Shrimp and Grits

It doesn’t look much like a police box, but Rusty has her own TARDIS.

Clearly, this blue basket is much larger on the inside than it appears on the outside!

Find more animal friends on the Friday Ark

Much is often made of the aversion cats have to water. We are told that cats hate water, and will go nowhere near it unless they have to drink.

However, this is not true of Tom. Tom is our “bathing” cat - as you can see in the small picture above.

Still not convinced? See Tom bathe for yourself! [3.9MB AVI]

We don’t have as many good pictures of our cat Tom as we do of our other two cats. Why not? Tom is built with advanced stealth materials that render him invisible to the auto-focus mode of most cameras. So, we have a lot of pictures of Tom that could easily pass as UFOs - if this were that kind of web site!

But Tom’s advanced stealth technology might have finally met its match. Our new camera (a Canon Rebel XT) is a lot better at catching Tom … in focus!

Tom … in focus

Just don’t let Tom know that he’s not quite as stealthy as he once was!

I took this picture a day or two ago. Cate’s napping in the carseat after her ride home from the day care.

She’s “sleeping like a baby”. But I wonder … where, exactly, does the phrase “sleeping like a baby” come from? The phrase as most people use it refers to sleeping peacefully.

But babies? If our baby is typical (Google search suggests that she is), then “sleeping like a baby” is taking short naps. Between the naps?

Between naps, Cate wants to see everything. Lately, she’s also wanted to grab everything and put it into her mouth. The world must taste great!

Oh, and if you’d like a phrase that really does mean “sleeping peacefully”, might I suggest: “Sleeping like a cat”?

It always feels like …

… somebody’s watching me!

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Ash: When I do this, the blood goes right to my head! Awesome!

Everyone knows that cats love anything made of cloth.

Tom: Soft and crafty

… but did you know that cats like to make their own quilts?

Patty caught Tom beating my high score in Time Pilot ‘84 this week.

I’ve just beaten your high score! Now it’s time for a nap

Who knew Tom was into video games?

Here’s Ash, letting us know that all of the brightly-colored new toys around the house can’t possibly be for mere humans.

Ash: I’m the baby!

Speak up, human!

Rusty: I can only half hear you