Saturday Pictures

Uh oh, we're at it again. I have a similar picture of Will doing the "wicked witch" pose while changing out a bathroom faucet from when we lived in the condo.The video on the Home Depot site makes it look easy, but it's NOT.
Look at all these parts.
I really hated this faucet. It was a good quality Moen, but it was getting grody. I also prefer two handles.

Last time the hardest part was getting the old faucet out, but this time it wasn't that bad. I was able to clean up the stain from the old faucet AFTER I took this picture.Ziggy is waiting for his drink. He can't understand that the water has been turned off at the sink during "construction".
Good thing we have a second bathroom. Uh oh, this could go either way.
We don't see much of Kandyman now that Lilly comes into our yard. I hope he's still catching mice and rats and things, but not birds. This is one of his favorite spots out front next to the plant that is doing VERY well. It must be the spot. This is where the 'magic' tomato plant grew two years ago with MANY, HUGE tomatoes, but then again, the 'not so magic' tomato plant which grew large but produced zero tomatoes was also planted in this spot last year.
We went to the flea market at Ohlone College. I liked the old looking fire box, and the sign warning of high fire danger in the same frame. I tried ot capture this without people in it, but that didn't happen. We met Ken and Diann here and briefly walked around with them. It's hard to hang out together at the flea market.
I found a nice new shirt, and a few postcards that I may try to sell on ebay, and Will bought unopened bottles of Niacin and saved about $45. I asked the vendor why he had them, and he told us he tried taking it, but it didn't work for him.

There are strange clouds all around. The weather folks tell us it's because of a hurricane in Mexico. The cloud formations are very pretty.This was taken near a produce stand nearby. I liked the old house and tall palm trees against the backdrop of clouds.

Funny Cat Pictures (of course)!

I am surprised I was able to capture this moment! I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Ziggy was sprawled out in the sunbeam, when the trash pickup truck came by making lots of noise and getting Mow's attention. Mow jumped onto the dishwasher and Zig didn't panic - perhaps because I was there and started petting them both. Zig isn't all that interested in the loud truck, but Mow is looking out the window at it.

Wow! They even posed for me. Sort of. Ziggy is watching Mowry very closely.Earlier this morning when we went into the office, we didn't pull up the shade because we get morning sun blaring in and it is just at the level that it goes right into our eyes. Mowry wanted to see out, so he managed to get onto the window perch and go under the shade.Close-up of Mowry's tail.Another difference between Alex and Ziggy is that Ziggy's paw pads are black, and Alex's are pink. Pink (paw pads) on white (fur) doesn't photograph well.

I was wrong about our friends' new baby. He was actually born on Monday night, July 6th, not after midnight on July 7th. He's still a very lucky boy, as are his parents!

Cats are better than some people.....

I can't believe how dumb people are. Someone down the block just raced by on his little motorcycle with his young child sitting on his lap - no helmet, no protective gear.



I was reading an ad on Craigslist for a "rod iron" dining set. Even if you can't spell, you've got to know it's "wrought iron" and NOT "rod iron" and yet I can't tell you how many times I see ads for rod iron.


The more examples of people I experience, the more I like my cats. Is that even possible to like my cats more? Here's Mowry rolling on the dishwasher in a sunbeam. He's smarter than many humans. At least he understands survival of the fittest.
Today Ziggy is hanging on the window perch next to my desk. It's blurry, but look at all the people at Wrigley today.Uh oh, a little while later there's rain. There are a few umbrellas and the ground is wet, but this doesn't seem to stop Chicagoans. The one time I went to Wrigley it rained, and then it stopped and the game started. The weather is very different in Chicago than it is in California.

It's 75 degrees today and gorgeous! Not too hot, and not too cold. My weather program says a high today of 71, and I'm not sure how that works, but that doesn't matter!

Cats and Kittens (the human kind and the cat kind) and Roses, oh my!

I finally found a great use for Facebook. My friends are adopting a baby, and the baby was born after midnight this morning in Las Vegas on 7/7/09 - I'm sure he's going to be a lucky kid! Congratulations Erik and Christine. They posted updates on FB. Had I been awake at 12:15 am I would have gotten instant information.

Most posts on Facebook are boring at best. Some are mean, some are stupid. It's amazing what people will post for lots of people to see. It goes to all their "friends" and their "friends' friends". Maybe people really do think their Facebook "friends" are their real friends. At least FB is good for disseminating information such as the birth of a baby! I'm glad for that.

I looked out the window in the spare bedroom and saw this lovely yellow and pink rose.
And from outside:
They were trying to get the kittens to eat real food next door.

If you won't eat this, the mama cat will!The white kitten would rather nurse on Lilly.

Awwww - is that the cutest thing you've seen? I'm told you can't really tell the sex of a kitten when they are very young. Sometimes even the vet can't be sure. I looked at each one, and it seems very obvious to me - two male kitties and one female kittie. The black and gray tabby is a male.

Our neighbor called to ask us about disposing of a dead rat in her backyard. The animal shelter is closed, but I thought animal services was open. Will and I went over with shovel and gloves and plastic bag in tow. She's 93 - it's the least we could do! It wasn't a rat, but was a mouse that had obviously been gotten to by a cat (Kman, are you working across the street now?) and so we bagged it for her. Apparently animal services was open because they came by later in the day.

I washed the white sheets and temporarily put them across the chair in the dining room. Mowry is burrowing into the sheets. I thought he just liked them when I was making the bed. He doesn't do this to other clean laundry, but he does do it to blankets and throws on our laps!

