ve gone ad-free so I don’t see them. And the “report technical issues” button has gone missing. Guess I’ll e-mail Ed and Jason again.
I’m beginning to better understand your place in the little kitty hierarchy. Here, you show Misha reinforcing her position of dominance over you. Notice her paws stretched out toward you, and smug grin suggesting the thought, “I can strangle you in your sleep”. Best course of action is to lie still and avoid agitating her with sudden movements, until she is satisfied that you will not challenge her.
Looks like you successfully lulled into her into a state of overconfidence. Beeping her nose is possibly your only defense (that’s where the reset button is located). Probably explains why she usually swats you when you try it.
Moar kittehs! And is there ever going to be a change to the comments so that we can post our own kitteh pics?