Dancing through life...

For those of you who may be new to this blog, Rich's mom has two cats. Elmo MacPurrypants, the Twenty Pound Kitten of DOOM is quite possibly one of the friendliest beasts on the planet. If you have hands, that means that you were meant to pet him. He LOVES being groomed; as soon as you pick up the kitty brush he will rush to your side from wherever he is in the house, already purring.

Zoe is slightly less friendly. She has a more typically cat-like personality, only allowing a select few humans to love upon her. Unlike Elmo, she won't let anyone within five feet of her if they happen to be in possession of a kitty brush.

This leads to difficulties, as she is a long haired cat. She gets a bit matted, and OH THE HAIRBALLS.

Rich's mom was away on vacation this weekend, so Rich went to her house to care for the babies. Upon arriving, he discovered that Zoe had a lovely new hairdo!

DISCLAIMER: For the above mentioned reasons, this is absolutely in no way cruel to little Zoe. She's actually quite a bit happier now that she has less fur.

( As promised, pictures! )

Kitteh on a turntable!

LIVE kitty cam!

I stayed home from work today. I was planning on getting some stuff done. Yeah...that's totally not happening now.

In my parents' front yard there are two very large, very old silver maple trees. One of these trees has a former woodpecker nest in it, which is now inhabited by a family of squirrels.

We think the babies have moved out on their own already, but here's Mommy and Daddy. We watched them frolic and play on the lawn for about a half an hour last Sunday. My favorite is when they bury the peanuts, then pat down the ground over them.

At one point, one of them had come up and looked right in the window at us. I didn't get a shot of that, but it was very cute.

This was filmed through the window screen, so it's not the best quality, but it's still cute: