StrangeRanger

Fort BathTub Redux

Daisy has always liked the bathtub.  She hangs out there at odd times.  She also lifeguards for me when I'm in the shower, most of the time.  Guess she wants to be sure that I'm not messing her place up.  Sometimes she even lies down and does stretchy-twisty-kitty.  She's extremely cute....

She's only recently, though, begun to play with the shower curtain.  I think she's just realized that it can help her continue her activities as an apex ambush-predator.

You can't see me.

Well, yes.  Yes I can.  

jerk.

I don't think she stayed annoyed with me long.  As long as I play along most of the time, I think she's happy enough.

I'ma pounce on you....

Hope you have a great week!

How To Relax

It's a lesson that can best be taught by a cat.  Daisy doesn't relax a whole lot.  She's still trim and full of energy.  We have, though, in our neighbor cat Puddin', a master instructor in the Relaxation Arts.

Pardon the blur.  I took a long distance through 84 year-old glass....

Anyways, Puddin' is the picture of a content and confident cat.  Just out of the frame, her human Ed was restringing his guitar.  A light breeze was blowing and the sun was warm.

Portrait of a capsized cat.  A very happy capsized cat.

In my next life, I want to be a beloved house cat.

Portrait of a Patient Cat

Daisy is a lovely cat.  She does have a flaw or two, though.  Usually the big one is impatience.  Like when she's asking for foods at 5:30 in the morning on a day that I do not have to be up and at school.  She's really persistent.  As the old adage goes "there is no snooze alarm on a cat who wants breakfast."  She usually falls into our routine after a while and I can go whole weeks in summer and sleep in until 5:40 without having a furry terrorist trying to roust me out of my nice comfy bed.

One area in which Daisy has shown a surprising amount of patience is that of photography.  She doesn't seem to mind the camera.  She does what all good models do; she ignores it and goes on about her business.  The only issues I have taking photos of Daisy are the limitations of my camera and the far more restrictive limitations I have as a photographer.  

I am grateful for her patience.

Gotta get my love out to my adoring public, dude!  Always have time for that, y'know!  Now, snap-snap!!

New Entertainments

 Daisy has always been a most playful cat.  She was a dynamo as a kitten and her energy level has not noticeably decreased.  She has matured somewhat, and is taking an introductory interest in entertainments for more mature kitties.  She's decided that short, intermittent snuggles are a good thing.  5 minutes on a lap or the odd pick-up for a face rub is acceptable.  She's also become more interested in comfy places.  She has recently been acquainting herself with that most favored of cat-havens, the blanket stack.

She doesn't stick that leg out unless she's seriously comfortable and settled in.  We have it on good authority that the blanket stack is totally the place to be for comfort.  Maddie loved it.

as did Ivy.

Daisy seems to be more open to the idea of relaxing there, now that she's almost three.

This isn't so bad, I s'pose... I may try it again later, just to make sure....

Daisy also expressed a mild interest in a different entertainment the other night.  On a whim, whilst Daisy was sitting between me and my computer monitor, I clicked on a lovely video of "8-hours of birds for your cat to watch".  I was probably, in the long run, more interested in it than Daisy was but she watched for a bit.  She even pawed at the screen several times.   I think the lack of smells and wind in her whiskers made it a less than fulfilling adventure for her.  She did watch for a bit, though.

There's not going to be any blood, is there?   <sigh>....there never is.... <sigh>

I realize this video will NOT earn appreciation from Da Tabbies.  I can only beg their pardon and assure them that Daisy's intentions were murderous.  I have also found a different video, which is probably more to their liking.  Fish.

That's it for this post.  We hope that you all have a grand week ahead!

A rough month....

February was indeed a rough month.  I spent 5 days of it over 100 degrees.  Not. Fun.  It's really unusual, too.  Us teachers usually have a cast-iron immune system, but two different bugs really got to me within 15 days.  I think I'll pass on doing that again if I possibly can.

The biggest problem that such illness presents for you guys, though, is that there is a distinct lack of new Daisy pics.  I've only taken two over the past month.  Inexcusable, I know...

These were taken during the only sunny day we've had here in the last several weeks.  Daisy took the opportunity to soak up some rays. Granted, this is more a pic of our curtain than our cat, but you can begin to appreciate Daisy's well-furnished ears.

And here's the girl herself, not too much bothered by the odd photograph or the odd photographer.  I like this pic 'cause you can see Daisy's wavy, Dali-esque whisker.  Very artistic.

I must correct myself on one point, though.  February can never be a really rough month.  LadyRanger and I celebrate our wedding anniversary at the last tick of the February clock.  It will always be a month of joy.  27 years.   Time flies!

Hope you all have a good week!