The kitty boys tease each other some days, or beat each other up on others. Mostly, though, they live and let live.
Dougy spots Andy sleeping on the computer shelf.
“Do I mess with him or not,” Dougy ponders….!
Good boy, Dougy! He decides to leave his brother alone.
I wondered if there’d be anything but sleeping kitties for today’s post. Then Andy woke up from his carrier top perch. When I sit in the recliner, this is his favorite sleeping post.
Sleepy Boy Andy finally sits up and checks things out.
Dougy stops by in the doorway. Does Andy want to play “The Game”?
The wand toy they use to initiate “The Game” is there…!
Now on the walker, Andy touches the ottoman.
Dougy will be upset if he sees it…and Andy knows it!
Andy escapes retribution for the ottoman affront when Dougy hops up on the recliner arm for some serious scritching!
Dougy lets Andy know what it feels like when your brother messes with your favorite spot! (Dougy’s on the right.)
Just sitting on Andy’s shelf is as bad an affront as, well, Andy touching Dougy’s ottoman! (Andy’s on the left, pondering…!)
The challenges both passed without incident. I guess this is a day for the boys to tolerate each other’s naughty behavior. Believe me, they do know when the other is being a bad kitty!
Andy and Dougy had the day at the groomer’s two days ago. You might notice they are neatly trimmed now. Maybe not so obvious is how one side of Dougy’s whiskers got cut, probably when he turned his head at the wrong time! They’ll grow back, but he looks a bit odd face on just now.
For the sake of sanity, I posted this on Facebook: Left, centrist, right, libertarian: I’m sick of it all! As of today, I will “hide” all posts that show up on my timeline that have to do with the politics of the day. I will follow issues, of course, just not on Fakebook. Here it goes: All kitties and cute animals all the time! (I probably won’t respond to comments posted on this site, either. We’ll see.)
“Fakebook” was a typo. Or was it? Regardless, Facebook is the worst source of light in these dark times, and nothing comes of trying to correct the record. Unfortunately, “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.” [William G. McAdoo (1863 – 1941)]
All kitties and cute animals all the time!
Oh, to catch the kitty boys off guard! Photographing them is an exercise in stealth that they mostly win.
Andy enjoys the warmth of the lamp!
“Oh no! The flashy thing!” Andy alerts Dougy.
Dougy gets the message.
“Wiedersehen!”
There is a convenience involved in those automated systems where you punch this or that sequence of keys to complete your walk through doing business with a governmental agency or business when they are closed. There also is a hell on earth if you are doing it on a “smart” phone with a keypad that disappears between questions and you can’t figure out how to bring it up again!
I ordered two prescriptions today using my new “smart” phone. I’m afraid I lost a lot of patience in the process. I’m afraid I said some very colorful words. I’m afraid I came close to tossing the “smart” phone against the wall, then I barely came to my senses, realized it is very expensive to lose one’s temper that way….
Eventually (I think) I got an option to leave my voice message. So I read the information off the pill bottles and hope I left sufficient other information with them to get my prescriptions.
Poor Dougy! He thought I was yelling at him. Poor kitty.
I guess the brilliant bunnies who create these “smart” phones are too young to have to deal with needing a locked-on keypad to deal with ordering pills or contacting the Department of Human Resources to wade through their automated systems to get to the service option you need…after you select English over Spanish, to hear what those options are! In time, they will know what it’s like to lose the digital keypad and not be able to bring it back up in time to satisfy the automated voice that there is a person on the other end needing something!
Though it is fun being able to use my new phone to get the use of the phone option in my car’s infotainment center, I really need that stupid phone, the one with the real keypad to deal with the vicissitudes of age – prescriptions, bureaucracies, insurance companies. As far as those places are concerned, automated systems are cost effective, convenient, and reduce their labor costs. They also cause seniors hell on earth unless they have a stupid phone with a real keyboard
Hey! I also took my first photo with my new phone. It was Andy. Of course, now I have to figure out how to send it to my computer! I guess that is possible. I just don’t know how. I guess I’ll have to upload an old photo so you get a cat dose today.
Stop laughing at me, Andy!
Now Dougy’s dissing me…!
Dougy might have the answer after all!
Sorry about the lack of defined paragraphs at the top. WordPress is giving me hell today. There are, in fact, TWO spaces between paragraphs! Then, inexplicityly, indicated spacing returns later in the post.
The general sense of Nebraska is that it is “flat as Kansas”. That is somewhat true, but largely false. If you drive a road that follows a floodplain, such as I-80, the topography tends to be flat. If you drive off the Interstate, that’s where you find the diverse topography of Nebraska.
