Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Daily Photo: I Tried to Make the Bed, I Really Did

six cats on bed
Why I didn’t make the bed today.

I tried three times, finally gave up making the bed today. #stayathome and #selfisolate is our daily MO on any given day but I think they are getting instructions from somewhere that I might feel isolated and alone, so they appear wherever I am.

This crowd includes Basil, Sienna, Jelly Bean, Mewsette, Hamlet and Mariposa.

six cats on bed
Mariposa chooses her spot.

This is mostly the formerly feral cats. Guess they’ve learned a few things about indoor cat life and hosting an awesome indoor cat party.

six cats on bed
Mariposa and Jelly Bean want a little more attention.

From Instagram

The photos above are from Instagram too.

Hamlet has a sunbath.

black cat in sun
Hamlet enjoys a sunbath.

Hamlet’s performance continues.

black cat in sun
Now there’s a stretch!

Until a few months ago he would usually have considered his options of his trust in me while I stared at him with my camera and blocked the bathroom doorway, and decided to leap down and run past me so he wouldn’t be trapped in the bathroom.

black cat in sun
Big yawn!

Apparently he’s not concerned anymore. Nearly five years later. We’ve never stopped gentle, constant modification. Go, Hamlet!

black cat in sun
Big stretch!

Thanks to everyone who has checked to see if I need anything when they go out or stop over, and those who’ve sent work my way, and those who’ve made purchases and donated! Navigating this current reality is difficult enough and even moreso without a car, and vendor events cancelling into June. We can do this!

Welcome Kitty says “Thank You”!

 

Photos from around this date in previous years

Someone’s Been in My Back Yard, 2019

Mimi catches a certain smell.
Mimi catches a certain smell.

Eewww, I smell an unneutered male cat all over my scratching area.

Mimi’s expression of disgust is priceless. She is understandably not fond of unneutered male cats. The one who left the messages is new and looks kind of tattered, but doesn’t act feral, more frightened, a gorgeous swirly long-haired ginger boy. He’s on our list to be trapped and snipped. Photos soon.

Photos from years past.

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Giuseppe’s Aria, 2018

Giuseppe singing for breakfast.

Giuseppe performs his famous aria, “Let’s Get Breakfast on the Table, Mama.”

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I had other photos to share with you today, but we had a power outage mid-day that has knocked out my studio computer, where the Photoshop is. I can’t edit photos, so I’ll hold off on all the nice sunny photos I’ve been getting. More later! In the meantime, Giuseppe will keep you entertained, and we also have antics from previous years below.

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Three Seriously Cute Housepanthers, 2017

Three seriously cute housepanthers
Three seriously cute housepanthers

These three really have to stop this sort of thing. I have work to do and I can’t be distracted by such serious cuteness. Mimi, Sunshine, Jelly Bean.

Mimi looks miffed, possibly because of the snow (see below), Mr. Sunshine looks like he’s making a face by sticking out his tongue (he and Bean had been giving Mimi a big bath), and Bean just looks like he’s there and he’s cute and nothing more is needed.

This was one of the more popular photos I’ve ever posted on Instagram and Facebook. Guess that means I ought to offer it as a print! I’ll see if the quality level is high enough because I took it with my phone. At the moment they did this I was downloading photos which you’ll also see below.

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From Facebook and Instagram

Earlier in the day Mimi went out on the deck with me, looked at the snow and silently stood there.

"No."
“No.”

We didn’t have much snow, but the snow we got was absolutely beautiful, so after Mimi turned around and went back indoors I photographed the same forsythia I’d photographed the day before.

Then I got in my car and drove to the trail because I knew how incredibly gorgeous it would be as the clouds began to part and the sun shone on the tree-covered hills around the trail.

Dramatic Lighting
Dramatic Lighting

Click the photo or go to Exceptional Snow Day on the Trail to see a gallery of images from this glorious snowfall.

 

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Vintage or Not, 2015

Bella, Vintage 3
Bella, Vintage 3

A vintage photo of Bella? But she’s not even a year old!

I’m not sure if I can promise this will be the last of these multiple posts with slideshows. The beauty of the sunlight, amplified by snow cover, simply overtook me and I couldn’t stop taking photos. Sometimes I caught some interesting effects.

These photos have a vintage feel, but obviously are not. The mirror I have on my bathroom door is vintage, well, it’s really just old. At one point it had been glued to either a frame or a wall, and the backing itself is in somewhat poor shape. I just wanted a mirror there to have a nearly full-length in the bathroom when I got dressed, and to make the room look larger, and I’ve never changed it. The door is a bi-fold, so depending on how the door folds it reflects different areas and different windows.

