Andy has a way of letting me know he’s through with me. It starts with a paw on my hand. If I try to top his paw with my hand, he reasserts his desire to be left alone by putting his paw back on top of my hand. If I ignore his wishes, he’ll add a little bite to my hand. It has just enough pressure to let me know “I AM NOT KIDDING, BUB!” What can I say? Petting a kitty is very satisfying business if the kitty boy agrees to the attention.
“Seriously,” Andy meows, “it’s different.”
Yes, when I leave my lapboard on the late Dougy’s memorial ottoman, Andy hops on the lapboard. As far as he’s concerned, it isn’t the forbidden ottoman when the lapboard tops it.
“I can do what I want now,” purred Andy.
No surprise that Andy tops it off with a nap.
We thought all the flies were dead, but Andy spots another late season Musca domestica, a rare treat for a kitty boy if he can catch it.
Every cat person is…
…pleased when his or her cat decides to become a laptop kitty. Um…, no, that’s “lap cat”. Andy’s decided he wants to become my laptop kitty and every time I’m on my laptop, he tries to get on the keys. I try to keep him behind the screen or my message to you looks like this: vewu3rbnihjnnnnnnmasdvs;l.
Andy’s minding his business…
…when I interrupt his kitty bath to make an Andy selfie video.
“That’s you, boy!” As always, Andy demonstrates that he is a “Kool Kat”! Can you believe his nonchalant glance toward the cameraman? “Of course it’s me, silly! I’m the only cat here. Who else could it be?”
Though Andy basks in the heat of the end table lamp…
…till he feels up…
…for a little television…
…it just puts him to sleep.
Andy posts himself on magazines on the floor. He’s waiting for me to put my hand inside the pages so he can hunt it. Ow! It’s one of his favorite games!
Andy’s horns are up. He’s watching me. Watching, watching, trying to look like he’s not watching, watching! Then I give him blinky eyes and he gives me blinky eyes back. I got your number, kitty boy!
Andy hopped onto the glider arm. I barely could focus on him in this photo. Regardless, he satisfied his curiosity about the smart phone and left on important kitty business.
In the chaos of the burn in phase of setting up the new laptop, I exhausted myself and Andy as well. We survived as of last Thursday, when I made this post. There are some minor details to work through, yet all the features I need immediate access to work.
Yes, things are pretty much back to normal!