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Daily Photo: Sable

black long-haired kitten
Smokie looking handsome.

Smokie is pretty tired of his slinky fur sister getting all the attention. He is exquisitely handsome and he knows it, especially when he’s basking in the warm morning sun showing off all the sable highlights in his velvety fur. And he’s watching a certain kitty with a certain toy…

black kitten with green ball
Smokie with the green sparkle ball.

He’s managed to capture the green sparkle ball from Giuseppe! Or, did Giuseppe possibly let it go? Either way, Smokie is pretty excited to have it for once as he hears Giuseppe singing about this Mlle. cat all the time and it sounds like something Smokie wants to know more about. Something tells him the green sparkle ball is an important part of the situation.

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Other daily photos shared on this date

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Bean Soup?!!, 2014
black cat with bean soup mix
BEAN SOUP?!!

BEAN SOUP?! YOU’RE MAKING BEAN SOUP?!

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Jelly Bean is understandably horrified.

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I’d better get out of here…
black cat with bean soup mix
Bean soup…?
You don’t really mean it right…I mean, you wouldn’t really put me in a pot of soup, right? You’re kidding, right?
black cat with bean soup mix
Is this what it’s come to?
Bean soup? Is that why my brother is so fat? He’s going to be soup?
two black cats with bean soup mix
Is this why my brother is so fat? He’s going to be soup?
Cats are so dramatic, it’s actually quite fun to see them go through their histrionics, even when they’re wrong.

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NB: This was kind of posed. When I planned the bean soup I thought how funny it would be if Bean was looking at them with the headline “Bean Soup” and decided whenever I made it I would try to get the photo. I got way more than I expected! My photos kept turning out a little blurry—I think my camera needs a cleaning and the shutter isn’t functioning as fast as it should—but Bean and Giuseppe kept their patience with all my reshoots. It was Giuseppe’s idea to join us, and his expressions are always a little overdone, so I knew it would be purrfect. Good kitties! Treats!

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Sweet Repose, Nose to Nose, 2013
two black cats sleeping facing each other.
Sweet Repose, Nose to Nose

Giuseppe and his mama Mimi cuddle in/on that trimmer box as I attempt to get work done in the face of their sweetness. Even the colorful little ornament seems to describe their bliss.

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I Will Perish, Please Turn on the Faucet, 2012
black cat in green sink
I will perish!

“I’ll just wait here until you turn on the faucet, okay?”

“I’m ready whenever you are.”

“I don’t mind if you have a few other things to do. I can wait.”

“This is comfortable, I’ll just stay curled in the sink.”

“I know you won’t forget me.”

“I’ll be so grateful when you turn on the faucet.”

“Life will be so good when I get my drink of fresh, cold, flowing water.”

“I am so thirsty I will drink forever when you turn on the faucet.”

“Look how weak I’m getting without my drink of fresh water.”

“I will perish if you don’t turn on the faucet.”

Between the eyes and the pleading, I can’t resist.

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Winter Reflections, 2011
tortoiseshell cat napping in the sun
Naptime for Cookie

Every 18-year-old kitty deserves to nap in the sun on the table curled into an old flannel bathrobe.

Why do I have a bathrobe on my kitchen table? Doesn’t every cat owner have some sort of feline comfort area on their table? It was warm in the kitchen when the sun was shining so I took it off and laid it on the table to grab when I went upstairs; instead, Cookie settled on it. How dare I consider moving it? And what a wonderful reflection, both literally and figuratively.

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From the Archives: Keeping Warm, 2009
dilute calico and tortoiseshell cats
Peaches and Kelly cuddle in front of the furnace vent on a cold February night.

Hi girls! It’s sweet to see you together again!

On this date back in 2009, Peaches uses Kelly as a pillow as the two bask before the furnace vent on the fleece blankets everyone still loves so much. Peaches was 19, Kelly was 16, and I often found these two cuddling together, often with Peaches on the receiving end of a vigorous bath by Kelly. Kelly loved Peaches, and Peaches loved everyone, but was always glad for Kelly’s attentions. Peaches has her tail “up” and her hind legs stretched because I’d just reached down to pet her and ran my hand down her back. She always put her tail up when even when I just reached toward her. Despite the cattitude typical of calicoes and tortoiseshells, Peaches and Kelly were as sweet as they look. So nice to see them looking up at me again. And they give us just a little break from the “all black cats all the time” look. The photo was grainy enough it was difficult to see details, so I touched it up with the “dry brush” filter in Photoshop.

This is in my studio before I “remodeled” it, just cleaning it up, painting the walls and putting down the finished plywood flooring that’s there now. You’ve seen plenty of other cats sharing this spot in photos from the past few years, from Cookie to the amazing cat piles of the Fantastic Four and Five—this spot has been a favorite from the day I moved in here!

From looking at the other photos from this day, all the rest of the household, Cookie, Namir, Mimi and the Fantastic Four at 18 months old, were in the “really remodeled” bathroom, newly sporting its mint green and white and not even finished yet.


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2 thoughts on “Daily Photo: Sable

  • Smokie is growing up into such a handsome guy…I remember when you made the bean soup..it was so funny..lol..

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