08Mar26: a nasty morning…

The state of the bump….
We had ice rain. Thanks to neighbor Bret, he got my car key and defrosted iced over windows and a frozen door. The scooped the snow from my car to my front door and put devices on iced over placed to make it safer for me to get to my car to get to dialysis.

At the hospital, staff brought me in on a wheelchair and made sure I got on it at a spot by the main door that was ice free.

They gave me an oxygen tank at the hospital since the one I had was gushing oxygen through a defective part.
(Oxygen,thanks to the dialysis staff. Whew!)

Unfortunately, all this started because there was a solid sheet of ice where I park at the hospital. I called the dialysis unit for a wheelchair ride.

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To top the miserable, demoralizing morning off, the last oxygen tank with anything in it turned out to be a leaker – the 12 oxygen cannisters Lincare was supposed to deliver, weren’t!!! Weather will be given as a reason I suppose, but the potential crisis I face till next Friday’s delivery is 13 empty canistrrs and none full.

I AM MAD AS HELL!
Unhappy Doug in the dialysis room.

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…and Andy sleeps peacefully away.
So cute!

14Feb26: “kitty food time!”

Andy stopped by to remind me what time it was.
I checked the time. Yep! “Kitty food time”!
Andy waited patiently in the north bathroom.
Yes. It says cat food on the can. So I mash some on the kitty food plate. It’s a new can so I didn’t have to give it a quick zap on the microwave.
It smells good, but presentation is a bit weak.
I put the plate where Andy eats his wet food, then call his name.
Andy doesn’t…
…waste any…
… time getting onto his kitty food!

Post 1670: catch as catch can…

Andy is easy enough to photograph lately…

…but Dougy’s been hard to get! Yep, he either moves during the shoot or holds his head down, hiding his eyes. 

Post 1666: Andy in low light…

“Well, that sow’s ear is starting to look like a purse! Sort of….” When you have poor light and black kitties, you learn to settle for what you get photographically!

Post 1662: lots of kitty boys…

I wondered what would happen if I loaded several GIFS in a collage. Nothing, apparently! Maybe they will “wiggle” when I save and load them. If not, well, here’re abundant Andy and Dougy photos. 

Post 1659: a slow Sunday morning…

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This is pretty much what the kitty boys had in mind to do this morning. As long as he was convenient, I decided to make some portrait shots of Andy.

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Woo hoo! Looking good!

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Creepy, isn’t it, seeing my hand holding my smart phone in the reflection in Andy’s eye…! Oh, and he’d just returned from a midnight snack, so has kitty food crumbs on his face. So it goes with long-haired kitties! They are little dust mops, thanks to static electricity in their hair.

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LOL! This is a difficult photo to read. At first, I thought it was a double exposure – something not possible with the smart phone camera. Then I realized what looks like whiskers above Andy’s eye actually are vibrissae, “eyebrow whiskers”, if you will!

 

Post 1392: What a wonderful day!

Dougy and I had a sweet time with a favorite wand toy early in the morning, and he enjoyed my enthusiastic “Good boy! What a clever kitty!” praise each time he snared the lure as it passed by.

Later, after the sun came up – yes, it was a sunny day! – Dougy lounged on the kitty lounger by the back door and enjoyed the warmth of the sun. I might add, it really, really, really showed how beautiful his ruff is at this point. Dougy and his brother are boy kitties, but I think they are just plain beautiful. Not handsome, beautiful!

Here’s another look at that ruff:IMG_20170514_091452 

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Let’s not forget Andy. I tried to get a photo of him on the walker by the back door, but he was still a bit skittish because of the medicine episode documented in yesterday’s post. (This post and yesterday’s were both put together on the same day.) When I tried to get an angle that shows how pretty he is, he hopped off the little red chair and never did let me photograph him at his best.IMG_20170514_091856

Of course, after I came home after I took a little road trip to dry my car off after running it through the car wash, Andy greeted me at the door, all friendly and loving and huggable! I picked him up three different times, and he love, love, loved me rubbing his whiskers, nose, and tummy! The difference from when I tried to take his photo at a good angle? Beats me! 

Post 1183: Andy, in two views…

Yep! Same old problem! Andy (or Dougy – same difference) is being cute, posing nicely, looking like a potential subject for a blog post, but…he’s in the dark. Oh well. I took the photos anyway, hoping Photoshop would rescue them. One turned out subtle because his whiskers were highlighted by the sun behind him. The others had to be manipulated beyond a reasonable point, turning Andy into an extraterrestrial alien kitty: “Come to the light!” 

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Here’s the subtle “highlighted whiskers” Andy.101816 andy whiskers.jpg

This is pretty much what the rest looked like after typical Photoshopping.101816 andy in the shadows.jpg

Then, one last effort to bring out detail in Andy (exposure) resulted in this…101816 andy in the shadows copy.jpg

…and this~!101816 andy in shadows 3 copy.jpg

Oh well. I kind of like the “highlighted whiskers” Andy. In the meantime, I’ll try to catch him in good light for future posts.

Post 1164: in the dark…

Some days I am lucky to get photos of either kitty because they are hiding in the dark. Dougy chose by the front door. Andy, who was hiding from his daily dose of medicine, hid under the computer desk. Grrr! I don’t have time today to play black-cats-in-dark-places games, but the kitties are doing their best to be difficult!

Here are my heavily Photoshopped results:

Dougy in the dark. No idea why.

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Andy in the dark, hiding from his daily medicine dose….

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I’ll catch you boys yet! And you, Andy, if I can take my medicine like a big boy, so can you!

Here’s an Andy photo from another day, one when he was enjoying the sun coming in through the back door. 

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Post 1107: in a haze…

Once again, I am fighting the process of taking photos of black cats in dark places. Thanks to time constraints, I’m putting up two photos I don’t care for because of how I had to get them to a “passable” state, but not a great one.

(Dougy”s rubbing against my leg just now, petting it with his tail, his way of saying, “…but I love you anyway!” Awwww! Thanks, Dougy!)

Andy sits in the dark for his poretrait...

Andy sits in the dark for his portrait…

So does Dougy! Oh well, his eyes were open for a change.

So does Dougy! Oh well, his eyes were open for a change.