The following scenes are north of Alliance, up to the 16 Mile Corner, over to US 385, south to Berea, then to Alliance. That means nothing to you now, most likely, but by the time you take the “tour”, you will see flat land, hills, and a bit of where I live, in Alliance. Don’t worry! There are kitties at the end of the trail!
It’s just before harvest time for winter wheat, a major crop in Box Butte County.
Yeah, just north of Alliance is flat, flat, flat!
The road is pretty much straight for miles…..then it gets gently twisty and hilly.
But there are diversions along the road. For example, Carhenge, which is managed by the City of Alliance.
It’s free but you can buy souvenirs – if you must – at the visitor center! Of course, contributions are welcomed.
View it from your car…
…or get out and walk around it! Quirky, imaginative, a nod to the other one in England! LOL!
This is the land of those amber waves of grain we sing about….! This is a land of horizontals.
The 16 Mile Corner is, well, 16 miles from Alliance. Hemingford is west, or head north to Rushville. South is Alliance.
Not a lot there, but Berea is the third settlement in Box Butte County. This is from north of Berea.
Alliance and Hemingford (“Hemmingford” in Stephen King’s CHILDREN OF THE CORN…!) are the other towns.
The airbase was Alliance’s biggest contribution to WWII.
Tenth and Box Butte. Box Butte Avenue was paved with bricks in 1920. They add charm to the avenue, and the citizens are very proud of them.
“Cruisin’ the Butte” used to be a teenager activity: make endless round trips the length of the Butte to find friends – or trouble! – for the evening.
Alliance has many lovely parks. This is in the Central Park.
Good old Lane 2, where I live!
At last! Something vertical in this horizontal world!
Hollyhocks in front of my apartment were seeded by birds. Thanks, birds!
Lovely!
“What were you doing while I was gone, Andy?”
Andy looks, um, suspicious!
Gad! Dougy wastes no time getting down
to naughtiness right in front of my eyes!
Bad boy! Bad! Bad! Bad!
Be safe and enjoy the holiday!
Image from https://pixabay.com/
The kitty boys and Doug hope you have a happy and safe Independence Day!
I’ve always been an animal lover. There are none (except spiders and snakes) I don’t like. Though you know I am a cat person, you may not know that I like dogs, too! More importantly, dogs also like me. Mostly!
One of my doggy friends is Maggie, doggy companion of Liz, Jim, and Jamie. A rescue dog, she’s had a tough time of it, learning to trust people, learning to behave, expressing herself in ways that earn her a nice pat on the head and a reassuring “Good dog!” She is a good dog! And a beauty.
I was pleased to get a signed photo of Maggie of maggie0019 when I was ill and then in therapy. It cheered me and I couldn’t wait to get home to hang it where i could see it easily and often.
Right next to Andy and Dougy as kittens, you’ll find a signed photo from my dog buddy Maggie! The drawn cat was a gift from Kaelia, now 19 years old (!), who was a little kid of seven when she drew that kitty and gave it to me to cheer me up when I was recovering from my initial flare of Wegener’s granulomatosis. It doesn’t show that well in the photo, but her teacher wrote this critique of the drawing in the upper right hand corner: “Wow!”
I thanked Liz (Maggie’s “human Mom”) at the time. She also sent me a white blanket (fuzzy like a Persian kitty and very comfortable) that I use at dialysis. Chris of contrafactual sent me a tasty basket of citrus from his personal citrus tree at the same time. I’d just learned I was supposed to restrict certain foods in my diet. No more bingeing on citrus for me, so I shared the majority of the fruit with staff at the care center where I was at the time. It was much appreciated! Liz and Chris definitely were a positive factor in my recovery.
Later, Pam, Chris’ wife made and he sent a beautiful afghan that showed up in the corner of a recent Dougy photo.
There’s Pam’s beautiful (and very useful!) afghan on the left, hanging on the recliner.
I feel blessed with these friends!
Not that there was any doubt, but Andy and Dougy enjoyed their birthday albacore treat! Of course, the celebration didn’t go without a hiccup: I wasn’t paying close attention to the time, and was late for my dialysis. That meant the boys were home alone a wee bit longer than normal. They noticed it was past “feed the kitties time”, and responded to the tragic moment in typical fashion:
Andy, Andy, Andy! If it weren’t your birthday, I’d be upset with you!
The boys are unanimous on this: Albacore tastes darn yummy!
“Send me to ‘Altuna’ if this isn’t darn good!” said Dougy.
“Tastes good! Can’t be Charlie the Tuna!” says Andy.
For those who don’t live in the USA or have familiarity with American cities, Altoona is in Pennsylvania. Charlie the Tuna is a cartoon fish who tries to get into the can of the company that runs the commercials, but is thwarted because he tries to demonstrate he has good taste, but they are looking for tunas that taste good…