Happy Dad's Day!

Wishing everybody a very happy Father's Day.     Many are Dads, or cat Dads, but for those who are not, we all have a Dad, and so today we can celebrate the love of all Dads for those they care or cared for.

Different Nap Preferences

We were going through pictures and came across this one we never posted, of Audrey who got into her kitchen bed when it was up on a chair (the Human had been washing the floor).      No need to wait till it was back on the floor before piling in!   Notice the ever present pink Princess blanket.   (Audrey's first Mom got this bed from a friend who used it for her d-o-g, but Audrey doesn't care. )   It has always been a "kitchen bed", even at her first Mom's place.

Now that the weather is warm, Simba is sleeping on the floor most of the time, often in this place near the wall unit.    This is a slightly different pose from the last one we posted, but the pictures all look almost the same.

Simba has only ever liked one cat bed, the very small black one he hardly fits into, that was Audrey's.   But it is a bit too snuggly now.

Sunday Science Lesson with Audrey

Mom has a Galileo Thermometer.   For those not familiar with them, there are a number of glass globes - "bubbles" - in the tube of fluid that have slightly different buoyancies.   Each is labeled with a temperature (4 degrees F apart) and to tell the temperature you look for the globe that just floats within the liquid.    Globes corresponding to lower temperatures sink and globes corresponding to higher temperatures float at the top.

On June 1st, Mom looked at the thermometer and all the globes were sitting at the bottom.    Audrey demonstrates:

The "hottest" globe is labeled 80 degrees, so it was over 80 degrees Fahrenheit inside our house.   And that was WITH the air conditioning running.  The weather was hot and muggy outside.  

Today, the thermometer looks like this (without any air conditioning on):

That orange globe is labeled 72, so it is about 72.  In fact, the orange globe was tending to sink more, so it is probably 73-74.  

According to what we looked up, the fluid in the tube is not water, but something like ethanol (alcohol)  whose density changes more with temperature than water's does.      

Mom was surprised because, although she has had the thermometer for a while, she had not realized it cannot "measure" above 80 degrees F.   She hasn't paid a lot of attention to what temperature it was telling us.  She just liked to look at it!   

We bet Punapippuri's and Tonks Tails' humans can tell us a lot about things like this!!    They are Physics experts.   

Photo Hunt - Grin

Kitties, the Mom spent a long time going through all our pictures to see if one could qualify as a grin, but no luck.   Then she went through picutres of The Baby, and even though she has a sweet smile, she wasn't sure if most of the smiles rose to the level of a grin.     But she thinks this one from Christmas does:

And for a different reason, maybe this one from last July 4th does too.

Audrey's Thyroid Check

Audrey reporting:

So here I was, after being pushed into my carrier, before leaving home.  I had a bad opinion about it as you can see.  However, I did not cry at all in the car.

We had a little wait at the Vet's office till my turn came.  I was pretty calm, though I let out some meows every now and then.  A very nice Vet Technician came out to get me.

When she brought me back, she said "What a sweetie!.   She wanted to cuddle with me!"

I forget bad stuff pretty fast, because this is me later in the day, having forgotten the whole thing.

Dr Wilson called yesterday with my results and both my T4 and my kidney function results were in the normal range.     I shouldn't have to go back for 6 months.   Hooray!   Mom did ask him if the fact that I was gaining weight quite fast was an indication they should cut back my medicine some, but he said no.  He said kitties with hyperthyroidism are literally starving and it takes a while for them to get over the feeling they need to eat all the time (Ha!  He doesn't know me - I was ALWAYS like that.)  But we can go back to the office and have free weighings every month if my parents wish.    On Monday I was 10.6 lbs.    

Hug Your Cat Day

It is hug your cat day, today!    A day for loving on your kitties.  (shouldn't ALL days be that?)

Purrsonally, I do not like to be hugged much, but I do like a bunch of other things, like treats, and going on the deck, and sitting in front of the computer.  (Audrey can go for the hugging stuff more than me).    So I hope my humans take some extra trouble to show their love for us today.   Also I love the cool air from the air conditioner helping to keep my  tummy cool:  this picture shows how I do that.   So I hope Dad keeps the a/c cranked up today for me!

Easy on Sunday

Dad's home, the camera is home, and these pictures truly were taken a minute ago by Mom (no more old photos being passed off as new ones).

"Postprandial naps":

Audrey isn't quite that rotund, but almost!    She has gained back all the weight she lost with her hyperthyroidism.    She goes back to the vet this week for a follow up of her T4 levels.

Funny Foto Friday

Which are the legs and which is the tail?     Mom has caught Audrey sleeping like this more than once.

Memorial Day

Amidst the barbecues and shopping on this holiday, our humans would do well to truly take time remember what the purpose of Memorial Day is - to honor the over 1 million members of the US Armed Forces who have died in service of their country.     That is a big number, kittehs.   One million +

Mom went to Wikipedia to read a little about Memorial Day and found this out about our flag that she did not know (don't mind her, she is a bit slow):

"On Memorial Day the flag of the United States is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to the half-staff position, where it remains only until noon. It is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.

The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon their memory is raised by the living, who resolve not to let their sacrifice be in vain, but to rise up in their stead and continue the fight for liberty and justice for all"

Now because our flag hangs on the side of the house with the flagpole at an angle, we don't quite know how to accomplish this, but we are gonna scratch our heads and think about a plan.