If you are here looking at my Friday Photo, thank you. I mean, I always am grateful if you are looking at my blog, but I feel especially thankful now because many of you might be keeping an eye on more important stuff. So if you popped over here to get a little relief, thanks.
If you have an additional moment, would you leave a comment and say hello? I could use the outside communication.
It is really bizarre this isolation situation.
This was yesterday. The clouds were so pretty I was thinking about taking a picture and then, Nessa decided to look out. I liked her silhouette.
This was so fascinating – to me – because she sat like that – unmoving for at least 5 minutes. She was as still as a statue. And I couldn’t see what she was looking at. Although, if you know a cat you may have experienced the phenomenon where THEY see SOMETHING, but you don’t.
I love their (cats’) concentration and the way they can sit so still. Of course, I have a whole series of these, I just kept taking them as she sat stock-still.
While looking through some photos I found this from last year and wanted to post it. I really have so many pictures that I want to post, especially pictures of the cats, that is why I get annoyed when I miss a Friday like I did last Friday. Here is Teagan with here bright eyes for today’s Friday Photo.
Here is a close up of Nessa. While Teagan is a little more tolerate of photos being taken of her than she used to, Nessa doesn’t care at all. Unless she is playing. Once she notices the camera all play stops!
I ordered something and it came in this box. For a long while we were saving every box we received to use to pack up stuff, but after a while we felt we had enough so we have been recycling our boxes. But this box is of great quality so my husband decided we should keep it and use it for stuff. Well, it sat in the house long enough that one cat decided it was hers. Then I turned it on its side and now BOTH cats have claimed it. I move it around so it gets premium sunlight.
I tweeted a picture of her in the box earlier this week, but this one is of her sitting up and looking. Such a beautiful girl. That is why we named her Teagan. And, yes, I say that all the time.
I have so many pictures of our cats. It would take me ALL of my Friday Photos to post them all. So I thought I would just post a few. No particular reason for these pictures. No exciting stories behind them. The one of Teagan with her eye open looking at me is the last of a few. She was so cute with her paw over her face – you know how they do that? Well, I disturbed her enough to get that look. The one with them staring through the screen is them looking at a lizard that visits them. And Nessa has been in that box a lot!
Our cats give us Mother’s and Father’s Day cards, respectively. For as long as I can remember my husband had been giving me these HUGE cards for Valentine’s Day. Last year or the year before he did not. He said the store was out of them. It is funny because I shop at that store and I have never seen them at all, but I guess it would help if I actually walked down the aisle that has the cards. Anyway, this year it seems that the cats wanted to give me those humungo cards, too. For Mother’s Day. These ones have recordings of songs in them. And the cats really loved their choice of cards because every time I opened one they would come out to listen and sniff.
It is amazing what they can do with cards now-a-days, huh? Recorded songs or even, in some you can record your own message. Amazing. These ones not only have recordings in them but FLASHING LIGHTS! Cards are not cheap, so it is really amazing that they can do all that and still make them relatively affordable. So incredible.
Here are the cards I received from our girls on Mother’s Day.
So many pictures of the cats and I keep taking them. This is one of a series I took when I was trying to get a picture of the cats this morning to send to my hubby. The sun was so bright, here is Nessa rolling around in it.
At the end of last week I was walking down the stairs and my eyes landed on our black cat. I was struck with the thought of how black she is. Then it occurred to me that we have had a lot of rain, a lot of days without hours and hours of sun. I call Teagan my Sunshine Girl because she LOVES to be in the sun. She will go from window/door to window/door to get the most sunshine throughout the day. She will sit in the sun until she is so hot it makes me wonder if it is good for her. When she sits in the sun hour after hour she starts to rust.
Yeah, it’s a real thing. Black cats can “rust”, their black coats start to turn a lighter shade, it becomes somewhat brown. It kinda looks like rust. According to Wiki the black fur pigment is fragile and cats that sit in the sun a lot “rust”. The black fur pigment is called eumelanin. Information on the internet also states that a tyrosine deficiency could cause a black cat’s fur to turn red. If a cat is being fed a nutritious diet of food formulated for cats, this type of deficiency is rare. I am confident that Teagan does not have a tyrosine deficiency, especially since she was so black.
I have noticed her rusting in the past, I think that is why I noticed her total blackness recently. It took me a while to acknowledge she was a deeper black than she usually is. She is always a black cat, but as I said, it just occurred to me that she was very black with hardly any of the brown undertones. I say “was” because the sun has been out for days now and she and her sister are taking advantage of it. With the temperatures warming up to hot (for me) the doors have been open pretty much most of the day for the past few days and both cats have been parked in front of one of them soaking it up. I think Teagan might already be starting to rust.
To me the rust looks like it starts in the undercoat and not at the ends as does a bleaching of human hair in the sun. I could be wrong, but it seems as if the brown is more visible when her fur is brushed one way or the other.
If the cloudy days are gone, then Teagan will continue to rust and get lighter and lighter as the days go by.
