In The Dog House With The Cats

The cat food bag at 5:00 a.m.

The cats got me up at 5:00 a.m. to feed them like they do every morning; however, when I opened the bag to get their food, the bag was empty, except for six kibbles, which was one kibble short of the clowder swarming around my feet. Oops! I forgot to drop by the store on the way home from work last night to get kitty food.

Silver: “Don’t give me any of your cockamamie malarkey about ‘Let them eat tomatoes!’, which is pronounced toemahtoes, BTW, pathetic Paparazzo, because it ain’t going to stinking happen!”

Gwendolyn: “YOU STINKING, PATHETHEIC, LAME BRAINED, PREHISTORIC POPARAZZO!!!! Knuckle dragging, sorry excuse of a silver-haired Sasquatch. You irresponsible, long-haired redneck rascal! I can’t BELIEVE you FORGOT to stop by the store to get us kitty food on your way home from work. It’s been like over 12 hours since we’ve eaten! That’s like 12 years for our kitty stomachs. Now you listen to me, and you listen good, PAPARAZZO!!! You get in your stinking little sports car, and you stinking speed to that stinking store as soon as it opens and get us some STINKING KITTY FOOD! UNDERSTOOD?

Meanwhile, back in bed, I slept in until 6:30 a.m. because it was 27º F (-2.8º C) when the cats got me up at five to fail at feeding them. When Jake and I left for our walk at 7:00 a.m. the temperature had dropped another degree.

Geese in the mist again

Sun streaks in the mist

Sunrise in the mist

After I got back from the store and fed the cats, I worked on winterizing the outdoor kitchen and the irrigation system.

Glenda: “I forgive you, forgetful Paparazzo!”

Content cats

Loki and I sitting in front of the fire doing Duolingo.

Cranes flew by at sunset

A touch of pink

Lavendar Twilight

Can you find the owlet in the twilight?

I only know this is an owlet because it was eeping instead of hooting.

Green slime reflecting lavendar twilight

Dawn Patrol

I did not see the dawn patrol balloons this morning. Only the planes.

Diamond balloon

Jake basking in Sasquatch Shadows

“¡Hola guapa! You’re looking good in green!”

“I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob, g’goo goo g’joob…”

Sasquatch Shadows petting Jake

Jake biting Sasquatch Shadows

Tycho in the fireplace

Gwendolyn

Weird

Loki

Gwendolyn again

Dusk

Green Slime @ Dawn

5:30 am

Green slime on one side. Runoff from a distant thundershowers on the other.

The taskmaster making me work out, or perhaps I should say, Spunkout, hard!

Spunk supervising il Paparazzo on bench press

Doppel and Spunk in the catio

Change of cats while I was doing Duolingo

Loki

Loki laundry

“I fang you, primative, pesky, pathetic, parenthetical paparazzo!”

Doppel pussyfooting around

Gwendolyn

Doppel’s not too sure about having a Jake pointing at him.

Loki fell victim to sudden-onset cater mortis. Luckily, it was not catatonic for too long.

Doppel

Glenda’s getting into the new fall fashion: if it falls on you, flaunt it!

Doppel is really enjoying the couch

Whaddya you mean this is a dawg bed?

Silver

Vato

Spunk

Vato had a bright idea, but he forgot what it was.

Summer Tanager In Spring

We were not able to go on a walk until sunset

Wynona stopped by to say hi

Can you find Wynona in the above photo?

Who do you think hold its beak under water the longest? Looks like the far duck won.

Goose family

Can you find Daddy Owl in the above photo?

While I was photographing Daddy Owl, I heard a chirping close by, and there was a Summer Tanager perched right in front of me. I could barely see him in the darkness.

The clearest shot I could get of the owlet in the darkness. I could not find were the out-of-nest owlet was tonight.

Peony

Sasha looking cute in the catio

Doppel standing on the translucent roof in the catio

Gwendolyn

Silver in a state of cator mortis