I just heard her dispatch some squeaking thing.  I did not get up to save it from her.  She is probably licking her chops right now, having just chomped down the last bite.  Maybe it was a baby rabbit.  It squeaked like one ( Read more... )

Today I picked up this pet that I call "Kitten" and she felt significantly heavier---more like a cat than a kitten at eight years of age. She is so kittenish most of the time that the name is no stretch. She has been very good company this last week.
( ruminations )

Woke up at 4am eastern time (1am Pacific time) to fly back to the left coast. Due to a coffee mistake (didn't ask and was served caffeinated at 8pm) I slept only 2 hours. Wow does that make for a long day. Arrived in Portland at 10:30am local time, and was grouchy by noon and incoherent by 5pm. Went to bed at 7pm and slept 11 hours, and I feel ( Read more... )

True story, just happened, 6:49am. Kitten just came muttering into my bed. She let out her little vibrato meow and I reached over sleepily to pet her hello. My hand landed on something wet. I let out a howl of disgust, thinking it was a dead mouse. She jumped down out of the bed, and then on the bedroom floor something went crunch. I turned on ( Read more... )

Kitten is injured. I don't know what happened to her but I think it was yesterday or the day before. She has lacerations on a front leg and a hind leg, and she can't jump. She's been laying around looking glum. The injuries look like maybe she tangled with a fence or a door, not so much like another creature, though I suppose it is possible. I ( Read more... )

( today )

I have this strange chair that is the corner out of a segmented sofa. It is supposed to be off white, but it is so old and dirty that it is more like gray mottled with brown. Last winter the roof leaked on it and the stains were the worst yet. I generally keep it covered with a blanket. Today I propped it up on the bannister of our tiny 2nd ( Read more... )

( headed to the coast in the morning )

Shakti is sitting on the window sill in the east window of my office. The full moon is high and clouds are drifting past it, torturing the vampires. Suzanne is starting charcoal in a hibachi on the porch, and the pug beast is snorting in the hall.
( random download )

Well now the weather is getting interesting. Some time last night there was some rain that froze when it hit the earth, covering cars, snow, railings and everything with a thin coat of clear slipperiness. The cat hates the cold weather, refuses to go out. She has become quite upset with me, since I am of course responsible for this weather. She ( Read more... )