365 - 203 Cat

This is my cat waiting to get water. She is not stupid, she knows that tap is a tap like any other so she knows, KNOWS that she could drink water from it. What she doesn't know is why she can't get water from here, she just don't understand so she sits there and waits patiently that maybe, maybe one day someone comes and turns it on. Occasionally Little Monkey turns the tap on, sometimes the painter did when he was here. I have visions of a flooded street when nobody turns it off again.
And did I tell you about the time Monkey cat was pink? Yep, when the afore mentioned painter painted the back and front door red silly kitty walked by too close. I came home to find her fur had a pink tinge to it. We had to give her a little trim round the edges. The painter offered to use some white spirit on her. We had to break it gently to him that the reason to cut the hair off was because she would lick her fur so neither paint nor white spirit would do her any good. But as you can see she's back to her usual colouring.

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I normally collect techniques I find in various books and flying pieces of paper. This annoys me as I never can find anything. A while ago I started a book to collect all those techniques but never used it. When I took it out today I remembered why, the spiral binding is really bent and it was hard to open it. It annoyed me so much I took it out and replaced it with big book rings I had laying around. This made me really happy, so quick to do and now I have a wonderful book to use. Only need to remember it now...


I'm sure my cat sleeps more than any other cat, she only gets up to drink and eat and sometimes to check what's going on outside for a few minutes before finding another spot to sleep.

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Monkey Cat in the bath tub. She only drinks from paddling pools and the tap in the bath tub. We have to turn the water on for her to have a sip before she runs off and leaves hair and wet paw prints behind. Five minutes later of course she wants more water and someone has to turn it on again. As necessary with cats this has to be repeated at least 10 times. Apparently this is good for us. As you know, cats help lower blood pressure...

Even more from the daffodils

Now that the daffodils are out in force in my garden I picked one to make another colour experiment. This time with red food colouring and straight into the water the moment I put the flower in. And tataa within a few hours the veins showed up red. The cat and I were impressed. Big monkey - not so. When I showed her, she said, oh, yes in a way only a six year old going onto 15 can. Those schools, they do too much with them. How can I impress her with those little things? (I'm not really complaining.) Granted I never even thought of dyeing a daffodil but still... It reminds me of the garish coloured gerberas though. Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to turn those pretty flowers blue? Haven't seen them in a while, maybe they saw sense.
Anyhow, big monkey dressed up in spring colours for school today, we spent a long time looking for THE t-shirt with the bunnies from Grandma. Why is it that the thing one searches for is always at the furthest most place in the drawer hiding behind some garment that's too small?

Cats can be monkeys too

My cat is rather boring as has been pointed out numerous times by big monkey. She is not very keen on toys, cuddles or playing. Yesterday however she had a rare moment of playfulness. Little monkey tried to cut pieces of paper into even smaller pieces of paper which he then shattered around the room. The cat suddenly decided those pieces made wonderful toys and ran to shatter them even further around. Little monkey got rather scared by such weird behaviour, it took him a while to understand that the cat hasn't lost its mind... In any case it didn't last long and she had to retire under a warm radiator to snooze for the rest of the day.