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Sing it with me!
Ooohhhh Theeeeeeerrrre's a...
cat
in the box
on the desk
in the middle of the floor!
You're going to be singing this to yourself all day long, now. You're welcome.
I'd like to apologize to the world at large for this weirdo.....you don't deserve this.....
Have a great week ahead, all!
Daisy is a smart, curious cat. If anything new comes into the house she has to give it the ol' once-over. Often times she gives it the ol' 27 time over. And that's just the box or bag that carried it in. Daisy won't rest until she has explored the new item and figured out where she will allow it to fit into her proprietary reality.
And God forbid we humans mess that up and put the item in a spot that Daisy does not approve.
Daisy also explores the boundaries of physical reality. She has realized that her reality is not exactly the same as the humans.
HAH!! And you said I was mad! MAD!! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Daisy pushes the bonds of reality to get low and compact, and then soars to heights unattainable to mortal man!
Where I lead, no mere human can follow!
Whoa.....
Daisy has always been interested on the effects of gravity on objects. Specifically, objects that have been placed on a surface from which they could fall. With perhaps a minimal amount of feline assistance. For those of you familiar with feline behavior, that's right, Daisy enjoys playing "knock". She's been playing knock, or rather, studying the effects of gravity on various household objects while in freefall, for a while. She has recently found one particular object whose properties seem to fascinate her.
Yep, our wee gray cat kitchen timer. (one note: we're not usually given to kitchen kitsch or silly cat-related knickknacks, but this one we could not resist...)
Anyways, this poor object has been put through the gravitational wringer by our wee gray mad scientist. Daisy usually conducts her experiments in the wee hours of the morning, testing the effects of local time on gravitation fields. I tend to think that she is really studying if the gravitational field of our bed is substantial enough to overcome out curiosity about what she's up to and keep us in bed.
In any event, the poor timer tends to go skydiving on an alarmingly regular basis. We've talked to Daisy about this frequently. And what does she reply from her perch?
ummm..... Geronimo?
Have a great week ahead, all!
It's August here at ChezRanger. High summer. The past week has been mild enough, only in the mid to upper 80s, but this week we're supposed to be well into the 90s again. This is the type of weather that really too the ginger out of Maddie. She was an energetic cat most of the year, but in high summer our heavily furred creature of the Maine woods just sort of pitched the idea of vigorous physical exercise. She liked to spend hours crashed near an a/c vent, tummy to the breeze.
The summer of '06 was especially rough. A lightning strike took out our central air and left us, in the middle of July, with no cool air for a week. Rough on both long haired kitties. Ivy found a spot in front of an open window and didn't move except to eat or hit the litter box.
Daisy's not much of a tummy-up girl, even in the worst of the heat.
Darn tootin'! I'm not exposing this trim, furry, gray tum-tum during ANY time they call the Dog Days! No. Way.
Rest assured, I'll be there with the camera if ever she does!
Regular readers of this blog know that there have been many and many guests over the years. Our neighbor, Ed, and his cats have appeared on several occasions. We're always happy to see them. Sometimes they hang out on our back porch of an eve. They came by yesterday. (and forgive the poor quality of the pics. they were taken through a window...)
That's Puddin' Cat on the right, but you haven't seen Nadine, the kitty on the left, since she was wee tiny! Remember this wee little bean?
Hi! Will you be my friend?!?
Well, she's grown into a long, slim, House Panther!
She is always wide-eyed and alert!
She has a great deal of fun stalking everything that moves in our back yard.
Nadine is long and graceful.
Nadine is also a bit skittish. Friendly as you could wish, but skittish. When I was feeding the cats while Ed was out of town for work, Nadine was always happy to see me and rather cuddly, in a high-energy, head-bonk and zoom away mode. When I opened the door to get some better pics, she zipped off to the side yard. Maybe I'll get a decent pic of her sometime....
Puddin' of course, knowing me as a friend from way back, stayed regally on her perch.
Puddin' seems to be recovering nicely from her Lion-Trim. She should be nice and shaggy for autumn.
Daisy always seems to be aware when Puddin' and Nadine (or any other mammal, for that matter) is on her turf.
What the actual...?? You're seeing this too, right?
Some days Daisy does not like being an indoor cat. But then she thinks about the trade-offs....
Well, this does have it's compensations....
Indeed it does.
Have a great week ahead, all!
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