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Well, I know you’ve been waiting with BAITED BREATH our review of a cool cat video we picked up recently. It was vigorously advertised, claiming to entertain your cat for hours! Gee, you could almost leave your home for a week’s vacation and the cat would be riveted to the TV screen, right?!

We decided to get Livvy, our Tabby-Point Siamese cat, to give her personal opinion of the video. I won’t bore you with a text transcription of her review results, I’ll just post the video here. Enjoy!

What IS it with cats and laundry? At least, with THIS cat and laundry.

She’s always skulking around the dirty and clean clothes. She likes to hide behind the mounds surrounding the washer. Then she likes to try to hop in the dryer while I’m pulling them out. Finally, she jumps in the basket of warm unfolded clothing or plops on top of the piles of folded laundry. What a silly girl. Somebody find her an anniversary gift or something to keep her outta my hair while I wash the clothes! LOL

It’s hard to believe she’s 3 1/2 years old now. She’s still such a baby. A big baby. A big laundry-loving, laundry-mooching baby.

…and what’s yours is mine, too.

Livvy! I was going to drink that!

We’ve been away from the house so often this summer (a roofing project) that Livvy has spent long periods of time alone. I’m starting to get a little concerned. LOL

Seriously, when we leave, she moans and howls quite loudly out the window. As we drive away, we can hear her pleas through the window. Sheesh!

So the husband turned to me the other day and said quietly, “She needs a buddy.” I looked at him, my eyes shining. I knew exactly what he meant. No, not another stuffed animal, not a golf garmin buddy— another KITTEN!!!!! This from the guy who has to hold me back from becoming a crazy cat lady!

We *may* get another kitty, then. I’ll keep my eyes open for a Siamese or Siamese mix. Maybe by winter, Livvy will have a pal. And I’ll have another tiny feline to squeeze!!

I wasn’t planning on having any Find the Kitty post today, because she’s not been hiding AT ALL lately. It’s been so hot that usually she’s sprawled entirely across the floor, stretched out so every bit of fur is not sticking to another.

That makes me wonder– do cats sweat? How do they perspire extra heat??

Anyway, here’s the photo. Can you find here?

Sorry it’s so dark. You probably need bushnell binoculars to see her, eh? She caught me quite by surprise in her new hiding spot, and even stood still for a few seconds to let me snap the photo!!!

Have a blessed weekend, folks.

Well, well. This will take care of the weeds in the garden.

I came right up to the thing, about 3 feet away. It’s a young buck, can you see his stubby antlers? He kept rubbing them on his leg. When I tried to touch him, he jumped out of the garden and wandered around the backyard for a while.

The deer here are incredibly tame. He sat in the grass, swishing flies from his tail and munched on my lawn.

Later, I was sitting in the screened gazebo with Livvy when the deer came around again. My other cat, Fuzzy, was with us, too. Fuzzy was oblivious to the deer, because he was facing Livvy with his back to the deer. The deer spotted Fuzzy and for some crazy reason, started to approach him quietly. It looked like the deer wanted to play with Fuzzy! Slowly, slowly, the deer gingerly crept closer to Fuzzy. Livvy and I watched, spellbound, from only about 3 or 4 feet from them.

Suddenly, Fuzzy turned around and saw the deer. BOING!!! His tail exploded into a bushy rod and he sprinted for the basement doors (where he sleeps). The deer snorted several times and chased after Fuzzy!!! It was pretty wild! I’d never heard a deer snort, and I don’t think Fuzzy had, either. Fuzzy peeped his little head up from the basement steps as if to ask, “Is the coast clear?” The deer stared after him, wondering why the pretty kitty didn’t want to come out and play. It was a “Bambi and Thumper” moment. LOL.

Well, the deer eventually gave up and wandered back into the garden to eat more weeds.

I stumbled across a really neat chart recently. It’s the Domestic Cat Chart. It’s a guide to housecat coats and colors. VERY COOL! Where does your kitty add up? You can check out the Cat Chart here. Click on the largest size possible to read all that print, but be forewarned that it’s a pretty big file, like one of those monster inetsoft reporting tools!

I’m sorry, I can’t remember where I found the chart. I would link to it if I knew. If you own the original site and want attribution for the chart, please leave me a comment. I’d love to give you credit!

I guess Livvy is a “mackerel” print. She’s half Siamese, half tabby. She’s got a lot of the Siamese personality (she’s like a family member– very lovey and personable), but she has inherited a bit of the tabby look.

She had a lot of white to her when she was a baby. OH how I miss those days.

Here’s a good photo of her mackerel stripes. I don’t think she would mind being compared to a fish. Not as long as she could eat some for dinner, too.

This is her Sphinx look. SO Siamese.

My baby is special. And I love her to little bits.

This is her new favorite place to explore in the kitchen. Can you find her?

Of course you can find her. It’s where cats ALWAYS hide. Especially the Siamese kind. Here she is, shooting her lasers down at us, as if she just ditched some Wicked tickets or something. Spooky eyes!

She’s a very smart little lady. She will hop up onto the kitchen island (or an obliging back of one of the kids– she’s very good at jumping on you when you are bent over to get something out of the cabinets!), then she will leap onto the counters. Up she scales the refrigerator and onto the very top of the cabinets. I have yet to see her scale the window to get to the other side of the cabinets over the stove, but I’ve seen her look that way with a little glint in her eye. We’ll see. She’d better accomplish it the first time she tries it!

We actually considered building little cat shelves– like a cat walk– all around the kitchen perimeter, above the cabinets. The Japanese do such crazy things as that for their cats. I think Livvy would love it. But we never got around to it, with so many other pressing projects around the house. But maybe someday, when I have some spare time.

BWAHAHAHAAH! Oh that’s a funny one!

From LOL Cats. TOTALLY TRUE!

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Found on LOL cats. LOL!!

In other news: we’ve been wildly busy. I’ll have an update soon. We’re trying to complete the walls so that we can install cabinets on Sunday. It’s a very ambitious goal, I’m not sure we’ll make it! More to come…