Alex loves the top of the cat post in the sunroom on Sunday.

I looked at a website that was showing a stream of the Michael Jackson memorial. It looked more like a "who's who" movie premier to me. He was talented, weird, and it's very sad. I'll be glad when it's over.

Random Weekend Photos

That's the moon on the left of the fireworks. I'm surprised at how well it photographed. It was cold watching the fireworks, as it was last year, but we were prepared. Some people showed up with cropped pants and sandals, but we get cold easily, so we had shoes, socks, jackets, sweatshirts, whatever it took to be comfortable. We had a lovely day with friends and then walked down to the fireworks show near their home.

Earlier in the day we went to the farm to get tomatoes and basil for the bruschetta I made.

I tried to change the sheets on Saturday, but someone thought we were playing.

Unlike the other two, Mowry loves to burrow.On Sunday PT got washed. This is a one-person job, so I took pictures while Will used the coin wash. Am I dating myself? The sign says "$2.50". I remember washing a car for $0.75! Or maybe it was $1.00!

Random Photos of Cats, More Cats, and Other Things

It's Friday, July 3rd, which makes it a holiday for some of the people. I didn't think there would be mail delivery today, but there was!

I FOUND WILL'S KEYS!!!!! He knew he brought them into the house, but where he put them was the question. They were in a little box where we keep BART tickets, phone chargers, and the tokens from cereal boxes I am keeping to get a free DVD for someone I know who reads this blog. I decided to count the tokens today as I added one more to the box, and as I picked up the full box, I had a epiphany - I bet the keys are in here! They were! Why, you ask? Because Will kept forgetting his cell phone hands free, which we also keep in that tiny box, so he thought if he put the keys with the hands free, he couldn't forget the hands free. That only works if you remember where you put your keys!!!
I once did that at my parents' - I put my keys in the refridgerator with the leftovers, and then forgot where I put my keys, much to my mother's dismay. Things like "how could you not know where you put your keys?" were uttered by my mother, whose keys always go back into her purse. After several minutes of searching and a big "aha" - I remembered they were in the fridge. I swear I asked Will if he put them "somewhere special". The good news is that Chrysler would charge us $200 for a new key - we went and asked. I looked at Will and said "NO, we'll find the keys" since we knew they were in the house. Somewhere. It's good to have 2 car keys again.


Last night I went next door to visit the kittens. This picture came out blurry, but you can see how cute the kitty is. That's my hand and belt buckle for size. It's still small but has whiskers!
Then they grow up to be big kitties like these! Ziggy was on the dishwasher, and Mowry came up but of course I didn't get to snap until he was on his way down. Ziggy was nervous, but he didn't move.
Yesterday Mowry napped a lot. He sleeps in the most amusing positions. Is this really comfortable?
or this?
Apparently he was napping to save up his energy to be a bad kitty at 5:00 am this morning. He needed a lot of sleep. Notice the tail.....

At 5:00 am Mowry and Alex were intimidating Ziggy. At one point we turned on the light and Ziggy was sitting on Will's jeans looking like he was about to poop. My human assessment of the situation is that he wanted to get to his box, but Mow and Al were chasing and bullying him. It's hard to sleep with this going on. BRAT CATS.

Ziggy can usually be found on our bathroom mat waiting for us to come in and give him water from the tap.



Can you please turn on the water? Why are you just standing there with the camera?Thank you!

Around 1:00 pm this afternoon Mowry came into the office announcing his presence by meowing. And meowing. And meowing. He has a very persistent (read: whiney) meow! So I picked him up and placed him on the unoccupied cat window perch, and he stayed. Couldn't he figure that out by himself? He usually does that when Will gets on a business call. His client has asked him if that's a cat in the background!
We both like trains. We tried to find out the cost of taking the train to Washington to visit Will's mom but it is very expensive. Too bad. This is from the webcam at the Fremont train station.
Yikes. Is this what happens to old cars? Too bad they couldn't be preserved. They all look interesting.

Wednesday Random Pictures

Our bathroom sink is very small. We love our house, and it all works for us. The reason it is posted here is for you to imagine Ziggy hanging out on the sink waiting for a drink of water! And notice the faucet. I'm not crazy about the faucet, especially because it's hard to get it to turn on a small drip of water for Zig. Yesterday someone posted that they were giving away a faucet. I'm not sure if it will fit, but I claimed it. I will re-post if it doesn't fit. I don't love the handles, but I like them better than what we have.Except when I opened the box, the actual faucet is different, and I love the handles! I'm afraid it may be too big, though.Mowry keeps coming into our office and moewing, as if to say "play with me". So I went out by the toys and he showed only a brief interest in the toy basket. A tummy tickle calmed him down for a few minutes.

I managed to get Alex and Ziggy in the same picture frame, but Alex looked away, eyeing his favorite spot high atop the cat post...

where he eventually ended up.Ziggy closer.I don't think I'm supposed to be up here, but I am. I used to hang out where Alex is, but now that is HIS spot! July is a great picture on my wonderful SF calendar!

Yesterday Will walked into the kitchen to find Zig and Mow both on the dishwasher. They gave nose kisses before I could in the room with my camera. The best I could do was Mowry leaving the scene, and Ziggy watching him. At least you can see they were both up here.

It's amazing what is comfortable to a cat. This does not look comfortable, but apparently it is because Zig does this often. That's his head against the old shoe shining box.

I'm busily knitting, but I can't post pictures because they are gifts for people who read this blog.