Daily Photo: Tropical Sun
Okay, Sienna, I don’t see you…
She’s pretending she’s enjoying a bit of tropical sun because of the pineapples and citrus. Silly girl!
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From Instagram
Of course, you don’t see a pair of #tortiecat ears picking out from under the covers. Sienna has decided to tuck herself back into bed on this unexpectedly cold day. Guess I won’t be making the bed today.
Hamlet found a great spot too, on the fleecy Cloud bed on my work table in the basement right under a furnace vent. He looks pretty pleased with himself.
Mimi is having a bit of a urinary issue right now after feeling quite well, active with a good appetite. This has been recurring over years, and she’s feeling much better now than she was overnight. Send her some purrs so that we can figure out what this is once and for all. If you have any extra for a donation toward her care, we’d really appreciate that. It has been a very expensive year with feline expenses, and unfortunately looks like replacing my car is a necessity.
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From the Back Yard and Beyond
From around this date in past years
Who Is That Kitty Shadow?, 2023
That shadow is clearly a kitty shadow on the wall as I go up the steps. But who is the kitty the shadow belongs to?
It’s Sienna! Just sitting there soaking up the sun, having a hard time keeping her eyes open. Shortly, she’ll be shaped more like a loaf and fast asleep on the windowsill.
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From Instagram
Cats grazing in the field.
Ice on the bird bath this morning, but 70° in the cold frame. Hope it’s not too hot for the spinach! They like the cold weather.
From around this date in past years
I Don’t See Bella Here, Do You? 2022
Bella has a lively imagination. She plays like she’s stalking and pouncing on three mice at one time. When she looks at a toy, or something that’s not a toy but becomes a toy for her, I can tell it’s shape-shifting into a parade of different prey animals right there before her eyes. Practice makes purrfect.
So here, I looked where she was looking and there was no other cat there, no toy, nothing that could be a toy except maybe an awkward toy, nothing hide-worthy that I could see. And yet, there she was, making up some drama of survival. Or maybe just looking at the world from her own unique point of view. I can imagine the stories Bella would write.
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From Instagram
Enjoy the sunshine while we wait for the next snowstorm! Hamlet makes nice use of negative space with his contrasty pose, reminiscent of Picasso.
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From the Garden and Beyond
Something pretty. I thought this was a stained glass panel at the top of a wooden fence as I came down the street, but it’s the Christmas lights filled with sunlight.
From around this date in past years
Birdwatching Out All the Windows at Once, 2021
Multi-talented Sienna watches birds out the side window, the front window and the front door, and never has to get up and move! I love the speckles in her right ear. Like her tortie spots, they are random and she doesn’t have them in both ears.
Sienna is very affectionate, wildly playful and very active, but always a little timid, sometimes very timid. The occasional calming collar works wonders for her. She also has occasional urinary idiopathic cystitis and we’re pretty certain the timid nature is tied to that, either caused by feeling vulnerable because of the discomfort of the condition, or the condition is caused by the stress of her condition. Idiopathic cystitis is difficult to find a cause for, but this year I hope to look farther into this condition to see if we can find out the cause. In the meantime she is absolutely the best little tortie.
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From Instagram
Just a little bit of rain.
Jelly Bean says, “You forgot to show off my whiskers on #whiskerwednesday!!” And his pretty teefs.
Sienna is ready to #supurrvise.
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From around this date in past years
Supurrvisor Sienna, 2020
Someone is very pleased to have my lap all to herself.
From Instagram
A good day to sit and watch the rain.
Still one basket open for today’s basket nap-a-thon!
Time to get up and stretch, clean up, and change places for renewed napping.
Mimi and I did get some time outdoors.
Photos from around this date in previous years
Sienna Says Hello, 2019
A sunny room is very popular at any time of year, but especially on a cold winter day. Sienna usually snoozes on my desk chair downstairs, but apparently couldn’t resist the sun streaming down the stairs and ran up to the bathroom to enjoy basking on the windowsill. She greeted me when I came in the room and asked if we could keep the sunshine. I’d love to!
Photos from years past.
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Bella’s New Obsession, 2015
Squirrel. Squirrel for a snack. Squirrel for dinner. Squirrel for breakfast. Bella sits transfixed, barely breathing, making plans, figures there are enough squirrels out there to feed the family for quite some time. How to get them…
We don’t dislike squirrels, we just know that’s what Bella has on her mind. And she talked to Mimi about it, and Mimi confirmed Bella’s suspicions. I’m not sure how Buddy feels about that.
But Bella and I also spent some time together birdwatching, lurking below the windowsill, holding completely still, me with my camera, Bella with her ears flat. We saw a whole flock of goldfinches, drab in their winter feathers with just a flash of yellow at the throat. Bella is very excited by their fluttering when they’re all together.
And we were both transfixed by a busy little chickadee that would hop from one branch to another to the feeder, grab one seed, flutter off to a branch and talk about it, chick-a-dee, chick-a-dee-dee-dee, and finally break it open and eat the seed inside, then start all over again.
Mimi came outside with me to do some outdoor things, but wanted nothing to do with the snow and ice, even on a sunny day. Snow is kind of okay, but at that time of the day the temperature was still in the teens. Mimi is an indoor kitty now, no more freezing her little paws!
We also spent some time in the morning, with three of the four siblings sleeping on the floor, and on in the cat tree, and Mimi telling me that I really needed to rethink what I’d planned. I shared the text and photo below on Facebook; I used the “blue wash” filter in my smartphone and it’s interesting, so we are using this photo as our Caturday Art as well.
Me: But Mimi, how can I sketch you when you are sitting on my sketchbook?
Mimi: The paper is black, no one will see me. You make no sense sometimes. (Exits with dismissive swish of tail.)
Cats take things so literally sometimes. I sketched her children instead.
I’ll post the finished sketch of her children in a little bit.
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When the sun moves around to filter into this window, Kelly hops over to enjoy it and have a nice bath on the cabinet. In a rare moment of repose, she sits still and lets the sun warm her back, the light reflecting back from the pine wood cabinet warming the tones of her tortoiseshell fur. Read more and purchase.
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Such a pretty tropical gal. Purrs to Mimi from all of us too.
We send Mimi purrayers and Power of the Paw. Our old black girl just went through a severe UTI herself.