StrangeRanger

Typical Cat Behavior.

As she grows and matures, Daisy adopts more and more typical cat behavior.  She's spent some time on the blanket stack and some time in the sunpuddle.  Recently she's decided to try out the sink!

This is not bad.....

Sometimes she'll actually *wash* in the sink.  Kinda impressive.

Sorry for the blur.  Even her bathing is too fast for the camera.

Mostly, though, she just hangs out while I'm in the shower.  Once I'm out and dry I give her head-pats and face rubs.  Then she hops on my shoulder and commences chewing on me.  Gotta figure out how to stop that last behavior, but the rest is lovely.

Of course it's lovely!  It's all about ME!

Yes dear.  I agree.

ChezRanger wishes you all a very happy New Year!

Teef

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We start today's post with a heartfelt note from Daisy herself, thanking all of her loyal blog followers!  Really, she typed it herself.  With her butt.

We now continue with our regularly scheduled blog post.

Daisy LOVES to play.  She's a year and a half old, but has lost none of her kitten playfulness.  Her favorite toys are those on a stick or string.  She enjoys solo play with a mousie or jingle ball, but mostly she loves playing with anything we can wave around for her.

Here she is playing with her current fave.  You can see she's got the string pulled tight!

grrrrrrr.....grrrrrrr......

What toy is it, do you think?

Yes!  It's her shiny pink kerploof!

It actually used to be a shiny pink fluffy ball, but it really resembles a shiny pink mangled furry octopus more than a ball now.

I could probably wave that thing around for several hours before she decided to have a snack and a nap.  

She brings it to us and drops it at our feet or on our keyboard requesting a good play.

If we toss it away, she stares at it to see if it's behavior has changed since the last time she savaged it, she hops down and brings it back to us for another round.

Daisy is very smart about her plays.  She's figured some stuff out.

Let's see....hmmmm.....the string controls the toy.....the hand controls the string.....the arm controls the hand.....so if I want to control the toy.....hmmm.....I have to....

...CONTROL THE ARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that is my arm.  And yes, you can see her wee teefies.  And yes, yes, those teefies did find their way into my arm.  Not bad, really.  She's gotten a lot better than she's been in the past.  My arms and legs are actually starting to heal.  Of course, I make sure I've a bit of armor on once the raucous play starts.

Daisy is also developing her sweet side, as well.  She sometimes comes up and naps on my chest early in the morning.  Makes up for any blood shed during the day, I must say.

 

Flying too near the sun...

We have had quite the weekend here at ChezRanger.

We got caught in the Great SouthEast Blizzard!  Yeah, two inches of snow constitutes a blizzard in these here parts.  It was a very wet and heavy snow, in it's defense...we lost power for about 6 hours Friday eve.  We did pretty well.  Had the fireplace chugging out therms as best it could.  Broke out all the candles.  Had quite a romantic evening.  Might even have had a bit of wine, too.  There was one small mishap, though.  Daisy sniffed at a candle.  No damage was done, but a very surprised little kitten lost some of her eyebrow whiskers!

My beauty is unmarred!

Most of what you can see here are her left eyebrow plumage.  If you look closely over her right eye, you can see the remaining, charred stump of her right eyebrow.  She was quite miffed,but there was no other damage done.  She doesn't seem to be inconvenienced by this, either.  We'll have to keep an eye on her when there are candles about, but she seems to have learned about safe observation distances.

The big issue over this weekend was that once the power came back on, the furnace didn't.  We called it in, tucked ourselves under many blankets and went to sleep.  It was 60 degrees in the house when we woke up.  Daisy didn't seem to mind at all.

I just sit in the sun to keep warm!

I don't think she realizes that we don't have natural fur coats to keep us warm... Anyways, the furnace guy came in, did the simplest of jiggery-pokery, charged us a reasonable amount of money and took his leave.

Really, we came through the weekend unscathed, save for some important plans that had to be put off for a week.

And Daisy was a very good cat through it all.

Some Weeks....

Some weeks, I say, are made bearable only by the fact that LadyRanger and I have each other.  And Daisy.

Don't worry, I got your back.

Some weeks, that's all that gets us through.