She's five already?

Then:

Now:

Happy birthday, Alison!

So where do they sleep?

You may remember that I carefully put Chloe's favorite cushion and her beloved bear in our closet so she'd have a nice place for her endless naps. But she doesn't sleep there. Neither do the other two cats.

If she slept there, we'd see fur on the cushion. 

Instead, here's where they all sleep:

Under the bed.

On the bathroom counter.

On a box. 

In a sunbeam. This also doubles as his bathtub.

Under the couch. 

And a late entry from this afternoon:

Getting out of the apartment requires
running an obstacle course.

Not yet

It’s been a long time since we’ve hung toilet paper from a proper toilet paper holder. As recently as two and a half years ago, I forgot to put away a roll (we store them in something like this) and Wally destroyed it. You can see photos of his destructive ways here.

He’s mellowed some as he's gotten older and he's even left the paper towel alone--he hasn’t fanged a roll since before the Great Flood so I wondered if maybe he’d lost interest in toilet paper also. Last night I hung a roll in the second bathroom as an experiment.

While he didn’t utterly destroy the roll, it’s clear he’s still quite interested in damaging it. So if you come to our house and you wonder where the toilet paper is, just look to the left of the toilet and you’ll see the storage canister holding the undamaged toilet paper. 

Slacker tomato plants

We have two tomato plants. I got heirlooms and planted them in mid-May, the same time I got the pepper plants. And they've grown; in fact, they've grown quite tall.

But that's all they've done. Here it is 2/3 of the way through July and we have seen no blossoms--until now and I'm not entirely convinced these things actually are blossoms:

Compare those puny results with our pepper plants:

Now go over and see what Freshhell's garden has produced (scroll down to the bottom of that entry). Seriously, tomatoes, you need to step up and produce or I'm gonna cut you down and use those stakes for the pepper plants.

Why do I buy cat toys?

Clearly I should just wait until something gets delivered and then let them play with the packaging.



Did you hear Chloe crying in the background throughout the entire video? She thought it was 5 PM and that she should be fed immediately. She was wrong.

Eddie thinks the box everything came in makes a perfect cat bed:

He's been working on shredding all the packing paper that came in the box, which will ruin his bed. Notice, too, the fang marks on the top right side of the box. Boxes have short lives in our house.

And right now he's on the top level of the cat perch, biting his toe nails. Cats are so weird.

I shot the sheriff

But I did not shoot the kitty cats.

Although I know it looks like I did.

Summertime

We had a short break from the upper 90s/low 100s temps so we could open the blinds a little bit. Here's what happened.