Getting ready to finally redo Caturday and start posting again. Change of design, software and everything. It's been too long and since I have retired from video production I should be able to post some new cat stories.
Caturday
Every Cat Has His Day
Monday, August 19, 2019
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Ramona waits for spring
Ramona is waiting for spring, so is Harper. Yesterday it got up to 66 and we carried them out over the snow to the bare garden. Ramona yelled while I carried her, afraid I would fall in the snow.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Catching up on Cats
Kitten season is in full swing. These guys should find homes, it's the older ones that I hope will also go. The sociable adult cats can move into the community room, which houses about ten in peaceable comfort with climbing trees and cubby holes to nap in. Of course, I have always gone for kittens but as I get older it is only right that if I adopt any more cats (No!, says Ramona) they should be adults.
Someone dropped fourteen cats and kittens off at the shelter either at night or just without warning. One is a Himalayan I haven't seen yet.
Tootsie
Simon
Raul, an elegant House Panther if I ever saw one.
Oscar, obviously a real character here.
Mai
Leo
Felix
Cameron
Someone dropped fourteen cats and kittens off at the shelter either at night or just without warning. One is a Himalayan I haven't seen yet.
Tootsie
Simon
Raul, an elegant House Panther if I ever saw one.
Oscar, obviously a real character here.
Mai
Leo
Felix
Cameron
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
In the Garden
Hello friends who have not given up on me since my lack of posts for over a month. Here for you is a tour of the garden on a rare sunny day in June. It has been raining for over six weeks here and we are all waterlogged and somewhat gloomy but in our Yankee way, resolute. The rain is pouring on the roof this morning and the felines are only opening one eye to say "what a fricking drag and jezzes christ." The garden has been growing, it is on a hill and well drained but what the sun loving tomatoes will do is anyone's guess. We do have onions, garlic greens, lettuce, peas, chard with beautiful stalks of pink and yellow and the last of the strawberries to gather before they rot. We did mulch them with straw but this summer, they should have had more. Any lying on the ground are grey and gone. The strawberry farm down the road is probably a disaster this year and the corn fields by the river are sodden with stalks only a few inches high. But here is a tour on a lovely, hopeful day in June. Everything has grown a lot since these photos.
The raised onion bed. Good thing it's raised and drains well. The purple flowers are Olof's beloved patch of chives.
The potato field with the squash just beginning. The elder's home below with their summer gazebo on the deck. The felines hide in the tall grasses behind the potatoes and keep watch. They also have catnip bushes to lie in and dream away the summer days. When it is not raining.
The path by the onions, well mulched this year. A good thing or the weeds would be knee high. They like lots of rain.
The upper terrace above the terraces for strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. Potatoes can be seen and small broccoli, radishes and chard.
The Tea House. Below it is a lovely ravine where the brook is rushing waterfalls this year. Olof built this one summer when I was away for a week. I should go away more often, eh?
Our beloved Brendan lies here by the upper pond with his brother Finnegan (known as Innigan Outigan Finnegan) and Silas the Faithful. Fergus is in an urn on the shelf, waiting for when we shall meet again at the Rainbow Bridge.
My favorite room in my home. We have dinner with friends here on summer evenings. When it is not pouring rain.
Hello to all, how's your summer?
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Billie the Kid
He's the first kitten I've come across with a grade A Fergus personality. He climbed up on my shoulders and head while I was trying to get his photo, purring all the time and then he happily wanted to play play play.
He's a funny little thing with those extra toes. I'm sure he won't be at the shelter long, if any cat lover with the eyes to see how wonderful he is meets him.
Yes, I'd take him home in a blink of a kitty eye. And just think of the havoc it would create around here.
They steal your heart and break it into little kitty bits, don't they?
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Atlas and Ollie
They're pretty darn nice if you ask me.
Instant family!
Monday, June 01, 2009
To the Shelter
It's been ages since I had any time at all to run down to the shelter and get some photos. Nothing but a long list of video projects to get through. And now it's garden time. Harper and Ramona are seizing every second of the days in their fenced in yard. They wait for us to do boarder patrol in the morning (the bears are coming over the fence almost every night) and they know 6PM is dinner time and they (usually) come when I call them. By then they are ready to eat and run for a sleeping spot. They'll be crashed out until morning when they are ready to do it again.
