The tufts of hair scattered about tell me that the cats’ spread out locations on the bed are the result of an uneasy truce.
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A very Sammie Christmas
Waxing, waning
The past few mornings, those mornings which haven’t been overcast, I’ve awakened before dawn to see the moon glowing down at me through the skylight. This must be a seasonal thing, like the one day a year when the setting sun comes into ancient tomb, or The Well of Souls (for Raiders of the Lost …
Stink bug vigil
Max the mighty indoor hunter
Cats sleep all day and then have lots of energy to hunt at night. If you don’t give them some way to burn off that energy, and to obey their instinct to hunt, they take it out on you while you’re trying to sleep. So every evening, I spend some time playing with my cats.
A hairy situation
My cat Max has a bit of a situation.
…In bed
I’d been sick off and on for a couple of weeks. By the end of last week my last bits of resistance failed, so finally I couldn’t ignore it any longer: I had to rest up and try to recover. I did a lot of sleeping, and when I was awake I stayed in bed. My …
Image of the day: Children playing with cat
“Children playing with cat,” 1957, Concord, New Hampshire, USA — Ladies Home Journal Magazine — Image by © Genevieve Naylor/CORBIS From a set on If Charlie Parker… called Shutterbug Friday #11, Genevieve Naylor (Act Two: Wee Folk in the Eisenhower Era). Genevieve Naylor was a fashion photographer and photojournalist whose work appeared in all the best magazines in …
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We are all making ourselves more at home
Scaredy cats
Today, I brought the cats to the new apartment for the first time.