December 22, 2010
Previously, I had mentioned how much Squad Car loves to help me on the computer. I just happened to have camera handy and here are some pictures of my little computer geek getting ready to do some serious coding. She loves to use the mouse. Enjoy and I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Talk to you next year.
November 28, 2010
Everyone had a great Thanksgiving. The gallery was closed on that day, but I went over twice to feed Roo and Squad Car their special Thanksgiving dinners. Why should humans be the only ones to pig-out on that day? I had picked some Fancy Feast Appetizers to mix in with their regular wet food. They both love shrimp so they had a seafood extravaganza consisting of wild salmon and shrimp cut up into bite size tidbits mixed together and served slightly warmed in the microwave. As I was heating their gourmet meal, the smell made them a little crazy and when I finally put down their plates, a small feeding frenzy ensued. I was lucky to get out of there with all of my fingers. Slurping and purring could be heard throughout the land. We had two very happy and full Thanksgiving kitties. They did not even want to watch any football and went right to sleep in their favorite spots. I am pretty sure they were thankful
I followed the same routine for the house felines with all five of them slurping, purring and eating their way into very sound catnaps. Everyone was happy and life was good. Happy Thanksgiving, you all.
In the gallery, I have a room divider Marianne made for the gallery to display her equine paintings and photos. She spent a bunch of time designing and building this edifice and it really is gorgeous. Made out of colored reeds and various silks from India makes it a very striking example of creativity. Unfortunately, one of the gang took a disliking to this divider and made it one of her missions in life to pull the silk and reeds out of this divider.
I would come in mornings and there would a piece of silk laying on the floor and scattered about would be pieces of the colored reeds. At first, I did not know which one of the usual suspects was doing the vandalism. I got to the gallery early one morning and low and behold, Squad Car was perched atop the divider busily pulling out one of the reeds. Roo was on the ground encouraging her and waiting for the reed to drop so she could haul it off somewhere. Squad Car had climbed up the back of the divider (covered in a thick cloth) and was hanging precariously over the top (two feet on one side and two feet on the other side). The divider is over seven feet tall and Squad Car had pulled herself up to the top using only her little claws and brute strength. She had worked so hard getting to the top I almost felt bad getting her down and chastising her (of course you know how much good that did).
I had to figure a way to keep her on the ground. Again, that heavy duty cardboard came to the rescue. I taped two five foot by six foot pieces of cardboard to the back of the divider. Since the back of the divider faces my studio, I did not care that it looked like I was living in a cardboard box. Squad Car of course tried climbing the cardboard but it would not support her weight and there was nothing above the cardboard she could jump to. She circled around for two days trying to figure a new way to reach the summit. Finally, she admitted defeat and moved on to bigger and better things. The divider was safe for the time being.
