In outdoor cat news…..

Posted on November 20, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Black and white cat, Cat, Cold, Garden, Learning, Life, Loved, Outdoor cat, Tuxedo cat, Waiting, Well fed4 Comments

Talking to a friend about our outdoor cat I explained that he’s generally in our garden which is about the size of two terraced houses and their yards…. There are lots of other cats about that come and go (I fear for the bird population but they have plenty of cover). There’s a shed and a summerhouse, two cat beds and cushions. He’s a big cat, twice the size of my other two, well-groomed. Tidy, but not a dominant cat which is why I think they can integrate…

He comes in and sleeps sometimes but he’d found a space on the settee and now the indoor boy cat sleeps there. I will have to find him a new space, it all seems to be about territory. I also think he gets too hot when we have our heating on. He will eat, then mooch over to the back door and yowl to be let out… Such is the life of an abandoned out door cat, we want to love and care for him, but he hadn’t made his mind up fully about us.

Flower mobile

Posted on November 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Exposure, Flower, Industrial landscape, Mobile, Photo, Picture, TreesLeave a comment

Just a photo from my bedroom window including a flower mobile that hangs in it. ( I do like taking photos of random objects.) The cat sometimes reaches up and bat’s at it because of the noise it makes.

The camera was zoomed in so it affected the exposure and left light around the edges of the twigs and branches and the other dark areas on the photo. In this case there was no need to use filters on it as the phone added its own effects.

Comfy cat

Posted on November 16, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Black and white, Cat, Gold leaf, Painting, Sleeping cat, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Sleeping cat (I can’t quite see the title), lying on a stripey cover with gold leaf patches. Another small 6×6 painting, done a couple of years ago. Acrylic on canvas.

My cat is lying on the settee now in almost the exact same position. It’s like he’s time travelled from there to here….

Christmas ‘cat’ctus

Posted on November 15, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black cat, Cactus, Cat, Cat doorstop, Christmas cactus, Flower, Indoor plants, Kitchen, Photo6 Comments

On the windowledge. Photo of one of my Christmas cactuses already in flower (I think because the light levels have been low) and a metal cat doorstop which I prefer to be able to see rather than using it to prop a door open. I’ve also got cactus cuttings growing in water, must pot them on….

Two boys, one sofa

Posted on November 14, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and White cats, Cat, Indoor and outdoor, No fighting, Peace, Together, Tuxedo cats2 Comments

It’s happening, the two boy cats tolerate each other enough to share the settee!

The time we have taken gradually introducing them over the last few weeks. Indoor and outdoor cat are within a meter of each other…. They might be at either end of the settee but the outdoor cat had to jump up past the indoor one. No hissing, no spitting! Great

Only a little longer

Posted on November 13, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Cone of shame, Patient, Poem, Poetry, Recovery, Short poem, Sitting, SweetLeave a comment

Patient cat patiently sits

Waiting for the day

His cone of shame

Will be removed

When he is better

Recovered

Relieved

Then

With one bound

He will be

Free!

‘Together’ today’s prompt

Posted on November 12, 2020 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Black and white ink, Cat, Drawing, Embrocation, Objects, Pain relief, Sketching, Tenners, TV remoteLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers sketch prompted by ‘together’. This is a collection of stuff together on the chair arm. It is a was hard to decide what to draw, the prompt makes me think of groups of people, family, friends. Clearly I can’t do that. Also cats, if they were together, but our cats scatter to the four winds, unless they are play chasing each other. So I gathered a few things on the chair arm and this was the result.

Outdoor cat asleep

Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Autumn night, Blogging, Cat, Cold night, Life, Outdoor cat, Photo, Stray8 Comments

He came in, asked for a love, sniffed our boy cat. Thought about getting on my lap. Then he walked over to the settee, kicked a toy mouse for about thirty seconds (holding it with his forepaws, kicking with his back legs), then his eyes closed and he gel fast asleep!

Meanwhile my boy cat watched proceedings but remained inside a cardboard box we’ve given him to curl up in. The girl cat is lying over the radiator on her cat tree.. What happens next?

Cat plus cat

Posted on November 10, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Cat, Colours, Double cats, Fun, Life, Painting photo, Photo, Ring holderLeave a comment

Look on any shelf in my house and you will find either a cat ornament or a cat picture or painting. Here is a little cat ring holder, sent from a friend in America, and a birthday card someone sent me. I liked it so much I framed it. Sorry I don’t know the artists name. The little toy car is a spectrum persuit vehicle? From the captain scarlet and the mysterons TV series of the 1960s. The background is my bookcase with a few novels. I liked the colour combinations. I enjoy taking photos of everyday objects…

Huge wasp!

Posted on November 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Front door, Glass, House, Insect, Life, Pounce, Stinger, WaspLeave a comment

Ooo dear, suddenly buzzing round the front door was a huge wasp, it must have snuck in when I put the milk bottles out. It was big. A queen? I don’t know, perhaps my fear made it seem larger. Boy cat, in his cone of shame, was bouncing up and down by the door, reaching up to the letterbox. He looked very comical in his buster collar, but I was worried the wasp would get scooped up by it!

Then I saw it. It was up on the glass above the door. But I couldn’t reach it! My hubby took the glass I was holding and got a bit of paper, quickly covered the wasp and I opened the front door. Off it flew.

I can’t tell you what species of wasp it was. All I know is it seemed to have a large stinger. I hope it finds somewhere to go, but not in my home.

Mallaband-Brown

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