While looking for my squash photos on Sunday evening, I ran across this set that I thought was pretty hilarious. I couldn't quite figure out how this cat's head was embedded in this table at first glance.
With this one I started remembering this couch. It had a center part with cup holders that were missing.
Now you can see how she got into the thing in the first place as she plays with the handle of a brush.
Squeezing out of the drawer.
All the way out!
Until next time.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
It's Amazing How Fast Times Flies - Memories from 2004 - Part III
Labels: cats
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Tiger and His Big Foot, and His Best Buddy Lionel
Labels: cats
Ds1 gave them a tiny purple bouquet to nestle between the two of them. Lionel is totally grey, I don't think he has even one white or black hair. Check out Tiger's peach-toned, black-lined nose.
Until next time.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Difference Between Flash and No Flash
Labels: cats, Gardening, Just Stuff
The comparison between these two photos is astounding to me. I was in the garden one afternoon as the sun was going down. I wanted to capture a picture of my garden guard kitty, Miss Vicious, so my first picture was taken using the standard setting for my camera, which includes use of the flash. Pioneer Woman says to try not to ever use the flash, but I am not very good at non-flash images. My goodness, it looks pitch black outside.
Now here is the photo without flash, within seconds.
Isn't the difference amazing?
Until next time.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Look at this Goofy Cat
Labels: cats
The other night Tiger jumped onto my chest and wanted to be petted. Normally he doesn't fancy my affections, preferring the men of the house over me. Hmph. Sometimes he'll allow me to pet him, but he won't purr. Tonight he was purring and he stretched out his paws to touch each side of my face as he fell to sleep. Goofy cat.
Kev also got an awesome sky photo. The sun was setting and you could see the rain pouring from the storm clouds not too far away.
Until next time.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Spidercats
Labels: cats
These two boy kitties just got neutered on Friday morning, and these photos were taken Sunday evening... they are supposed to be taking it easy, not climbing screen doors chasing after moths...
Until next time.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
A Kitty Post
Labels: cats
Tiger LOVES to have his underarms scratched. :-)
Three boys snuggled up on the couch.
Popoe got tossed onto Vicious... he knew he was in for it and laid down and played dead.
Vicious is not amused.
Tired Popoe...
Until next time.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Kitty Pi In One Day
Labels: cats, crocheting, knitting
Ds2 decided he wanted to knit a kitty pi for Precious today. Only he doesn't know how to knit, so he asked me to teach him. Only we didn't have any size 11 DPNs, so we had to make some from wooden dowels that I happened to have on hand from the last time I made my own wooden needles. But then I couldn't figure out to get started knitting in the round and shortly after casting on 9 stitches and not knowing what to do from there, I gave up, grabbed a crochet needle and began creating a crocheted kitty pi. Why I didn't write down what I was doing, I will never know. I pretty much winged it and it came out just like I planned! I doubt if it took me more than four hours. Ds2 did crochet several of the rounds, but he has only crocheted chains in the past, and so today was learning to do chains again, plus learning the slipstitch, single crochet and double crochet. We finally agreed on Hunter's Chicken (aka Chicken Cacciatore) for dinner, but I didn't really want to cook. He really wanted the kitty pi to be finished, so we agreed that I would crochet and he would cook. That worked out great.
I did use wool from my stash, the Irish Twist Yarn for Aran Sweaters, but I don't know if it was prewashed - I don't know if it will shrink and felt like the kitty pi is supposed to. We first read about kitty pi's at Crazy Aunt Purl's.
When I finished it, ds2 put Precious into it and she immediately began bathing. We had the kitty pi perched on top of a TV tray. It was a somewhat precarious, but she didn't seem to care much.
Until next time.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Tuna Time!
Labels: cats
All the kitties love tuna!
The kittens have learned "Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty" very nicely and come running when they hear me calling. Especially in the morning after milking. Lionel has even begun to associate the pail with milk and was milling around my ankles mewing when I was getting ready to go OUT to milk yesterday morning.
Dear honey opened a can of tuna and all the cats came running. They all know the can opener sound, too. Here you can see the little kittens have pushed their way into the can of tuna. Poor Presh didn't even get a lick in, although she was trying to get a lick when the little boys pushed her aside. Tiger can't believe this is happening. Blogger has a new video feature and I'm trying to upload a video of the kittens. It is so cute. They keep pulling the can back and forth. It's mine, no it's mine! The video is so huge though, I don't know if I want to keep it up for very long. I think it's going to take at least 10 minutes to upload it at the rate it is going for the size. 13MB! The first time I tried Blogger stalled out at 2MB and said I wasn't connecting. Hmmm... well this time it uploaded all the way through to 13MB and then when it got done, it's not on my blog anywhere. I don't know what happened. Oh well, it was a very cute little video.
