Kitty Moment

I finally managed to achieve a measure of peace in my office with regards to the kitties. The one who meowed outside my door got to sit on the bookcase below the window and look out. The other one could curl up on the second chair in the room. Ah, peace.

Alas, I had to repot my herb garden so it fit into one planter and move it inside. The only place where it can get light is my office bookcase - where I kept my seedlings this spring. The cat didn't like being supplanted. I tried to keep her out at first and gave that up. I thought she might jump up on the bookcase and sit opposite the window next to my plants and be good.

Nope. She wanted to be between the planter and the window, and as I watched, she started eating my herbs. So now she's not allowed in my office again, and I have to put up with her begging outside my door.

Kitty Moment

No picture again today, just a story.

"Jessica was cooking in the kitchen. The weather was gorgeous, so she opened the balcony door to let in some fresh air. The kitties meowed, so - having previously determined it's safe for them - she let the cats onto the balcony. They sniffed around her herbs and settled down to enjoy the fading sunshine.

Jessica went back to cooking, knowing her husband would be home soon. Then she heard it, the garage door rumbling open. He was home and the food wasn't quite done yet. Jessica hurried to finish things up.

Downstairs she heard the door open. Suddenly there was a horrible cross between a scream and a meow at the balcony. Jessica looked over to find Sam, the white male cat, clawing his way up the screen door. Her husband was now upstairs and Sam was clamouring to greet him (he normally greets him at the front door). With a bit of trouble we managed to get the cat down and inside."

Seriously, the cat climbed half way up the screen door in his attempt to get back inside.

Crazy cat.

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A few months ago I bought my husband a remote control helicopter as an early birthday present. The kitties love it. That is to say, they're terrified of it. And yet, at the same time, fascinated by it. They try to get as close to it when it's in flight as they can without actually touching it. Occasionally they'll take a swipe at it, but for the most part it's like they're hypnotized by its flashing lights.

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No picture today, just a story. In my last Kitty Moment, I mentioned how our cat likes to sleep on things, despite having lots of carpeted flooring. Well, a few days ago she decided to mess with my mind. I saw her sleeping on, you guessed it, carpet. Regular, nothing on it, carpet.

I noticed this and picked her up, petting her for a while. When I put her down she immediately walked over to the wires on the floor and laid down on them. It made me wonder if she'll sleep on comfortable carpet when no one's watching, then switch to something uncomfortable just because a human's in the room.

Kitties are strange.

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Our cat has this odd propensity for sitting on things. The floor will be perfectly open, lots of nice comfortable places to sit, and she'll find the one piece of paper that's fallen down and sit on that, making sure her body's only on the paper. While we were getting the windows replaced all our electronic equipment was moved aside. That resulted in a pile of wires on the floor. Even once things were put back together, some wires remained. Despite having swathes of open carpet to lie on, our cat heads straight for the wires. Bizarre.

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And here's Mittens with her bear. She doesn't play with him too often, so I was lucky I had my camera ready.

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Our cats are pretty partial to anything dairy (and turkey) related. But I never would have expected them to love yop of all things. Here they are, one being bottle fed the other drinking from the cap.

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One of our cats likes to meow outside my office door. She doesn't do it because she wants attention, because once I'm outside she ignores me, she just doesn't like me in my office. She was banned from there for jumping on my desk and being a pest, so now she sits outside the door. And meows.

I decided to let her in again to see if she'd be good and let me work. She likes sitting in boxes, so I moved an empty box I had next to my reading chair and brought it close to my work chair. She entered the room and went straight for my desk. I introduced her to the box, which she sat in for a moment or two, grooming herself and liking it immensely. Then she jumped out and settled elsewhere.

Meanwhile our other cat decided HE liked the box, and sat there for a while.

All that silence got me antsy, so I looked for the first cat. Guess where she was sitting? On the floor by my reading chair, where the box used to be! Crazy kitty.

Kitty Moment

In Tuesday's post I mentioned I tried the 'No Machine Ice Cream' from the Cook Yourself Thin Faster cookbook. Well, I modified it a little. Instead of using cocoa powder and making a chocolate ice cream I used a tsp of maple extract and added score bar candy pieces. Oh, and since I have one I put it in my ice cream maker so it would finish faster.

My husband and I thought it was delicious. The recipe's use of sweetened condense milk meant no extra sugar was needed, and it was plenty sweet!

But most importantly, our cat liked it too.

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Ok, so it's not a 'kitty' per say, but it's still cute and fuzzy and you just want to go up and rub it's tummy. Provided it doesn't attack you first.

This is a photo I took at the Toronto zoo.