Two neat tricks
Jan. 18th, 2007 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompson❶ Min has learned to open the door to our suite of rooms. It's one of those bi-fold type doors, so she's learned that if she stands up at the fold and leans on it, it pops outward just enough so she can squeeze her head through the right side, and when she does that—hey, presto!—it opens even further.
The good news is, she doesn't attempt this during the day when the bird is out of the cage and flying about the house, nor at night when I'm in there with her. She apparently has no desire to go walkabout. She only attempts it in the evening when I'm in the front room eating with the roommate or when we're standing in the kitchen doing the dishes and chatting. She can hear our voices and doesn't want me paying attention to the roommate. Evenings are her time and I'm supposed to be in there with her!
She used to just meow pitifully at the door, but now she's decided to get proactive. The roommate looked up the other evening and said, "Did I just see Min's tail walking by? I must be hallucinating." But when we got up from dinner, she popped out from under the coffee table, meowing, "Ha, ha! I fooled you guys!" She was very smug about it all.
Here's the door to Min's Place. Please note ceramic guard kitty atop the antique desk.
A gratuitous shot of Min Whitebelly playing with her two favorite toys: an old thong-and-feather thing I jury-rigged for her, and an old shoe. Min likes her shoes fresh, with plenty of foot odor, and has been know to stick her face deep inside them for a really good sniff. Please note the schmutz all over the floor. This is the aftermath of a frenzied catnip-and-cat-scratching-post incident. These are frequent occurrences. I vacuum up the scratching post carnage and Min decides it's time to once again go all puma on her post.
❷ Random quote of the day:
"Did it ever occur to you that making a speech on economics is just like pissing down your leg? It feels hot to you, but not to anybody else?"
—Lyndon Johnson, as relayed by John Kenneth Galbraith
The trick here? I sent this out to my quoteaphile group here at work minutes before a company-wide announcement email for a seminar on economics. Much amusement ensued on the quote list.
The good news is, she doesn't attempt this during the day when the bird is out of the cage and flying about the house, nor at night when I'm in there with her. She apparently has no desire to go walkabout. She only attempts it in the evening when I'm in the front room eating with the roommate or when we're standing in the kitchen doing the dishes and chatting. She can hear our voices and doesn't want me paying attention to the roommate. Evenings are her time and I'm supposed to be in there with her!
She used to just meow pitifully at the door, but now she's decided to get proactive. The roommate looked up the other evening and said, "Did I just see Min's tail walking by? I must be hallucinating." But when we got up from dinner, she popped out from under the coffee table, meowing, "Ha, ha! I fooled you guys!" She was very smug about it all.
Here's the door to Min's Place. Please note ceramic guard kitty atop the antique desk.
A gratuitous shot of Min Whitebelly playing with her two favorite toys: an old thong-and-feather thing I jury-rigged for her, and an old shoe. Min likes her shoes fresh, with plenty of foot odor, and has been know to stick her face deep inside them for a really good sniff. Please note the schmutz all over the floor. This is the aftermath of a frenzied catnip-and-cat-scratching-post incident. These are frequent occurrences. I vacuum up the scratching post carnage and Min decides it's time to once again go all puma on her post.
❷ Random quote of the day:
"Did it ever occur to you that making a speech on economics is just like pissing down your leg? It feels hot to you, but not to anybody else?"
—Lyndon Johnson, as relayed by John Kenneth Galbraith
The trick here? I sent this out to my quoteaphile group here at work minutes before a company-wide announcement email for a seminar on economics. Much amusement ensued on the quote list.
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Date: 2007-01-18 08:24 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've seen that carpet carnage. My cat did that a lot! Dad replaced the carpet on his post a couple of times.
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Date: 2007-01-18 08:27 pm (UTC)::chortle:: oh, the quote, the quote
He was an American original, regardless of what anyone thinks of his politics or presidency.
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