As the time draws ever closer for Reacher and Corbett, Melodie, Moxie, Martin, and Dodger to go to Petsmart (they go Friday morning), I’m remembering to take time to just enjoy having them around. I love the fact that they’ve become such good friends with each other (Martin, especially, loves to tussle with Reacher) and with Jake and Elwood. We’ve got a great bunch here, and I like to watch them play.
(Then I snatch them up and kiss them until they get disgusted and stalk away from me with their ears back. Nothing cuter than a disgusted cat, unless it’s a hissing kitten.)
Corbett got his claw caught in the dishtowel, and Martin’s mocking him.
“NOM. Kitten paws are the tastiest!”
Bath time (is it ever NOT bath time?).
Snack time is over, and a marauding band of kittens go from plate to plate to make sure not one single morsel of food was left behind.
“What, lady? Go away. We’re talking about you.”
The eyes just kill me.
Newt is such a quiet, unobtrusive presence. He likes to sleep in out of the way places where no one will bother him. Lately, if he’s not sleeping on the cat tree, he’s sleeping under the dresser in the guest bedroom. Usually I don’t even realize he’s there until he strolls out into view, stretches, and heads off to the food bowl.
You know, I keep feeling like there’s something I’ve forgotten to tell you. I can’t quite put my finger on it…
Oh, right! The new guys. Meet ’em.
You didn’t think I was going to let all my kittens go off to Petsmart without some emergency kittens in place, did you?
WHAT IF I NEEDED A SCREECHY LITTLE KITTEN TO SNUGGLE?!
More about them tomorrow (by which time we might even have names for them!).
(Name suggestions more than welcome – they’re both boys. Names I considered and then discarded: McGarrett and Danno (Danno had already been used), Castor and Pollux (Castor had been used), Hurley and Charlie (Charlie had been used). Fred’s not loving Riggins and Saracen. We’re stumped.)
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Previously
2009: “Oh WOE, I am lost, someone please save me!”
2008: No entry.
2007: Those are some awesome Crazy Eyes there on the left.
2006: But this is the ONLY position she’ll take her bottle in, standing on her back legs with her back against me.
2005: Hey. Did you SEE the Best. Picture. Ever.?