Look at the size of those ears!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Young cats are like kids. They resist falling asleep until they almost fall over. There are too many birds to watch outside the window, too many other cats to follow around, too many shelves to jump onto, too many keyboards to walk across. Tashi eventually settles down, but not for long. Bear still hisses at her, but she just avoids him. She is much, much faster than he is, and she knows he's just grumpy. He hasn't ever made a move to hurt her, has just tried to swat her away with claws in. The felines in the house will eventually succumb to her charms, just as the humans have. In the meantime, I have given away a cactus that I've had since 2000, after rescuing it from the office of a colleague at an ad agency where I used to work. He moved away and left it behind. It now has a new home in Port Alberni. The pine cones were part of my nature collection — a friend is making Christmas ornaments this year from pine cones, so I donated to her raw materials.
My new excuse to procrastinate
Thursday, July 15, 2010
It's been a year since my dear Phoebe (16 years) died. Serendipity took me past the window of an animal rescue in Sidney a couple of weeks ago, where I became instantly enamoured of this beauty. After a few days of discussing the possibility of adding to our cat family, we adopted her. She is almost four months old. Dainty. Lithe. Fearless. Her short name is Tashi. Full name: Isis Eka Pada Isabella Tashi Zumi. I'm not even thinking about things to get rid of. There is a youngster in the house. So far two of the big boys are no problem, but we still have to supervise when she is in the same general area as Bear. He is the one out of sorts this time. But it's only been a few days and the adjustments are going well. Might be next week before I post about objects. I'm too busy playing.
15 out, 4 back in
Thursday, July 08, 2010
We have a house guest. Our nephew. So I've been preoccupied with things other than getting rid of stuff. However, the nephew and I went to one our town's best secondhand bookstores, took in 15 books for store credit and bought two new books each. Since two belong to him now, technically I'm only bringing two back in for me.
One of the cats is very friendly towards him, one is wary and one has stayed in the laundry basket in the closet for a week now. Bear only comes out to eat at night or when the lad is outside.
One of the cats is very friendly towards him, one is wary and one has stayed in the laundry basket in the closet for a week now. Bear only comes out to eat at night or when the lad is outside.