when all else fails....

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

1 March 2016 - It takes a great deal of time and patience to train a peep.  First I have to get her attention.  That alone can involve half the morning.  Then, when she has fixed her gaze upon me, I have perhaps five seconds to introduce today's lesson.  Sometimes I have less than five seconds...but this process of waiting and then hurriedly teaching must be repeated until she begins to grasp the concept.  Very soon thereafter (before it can slip from her short-term memory) we practice what we have learned.  But that doesn't mean we are done:  some time later there is a, let's call it a pop quiz, to ascertain what has been retained.  Depending upon that result, the entire process may have to be rebooted.  Teaching is an undervalued profession.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

To walk in someone else's shoes

can cause blisters and cramped toes.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purristic, helping a peep discover something that makes a cat's life easier

say "aaaah"

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

28 February 2016 - I tried, unsuccessfully, to block the use of this photo.  There were numerous others to choose from, but the shorter peep was immune to my persuasion.  Of the more than seven hundred pictures of me out there on the net, I shouldn't (I won't say "won't") be upset if only one of them is unflattering.  Maybe it is her way of evening the score for all the times that I have asked her to open the door...is she really capable of pettiness?  I would like to think not.  Maybe I have lost my sense of humor...I grant that me with my mouth wide open is comical...but educational as well.  Did you know that we cats don't have a uvula?

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Learning doesn't require a classroom.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purroud, having a realistic (for a cat) opinion of one's image and abilities

inheriting the earth

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

27 February 2016 - I do like all this sunshine, and based on my perch view so does the outside world.  One can't but love a place where there aren't snow banks and black ice.  My nose tells me that I would enjoy some of the peeps' ice cream, but that may be the only frozen thing that is desirable IMO.  I am actually glad that there are contrary opinions:  otherwise all this lovely countryside would be turned into yet more subdivisions.  If given a choice between a coat of pollen and an overlay of cement, dust me down in yellow.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

The great outdoors should remain great.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - unpurrsuming, modest, not assuming one is top dim deep (as if that thought would ever enter my head)

give me an oy

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

26 February 2016 - This is not the usual time of year to hear prancing and pawing on the roof...so it must be one of those green leeps, warmed sufficiently by the sun to sneak about.  Either the shorter peep can't hear its scritching or is not disturbed by its presence (probably the former), but something is definitely moving around, just above my head.  Its close proximity is what gets my tail switching, and it is totally frustrating to be separated by a cold pane of glass.  My only recourse is distraction:  I'm going to put distance between it and my ears, to soothe my upset with a bit of food and perhaps a lie-down.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

"So close, so close, and yet so far away."

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - exaspurrated, irked at the universe's conspiracy to make things difficult

("if I were king of the forest")

for all intense

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

25 February 2016 - How do you like my imitation of the Gayer-Anderson cat, on view at the British Museum and purchasable in replica world-wide?  It was cast some two and a half millennia ago, and certainly not by Gayer-Anderson.  His name was hung upon the bronze statue because he donated it to the museum...how typical of peeps.  It is of course a representation of Bastet, and I am a very humble, totally inadequate vessel.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

At the center of each of us

beats a heart.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - purrfound, sincere and free from pretense:  if a cat doesn't like you, you know it

up in the air

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

24 February 2016 - One should have a plan for foul weather:  bottled water when hurricanes threaten, and a safe spot when tornadoes are possible.  I located my go-to place when I wasn't even looking for such.  Its brilliance is that 1) it features a faucet, 2) it is quite comfortable, and 3) a peep won't be squishing in next to me.  Today's ramblings are my public-service announcement:  I do hope this warning, ahem, sinks in.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Don't back into your back-up plan.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Advice

Dear Calvin, 

I scratched my peep yesterday.  Should I apologize

          - Ouch

Dear Ouch,

Are you a cat or a meep?  I am sure that the peep deserved it.

Don't say something that you'll later regret.

          - Calvin

time out

Me-ow-my-oh!

Me-usings and Me-emories

23 February 2016 - My peeps run on different clocks.  Once it grows dark, the shorter one slows her pace, and I can often catch her sitting down...which yields me a lap.  Oddly enough about that same time the taller one goes into motion, although his orbit is centered at his desk.  Neither of them have my circadian rhythm, which peaks pre-dawn.  The positive view of our asynchrony is that most of the twenty-four hours has a sentry.  Trying to force uniformity in our domicile would just make everyone grumpy...and trust me, you don't want to go there.

methodology of the meow-stro

 

 

 

Today's Catechism 

(for the self-taught)

Lockstep is a silly way to walk.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - sp(ur)ry, energetic for short bursts, then in need of a cat nap