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March 22, 2014

Caturday: The nervous wreck kitty

I’m sure I’ve mentioned that Miss Jenny is our nervous wreck kitty. Paranoia…she has it. We have learned that we will probably be forced to move sometime this year as the property owners want to add two more stories to our building. In preparation, we started going through everything and getting rid of stuff. We were only able to work for 20 minutes at a time as poor Miss Jenny would panic and go into hiding. It was disrupting her world and we felt awful about it.

We decided to get a Feliway diffuser and try it. According to the company:

Feliway is a synthetic copy of the feline facial pheromone, used by cats to mark their territory as safe and secure.

Wow! Miss Jenny is much more calm. Titanescu is a wee bit more lovey too. Tito is just wonderful sweet hearted Tito. He used to be nervous, but he’s much more calm with age.

Disclaimer: We’er not paid by Feliway. We just like the product. 🙂

March 19, 2014

Wow, it’s been ten years

Ten years ago today Lastech and I got married. I can’t believe it’s been that long. Time flies when you’re having fun. 🙂 Our life has been a real adventure. We have shared some great times and then there have been a few struggles. Life is like that. I couldn’t imagine sharing those times with anyone else. My last ten years have been wonderful and I’m looking forward to the next ten. When he asked me to marry him, he told me he wanted someone to share the view. We’ve done that.

We've gone cloud watching — We’ve gone cloud watching

We’ve gone bird watching

Red shouldered hawk at the Japanese Tea Garden

We've watched the kite surfers racing — We’ve watched the kite surfers racing

And we've watched the sailboats at rest — And we’ve watched the sailboats at rest

We have seen the Golden Gate Bridge looking magnificent — We have seen the Golden Gate Bridge looking glorious

We have even stopped to look at the tulips

And to top it all off, we have watched Karl The Fog roll in over The City at sunset

When he asked me to share the view I had no idea how magnificent it would be. 🙂

March 15, 2014

Caturday: the heat is on

Most of you are sick of winter and we’re about to set records for being warm. Blech! on both counts.

Yesterday, we ran out to get our grocery shopping done early and came home to find Titanescu licking the crap out of something in the window. He was really going to town on it. Since I have caught him licking the mini blinds (yes really), I wanted to put a stop to it. I calmly pulled back the curtain only to see Tito looking up at me with a soggy head. Titanescu looked quite irritated that I had interrupted his forceful grooming of Tito. I put the curtain back and Titanescu resumed his licking. Wow..!

Lastech has been having fun taking pics with his phone. Here is his presentation of the pointy eared people.

Miss Jenny sharing the cat cave with her best friend Tito

This is our apartment at feeding time. 🙂

March 8, 2014

Caturday: Mind Schmeld FAIL!

Titanescu and Tito have been testing the waters, so to speak and Miss Jenny is spending more time on the bed.

Tito: heh! heh! heh! ... heh! heh! — Tito: heh! heh! heh! … heh! heh!

Tito: heh! ... heh! heh! heh! BOOP! — Tito: heh! … heh! heh! heh! BOOP!

Titanescu: дерьма собирается получить реальную, сынок.

Miss Jenny expressed her opinion. Pttttttthhhhhhpppppppp!

For my friends who have had to endure what seems like a never ending winter, here are some funny critters in the snow. I hope that spring comes soon for you.

March 1, 2014

Caturday: Minor miracles

We are still getting rain off and on which is great. California could do without the mudslides, but the rain is surely needed. Tito and Miss Jenny do NOT like the sound of rain on the skylight. They tend to run and hide. We managed to keep them in the room with us instead. Still, we managed to get a few pics.

Speaking of Miss Jenny and the miracle. I’m not sure it was as minor as I first thought. Miss Jenny was fairly feral when we adopted her. I don’t think she was handled much when she was young, so as a result, while she loves good scritchings, she won’t be picked up and she’s not a lap kitty. She runs and hides when we’re moving around the apartment or if strangers are present. The other night, she crept up on the bed between Lastech and I. She got fairly close to Titanescu and then settled down to sleep. It was a first. While she’s been known to go into a blanket cave made by Lastech, she’s never slept on top of the bed.

February 22, 2014

Caturday and OMG! We got cookies!

Last September our friend Grace sent the pointy eared people a box of goodies. The were rolling in mouse toys, crocheted toys, snacky bits, and yummy gushy noms. Imagine my surprise when Thursday turned out to be our turn. 🙂 We received a lovely card, some beautiful cat ornaments and some of the best cookies ever!

I intend to find a place to hang the ornaments as they are lovely year round. Now, in keeping with the heart motif, here are the pointy eared people.

Titanescu: He may have a heart around his head, but he's still a curmudgeon. — Titanescu: He may have a heart around his head, but he’s still a curmudgeon.

Many many thanks to the lovely Grace for her delightful gifts.

Love and bonks from Rudha-an, Lastech, Tito, Jenny and Titanescu

February 19, 2014

OMG! We had rain!

At a bit less than two inches, it wasn’t nearly enough rain, but we enjoyed it. We went off to go play in it of course.

We walked around without an umbrella until we were wet and soggy. It felt wonderful.

February 15, 2014

Caturday: Of cat caves and chronic begging

When we sit on the bed to watch tv or read with the blankets up over our knees, the pointy eared people dive in. It’s their cat cave. If we’re not under the blanket, one of them will paw and claw at the blanket until we comply.

I don’t have a good photo of Titan in his cave. Being black makes it even harder to get good pics. However, I do have a pic of what I face every day. It starts an hour or more before feeding time. Normally, I’m at the computer desk and rather than staring, Titan comes and sits in front of me. He sits in front of me and alternates between nibbling on my arm and licking it. Nibble nibble lick lick. However, if I move my arm, he BITES it followed by the licky licks. He never breaks the skin. It’s just far less gentle than the nibbles. Miss Jenny sits on the floor, mews plaintively and jabs claws in my butt. I refuse to let them win. 🙂

Noms? Feed us Noms? Nao? NOMS RIGHT MEOW!

And now for something different. Zefrank is a favorite. It’s borderlined NSFW (language) but so much fun. 🙂

Clowns are only mentioned, not shown.

February 8, 2014

Caturday: Rainy day edition

It’s finally raining! It won’t be enough to hold off the drought, but anything is better than nothing. The pointy eared people are using the rain as an excuse to sleep. That’s not exactly true. They use ANY excuse to sleep.

Titanescu decided that Miss Jenny had a flavor

In the meantime, this is what Lastech is dealing with today at work.

February 6, 2014February 6, 2014

Revisiting the Wave Organ: “la jetée” JBoD style

You might remember the Wave Organ, this acoustic sculpture at the end of a jetty near the San Francisco Yacht Club. We had visited before, but our timing always seemed to coincide with the tide going out. This time, we took advantage of the king tide and went back to listen for a bit.

The organ pipes are made of pvc and cement. In the 1940s, when San Francisco’s cemeteries were moved to the suburb of Colma, unclaimed headstones and monuments were reused in various places from Golden Gate Park to this location. This is how the organ sculpture was created, with some of that carved granite and marble.

The Wave Organ with Alcatraz in the background. Photo by Lastech

The dark squares visible in the recess are more pipes

While the curving pipes reminded us of the “Yellow Submarine”, the waves lapping from below actually sound like a chorus of gurgles and squeaks, even occasionally like a wine bottle being uncorked.