Cat Photos

Surprise!! I'm posting....cat photos - what else?!?! I'm still trying figure this camera out. Some of the pics were too dark and I tried to brighten them with the camera's software and then they just look fuzzy and ugly, but I'll post them anyway. I'll get this pitcher-takin' deally down someday.

Here are the cats - from the top o' the stairs to the bottom. Sometimes - when they feel like it - where I hang out is where they hang out.

Attempt at photography

OK, so I do love my new camera. And I haven't been taking too many photos lately. AND I just recently figured out how to turn the flash off. Really. That's mostly because I'm too impatient and/or lazy to read the instructions.

Obviously, I still haven't mastered the flash/lighting thing. But I like the angle of this picture. And these stairs are my new project. I'm refinishing them. Started that last night at 7:45 or so on a Sunday - perfect timing for a big project.

What does...

a month's supply - - or 200 lbs. - - or about $24.00 worth of litter look like?

how about this?

or this?

Simple minds are amused easily.

(and by that, I mean mine.)

Kitty treat?

Lucky - our diabetic kitty. He doesn't get many treats. When we first got him I noticed he was sickly. We kept giving him antibiotics for - well, let's just say a li'l problem he was having. When you take excessive amounts of antibiotics - it's recommended to eat some bacteria to replace the "good bacteria" that gets annihilated by the antibiotics. Lucky developed quite a taste for yogurt.

Mike sat down last night to eat a little yogurt snack. He couldn't figure out why Lucky went so crazy. I think that Lucky remembers his yogurt days. Before the tests came back to show that he was diabetic. I still can't be certain that it wasn't my fault - that I didn't elevate his blood sugar level by feeding him tons o' yogurt. But, we treat him as a diabetic kitty and feed him special food and he acts like he feels better.

Lucky - cleaning up the remnants of a snack...

Rat a tat Cat

I don't quite have this food thing worked out yet and it's not from lack of trying. First of all, we have five cats. We feed them three types of food. Ol' G gets ol' man/kidney trouble cat food. Lucky gets diabetic food. Ally was just recently put on the fast track to adulthood and is eating fat-cat food.

Where do we store all of this cat food? Well, our downstairs stand-up shower serves as a good place to keep the 20 lb. bags of food out of reach. See, kitties are hunters, scavengers and -- really -- a lot like rats. They claw and scratch their way to any food they can find. Case in point: this picture. This cabinet has a childproof lock on it - it's where I keep the bins of fat-cat food. We hear this door banging at all hours of the night. Sometimes they manage to get a paw in there and knock the food over. But, damn they sure are cute...

This is what happens...

when you leave the room for a few minutes. These photos were taken the other night at our New Year's Eve party. **

Kitties gotta have some fun too, I guess!


**Kitty-eaten food was promptly disposed of!!!**

Ringin' in the Year

We were extremely excited to have a party for New Year's Eve. We cleaned our @$$es off and Mike cooked up a storm and I was ready to get saucy.

We were also able to surprise our dear friend Gnightgirl with a li'l birthday cake and gifts that I think she enjoyed.

I had a wonderful time and I hope every new year can start this way.

Eating Habits

Some might find this disgusting. Others may find it funny. But, seriously - - please don't believe we would actually feed a cat from our table.

OK, we might do that. But, we would never feed the cats directly from our own forks...

At least we haven't yet.

Family

I can't seem to get over the fact that Christmas is over and we're facing a loooooong winter. But, looking on the bright side, I've got my own li'l family and a lot of great friends (just like family) who will help me get threw it...

Anyway, I got a kick out spending time back home with the family (wish I was still there) and I thought I'd post some various pics...


Dad was our guinea pig - here he is in the new sweatbands my sister got him:


And a stocking cap - I liked his placement of the hat:


Mother - cooking us dinner before we left:


My sister and her cats:


And - finally, their cats:

Kitty Christmas

We had a great Christmas weekend. Got to see everyone's families and really enjoyed ourselves. The only problem is it goes by so fast.

Here are some pics of our kitties' little Christmas before we left for the weekend.

More new camera pictures....

Did I mention I love my new camera??


Ally...




Lucky destroying some pesky shoe box fluff for us....





Tuffy on the fridge....





G posing for the camera...




Aggie in a rare, brief appearance...

Christmas Kitties

I bought an early Christmas/no-reason-at-all gift for us - a new digital camera! I was so excited I took a million zillion pictures last night. And the kitties helped us wrap our gifts. I still haven't perfected the red eye stuff yet. Right now I'm getting some very glowy eye shots. Not red - just glowy.

Christmas

Christmas. Christmas is coming this weekend. My tree is still in the same shape it was last time I blogged about it. Well, I take that back - it's probably a little more bent and ugly than it was before and still has a cat in it every night but still no Christmas lights or decorations. Makes me feel weird. Makes me have to admit how lazy I am. After asking my husband almost every night: "Are we going to decorate the tree?" And he'd reply: "How will we keep the friggin' cat away?" (OK, not his exact words, probably mine.) Yeah, can you imagine how much yelling and water spraying and unhappiness we'd go through trying to keep that cat off the tree? And, to top it off, visions of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are dancing in my head of "fried pussycat". Afraid one of my own will bite through the cords. A friend of mine says she had a bunny that did just that and survived...

I've kept this debate going in my head and with my husband and with my friends and now - it seems too late. I'm lazy. Do I want to decorate the tree just to tear it down in less than a week?

And I haven't watched my special Christmas shows. I've recorded some on my TiVo thingy and some of the others I own. I'm a little kid. I own the classic Christmas shows and Disney movies (even though my husband tells me Disney is evil and corporate and something-or-other but, somehow, if a Disney movie is on my wish list - it ends up being mine.)

I haven't listened to my Christmas music either (which we usually listen to as we decorate our house and the tree).

So, I haven't done a lot of my Christmassy things and it doesn't feel a lot like Christmas so far. But, I've been thinking about it. I can't wait for Christmas this year. I'm really looking forward to seeing my family and continuing our traditions 'cause my mother always made sure we had the best Christmas we could have. And I'm excited that I'll get to enjoy some time with my friends and start some new traditions and, damnit, I'm sappy, but I just can't wait for Christmas. I'll try to stay off the sauce and not go around singing and petting people.

My favorite kitty

I think I'd make you throw up if I tried to explain how much I love this little kitten.

Live Nude Cats

Click on the title to this blog entry to go to the website - I have no idea how I did it but I've linked the site to the title of this blog. I'm no computer programmer/website-maker-upper.

That is, click the link if you're interested in this cute, fuzzy calendar I saw the other day - it would make a perfect gift for any cat lover you know. ;0)

Christmas Tree (puke)

This is why my Christmas tree is up and not yet decorated. We may decide to take it down soon and skip the tree this year. This is not Lucky's first Christmas. But, this year he seems overly obsessed with the tree. The other morning, I found Christmas tree puke on the floor in the den. Someone is overindulging!! Can you imagine if we had a live tree???




Mike is 6' tall....Lucky climbed almost to the top of the tree.




If you look closely at the picture below, you'll see that he's licking the tree.

Goofy Fortune

We went to a buffet today at lunch. If anyone can explain this to me, I'd be glad to hear it.

Cat parts - Aggie

Shy, skittish, sweet, Aggie.