Dear honey takes mercy on Presh and Tiger and opens another can. Presh stretches up trying to get closer to the tuna.
Until next time.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Instantly Add 2.5 Hours to Your Workdays!
Labels: cats, geek-stuff, knitting, Wedding
I don't recommend this method, but it's working for me.
My Dear Honey got his driver's license today after not having had one for many years. I am so excited! The way I see it is I gain at least 2.5 hours more on each work day since he will happily take over the driving. While he's driving I can look at grocery ads, put together the weekly menu and shopping list, compose blog posts on my laptop, KNIT, I said KNIT!! Whoooo!!!
Today we did our Friday Thang as usual, first stopping at Department of Motor Vehicles. Dh thought he would have to take the written and driving test again, but nope, they took their money and took his picture and we were out of there within an hour!
I retired my vanity license plate which had the letters ***MAMA. Dear Honey has suspected for some time that some of the road rage directed at me is because the other driver knows I'm a woman, due to the license plate. AND... he wasn't too excited about driving with my vanity plate...
I worked on my swatch for the pair of socks I'm planning to knit. I got several rows done. When we set out this morning I had the cast on row and one row of knit. I didn't knit every spare moment, but I got a lot more knitting done than if I'd have been driving the entire time!
We stopped at a little diner and had lunch together. Dh had a burger with fries, and I had a Reuben sandwich with fries. It was okay. Nothing compared to the Reuben sandwiches that ds2 makes.
We bought envelopes on Thursday afternoon for the invitations. $15 for 100 ivory colored greeting card envelopes. I stopped by the post office today to ask the postmistress if the envelope was considered "large" which would mean more postage. Whooo!! We only need to use regular postage. I have 1 book of the love bird stamps, but they don't seem to be available at usps.com, so I may use the wedding hearts for the remainder. I looked for a roller type thing to make the stenciling job quicker and easier, but no luck. There doesn't seem to be such a thing on the market.
I found my "test" material at Walmart today. Too bad it's not my color! Only $1/yard! It looks and feels like satin, the blue on the left side. I'm not sure why but the edge (selvage?) is pink and purple. I don't know if that was by design or some accident. The other blue doesn't really match, but it's to be the lining for the camisole. It was also $1/yard. I am starting with the camisole and hoping it won't be too difficult. I cut around the pattern pieces this afternoon. OH, and Walmart had the FF size of my wedding gown pattern. The pattern shows the price to be $16.95. I think the GG size is going to be way too big for my top. I was planning to buy the FF size from simplicity.com because it was $10.xx. I think $10.55. I still don't know if there was a shipping charge - didn't get a chance to see the packing slip invoice. Anyway, so I decided to bite the bullet and just buy the pattern in real life, instead of from the Internet. I was pleasantly surprised to discover after we checked out that the pattern was only $9.97! Whew. I seem to need a size 20 up top, size 24 for my waist and size 26 for my hips. Maybe I can combine the patterns. I wasn't able to find any lace for $1/yard. I might have to break down and buy it for $2.97/yard. I decided to wait on buying the lace since it will probably take me a couple of weeks to put the camisole and skirt together. I'm going to try to keep track of how much time I spend on it so I will have an idea of how long it will take to put the real dress together.
We stopped at a Super Joann's on Thursday after work and they every color you can imagine, with matching lace. But a very dismal choice for the dark green material. And no dark green colored lace at all. I am already beginning to wonder if this is going to be too difficult to find the green color that I want. I did see some beautiful brocade material that was marked down to 60% off, which would have made it $4.00/yard. I wished I could have bought some. I already have the material for two dresses, so I don't want to start some huge fabric stash that I'll never have time to use. I don't think I'll be able to sew while dh drives. ;-)
Here's a couple pictures of the adorable little kitties.
Ds1 drew a neat picture that I've decided to include as part of the RSVP card. He is so excited that Mom and Dad are getting married again. :-)
Also, I was looking at some ideas for making my own wedding guestbook, which I was thinking was going to be kind of silly since those books have pages and pages worth of lines for people to sign in. We probably won't have more than 50 people attend so only a page or two would be filled. I found this wedding book idea where you give everyone a page to write on and then bind it in a book later. I would love to do this. My friend who is going to do my makeup had the idea to make copies of the books and give out to anyone interested in having one. She said what they did at her daughter's recent wedding was to have a table with a Polaroid camera. Each person was to take a picture of his or herself and then write something to go with the photo.
I've been playing around with the files but it doesn't look like I have a program here at home that will alter them nicely. I do have the programs at work. OH, no, hold on... the program that the guy recommends is Inkscape and it's freeware! Neat! I'll have to check it out.
Until next time.
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