Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:13:44 +0000

i like a nice humvee myself. very solid, and there’s almost always one available when you need it. guardrails can be a bit flimsy, hardly more than a speedbump on one’s way over the cliff.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:38:39 +0000

Stopping is so overrated. There’s almost always something around that will help with stopping – another car, a guardrail, a tree.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:34:42 +0000

oh, i understand about cheap. i drive a 20-year-old car, mostly because it still runs. and now that i’ve finally parted with enough money to put new brakes on it, it stops too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:41:21 +0000

She’s not as cheap as I am, and she didn’t have to install them.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:34:02 +0000

your mother is smarter than you are.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:53:02 +0000

Boots looks like he has the same “indent” over the nose and the really silky fur that Sox has, Jill. They make great foot warmers on a cold night.

What he really has, OWL, is between 15 and 20 pounds that gets launched at the blinds.

A number of the blinds are from my Mother’s house when she switched to verticals, Hipparchia. I’ll wait until the first window is without a blind from stock, and then switch them all. The vinyl they use for the mini-blinds gets brittle in the sun, so it won’t take all that long.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:37:03 +0000

vertical blinds are the cat toy nonpareil at chez hipparchia.

mini-blinds are a major pain, both to operate and to keep clean, even when you haven’t got cats tearing them up for you. sell your stockpile on ebay and use the proceeds to invest in vertical blinds. your cats will thank you for it [or not]. a word of warning: vertical blinds are very noisy toys, though nowhere near as annoying as the neighbors’ wind chimes.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:28:13 +0000

What a beautiful kitty. He reminds me of Rocky Girl. She has that type of concentration. I can see how blinds could be disheveled once that Mr. Sox gets busy trying to catch the shadows.

By: Cookie Jill

Cookie Jill — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:42:48 +0000

I thought of your “kids” when I met Boots, the official watch cat of La Casa de Maria retreat that I went to last weekend.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/santabarbarian/1399654753/in/set-72157602055044196/

He followed me around at lunchtime. Perhaps I shouldn’t have shared the cuisine.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:23:56 +0000

As soon as I run out of the mini-blinds I’ve stock-piled over the years in moves, I will go to vertical blinds of wide, smooth vinyl. The fabric versions can still be climbed and pulled down, but the smooth versions can’t. The cats not only go through the slats in the middle, the kittens have used one as a ladder with unhappy results as they gained weight.

Sox has a unique profile among the feral cats, showing some Persian in his background, which is also reflected in his stocky body. This is the best of about a dozen attempts to get a morning profile of Sox.