cats: kicker toy edition
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is flopped on the floor. One forelaw is tucked up next to his face; the other is wrapped around a kicker toy with a big pink feather on the end. ] Loiosh looooooves his kicker toy.
June 2021
process: lots of soap edition
[ Four bulbous glass jars, the rough shape of squat Greek amphorae, sit on a shelf, each holding a different colour of bath salts. One is yellow, the next brown, the third is blue, and the last is a brown-red. ] Also bath salts, cos those are the other thing that takes time, but this …
cats: too hot edition
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is curled up on a cat bed covered in purple batik fabric. He’s looking off to the left, and his eyes are very green. ] It’s been too hot to go outside much, but it’s not like I have a shortage of things that need to get done inside. The …
Tyrava & cats: anxiety & shelves edition
Having finished the bed platform itself, the next bit is the bed enclosure — just a bit of wall to demarcate the bed from the rest of Tyrava. [ About two feet along the left side of the bed platform has been framed with 2×2 boards, running from the floor almost to the ceiling. ]
tyrava: bed platform
[ Tyrava, seen from the side, takes up part of the driveway; parked next to her, and a little ahead, is a vardo perhaps half her length, green with blue trim, with two windows on the side. ] Not long after I got back from Colorado, I had a visitor, & so did Tyrava! My …
cats: back home edition
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is curled up on his side on a purple sheet, forepaws tucked up in front of himself. The view is from the front, with the paws dominating the image. ] The boys really enjoyed the trip, but they’re glad to be home. (To be fair, so am I. Remember what …
land trip: lots of rocks
[ A small camping area, with a picnic table and a fire pit; massive boulders rise all around the clearing. ] Camping in the ‘woods’ was fun, but sometimes what one really wants is a place to poop. … look, no, you know it’s true. Anyway I found a TRULY awesome campground. Which happened to …
land trip: breaktime at the disc golf course
[ A deer is standing right out in the open, probably thirty feet from the camera, looking on curiously, ears perked forward. They’re really big ears. ] Sometimes when you’re on the road, especially with cats, you need to find a place to spend the afternoon, cos it’s gonna be too hot in the van …
land trip: in the national forest
[ A meadow rising to rocks and trees; the sky above is cloudy. ] Having unloaded, but not yet having made contact with the realtor, I decided to find a spot in the national forest for the weekend. … for a fairly liberal definition of ‘forest’ but there WERE some trees.
land trip: unloadifying
[ A corner of a storage unit. Two sets of shelves have been placed along the back wall, and each holds a couple boxes. ] Part of the purpose of this trip north was to haul a bunch of my stuff up, so there’d be less to move later & possibly under a tight time …