January 19, 2007

KITTY!

Boy aren't YOU people lucky! It's the return of Catblogging Friday here at Possumblog, and not only THAT, we actually have cat pictures!

Yes, I know--fascinating!

These are all from Rebecca's new Kodak camera, so first, discount the date stamp on every one of them. She got it for her birthday in September, but she didn't figure out how to set the date until after Christmas. And none of these are more recent than Christmas, but they ARE the most recent stuff we have.

Second, something's wrong with the Movable Type widget function on the mu.nu blogs that allows the creation of little thumbnails of each photo, so I'm going to put them all in full size (ish) format down below in the extended entry.

Third, I told you earlier that she has several movies on her SD card that I'd try to get posted for your enjoyment, but I can't seem to get my work computer to play nicely with the camera, so let's forget I ever mentioned anything about video.

Fourth, as a special surprise, there's MORE than just kitty pictures!

Now, let's see what we have!




Okay, let's do kitty pictures first. Again, disregard the dates.

You might recall that my lovely wife decided the cutest thing this Christmas season would be to take pictures of the kitten after putting a lovely fluffy plaid elastic collar around Lightning's neck and a tiny Santa hat on his head, also held in place by an elastic band under his chin.

Theoretically.

Being that I am a loving husband, I agreed to try to help her with this project. Lighting, although I call him a kitten, is a full grown cat now, and weighs approximately five hundred pounds, 98% of which is meanness and muscle.

Thus, an explanation for his rather perturbed demeanor in this photo:

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Despite knowing better, I actually managed to get his pretty little collar on!

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Alas, the tiny Santa hat was a no-go, due to the fact that exactly one second after the last photo was taken, Lightning attacked my right arm and hand with tooth and claw, opening up several arteries, veins, and capillaries.

Next time someone else gets to hold him.

Now, moving forward a couple of weeks, some outdoor shots that are much less angrified.

Here we see a stunning recreation of the famed 1950s thriller, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman and her Nine Foot Cat.

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The next two shots show Lightning at his most adorable kitteny best, rolling and posing like an actual sweet kitty.

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SO there's your kitten fix for this week! BUT, as promised, a few more shots of other stuff.

Here is a startling shot that I found on the camera. I don't remember her taking it, and I can't remember her ever showing it to me, and best I can tell it was right around Thanksgiving, but no matter, it's really quite a colorful sunset, even with the utility poles in the foreground.

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Next is the Christmas tree before all the gifts got ripped open on Christmas Day--

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AND THUS ENDS this edition of Catblogging Friday, and we hope you've enjoyed it.

'BYE, Y'ALL!

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(This was me on Christmas morning, grinning and waving like an idiot.)

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2007 09:02 AM
Comments

He's a handsome boy.

I was looking forward to the discourse on pencil sharpening. I like the hand-held German sharpeners myself. We do have a schoolhouse crank on the doorframe in the storage room which is not bad. The only electric I ever owned petered out after just a few pencils.

And pencils are not what they used to be, if you ask me. The points break much more easily than they did decades past.

Whole country's going down the drain. Why just the other day that smart-alec...

Posted by: Janis Gore at January 19, 2007 10:22 AM

Patience, madame. Patience.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2007 10:28 AM

Lightning's a handsome cat. He looks like lots of fun- except for those sharp, pointy things on the end of the paws of course.

"Bout that last picture- one word- sweatpants!

Posted by: Nate at January 19, 2007 10:35 AM

Hey, just be grateful the word was "shorts" and not "no pants."

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 19, 2007 10:42 AM