Daily Sketch: I’m Just the Cutest Thing When I Do This
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: animal artwork, black cats, cats, daily sketch, jelly bean | Tags: black cats, cat art, cat sketches, cats, charcoal sketch of cat, sketch of cat eating 2 Comments
I'm Just the Cutest Thing When I Do This, charcoal © B.E. Kazmarski
I’m beginning to think JB is playing me. I realize I’ve got more sketches of him than any of the others lately. I think he knows exactly when and how to pose so I’ll sketch him again. Tell me cats don’t know these things.
But he really is cute when he scratches on the scratcher hanging on the doorknob, especially when he looks up at me with those eyes. He had a good scratch, then hung from his claws and looked at me upside down until I noticed him. Yes, I’m sure he knows exactly what he’s doing.
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Could You Work In the Face of This?
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: black cats, cat photographs, cats, daily photo, giuseppe, mewsette, my household of felines | Tags: black cats, cats, pets, photography, two black cats 15 Comments
Mewsette and Giuseppe make it difficult to concentrate.
If you had to look at this all day, could you get any work done?
This is what I have to deal with at my computer day after day, and I ask you: is this fair? Should I have to deal with this sort of distraction while I’m trying to earn my living—and theirs? Do they do this intentionally to test me and see how committed I am to what I do? Or should I just be committed? How many photos do you suppose I took of these two while they cuddled cheek to cheek right there in front of me? Do you think I got anything at all done?
And if you have any doubt at the difficulty of working with such distractions, here is the full view of them on my desk, right in front of me.
It is impossible.
This is hopeless. There is nothing I can do but gaze at them and take photos.
Somebody make it stop!
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Cookie Says, “Thank You!”
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: black cats, cat painting, cat photographs, cats, cookie, daily photo, kelly, mewsette, senior cats, tortoiseshell cats | Tags: black cat, cat at window, cat photography, cats, cats on lap, pet photography, tortoiseshell cat, tortoiseshell cats, two tortoiseshell cats 12 Comments
Someone has to keep an eye on things out there.
“All your good thoughts made their way to me and I feel much better. I’m back to keeping an eye on the neighborhood.”
It has to be that, I only changed a few things for her and today she is stronger and more interactive, still a little unsteady but definitely a different cat from yesterday. I might fool myself to think it might be a bit of a turnaround, but I just don’t get the feeling Cookie is ready to give in.
She got up on the shelf on her own but climbing up my camera bag and purse to my lap, to the keyboard tray to my desk to the shelf in front of the window. She’s gotten up and down the steps, and up on the kitchen table to get to the cabinet, which she couldn’t do for a few days.
And Kelly is feeling a little better, no longer spending the day in Narnia in the back of the closet, so today I had the pleasure of two tortie cats on my lap again as I worked at my computer.
Cookie and Kelly settle on my lap again.
Mewsette takes her responsibility seriously and tries to fit on my lap with the girls; she thinks she is tortie-sized, but she is easily twice tortie-sized. Initially, Mimi was balanced on my knee cap, and Mewsette was trying to settle, four cats on my lap. My lap is really not that big.
Mewsette tries to figure out where she fits.
Persistent Mewsette finds a way to nuzzle and give a few licks to her little big sisters. Here is Cookie from the front and Kelly’s rear, and you can see the white inside of Mewsette’s ear just above Cookie’s ear.
Mewsette takes care of her little tortoiseshell big sisters.
I am just a big warm cat bed.
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