cross-grained

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

3 Jul 2025 - Now that overnight temperatures don't require me to pool body heat with the two peeps, I can typically be found early mornings here in this chair.  It has a good view of my personal screened deck... which means it is near that still-dreaded deck portal.  Is it perverse of me to keep an eye on something that I despise?  "Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer" is a time-worn battle strategy... and certainly that portal and I are locked in conflict.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Be slow to embrace.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - intransigato, unwilling to change (and for good reason)

wide-eyed

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

2 Jul 2025 - My job isn't a nine-to-fiver.  It is true that a good bit of the interloper activity falls between the rising and setting of Mr. Sol... but not all of it.  So I periodically conduct night patrols.  Last night I heard something stirring outside our walls, and was compelled (by curiosity and by work responsibilities) to check it out.  I was alarmed to discern a peep silhouette... then, a fraction of a second later, the shape and movement became familiar... it was the shorter peep (red alert cancelled).

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

What you don't know

 can scare you.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - unpurrving, causing a cat to lose confidence (please don't)

out of the loop

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

1 Jul 2025 - I am in a much better mood now that Mr. Sol has been favoring us with his warm presence.  My personal screened deck is a great spot to be, weather permitting, and with such an encompassing view of our surroundings I spend quite a bit of patrol time there (and snooze time as well).  Just recently I spotted the last of our "familiar" interlopers:  a cheep was darting in and out among the shoreline rocks.  It is the ones I don't see that keep me on the job.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Don't let same-old

catch you unaware.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - igpurrance, lack of knowledge (so listen up)

foreign lesion

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

30 Jun 2025 - Not one of my more photogenic moments, but I'm a cat so I don't care.  Besides, the shorter peep seems to be always pointing that black cube in my direction... I'm surprised that there aren't more "awkward" moments.  If you ignore my coloring, I could be giving a visual reference to my cousin Leo (although my voice register isn't so basso).  I am still keeping a wary eye on that alien portal that appeared a few days ago... it does indeed lead to my personal screened deck, but where else might it deposit me??

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Strange doesn't necessarily

turn into familiar.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - expurrnal, coming from an outside source (and hence suspect)

timely

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

29 Jun 2025 - Back to the scene of an earlier crime... it may appear that I'm a slug-a-bed, but in truth I've already conducted an early-morning patrol and am now taking a breather.  The past few days have begun quite chilly, so there is little incentive for me to leave my warm spot.  Besides, if that is my thinking, then it is likely to be that of the interlopers as well.  Unless one has an adequate layer of fat (and none of the usual suspects fits that description), one feels these nippy temperatures... it is much more sensible to pause for Mr. Sol.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Wait for the opportune time.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - catvenience, being able to proceed easily (why make life more difficult?)

ordinarily

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

28 Jun 2025 - My job is never boring:  from portal to portal the view is different and offers varied interloper possibility.  It was from this particular office spot, in the not too distant past, that we were amazed by a big black beep.  It too seemed surprised, and did an about-face, so far never to be seen again.  What is more likely to be spotted is the teensy-by-comparison everyday beep, familiar but still presenting in many colors and sounds and sizes (a few even larger than I).  What I haven't seen in quite a while is something feline... but I enjoy being the local one-of-a-kind.

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

One-in-a-million

is still fairly common.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - commeownplace, not unusual (until you get to know me)

on the lookout

Shamus on view

Me-usings and Me-emories

27 Jun 2025 - Again, my ears give me away... but what a glorious moment to be on my personal screened deck!  I am still unhappy with the deck portal development, and have spent quite a bit of time in my personal sun room in protest.  However the views from the deck are unsurpassed, so I try to go in and out on the heels of a peep... clever of me but a spotty solution.  Several times I have dared passing through the alien gate, but only with the shorter peep's assistance.  No harm was inflicted upon my purrson, however I still am wary of its motives (and hoping for its disappearance).

 

clipped notes

                             Today's Catechism 

                            (for the autodidcat)

Pretending it doesn't exist

works for a little while.

Bring back Bastet

Bastet beckons

Catty Corner

word of the day - meowstrustful, suspicious (despite having nine lives)