Daily Photo: Instant Cat Bed
Pull out the drawer to get a clean dishtowel and create an instant cat bed. Mimi was there as if the action of opening the drawer pulled her over and up into it. Really, what could be better than the nice soft, cozy wooden drawer in the cabinet that’s just purr-fectly Mimi-sized? It’s certainly not Mimi and Bean-sized, as it’s clear Bean is thinking it is.
I think Mimi knows my plans, though, and it doesn’t really include leaving the drawer open for a nap. “You’re not going to make me leave, are you?”
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Photos from previous years on this date
Share the Love, 2010
If you’ve been reading The Creative Cat for any length of time you’ve seen this photo before. It’s one of my favorites, for obvious reasons—who wouldn’t love the sweet fragile 20-year-old Peaches with her perfect head tilt, and the big, young and handsome three-year-old Giuseppe by her side. He wasn’t there for the food, but he literally and figuratively stood by her until the end, curling her up and curving his body around her, giving her baths and vigilantly following her around the house from the time he was about one year old in July 2008.
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Hey, Giuseppe wants to be sick too, if he gets as much attention as Peaches does, and all that great food!
Did you ever feel that way when you were a kid? My brother was accident prone and I really got tired of everyone doting on him—I never even had a tooth pulled. Well, now I’m glad, but then it would have been nice to get little get-well gifts.
So Giuseppe at least wants Peaches to share her food—after all, he’s the one who keeps her warm and gives her little baths. I do give Giuseppe lots of love and kisses for taking care of his little big sister, and in the end he’s fine with that.
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She was looking right at me, her slightly clouded eyes knowing just where I was, and if you look closely you can see her head is just slightly out of focus; she’d been having some sort of seizures now and then where she simply lost the use of one of her hind legs, and by this time she had developed a tiny tremor. I love her direct and determined expression, and I knew what it said: she’d come to me at age 15 after losing her first human so we’d only had five years together and she’d enjoyed every bit of it, she was determined to make the most out of every last moment she had. As it turned out, she only had three more days, but that delicate little waif was stronger than steel for wringing the best out of her days. Read more about my remarkable and inspiring little senior rescue, Peaches, and her entourage of young followers, especially her famous escort, Giuseppe.
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Wordless Wednesday: Stepmonsters, 2014
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I Was Of Five Minds, 2014
I was of five minds
like a cabinet
on which there are five black cats.
I totally apologize for the use of this stanza from one of my favorite poems, but the black cats and the blackbirds was just too much. It was they way they were arranged, where they are often all focused on the same thing, usually me, when gathering on this cabinet, here each is facing in a different direction and obviously about something different yet sitting close together in one space. I feel like that sometimes. But seriously, I sometimes look at my five black cats about their daily thing and derive some of the same conclusions as Wallace Stevens’s poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
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Cuddles, 2013
Giuseppe was assigned to supervise me in my studio last night so he reclined on my desk chair with a bored attitude, assuring that I could not sit down but would continue to work at my table and at organizing my space. Mimi came to spend time with me and then found Giuseppe to be quite the comfortable bed. Mimi is easily half as big as Giuseppe and sleeps on top of him on a regular basis. Giuseppe never minds.
Except when she tries to smother him.
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Front Row Seat, 2012
Today was balmy compared to the past two weeks, warm and breezy, and while Mimi and I did enjoy some time outdoors, it was one of those days when she remembered how fun it could be to run around outside, getting into trouble…I couldn’t let her do that, but I could set her up at the back door where she likes to sit to observe the back yard. It’s much more fun from that height.
Not that Mimi would ever really want to go back outside, as she came upstairs to join me in the studio shortly afterward and stayed all afternoon. Guess it’s not so bad here.
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 Kitchen Supervisors, 2011
Oops. Didn’t realize it was almost 9:30.
P.M.
Sorry guys. Just earning your keep.
Can I show you how to pull the tab on your cans?
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What Kitty? 2010
You know the kitty philosophy—if they can’t see you, then you can’t see them, and they leave no trace behind. Surely no one would notice the large lump under the covers. About as much as I don’t notice a black cat on the white bedspread.
This is Giuseppe’s latest discovery—getting under the edge of the bedspread near the floor, then climbing up the side of the bed to the top of the mattress. No, I’d never know he was there.
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mimi…nice razz bearee two yur mom !! ☺♥♥♥
Dat’s a yawn! She finds Bean very dull in his envy. 🙂
Love that photo of Peaches and Giuseppe!
That’s a very special photo, Chris. I love to share it every time it comes around.
We love the “kitty bed” drawer in the kitchen.
We wish we had one 😉
We also enjoyed all the other pictures.
Yup, cats are pawsome 🙂
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ
Aren’t they clever, Nancy? I’m surprised I get anything done but photographing cats.