World Cat Day

 Happy World Cat Day!  I thought I would celebrate the day by carrying my camera around with me and taking pictures of how having cats in my life has made things more interesting.

 Spyro helped me make up my bed.

 Rocio helped me with my email this morning.  Sorry about the poor quality of the photo.  My hands must have shaken more than the anti-shake stabilizer could handle.

 Oja helped me pick which mah jong puzzle to work on this evening.  Sorry it's too dark to see her properly.

 Bambino inspected my breakfast to make sure it was good enough for me.

 Spyro loves to help me read the newspaper.

 Opening the screen door is always and adventure.  Spyro is looking out to see that there are no vishus deer or bears waiting for me.

 Anyone can have regular tp.  I have lacy tp thanks to Rocio.

 I never know what will be waiting for me in the hall.  This time it was Bambino and Horus rasslin'.

 Rocio helped me fold my laundry.

 Spyro made sure that the towels were folded and put away just right, with Rocio snoopervising.

 Horus led me on an inspection of my now gopher-free yard.  The gophers just got to be too much, so the whole block got together and called in the exterminator.  I don't like killing creatures, but these gophers ate my sage, leeks, cilantro, chives, daisies, California poppies, nearly killed my lilac bush and made big bald spots in the grass.  Spyro watched Horus go out on the harness and leash and made piteous meows, but wouldn't let me put the harness on him.  I have ordered Spyro a new and different type of harness, so maybe he will get to go out again.

One of the best times of the day is relaxing before dinner time.  Horus just loves Da Bird.  That's Spyro in the play pen.  Rocio joined in after a while.  Bambino and Spyro just watched.  Oja was in the computer room, where she spends most of her time.  I hope you enjoyed seeing what my day with cats is like.

Fuzzy Friday

 Karen Jo:  I was going to dedicate Fridays to Femme Friday with just Oja and not the boys, but she hasn't done anything noteworthy since yesterday.

Oja:  How would you know?  You were gone most of the day.

Karen Jo:  That's true.  I had a doctor's appointment, my allergy shots, shopping for a new handle for the screen door, putting the handle on, taking the handle off and exchanging it for one that worked, putting the new new handle on and picking up my prescriptions.  So let's just say that I didn't see you doing anything blogworthy, OK?

Oja:  Oh, all right.  But I better get next Friday.

Karen Jo:  I thought it might be fun to post the pictures that I took that didn't turn out as planned.  Spyro loves to shake his head as I push the button.

 I wanted to record Emma's ascent to the top of  Spyro's tower (a bunch of storage boxes piled on an end table), but she was in a hurry to get down after she saw me.  She didn't want me to know how high she can get now.

 This one was due to my shaky hands.  Hopefully there will be less of this.  I bought a new camera.  It's bigger and heavier, but it is a big step up from the little point and shoots that I have been using up until now.  It also has an anti-shake setting, which I will be using all the time.  In case you can't tell, this is Austin.

:Rocio has been taking camera-avoidance lessons from Spyro.