Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Daily Photo: The Four Housecats of the Apocalypse

The Four Housecats of the Apocalypse are waiting for dinner.
The Four Housecats of the Apocalypse are waiting for dinner.

Where is dinner?! (It’s roasting in the oven. They’ve been smelling it for a few hours and they can’t wait to eat. I have to finish it off and add the supplements. They still have to wait.)

Wowza, this photo was a hit on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter!Well, who could resist these talented felines? I took plenty of others leading up to this and someday I’ll feature those as well! But none are this purrfect lineup. And I really was fussing with the meats I was roasting for them and it was indeed difficult to photograph with my phone while stirring and chopping. Well worth it though.

Saturday was a very busy day, more photos below!

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YAY! I think. I went over The Creative Cat’s layout and I think I have the errors fixed, or at least patched over, that were making it run slowly and causing the home page not to compose. I had to remove a few of the categories on the home page just to reduce the number, and that operation showed that two of them may have been the cause of the whole thing. I’m not sure because I still occasionally get an error when the page composes, and I still occasionally get an error in the dashboard too. But for the most part I think I can carry on now until I decide to go for one of the new templates I tried out.

I’m not really sure why this happened. I’ve been using this template for four years with no problems, but now this. Everything is up to date and the code geek in me wants to keep poking at it. But the rest of me wants to get back to posting regularly because I don’t even know what day it is, really, without my editorial schedule on The Creative Cat!

All photos in the current portion of this post were from Saturday and posted initially on Instagram.

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Suddenly, it was snowing catnip.

I went to purchase cat food and decided to get fresh catnip for Sienna since she likes it, and made the mistake of putting my bags inside while I moved my car to the driveway. When I came in the plastic bag was perforated all over and catnip sifted down when I picked it up, so…

Snowing catnip.
Snowing catnip.

Hamlet meets Sienna–for the second time. The first time, she turned fast and startled him and he started a hissing fest. This time Sienna quietly received him on her fleecy bed, sniffs, no hisses. Hamlet checked to make sure everything was in the bathroom as he remembered it. This is the first time Hamlet is welcoming a rescued foster cat. So far all the meetings have gone well, and Sienna has been investigating the second floor, but she still doesn’t play with toys.

Hamlet meets Sienna.
Hamlet meets Sienna.

Mimi couldn’t resist a roll in a sunpuddle on the front porch. Even though it was fairly cold we were acting as if it was spring.

Mimi rolling on the porch.
Mimi rolling on the porch.

They let me out of the studio today, can you tell? Have some fresh green stuff from the garden: bittercress, chickweed, dead nettle and garlic mustard, bless them all for their courage in emerging in this challenging spring, even the garlic mustard, which I removed.

 

Greens in the garden.
Greens in the garden.

 

Bella chillin.

Bella chillin.
Bella chillin.

 

Don’t worry, I got dis.

Bella says, "I got dis."
Bella says, “I got dis.”

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Mentoring, 2017

Hamlet really looks up to Basil.
Hamlet really looks up to Basil.

Basil was trained as a ninja foster by the best sensei a kitten ever had, Giuseppe. Now Basil returns the favor of showing Hamlet how to do important cat things around the house, like intently watching the blue jay on the deck roof. Hamlet simply looks up to Basil and does his best.

Maybe a little sniff.
Maybe a little sniff.

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Shared on Facebook and Instagram

Blue Morning Bella

In three lovely variations. I just couldn’t decide.

Original Blue Morning Bella
Original Blue Morning Bella
Instagram Blue Morning Bella
Instagram Blue Morning Bella
Color version Blue Morning Bella
Color version Blue Morning Bella

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Shared in Previous Years

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Daily Photo: Menu Planning With Sunshine and Bella
Sunshine and Bella help with this week's menu.
Sunshine and Bella help with this week’s menu.

Saturday meal planning with Mr. Sunshine and Bella who are helping me sort and organize recipes.

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From Facebook and Instagram

Look, I’m famous! I’m on Facebook!

Hamlet is excited at seeing yesterday’s photo on my computer. He seems to like technology.

Hamlet sees himslef on Facebook.
Hamlet sees himself on Facebook.

68 degrees, bare feet and capris in mid-February. Mimi and I took a little time to clean up outdoors and now we are listening to robins singing the good night song.

Mimi and me outside.
Mimi and me outside.

And a special edition—I was so excited this crocus bloomed this morning. I really thought it needed another day!

Ahhhhh

Ahhhhh. This poor crocus has been trying to bloom for months, a little frostbitten on the tips, but still fresh and vibrant, and very welcome.

Ahhhhh
Ahhhhh

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Other daily photos shared on this date

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Bath Sequence, 2015
two black cats bathing
The beginning of the bath, washing their own faces.

Jelly Bean found the good bath spot on the roll of paper towels and Mr. Sunshine soon joined him. But no two of the Four can be bathing near each other without going rounds to catch each others’ hard to reach spots. They begin and end with their own faces but do a pretty thorough cleaning behind the other brother’s ears before they are done.

Working behind the ears and on the neck two black cats bating
Working behind the ears and on the neck.
Now working down to the shoulder blades, yes! two black cats
Now working down to the shoulder blades, yes!
Back to the faces two black cats bathing.
Back to the faces.

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On the Prowl, 2012
black cat in tub with toy
Stalking the wild crackle ball.

Mewsette is just waiting for that sparkly crackle ball to make one false move and it’s curtains! You can tell by the curl in her tail that it’s a tense moment.

Nearly everyone took some time to play a little tub hockey with the crackle ball which suddenly showed up out of nowhere after being AWOL for a few months. They like just about any ball, especially in the tub, but the crackle ball makes a really satisfying noise whenever it moves and even when they pick it up.

It also fits perfectly in the tub drain with just enough protruding to pull it back out and start all over again. Mewsette’s game of tub hockey turned into miniature golf as she scored several holes in one, and holes in several.


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Blue Pitcher With Cat
Blue Pitcher With Cat

I have to say, I do like it, Mr. Sunshine, subtle, almost abstract. I have some talented cats here. I do like the photos that show all the assets of my beautiful cats, but I also like the abstract shots that happen to have a cat in them in a very artful way. Read more and order this photo and browse other feline photos on Portraits of Animals.



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