StrangeRanger

A First

Daisy experienced a first the other night.  At about 1:54 a.m. she horked up her very first hairball.

There will be no pictures of the offending item.

Thank goodness!  Experiencing that once was more than enough for me!  I'm sure glad that was a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing!!

We'll tell her later.........

It was a meager little hairball, though I'm sure unpleasant enough for our girl.  Nothing like Maddie's hairballs.  Maddie used to hork up monsters the size of Jimmy Dean sausage links.  I mean, wow.....

<sigh>...Really??  Couldn't you have remembered me for some of my other, more sterling qualities?  Honestly, that was a bit embarrassing.

Sorry dear, truth's the truth.  You did have a lot of fur and were pretty obsessive about grooming.  You sure did know how to pose, though.

True.  Thank you.

Anyways, Daisy seemed a bit rattled.  She's not a big sleep-on-the-bed-with-the-humans type of cat, but she hopped up and stayed with us from about 2:00 til we woke.  I guess she wanted a bit of company.  She seems her normal self now.  I've been trying to get her used to more thorough brushings but she tends to enjoy them for about 37 seconds and then decides that what I'm really suggesting is that she attack my arm with tooth and claw.  She's still a youngster though.  Perhaps she'll mellow into it.  In a few years, a couple of gallons of my blood and innumerable future hairballs.

That's life with a cat, though, innit?

There are rewards as well.  Daisy came up and snuggled on my chest this morning for a few minutes.  Purred a lot, too.   She hasn't done that in a while.  It was really nice.

Have a good week ahead, all!

A Relatively Unused Window

This is Daisy's new gazing spot.

It's the front window in our study.  Looks out onto the front porch, the great highway in our front yard, and the great world beyond.  Daisy's taken to having a peaceful lie-down of a calm Sunday morning.  

Why does this yard look so much like the yard in front of the other window???

Whatever it looks like, she seems to enjoy the view.  She leans up against the back of the old cathode ray tube TV and watches the world go by.

Yeah, not too bad a gig for a medium sized grey cat.

It's not quite 'Sunday in the Park with George',

but it is Saturday in the Window with Daisy.

Our cats have always liked the back of the couch.  Especially during the sunshine hours in the morning.  Daisy is no exception.  Now that she's getting older and actually enjoys a good, if brief, lie-down she's been up there a wee bit more.

She enjoys watching the world and relaxing in comfort.  And I enjoy watching her enjoy.

You are so weird.  Really.

Have a good week, all!

 

A fun filled week!

Daisy has had a pretty interesting week.  We've been trying to get a handle on several long-delayed projects around the house.  We've done some heavy gardening which has given Daisy an opportunity to sit in the window and snoopervise.  She also had a noseful of really dirty gardening clothes to sniff around in.

We've also begun tackling the big clean-out.  We've got a bunch of stuff that came from the winter palace and we must find a place for it to live.  That means cleaning out lots of old (old old old) stuff of our own.  Daisy has been very interested int he closets and all the cool junk we've pulled out of them.  It's also given her places to explore.

This is so cool!!

Yeah...top closet shelves are not places she gets much of a chance to prowl....

We did find a bunch of loose cat toys in the hall closet.  Daisy immediately claimed them as her own.  Her new fave?

This is so cool!!

Yep.  Mylar crinkle ball on a string.

This is so co....DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Daisy follows the crinkle ball where ever it goes.

You can't hide from me in the sitting room!!!

I will follow you to the ends of the papa-san!!!!!!!!!!!

I will scale the heights of the box-stack to crush yo....wait, where......?????????

<ahem>

<ahem....I will scale the heights of the box-stack to crush you!!!!

She's holding the crinkle ball in her mouth in that last pic.  Sometimes she'll catch her toy, hold it and walk to wherever she feels like playing next.  New cat behavior for me.  Neither Maddie nor Ivy ever did anything like that.  It is really incredibly cute.

Final pic for the day:

Different toy, same concentration.  Heck of a good cat.