10,000 steps

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

6 Aug 2026 - I don't actually pace, but I do make large circuits while waiting for my peeps.  Meal time is especially the time to keep walking, lest I use all my reserves of patience.  Since making my home with these two, I have never gone hungry but sometimes food doesn't arrive as quickly as I'd like.  Nothing is perfect, I keep reminding myself... while making laps around the room.  And every loop is a not-wasted opportunity to patrol for interlopers, and still keep my ears listening for the sound of food preparation.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Someone else isn't going

to do it like you would.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purregrination, a cat's long journey

most definitely

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

5 Aug 2026 - You know that bright sunshine has slipped into ordinariness when I choose to remain inside.  Even so I can enjoy the cheery view while keeping the company of the shorter peep at the other end of the sofa.  I am still celebrating the return of my two, and am reluctant to lose sight of them lest they wander off.  Keeping an eye on the interlopers AND my peeps is taxing my energy, so I rest when I can.  Multitasking seems to be my only recourse when burdened with so many responsibilities.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Being necessary keeps

one busy.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - catsolutely, with no doubt in the feline mind (I am the black-and-white variety)

what a relief

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

4 Aug 2026 - I can come out of hiding!  My wayward peeps returned last evening, and I am overjoyed (although it could be hard to discern) that my routine has been restored.  At first I feared that their reentry noise was yet another alien peep visit, but then I identified familiar voices... and all was good again!  The knots in my fur have been brushed out, my chin repeatedly chucked, and yummy treats offered (and gobbled).  I won't dwell on the inconveniences caused by their disappearance, and instead choose to focus on the immense pleasures of the same-old.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

No way does two wrongs

make a right.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - satiscatory, acceptable (but one can always hope for better)

this too shall pass

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

30 Jul 2026 - Something is up, and that puts me on edge:  does it involve me??  The peeps' routines are different, and objects are being accumulated and rearranged and more added to the piles.  Yep, I don't like the direction things are heading.  My best strategy is to stick to the edges of rooms and always know the location of the nearest exit.  And as my backup plan, I will beseech Bastet to watch over this lowly and anxious subject... who truly loves to remain at home and not to wander the big dim-deep-eat-dim-deep world.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

"Keep it simple"

are words to live by.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purrishioner, one of Bastet's own

our daily tread

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

29 Jul 2026 - Some days you just have to wait it out, and trust that tomorrow (or the next) will be an improvement... that is my experience anyway.  Of course we cats aren't the most patient lot, but we do love our naps, a most productive way in my opinion to spend down time.  And when the weather is suboptimal my two peeps don't wander far, so the opportunity for head pats and chin chucks increases, with no complaints from moi.  From this end of the sofa, I am waiting for the shorter one to join me.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Plans should be flexible.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purractable, meownageable (easily if you're lucky)

me and you, kit

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

28 Jul 2026 - The shorter peep and I enjoy a close relationship, that might not be overly appreciated when I telegraph my suggestion that it's time to rise.  But, in my defense, she was already waking up, from the increased light in the room (thank you, Mr. Sol)... so she would have figured it out without me.  And how much nicer, I think, to experience the ups and downs with a friend?  Yes, time to get up, but we'll share a lovely, protracted get-together over our morning meal and prepare ourselves for another productive day, each attuned to his own duties.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Loneliness drags on

one's well-being.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

phrase of the day - no meowtter what, always (I like that purromise)

we-go on

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

27 Jul 2026 - There are times when I wish I was bigger, as in taller, not wider... but that isn't likely to happen.  Faced with the facts I make do with the assets in my possession, and for almost six years they have been more than adequate.  Besides what we might want isn't necessarily what we need:  my life as is is satisfying and my days are filled.  Even by springing ahead one hour, we do not gain more sunshine, only how we perceive the presence of Mr. Sol.  What a massive ego to think that we could shape the universe and arrange time.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Don't forget there are

other things that matter.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - opinmeownated, convinced of one's own meowrits