I really believe cats need to be able to be outdoors in a safe way. They just come alive with the smells and sounds of the outside.
Little Lady waits for someone. When I entered the kitten room where there were four, the soft sound of purring rose to my ears. These guys are sweet.
This is Janis, she is five and was found as a stray.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Spring Comes and Everybody Wakes Up
Spring finally begins to arrive up here in the Frozen North and we emerge into the light. Of course, we've been outside most of the winter skiing but now we can actually sit somedays with our summer chairs embedded in the receding snow. Olof gets out the camera and catches some of the action. There was a flock of turkeys too, to keep things lively, but the bear seems to have chased them off. We've all warned to take in the bird feeders in early spring, because once a bear learns to associate people with food they are in trouble. There's a large campground across the river. So no sympathy for hungry bears.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Cats for Obama Unite!
Ok so this isn't about cats except it is about someone we think is a pretty cool cat, our President. This morning the NY Times posted two photos, one where his hair is black and one showing it as rapidly turning grey under the job stresses. Below is a link to the story on the Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/us/politics/05gray.html
Well. Olof knows a bit about photography, yanno. He looked at the two photos and saw that the exposure on the greyish one was way off for the skin tone. So he corrected the grey one and voila, no grey hair.
Above is the NY Times photo showing Obama with grey hair/
This is Olof's corrected photo matching the skin tone, voila, no grey hair.
What do all you cool cats think?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/us/politics/05gray.html
Well. Olof knows a bit about photography, yanno. He looked at the two photos and saw that the exposure on the greyish one was way off for the skin tone. So he corrected the grey one and voila, no grey hair.
Above is the NY Times photo showing Obama with grey hair/
This is Olof's corrected photo matching the skin tone, voila, no grey hair.
What do all you cool cats think?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Shelter Photos
Shooting with my new camera, a Canon 5D MK II. Things are quiet at the shelter before the coming storm of kitten season. Two pregnant moms currently in foster care. I hope the spay/neuter program has made a difference in the numbers this spring. Don't miss the story of Atlas and Ollie posted on the shelter's new blog
Saturday, February 14, 2009
What February Brought
This was taken a few days after we all arrived home from the thousand mile journey. Three years ago. They are grown up lovely, loving cats now. Ramona is still sweet and mysterious and wants to be with us. Harper is the huggiest boy cat I ever had. His favorite sleeping place is next to me with my arm around him. You can forgive a cat like that anything. Good thing, since when he is upset he sometimes poops on the rug. Yeah, I caught him doing it so I know it is not Ramona. As if Ramona would ever do anything so undignified.
I am just working my way through a pile of projects. I will be writing a full length video on steam trains. Should be fun. That is after I edit the German and French recordings.
The sun is higher now and it is the good time of winter. The buds on the trees are just starting to swell and the turkeys in the yard and figuring out who gets to keep the ladies. We have light from about 6:45 to after 5. It's nice. I got out the packets of seeds and I am trying to see which ones I think will germinate and which ones I really should buy fresh. I'm being thrifty, well as much as I can be.
We've been slogging through our winter routine here but it will end soon with the first day you can open the windows. That will probably be in March.
And then we'll fix the fence and everyone will stumble out into the sunlight. ahh spring is on the way out there somewhere.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Winter
Harper and Ramona are raising heck this morning. How can two cats make such thundering paws? And there is a lot of mrrr mrrrs and floofy tails going on. I think it is spring fever since we saw a robin yesterday though the snow is way up over my knees.
Not a whole lot of news here, we're just working away and watching the snow pile up. I'll be editing the translation of my audio tour in German and French and then I have a large writing project that will take me to spring. And we are dealing with those tedious internet issues when you have a bunch of domain names and web sites.
The felines have adjusted fairly well to being indoors, though it drove Harper nuts at first. Sometimes we take him over to visit next door. He likes that.
I'll catch up with blogging when I have something that resembles free time.
Meow to all
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