Bella, Vintage 2
Bella, Vintage 2

In this case, it’s folded far enough that I saw Bella’s reflection from outside the bathroom on top of the wardrobe, and all those nicks and dings and mis-reflections give the photos of Bella the feel and dulled color of a vintage photo. These are taken with my smartphone which I held against the mirror at an angle so that it would not be reflected but I would still be able to focus on Bella’s image. I intentionally caught the flaws in the mirror, which is also kind of cool, a little ghostly, and I moved the it up and down to capture different flawed areas for different effects.

Bella, Vintage 1
Bella, Vintage 1

I didn’t edit any of them at all. I liked these three of her, and of course, here is the slideshow of the others.

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The Problem With Kittens, 2015

Hey you, hey Mewsette.
Hey you, hey Mewsette.

…is that they have no idea how annoying they are. Or maybe they do. Mewsette is trying to enjoy the warm windowsill but Smokie sees it as an opportunity of a lifetime to wrestle with a family member he hasn’t wrestled with yet!

Hey Mewsette, let's wrestle.
Hey Mewsette, let’s wrestle.

Mewsette is cool about this and just tries to ignore him, but Smokie can’t keep his paws off her, he just has to keep touching her.

He makes the mistake of kind of smacking her on the face when she turns to look at him…

Hey Mewsette, hey!
Hey Mewsette, hey!

Well, he gets that face, quick! Paws off.

Oh. Oops.
Oh. Oops.

No, he still can’t resist!

Come on, Mewsette, we never wrestle!
Come on, Mewsette, we never wrestle!

Oops, Mewsette, I didn’t mean that.

I've never wrestled with a GIRL Mewsette!
I’ve never wrestled with a GIRL Mewsette!

It’s all I can do to keep my patience and not smack this kid!

Maybe girls play pretty rough.
Maybe girls play pretty rough.

In moments, Smokie is right back to it.

Hey Mewsette, hey Mewsette!
Hey Mewsette, hey Mewsette!

Epilogue, she did eventually grab him and toss him off the top of the wardrobe. Mewsette doesn’t fool around—she grew up with three brothers—those three brothers! The ones who Smokie thinks he can wrestle with. I don’t think he’s going to bother Mewsette for a while.

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Posted on Facebook today…

Oh no, we're not too hungry...
Oh no, we’re not too hungry…

No, we’re not too hungry. It’s the original Five house panthers, counterclockwise from the top it’s Mewsette, Mimi, Jelly Bean, Mr. Sunshine and Giuseppe in the back.

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Looks like March 9 must be a day for five cats in the kitchen!

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Breakfast Eyes, 2013
five black cats waiting for meal
Beautifully Waiting for Breakfast; Mimi, Bean, Mewsette, Giuseppe, Sunshine.

I love the early morning light at breakfast these days, and I’ll be sad to lose it beginning tomorrow…I know the Five like it too. They are much more animated than when it’s still dark, and I think they like the sun in their kitchen.

“Really,” I told them, “if you weren’t all so beautiful and didn’t look at me with such bright and trusting eyes you’d probably eat breakfast earlier, possibly dinner too.”

Instead I made them wait for their breakfast so I could take a few photos…a bunch of photos, since it takes a few tries to get them all looking at me at once. Mimi, as you can see, was having none of it, sitting back on the corner of the table with her lemon-slice eyes in slits. Often she is right in the middle of all her much larger children, but sometimes the press of them is a bit much for her. She is special, she will have me know.

Here’s another shot of them so everyone who sees these mealtime photos of them doesn’t think they always line up. They have a marvelous sense of composition when you get any number of them together.

five black cats waiting for meal.
A little scrambled…Mimi, Giuseppe, Bean, Mewsette, Sunshine.

See other photos of them waiting for their meals.

Patiently Waiting for Dinner

Still Celebrating Black Cats

Five!

And also see another of the many photos I took this morning—it’s of the blue pitcher with the light shining through it, but there’s a cat in it too! They didn’t have to wait for their breakfast for me to take Morning Blue.

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And from 2014 but in another room…

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We’re All Ready
five black cats waiting to play
When Does the Show Start?

I can tell I’ve had a busy week when they practically, very nearly, almost beg for a play session. Sitting at my desk I felt I was being watched. I turned around and saw this.

We haven’t had too much time for play this week as I got ready for my poetry reading and my car, which had needed some serious body work, became rather undrivable. But kitties have their needs regardless what’s happening in the world, and they know how to send me on a guilt trip. Everything is a little askew, but a game of stairway ball in the afternoon can surely be fun. And it’s also great fun to watch the human wave feather toys around as if she’s waving signal flags. Or so it seems.


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