Cats to borrow

Yesterday when I came home from work I smelled basil. A very nice smell, but I don’t have a basil plant. Once I got to the kitchen I found out where it came from. One of the cats knocked over a bottle of olive oil with basil. The bottom of the bottle had broken spilling oil all over the counter top. Unfortunately for me I had a spindle lying there and half was covered in oil.
They’ve done this before with a bottle with lamp oil. Also managing it to cover my spindle.

Sigh, anybody interested to temporarily take in a few elderly cats? They can be really sweet.

Diet cat

I have 3 cats, a skinny cat, a heavy set cat and a fat cat. Fat cat has to go on a diet. So they’re all on a diet.



I truly believe that the diet kibble tastes as bad as human diet food. It even looks like cardboard. Fat cat isn’t really fond of it. Which I don’t mind.
Skinny cat really can’t lose any weight. It shouldn’t be a problem as long as I keep feeding her extra stuff. Problem is that she doesn’t really like extra stuff, just her dry kibble. She even seems to enjoy the diet stuff. How can I keep her from losing weight? I’ve tried the stuff for kittens (extra nutrients) but she keeps ignoring it.

Full chair

full_chair
Originally uploaded by isis1207

Nothing exciting happened this week; I finished half of my VisionofDelight scarf. There were no uncontrollable urges to spend an absurd amount of money on knitting related stuff. I did reserve a sleeping place for the cats for when I’m on vacation. Right after I mentioned it three of them crawled on the chair together. The cat on the right (Isis) actually counts as two size-wise. Theoretically speaking I could fit 4 cats on the chair. But the fourth cat (Mickey) felt nu urge to participate in that experiment. If Isis lies down on her side, she covers more than half the seat. Scooter had been sitting in the chair before and got caught behind Isis. The little white guy has been trying to gain a place between the two and he finally succeeded. The whole chair filled with cat. Lucky for me I have a couch to sit on.

I am mad

Eban box
Originally uploaded by isis1207

Hello, my name is Eban, better know as little man. It took me 7 years to train my human to do my bidding. I am willing to get off the table when she enters the room, to sharpen my nails on the nice chair only when she’s not in the room and to get off the chair when she threatens to sit on me. All I want in return is a soft spot to sleep. The box I’m sitting is NOT soft. Why I’m sitting in the box? My human blocked the wicker basket with all the nice soft balls and knitted fabric. Do you know how long it took me to get all those things ordered? How long it took to get those sharp pointy things in there moved to the side? It was bad enough that she took the soft balls out of the basket everyday and just to put them back without looking if they were in the correct place.
I’m mad. Stupid human.

P.S. Brigitte here: a white cat in your knitting basket full of yarn and WIP’s is not funny. Stupid cat.

Extra dry cat

dry cat
Originally uploaded by isis1207

There are moments when you have to try something new. For some living here that means a new sleeping place. This is the first time that one actually picked the dryer to sleep in.
For others it’s trying to recalculate an entire pattern. I plan to use a yarn that gives me a completely different gauge then mentioned for the tilted duster. Right now I have half of the pattern written out for my own gauge and the final measurements still look good. I guess I’ll have to cast on soon, just to see if my math really is that good.