Killing them with Cuteness

If I haven't mentioned it before, CUTE OVERLOAD http://cuteoverload.com/ is the greatest website that ever was. So glad to hear that KittenWar is soon to be a book.

How can you not love a site with sections called THE DAILY KITTEN and CATS IN SINKS?

And yes, I have plenty to submit when I get around to it. That picture of Zerena showing off her belly truly belongs there.

Tabitha and Luna

This picture is from a few days ago. The girls have had their E-collars (lampshades) off for over a week. Tabitha put hers back on. How? We don't exactly know. She is so silly I cannot do it justice. She reminds me a lot of Zerena.




I must get some good shots of Luna stretching and showinf her white spotted belly. She is a magical moon cat.




That's right, they have official and final names now. They are still sequestered, still a lot of work, and oh my goodness we LOVE them.

Silly is an art form

for Zerena

Coneheads

The technical name for it is E-Collar. Not to be confused with spinach scare... ha ha! So green, so funny!

Walking the Floors

Mama loves to tell how she walked the floors with us as babies, all night, keeping her from sleep. Socializing feral kittens and trying to give special attention to your own pets to even the balance means little sleep for us, well, mostly me. I do not walk the floors, I sit on them and snuggle the little furballs and give them their medicine and all... More later with photos. Tabitha and Miranda (the Tempest) are doing very well indeed.

Latest incarnation of wedding plans: Midnight Ceremony on New Year's Eve! Everyone loves the idea... Problem: How (and where) to do it outdoors?

Yes, it still has to be outdoors!

In other news, I am very sad about the e colli spinach scare. Of all things, spinach~ one of the greatest foods there is... I can hear the moron contingent now, using this as an excuse to avoid healthy greens ~ the same morons who still don't care that Mad Cow disease and all of the other graphic unhealthy horrors of eating meat are ever present, and slowly killing them, every day.

Checklist: Kitten update, wedding thoughts, short angry vegan rant, yep, I'm done. Good night.

Kitten Return

Kittens home. E-Collars (plastic cones) on their heads. Upset, disoriented. Hiding. Twelve hours later... Blackie let me pet her. Then she got scared again. Grey is in love with me. Amoxicillin twice a day. Stitches out in two weeks. Sequestered room again. Two curled up sleeping now. My turn to pass out.

WE DID IT!!!

I will say it quick because it has been a crazy exhausting week...

4AM Friday tropical storm raging outside, wind rain, wet kittens, I had to lock them inside the apartment~ they lived in this room, rather comfortably, though Blackie still wouldn't be touched, for four days. Litter training only took about five minutes. Finally yesterday after quick trauma we got them into carriers and to the vet, where they are resting after their spaying, they have also received all of their shots and had bloodwork. No fleas, no ear mites. YAY!
Blackie literally climbed the walls at the vet's office. She is a SUPERCAT! She had to be sedated, poor baby. We just went to visit them, poor scared shaky angels. Grey was very woozy and frightened, but still purred like a gravel motor. At least, under sedation, I finally got to pet Blacky and give her kisses. Everyone at the vet's office is in love with their cuteness. We get to bring them home tomorrow, YAY again! Then what?

I may need to sedated next.

Spay and neuter, folks, spay and neuter!!!

p.s. - we are still feeding the other strays (feral mommy, daddy, various neighborhood cats) on the porch and will do so as long as they come.

Everyday Kittens

I could not let them be out in the rain yesterday...

Snuggle sisters

This is just a moment ago, Grey on my green faerie slipper while I type.

So, the little ones come inside (still blocked away from my cats for now) on a very regular basis. In fact, they are in here right now. If you haven't been privy to such supreme silliness as two active kittens, you miss, my friend, you miss grandly.

Unfortunately Blackie still won't let me pet her (but she does bat at my hand, that is progress) and Grey never shows up during daylight hours, when the vet is open.Still, I gain their trust more and more each day, they will be indoor cats in no time. Still have to find doors to put them in.... am I repeating myself? I know I am, I also know my old 2mp camera at nightime does not do them any justice.

Halloween Stuff...

is already appearing in stores! This is the only Holiday I do not mind having thrust in my face a bit early due to the sake of commercialism. I remember the old days when, if you wanted really large and elaborate faerie wings, you had to make your own.
For today's busy faerie on the go, a quick stop at any party store has you glittering across the skies in no time.

I never get personal but...

just this once I have to say...

Cody is a jerk.

Random Cute Attack

Oh, please, somebody stop the cuteness! Too much!

Faerie Fun

Almost Funny

I missed the shot... Rats. It was so perfect, Geoffrey was off guard, reading receipts and talking to his manager. If only I had snapped the picture one second sooner... You had to be there, I suppose, but since you were not, and I was, and I do have at least this picture, you are going to have to look at it now.
Geoffrey works hard.

Domesticating

I have been letting the kittens inside for a bit each night, and so they are getting more comfortable. Adoption soon.

Go Go Jane Goodall!

A friend has been telling me my uppity stray kitten mission is comparable to the patient Ms. Goodall~ high praise indeed..............and...............well worth the wait!

Little Gray finally finally let me in! Or should I say, I let her in, just inside the door, she rubbed against my hand, and the rest is history. This little fluff had no idea that humans (especially animal lovers) know all the best places for skritchy-skratchy and belly rubs. This kitten is in heaven, addicted, three nights now she runs to the door for me. Finally finally! Blacky just watches, but she is next... soon, soon.
Now hopefully I will see them during daylight hours on my day off so I can take them to my vet! Skritchy-skratchy-sneezy babies need a checkup, and if they are old enough and in good health, I will get them spayed.

Now who can adopt them? I want to so badly, I am so smitten, and my other half says he is willing to clean up another litter box (but can he really imagine 5 cats?) Five is just too many for us right now, and would upset our cats greatly. So they need a good home... please ask everyone you know. Tell them of the softness, the fluffliness, they are a live cute overload and will bring you or your friends years of joy and comfort and love! I am willing to help with initial costs, especially the spaying (to prevent more homeless babies.

Send out the word, two little loveballs willing to share their lives with you. Oh, and can I have visitation?

Glastonbury Tor

Next Year!!! We'll be there!

These hang all over the house

By now it is evident that I worship the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, notably John William Waterhouse. I have large and small prints of his all over the house, I will never get enough. Of course there are loads of Arthurian Art gracing the walls and tables... nothing could make me feel more at home.

Again, you do not need money to put beauty in your life. The big prints I found at National Wholesale Liquidators or poster shops online, and I framed them myself, with clearance frames that needed minor repair or paint. For small prints I make color copies from my books right here at home, and I have also printed things directly from the internet and put them in $1-$3 frames. And of course, you all know about framing cards and postcards ~ there is a small museum of Knights and Ladies around my bedroom door.

In the hallway also hangs a salute to Brian Froud's Faeries (the good ones) ~ these I took from an old calendar and used $4 frames from NWL.

Above the archway in the dining room is a row of medieval art that my sister and I took directly from the pages of a moldy old book, we used frames form the 99 cent store, removing the glass to make them light enough to hang with double sided tape.

I guess the only room not covered with art is tke kitchen ~ there is only a tin sign with Apu posing in front of the Kwik-E-Mart. That is a different kind of beauty.

These hang together, spaced apart

Two Tristans, two Isoldes, I am glad I don't have to choose.

These hang in the living room/library

New Loreena Mckennit Album!!!

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No exact release date as of yet, but autumn is practically in the air...