Daily Photo: Sienna Loves the Cat Grass
Sienna comes for her nibbles a couple times a day at our new cat grass bar. She sits and looks out the window while she chews her grass and continues grazing.
A “bar” sounds grand but it’s not really a bar because there’s only one pot of it, but they really enjoy it, it’s good for them, and I’m all for that.
My gardening efforts haven’t been confined to the actual garden. Months ago I purchased wheatgrass from the grocery store, less expensive than the cat grass at the pet supply stores and the same thing, just to see how they liked it, and they did, consistently enough through three pots of it. I decided to look up cat grass and wheat grass seeds. I couldn’t find cat grass seeds that weren’t in a “kit” with soil and sometimes even a pot but I have plenty of both of those and don’t want to pay for it, but just to get the seeds to experiment I purchased one that did have the soil. I used the pots that came with the store-bought grass and set it under my plant lights with the garden seedlings.
The grass came up almost immediately and was ready to serve—as tall as the grocery store grass—about a week after sprouting. It kept growing even after I brought it upstairs and put it on the windowsill. Everyone nibbles on it several times each day. I found organic untreated non-GMO wheat grass, and oat grass too, through my seed supplier and can grow it for them at a fraction of the cost. I have another pot on the floor where I had some nibbles for them last year but the light wasn’t good. I had figured out how to add a plant light in that area so now I can just do that.
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From the Back Yard and Beyond
Photos from previous years.
Reflecting Colors, 2024
Sienna is in the basket reflecting, and the basket is reflecting on Sienna. Her eyes are actually a little more green than yellow, but she looks beautiful and bright with yellower eyes in the moment. Kitties know a good composition when they get themselves into one.
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From Instagram
We’re tired of your excuses. Just feed us breakfast.
I admit, I did get carried away and got involved in a garden project that led to a creative project before breakfast this morning. I live with the most understanding, forgiving kitties, but sometimes I push them a little too far. The fancy boys don’t have a mean bone in either of their bodies.
Nice set of supurrvisors there.
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From the Back Yard and Beyond
Photos from previous years.
Why is Mariposa So Cute?, 2019
If it’s not the big purrfectly round green eyes with purrfect eyeliner, or the fluffy white mittens, or the loooong whiskers far wider than she is, or the way she talks to herself when she plays, or the way she snuggles up to each of the other cats and they take her in, or the fact that just short of a year ago she was living in a filthy abandoned house with some pretty mean cats and I have no idea how she learned how to manipulate the world to her liking, I couldn’t tell you what’s so special about Mariposa. I thought I’d give you a taste of the cuteness I have to endure.
I also have sooo many photos I’ve taken of her with my DSLR, which I prefer, and haven’t had the time to process them lately. I’ve finished a number of things and now I can catch up, with Mariposa and many other things.
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From Facebook and Instagram
I even missed a week on social media too.
Friday
This has pretty much been the scene all week, I work in the studio, they settle in the room next door because, of course, they can’t leave me entirely alone up here.
Saturday
Go away human, we’re discussing important cat things. (Should I be worried?)
Sunday
The Homeless Cat Management Team/Pittsburgh C.A.T. Spaghetti Dinner!
Tuesday
Baff time. Mr. Sunshine and Mewsette are having a synchronized bath as only siblings can do. Mariposa has more work to do with all that hair.
Wednesday
I know you’re both innocent, but what was that noise we all just heard coming from where you are?
Bella is not properly supervising me by napping all day, but I have managed to be productive nonetheless.
Photos from previous years.
Mimi in the Cat Book Library, and a Beautiful Morning, 2018
Mimi took her turn in the cat book library today, watching the neighborhood out the door. She fits purrfectly in that little spot. I’ve been planning to put a shelf there so the books don’t get worn since everyone likes to spend time there. Below is another view of Mimi, but the cat tunnel in the mirror isn’t so nice. This is all after we had a nice adventure out in the back yard, below that.
Mimi loves her “real” cat tree out in the back yard. I still haven’t had the last section of the wild black cherry tree removed. I hope to get it removed now that the weather has finally turned warm, and we hope it stays that way. But until then, we have to visit the tree every day.
My camera decided to focus on the grapevine as Mimi was walking along, but I like the way it looks. It’s Mimi in her favorite space, kind of dreamy, part of the environment.
While Mimi was exploring her favorite spaces, I was exploring mine with my camera. It was a blue and yellow and green morning. I am so happy to finally have flowers to photograph.
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What other photos have I shared on this date?
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What’s Out There?, 2017
I have no idea what we are intently watching but I just whispered, “What’s out there?” and Mimi turned slightly and whispered, “Murf”, like, “Shut up.”
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She has good taste in snacks.
Good for her too!