I'm trying to know what each moment asks me

[sovay]

Today we celebrated the ninth birthday of Tybalt Autolycus Taaffe and Hestia Hermia Linsky-Noyes, once kittens of destiny, now cats of legend. My niece was delighted to point out that she and they are the same age—at least, she corrected herself conscientiously, until December when she becomes older. We gave them salmon. She petted Autolycus and he butted his head into the inside of her wrist again and again.



None of the pictures of headbutting came out, but here she strokes his back very gently.



I left my desk briefly with Bertie and returned to find Simon and Garfunkel's Cecilia, cat edition.



The most beautiful Autolycus on his birthday.



The most beautiful Hestia on her birthday.

In the evening, we lit the yahrzeit candle for my grandmother. It will be her centenary in the spring. These things are always overlapping. I don't think I am used to time.

Comments

[chanter1944]

IMO, there's no such thing as an ugly cat. :) Torties are wonderful, super friendly ones doubly so!

[yhlee]

Sorry, this is a joke that I should have realized other people wouldn't know the context for (Sonya already knows the story). When I adopted Cloud, I thought she was the ugliest cat in the shelter, but she was so sweet and friendly and I figured even ugly cats deserve to be loved. Fast forward six months and I thought she was the most beautiful cat in the universe. My husband says she has amazing powers of mind control. *points at icon*

[sovay]

Fast forward six months and I thought she was the most beautiful cat in the universe.

The bonus funny thing about this story is that my grandfather used to tell a very similar one about the experience of having children.

[yhlee]

Oh yeah, Ara TOTALLY looked like Winston Churchill at birth. ;)

[chanter1944]

Ooooooh now I get it. XD Thank you for picking the lovebug kitty that other people would have possibly overlooked. Cloud obviously found a worthy forever person and dropped the visual effect wizardry she'd been running, revealing how beautiful she actually was. :)

For a little context that you may or may not have: I'm totally blind. I'm picturing a fabulous multicolored floofball tortie in the icon.

The tripod torbie in *this* icon is also a lovebug people kitty.

[yhlee]

Ah, gotcha! No, I did not previously have that context. Yes, the tortie is in the icon. She's a very floofy medium-hair tortie with a kink in her tail - vet told us it was broken when she was younger and healed crooked, but it doesn't seem to bother her. She is very very soft to pet, flops over to solicit tummy rubs, and has a purr like a motor. :3

(I am sighted; it's not clear to me if e.g. a screenreader provides that information for DW icons; I will ask a friend about that who has relevant expertise - my icons have keywords & descriptions BUT I have never figured out how one accesses that information other than dropdown selection and on the icon page itself.)

[chanter1944]

Awwww, your kitty sounds absolutely delightful! The snugglebug purr machines are the best.

With screenreader usage, icon keywords are read out in text, so for example, yours says "pretty kitty (Cloud)". I'm guessing Cloud is the description on that one.

Mellow, cat-respectful Labrador icon used because he was another lovebug being with incredibly soft fur and a tendency to flop.