StrangeRanger

Another quiet day

Daisy is off in the great crawl space theme park. Probably still trying to tunnel out past the cinderblock, brick, rock and wire obstruction we erected to keep her inside.  

LadyRanger and I have had a quiet celebration of our 29th anniversary.  Our fave Asian/Indian fusion shrimp dish with a fun and tasty mango prosecco on the good china, thank you very much! We know how to be thankful for each other even after a year of quarantine.

This morning I am a wee bit tired.

Here's a pick of Maddie.  Enjoy!

Have a great, safe week ahead!

Drawers

Drawers seem to hold some sort of attraction for cats.  Maddie liked to lie down in them.  If it was a low drawer, Ivy would crawl in.  It's an atavistic, primal, security instinct, I think.  Perhaps the same reason that cats and boxes are such a reliable partnership.

I have noticed though, that there is one drawer in particular that exerts an almost mystical pull, a more than magnetic attraction for the cats.  It is, of course, the "3-S drawer".  You know, Socks, Skivvies 'n' ...... Stuff"  

Maddie Loved the sock drawer.

Ahh...nothing like a layer of good SmartWool (tm) socks 'neath my furry tum.

Really, she mostly liked disrupting my precision organized collections of socks, skivvies 'n'......stuff.

Chaos, disorder, confusion.... My work here is done.

Ivy was never spry enough to venture so far from the ground.  She made up for it by usually being the first to boxes on ground level.  Maddie, not really being an inside the box wort of girl, did not contest them.

Daisy loves the 3-S drawer.  She'll hop up when I open it in the morning and spend some time rearranging the disorder left from the previous morning.  SmartWool socks still seem to be a powerful draw.  Daisy has, though, taken things a bit farther.  Not a step farther, but maybe a wriggle and a skootch farther.  Daisy has a predilection for trying to fit herself into the smallest, most inconvenient and physically challenging cracks she can.  Honestly, we live in fear that one day she'll realize that a) our fireplace has a chimney that goes waaaayyy up and is very inviting and b) there is not currently a fire burning.   

I was dressing one morning this past week while Daisy was exploring and spelunking in the sock drawer.  And then she vanished.  I knew she hadn't jumped down because I'd have heard it.  There was only one place she could have gotten to.

Yep.

Whoa!  This is like Narnia!

Zoom in , if you can.  She's upside down.

She's gotten between the top of the drawer and the inside of the top of the dresser.  This cat..... She did not, despite appearances, push the entire sock drawer out of the dresser.  Although I'm pretty sure our little spelunking vandal is more than capable of it.  I'm going to make sure the chimney is bricked up now.

We hope you all have a great week ahead!

Okay, *today* I got somethin'......

.....and it's cute!

What?

Okay, so....maaaaayyyybe it's a bit more "mug shot" than "cutie pic", but hey, it's hot off the digital press and it is Daisy!

Like a lot of Americans, we have been relying on the iron-men and -women at Amazon for some necessary goods.  It's been a boon for a wee cat who enjoys the toys that the human's necessities come packed in.  Of course, once she realizes that her cuteness is being incompetently documented, she has the same reaction as most celebs.....

psssshhh.....  I'm out!  I do NOT believe that Chandoha stood me up and sent this clown in his place!

Ah, the temperamental model..... She gets away with it 'cause she's beautiful.

We hope that you all get away with a great week!  And have a lovely Valentine's Day with your sweetie!

I dunno.....

...I got nothin' today.

Have another vintage pic.  

One of the few moments that our two girls were within 3 feet of each other and seemingly at peace.  Thank goodness for that wedge pillow.  As Robert Frost wrote, "...good fences make good neighbors..."

Have a great week, all!