laundry room, complete with pictures.
Last week, he wrote about the computer room.
I’m pretty sure that once we’re done with the house, I’m going to do a room-by-room tour with before and after pictures.
I ran across a picture of the back yard one day last week – this one, to be exact – and it surprised the hell out of me. I had forgotten that it even looked like that. I’ve cleared all the brush away from the bottoms of the trees and it looks one hell of a lot better than it did. I’ll have to take a comparison picture so y’all can see what it looks like now.
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I did a lot of nothing yesterday – spent most of the day on my ass in front of the computer, actually – and it was niiiiice. I almost had to go out to Michael’s to get a part for something I’m framing (it was a custom-sized frame I ordered online and the piece that held two sides together wouldn’t cooperate with me, and I had a hissy fit, then figured it out and finished it.
It’s a Christmas present for someone who reads, so I can’t go into it more than that (hi, Deb!), but I’ll put up a picture of it after Christmas, ’cause it cracks me up every time I look at it.
I spent a lot of time in the kitten room letting the kittens get used to me, and petting them as they went by me. I figure it can’t hurt to spend as much time in there as I can, petting and handling them as much as possible.
Jack Frost cracks me up because he comes over to be petted, and he walks around you and lets you pet him, but if he gets too far away and you can’t reach him to pet him, he turns and gives you a LOOK and meows sadly as though to say “Why you stop petting me, Lady?”
Merry has actually been climbing up on my legs to sniff at me and be petted. Kringle is the least scaredy-cat of all the kittens, and even Faith likes the occasional back scratch. Noelle, though, she worries me. She’s so scared and timid and I don’t want to scare her by picking her up and kissing her, but she sits off by herself and just stares at us, and I don’t know if she’s wishing we’d pet her too, or that we’d go away so she doesn’t have to be so scared.
Poor Noelle.
What will be nice is that after tomorrow morning we can stop giving them metronidazole (they were diagnosed with giardia) twice a day, which might help stop them from being so skittish around us. They HATE that metronidazole. Fred holds them while I squirt a dose of the stuff down their throats, and then they run off to sit and drool and shoot daggers at us. I do my best to get the syringe as far back in their mouths as possible so they won’t have to taste the medicine, but apparently I’m not doing so well.
Poor kitties.
Something’s spooked Kringle! (It was a black paw reaching under the door from the other side. Tommy is DYING to get his paws on these kittens)
“Whyfor haff you stopped petting me, Lady? WOE IS ME!”
“Bahahahahah!”
“Heyyyyyyyyyy, Macarena!”
“Can it be hugs time now?”
All of today’s uploaded pictures are
here.
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“So I said, ‘I’d like to double HER entendre’. Haw haw. High fives!”
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Previously
2005: (If you must know, it’s the “Tinferl” that really hit my funny bone. I don’t know. Don’t look at me like that. Shaddup.)
2004: Those two just make me shudder. And not in a good way.
2003: “Hey!” he thought to himself. “I think that might be the same bird and the same feeder!”
2002: “That’s okay, Bessie. I hate you sometimes, too,” he said.
2001: No entry.
2000: A blue spark leapt from my tender, sensitive pinky finger to the door of the Jeep in the Wal-Mart parking lot, and I all but screamed.
1999: But if I end up MIA, y’all know where to tell the cops to look…]]>
Those kitten pictures just cracked me up!
I sure hope you have these guys long enough to help Noelle become accustomed to humans. She’s so beautiful – it would be a shame if she doesn’t feel comfortable with humans. I have a skittish guy – had him for over 13 years and he still hides from me and comes out only when he feels 100% safe. It breaks my heart some days – he loves to be petted and purrs so loud. Only problem – that’s usually when I’m in bed and trying to sleep. I try to give him love, but if I’m not careful – I get a second wind and I cannot sleep for hours.
Robyn,
I received your Christmas card yesterday and (I won’t spoil it for others who haven’t received it yet), but it was the best one I’ve received so far! 😀
Thanks!
Hugs Time needs a T-shirt!!
