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Toilet paper crisis
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Meet Gord
Looking at this video from this afternoon, I have to admit that we now have 5 cats at home. Gord appeared one January day, following his big brother/father, Foreground Cat, to steal food. Captured on the cat cam a week after his first visit: Within days, he cheekily made himself at home in the pom-pom…
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Drawing weeds
Taking advantage of the lovely weather and a break in my workday, I went outside to sketch. My helpers came with me. She wasn’t wrong. I need to work on my drawing skills.
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Four cat night
A man and his cats. It’s not very cold, but the cats are wigged out about the appearance of Background Cat and Foreground Cat. Background Cat (aka BG cat for her “black and gold” fur) turned up a week ago and has been coming around looking for food. Foreground cat is orange with a crooked…
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Dinner with cats
We walked to Mika for dinner tonight. It’s the closest restaurant to our house, about a kilometer away, 11 minutes on foot. It is also 11 minutes on four feet, if you are the cats who came along with us. They trotted through the back roads all the way there. I kept expecting them to…
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Kozuka’s finest
Today our neighborhood policeman received a potted plant as an annual recognition for work well done in patrolling our neighborhood. We happened to be in the village and I asked to capture the moment. Everyone lined up for a photo, some a little confused at what this foreign woman was doing. After I snapped this…
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Mikan time
Oranges ripening along the road near home. Not quite ready to pick yet. We can wait, because the other day we received this: A 10 kg gift of fancy mikan from Kagawa, in the citrus growing regions southwest of here. These are perfectly in season, delicious and juicy.
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Cat stairs
They may look like shelves in the laundry area, but these are cat stairs from the roof. Tod rewired the outside light to fix the dangling mess of electrical cables the cats had torn from the wall as they would half-slide, half leap from the roof. Then we put up shelves strategically to give the…
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Cat pose IRL
Today the cats walked more than halfway to yoga with me, and while I did sun salutations, they spend their time sunning themselves on the front porch of one of our weekend neighbors. That’s where I found them when I walked back down from class. Matsugoro followed me from yoga – he loves to walk…
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Belling the cat(s)
Now the cats are neutered and wandering the neighborhood free and far, I thought it was time to identify them as owned cats and not strays. It’s more like they own me, but they are wearing the collars. They are pretty dubious about the bells. There have been lots of head shakes and tries to…
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