Today Rainey and Spot are 1 year old.
Picture taken by their "step-dad" a couple of days after birth
A week after I picked them up in July 2018
February 2019
They drive Rita and me nuts on occasion, but they are such a bright spot and source of entertainment that I would not trade them in for anything.
A couple of days ago I removed the bowl of water I keep on the P43 to help release humidity into the dry winter air. In the last week, spring has brought a lot of natural humidity to the air, so additional help isn't needed. I washed the bowl out and then set it on a counter as a visual reminder for me to take it downstairs for storage until next heating season.
Well, the Destructo Duo have taken over it like it was a weird box. First it was Spot (Friday pictures)
Then yesterday it was Rainey
Yes, the kittens moved in and started running the house - they are the first cats I've NOT been insistent that they stay off the counters (unless I am actually preparing food). If they had joined this household the first year or two that I was here, when I did more food preparation, I would have been more insistent. But since food prep has dropped to almost nil, and only takes a minute or two in 99% of situations, I really can't be bothered to care that much.
Rita has never shown an inclination to jump on the counter, so obviously her previous owners trained her better :)
It was National Pet Day some time last week, so here are some photos.
Rainey Chilling on 4/10/19
Next pics were taken 4/12
Birdie
Ziva
Yesterdeay was in the 70's so I had some windows and doors open. While I was out on the back porch repotting a house plant, Rita was meowing thru the storm door, so I let her out for a bit. First time this season.
Today it is back in the 40's and more rain (at least it isn't snow / sleet that we had 3 days last week), so it will be a while before Rita gets to go outside again..
I got a delivery in a small box the other day. Yesterday morning Rainey and Spot decided to try it out. Rainey had first go at it
Spot finally got her turn
Last night I was on the computer eating some olives. Spot showed interest so I gave her a slice, never expecting her to eat it
Got up to refresh my coffee this morning, and this is what I saw - perfect bookends
Then their attention shifted, what could they be seeing?
Oh look, it's Spot, who had been winding herself around my feet while I was on my cooffee run. Had to take several pictures before I got one that wasn't all blurry from her moving around.
Disturbed the kitties taking a nap on the bed when I put the laundry basket up there. Their look is of the "How dare you interupt?" variety
Well, we all know about cats and boxes. I hardly got turned around from breaking down some boxes Friday night before Spot proved she could still get into one of them - thus the meme expression "if it fits, I sits"
Then this morning, I broke down an even smaller box and Spot was once again in that one. This time Rainey seems to be jealous.
Forecast was for up to 2', got about 10". Just got in from snow blowing. However, it has started dropping sleet. Hopefully the 1/2" of snow left from the "shoes" on the snowblower (for blowing on dirt) will soak it up. If not, I got 3 buckets of sand from the dump yesterday. Those, along with the bucket I already have should take care of slick areas.
On another note, one of the kittens managed to do irreparable damage first thing this morning (I don't know which one since all I saw was a flash of gray streaking by the office door right after the crash) . She knocked one of the door/mirrors off the repurposed medicine cabinet I have been using for essential oils. That cabinet is sitting on a counter in the craft room but that particular door lost its hinges so was just leaned up against it. Guess it doesn't matter that I couldn't find replacement hinges anymore.
So, at 6 am I was picking up pieces of broken mirror, then vacuuming the daylights out of that rug. I also taped up the rest of the glass so it wouldn't drop any more shards between now and when I can take it to the dump next weekend.
Hopefully I got all the glass since I am always barefoot in the house, and I would really prefer that a cat paw not get "bitten".
On the first day of the new year I was on my desktop computer, sitting Indian style on my chair, when Spot came up an laid right behind my butt. As my legs started going to sleep, I unfolded them and scooted up a bit on the chair. Which Spot took full advantage of. I leaned forward to get something at the front of the desk and actually slid off the chair. When I tried to scoot back up there, there was a cat in my way. As I turned around to pick up Spot and put her in my lap, I understood why the chair had seemed so crowded.
Yeah, Spot was still curled up next to where I had been sitting, but Rainey had slid in behind :).
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