Hi Robyn!
Don’t worry too much about Noelle. Skittish kittens can be won over, it just takes time and patience. She has to come to an understanding that you aren’t going to hurt her, and that getting attention is actually a pretty cool thing. Taming skittish cats was something I did a few times when I was in high school, and again a couple of years ago, when I took in a poor little starving barn cat.
Also, I love your cat pictures! You must have that camera going almost constantly! I took some pretty decent ones of my cat, Sable (the former barn cat), attacking an ornament on my tree – take a look if you get a chance! It’s today’s entry on my blog.
Robyn, Jack Frost looks exactly like one of the feral kittens i tamed and found homes for. I had a hard time giving him up. He was the most skittish when i first got them in the cage but became the best one of all. A little love works wonders with kitties.
Also i got your Christmas Card yesterday and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
We have a lot of cats we feed and care for like you do your Smallville Salties. Most of them are semi-ferral. They’ll come close but won’t let us pet or catch them. A few are getting where we can sneak a pet them while feeding them but for the most part they only like to be fed or come sit close by to hear kitty lovin talk. One of the mama’s brought her kittens close to where we feed and we’ve managed to tame them quite a bit. Except for one, a little female(I think) calico. I’ve got a hold of her a couple of times to put drops in her eyes and she’s screamed and fought like a little tiger. Last week she let me catch her and I held her for a little while and she let me scritch and love on her. Then she started growling (probably muttering cat swear words) letting me know she’d had enough.
I’m like you are by Noelle. Should I not force myself on her, is it her personality to lean toward being a loner? My inside cat, BabyPooh, that I had for 10 yrs but had to have put to sleep last month, due to a large mass in her stomach that was inoperable, was the type of cat that came to you for petting. She had lots of ATTITUDE and if she didn’t want you fooling with her she’d hiss and bring out the smack down with claws if you pushed her highness. It’s hard to know if I should respect Wild Callie’s personality or try to tame her more. Sheeeesh I’m no help robyn but if you figger it out with Noelle, let us know.
you are too funny. thanks for the card. Nicole laughed her ass off!
Got your Christmas card yesterday and LOVED IT!
Thanks so much for yet another delightful card…I always look forward to your cards so very much!
I want Kringle but alas, I can’t have him. After seeing the hugs picture but putting my own caption of “TOUCHDOWN!” on it it made me want him even more.
Good luck with Noelle, she’s such a pretty little thing especially with that stripe down her nose.
Best. Christmas. Card. Evah!!!
I LOVE that hugs picture. He is such a little cutie.
PS we too got the card. Bob didn’t get it but I laughed out loud. Thank you. We sent you one and a little something extra besides.
Love the card! Hee. People are doing a double take and wanting the scoop.
Thank you so much for sending it. 🙂
Robyn, Thanks for xmas card, it cracked me up! Oh.. and that room is gorgeous! I love the entrance to it. Have you have ever gotten “orbs” and such on your pics that you take at your current house?
Jen
Is the Sugs turning into Barney? Will he start keeping his own blog next? 🙂
Donna: To be fair, I didn’t come up with Hugs Time on my own – I stole the idea from this picture.
Jen: Not that I’ve noticed, but I tend not to notice that thing. Fred likes to talk about the orbs he gets over on his blog, though. 🙂
Nellymom: Actually, that was supposed to be an imitation of The Todd from Scrubs (The Todd is like Barney, only with less couth.). As far as keeping his own blog – you never know! 🙂
funny captions. 🙂 haha.
and why don’t you let Tom in there? He did well with Maddy. Or is it the giardia?
LOVED the card, by the way. 🙂
Oh, it is probably a good thing I’m not in Tennessee right now, because if I were, I’d be giving Jack Frost a home faster than you can say “Want a cat?”
And I too have received my Holiday Greeting of Folded Paper, thank you! It was a riot!
Someone may have said this earlier, but all the kitties look like they have a hard-core static charge going on and it would hurt to touch them. hee!
I think Kringle is saying, “Praise the lord!!!” or somesuch thing