random post of cuteness

So I'm posting for posting's sake.  I've been MIA lately.  Too much to go in to at the moment so I'll just share some of my pics :)  There is a constant struggle in our house for the perfect napping place.  I'm sure I'll never truly understand it but hey, it's made for some entertaining picture moments.  Enjoy!

on the weather...

It is hot.  It's like crazy hot.  You know, the kind of hot where it's too hot to go fishing because all the fish are trying to find the cool spot in the lake because even they are saying "IT'S TOO DAMN HOT!"  Poor little monster has been stuck at the house because the only time it's cool enough to go outside is about 4 hours after we go to bed.  She seems content though to go out with us on our smoke breaks and does her little lap around the yard.  Sometimes she doesn't quite make it all the way around before plopping down in a spot of shade and stretching out.  We can't wait for the weather to get decent enough to go out wandering again.  I'm glad pets have short term memories.  If she didn't she would hate going out because of the hour or more after we get home she gets picked at to make sure she's not got ticks or other creepy crawlies.  Ah well, the things we do for love.  C'est la vi or something like that.

on my cat...

I love my cat.  He is the cutest kitty in the whole wide world.  I also love playing with photos, and since he doesn't run at the sight of the little black flashy box in my hands he gets photographed the most.  I don't think it's necessarily because he likes his picture made.  I think it's mostly that he just doesn't want to expend the energy getting away.  This particular pic I took on my phone.  It seems to do well when I've got plenty of natural light.  Since he is mommy's little boy and the only one that will stay still long enough for me to get a good series of pics you'll be seeing a lot of him.  I like to think he's a little too sophisticated to be a lol cat.  I guess I'll have to dig through some of his old pictures and see what I can find.  In the mean time though he will just have to be the cutest kitty in the whole wide world.  Even when he's trying to look mean.

on pets...

i've come to realize my cat has me pretty well trained. if he decides it's time to get up and insert food into his bowl he gingerly walks across the bed and stretches his little paw out and gently taps me on some unexposed portion of skin (he has some aversion to touching bare human skin with his paw). if this doesn't work he will circle around and try tapping on another area and follow it up with a little meow. that usually results in me rolling over and pulling the covers up higher. so in a final attempt to get what he wants he will bear down and find the one piece of nekidness and press his cold wet nose against it. if by chance this too fails he calls for reinforcements. then with him meowing and her pacing back and forth across my head they pretty much know i'm going to get up and feed them if only to crawl back in bed for five more minutes before the alarm goes off and i have to get up. on one particular morning that for reasons only know to theoretical physicists and midnight info-mercial psychics i was awake enough to witness an event that really made me wonder who owns who. the little of the two monsters had crawled up on to hubby's chest and was staring quite intently at him. she carefully reaches out and just barely grabs the edge of the nose piece for his c-pap mask and tugs. it's enough to shift it out of his nose causing the air to blow up the side of his face. like normal he unconsciously reaches up and readjusts it. she waits a minute then does it again, but this time a little harder. so again he reaches up, still asleep and pushes it back in to place. third time being the charm she grabs it and pulls hard enough that it snaps back on him. she bolts just in time to miss a hand flying across his face and a "WTF!" i couldn't stop laughing (which i then realized i had probably woken up because i had to pee really really bad). after awhile i finally convinced him it wasn't me but the cat that had pulled on his mask. it wasn't until about a week later that she tried it again that he realized i had been telling the truth. so who owns who? that my friend is the real question.