Today, and last Sunday, Rick and I grilled in the back yard. There's this new cat that comes through the fence, or around the fence after I blocked the hole, and meows and begs and rubs incessantly. It is skinny but not emaciated, and has a collar on. I let it have some leftover buffalo juice last week, and now I know that was a mistake. Today ( Read more... )

The kitten just brought me a gift. It was the front half of a frog, with entrails hanging and only one leg left. I was in the middle of about a dozen tasks at the moment that I saw the frog. The task most immediately at hand was making the bed. The kitten was very excited, clawing and scrambling under the bed as she likes to do when it is being ( Read more... )

It's a dark morning and there's thunder rumbling. I accidentally left the window closed and the kitten was locked out for the night. I think she slept in the big cedar tree, because she started meowing at me when I sat on the toilet, and when I responded she emerged from the tree and came to the bathroom window. I walked to the other end of the ( Read more... )

In the distance a metal machine is banging rhythmically and ringing with a medium tone. The radio is playing the BBC program World Have Your Say, on why nobody seems willing to criticize Obama. I am willing. He just doesn't tell me enough specifics for my criticisms to be anything more than not knowing his intentions or character, and being ( Read more... )

Shakti is eating the dregs of my morning smoothie. It is made of fresh pineapple and cherries with the usual powders and potions added. She is sitting on my desk and dipping her paw in the thick green mush, then licking it off her paw. ...
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Kitten is passed out on the couch. I have never seen her sprawl exactly there and like that before....she seems to be getting more comfortable. She does not have to hide from the little canine anymore. She is exhausted from last night's excitement. I closed the door to the Crow's Nest last night while she was still out prowling. She could come ( Read more... )

I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't just seen it. My kitten is leaping into the air and doing a pattycake motion with her paws, trying to catch a fly in flight. She is determined. She leaps up about 3 feet. She meows with What sounds like irritation. Amazing.

The kitten requires attention to dine. She meows whenever I am in the kitchen, and then chatters at me until I follow her into the pantry, where her food is on a high shelf. She looks back over her shoulder and entices me to go with her, and once on the shelf she dines eagerly while I pet her. I don't understand why she has such glee at getting ( Read more... )

Ahhhhh. I needed a whole week just to begin to get caught up in my personal life, and today, with one day left, I'm feeling as if I have made some headway. I cleared my desk and filed all my notes from winter quarter, reworking the filing system as I go. I purchased an Immunology text for next quarter and read the first chapter. I met with two ( Read more... )