StrangeRanger

Le Tour de Yard

Well, spring has sprung and a young kitty's fancy turns to thoughts of going out and exploring her territory.

Here she is, showing how well camoflagued she is in her woodland setting.  Yes, we know the bright red harness kinda gives her away, but we live a stone's throw away from a highway, and we don't want her getting spooked and running into traffic.  We also have to worry about her running around on her Spontaneously Luxating Patellas.  (she's got a couple of kneecaps that tend to spin around to the side of her legs, which inhibits movement a great deal)  Anyway, she likes her walks year 'round, and she really enjoys sniffing the foliage in the spring.

Top Ten

Okay, I'm not usually one for top-ten lists, but this one had me laughing.  I think I'm going to get the librarian at school to try to order some of these...

And thanks to The Shrine of the Holy Whapping for the steer. 

Zero to Sixty

Hi.  Since it's the second anniversary of The Carnival of the Cats I thought I'd do two cat posts.  Check out Matilda, Maddie's next door neighbor when you're done here.

Here we see the two sides of Maddie's personality that we're most familiar with.  At peace, and at play.  She's a delight at both.

Guest Cat

Hi.  Since this marks the second anniversary of The Carnival of the Cats, I thought I'd do two cat posts.  Since Maddie isn't a Prima Donna, she's decided to share the spotlight.

This is Matilda.  She's the cat next door.  She used to be one of the neighborhood strays.  We would put food out for her, and she'd be very friendly, meowing in her very small voice in thanks.  She's a champion jumper, as we found out when we saw her walking on our roof.  We'd have taken her in ourselves, but Maddie is a strictly one-cat-per-household sort of cat.

Anyway, Matilda was adopted by our neighbors, who take very good care of her.  They let her out on the screen porch, where she sniffs the wind, and looks at us in our kitchen.  Here's another photo of Matilda catching a few rays, and chewing on her foot.  She's a very sweet girl, and she's lucky to have found such a good family.

I love...

I love my cat.  I also love sunlight.  Thank goodness I have a camera.

Nice afternoon for lazy gazing

It was a lovely afternoon here at Chez-Ranger.  Lots of sun, spring coming on in the back garden.  Daffodils and crocus blooming.  The only problem was that we couldn't find the CAT!!  We looked high and low, and finally found tracks that would lead us to our quarry...

Hmmm...whose paw prints could these be?

Following the trail, we managed to locate Maddie, on the back of the chair in the back bedroom window:

Turns out that she was just enjoying the afternoon sun, looking out the back window and surveying her queendom. 

Nice day to be a cat, or to be with one.