An assistant to the way life's shaking out

[sovay]

A photographic sequence, in which it is explained why for several hours this afternoon I did nothing except sit in the green basket chair.







I noticed some time ago that I talk to the cats as I do not talk to myself when I am alone, but I also use more endearments with them than I use with anyone who isn't my niece, so that I comforted Autolycus easing back into sleep after a startling noise outside with there you go, my lovelet, my dear, my darling, my sweetheart, my jo. It seemed to work. I read some more of Dick Francis' Proof (1984) and didn't go anywhere for another forty-five minutes.

Comments

[isis]

Aww. DO NOT DISTURB THE KITTY.

[minoanmiss]

Kitties :)

[gwynnega]

KITTY.

[sovay]

DO NOT DISTURB THE KITTY.

It's against the law!

[sovay]

Kitties

A most important component of life.

[sovay]

KITTY.

He was adamantly comfortable.

[selkie]

It is his rightful spot, The Lap.

[sovay]

It is his rightful spot, The Lap.

It is. One of the reasons I miss my Linux-driven pseudo-TV is that it was expressly agreed that some of its channels were being cat-funded so as to ensure a plentiful supply of Lap.

[selkie]

(Also I respect your acknowledgement that you pour endearments on children. Suckerrrrrr.)

Edit: Crackle is explicitly cat-funded, and I think feline backing is disclosed in the Roku company charter.

[thawrecka]

Kitty! So circular and cute.

[sovay]

Kitty! So circular and cute.

When they curl up like that, we call them cat-sants (as in croissants) or challah.

[sovay]

(Also I respect your acknowledgement that you pour endearments on children. Suckerrrrrr.)

Did you ever have the impression I didn't like children?

Edit: Crackle is explicitly cat-funded, and I think feline backing is disclosed in the Roku company charter.

Most useful to know.

[selkie]

No! It’s just delightful.

[chanter1944]

Awwwww. Lap kitties are the best. :) And it takes, at least for me, supreme effort of will or genuine necessity or both to make a settled-in purrer move if they've curled up on me.

[sovay]

And it takes, at least for me, supreme effort of will or genuine necessity or both to make a settled-in purrer move if they've curled up on me.

It's just not done.

[sporky_rat]

I'll only move a cat if I've got to go use the restroom. Nothing else will move me. I was well trained.

[chanter1944]

Yep. The potty calls, or I've been stuck in one position for too darn long and simply need to move. Either way, I feel like something of a jerk when relocating a kitty cat. ... I miss cats, darn it.

[pameladean]

Oh, such a sequence: first the rather terrifying (at least to one not familiar with his expressions) face, and then just utter abandoned cuteness.

"... but there was a cat" is a favorite expression in our house to explain why bedtime was so late, dinner was so late, this or that did not get done.

P.

[sovay]

"... but there was a cat" is a favorite expression in our house to explain why bedtime was so late, dinner was so late, this or that did not get done.

We have a similar expression in our dialect.