A Life, Lived

Cat Problems

Cat owners will recognize this sort of a sneaky move . . .

How Cats Think . . .

This pretty much covers it.

Four Years

Four years ago we ended a camping weekend and drove to our friend Carolyn's farm. She had been rearing four kittens and we got to pick two new kitties to bring home.

This is the first shot of Jake and Lucca ready to head home.

Strangely, four years to the day, they decided to recreate the pose. Mind you, it was a larger cat carrier, but recreate it they did. The cat carrier was still out from Beckett's stay at the Animal Hospital and Lucca likes to curl up in there and sleep. For some odd reason Jake decided to stuff himself in as well and have a nap.

Cute.

Cats Are Like This

Anyone who has ever had a cat will understand this dynamic . . . we'd be feeding Beckett 24/7 if he had his way!

Cats and Boxes

Anyone who has ever owned a cat will understand this . . .

Mr. Beckett

I haven't done a Beckett update for a bit. With two young and rambunctious cats in the house the quite senior is often not the feature of pics and stuff.

Beckett will soon be 17. He is the cat who has had the most health issues but he still keeps on going.

His life consists of a lot of sleeping, trying to beg food, eating (if successful with the previous point), and cuddles.

Every now and then he will surprise us with his behaviour.

Like yesterday when I found him sitting up on a windowsill.

He appears to be saying 'I may be old but I still have it . . .'.

There is a part of every day when he seems to want to be near me. If I am working up in the den he will jump up on the old sofa and sleep for a bit.

and yes, after almost 3.5 years he seems to be coming to grips with the fact that Jake (the younger, rambunctious cat who looks like a mini-Beckett) isn't going away and perhaps some level of friendship is developing.

Of course, it might just be that it was - 15 outside, the house was cold, and he was chilly. :-)

Zoom with Cats

Wow - 12 days of work left before I retire.

It is getting real.

Jake and Lucca seem to know when I am on an important zoom. Today I had to literally get up from my chair in the middle of Zoom meetings and chase after them because they were misbehaving.

It is nice to know that someone has a solution:

Travel Tuesdays - COVID19 Edition

One of the popular social media activities right now is for people to post pics of places that have made them happy. You know the pics, the ones you look at and you get that feeling of calm and happiness inside. I've decided to do that for this week's edition of Travel Tuesdays.

This is the 18th edition from my self isolation.

Working from Home is a Challenge

Hmmm . . . I used to think that I would LOVE working from home.

It turns out that this is not the case.

I don't feel that I am as productive as I should be but I think that I know why . . .

Travel Tuesdays - COVID19 Edition

One of the popular social media activities right now is for people to post pics of places that have made them happy. You know the pics, the ones you look at and you get that feeling of calm and happiness inside. I've decided to do that for this week's edition of Travel Tuesdays.

This is the 14th edition from my self isolation (I skipped last week because of my birthday)