Where I am.

THINGS OF NOTE

CATS

• Kitten lounges upon the half-sized bookcase.
• Mama Cat’s tail and back can be seen as she walks past.
• Max looks down upon them all, framed above the bookcase. This picture of Max was given to me by my friend Tony. One of the best gifts I’ve ever received.
• The empty trashcan sometimes contains Pumpkin, who has a special way of unceremoniously lumping his fatness face first into it, before settling into a curled heap at the bottom.

BIRDS

• Outside my window is my bird feeder
• Bird bath
• Other bird feeder
• Some pics had birds in them, but they were so blurry you couldn’t really tell what they were. Titmice, in case you were wondering. Or perhaps titmouses.

HOUSE

• Beadboard walls are hard to paint. When we bought it the entire house, and I mean to say THE ENTIRE HOUSE – walls, trim, fireplace, light sockets, everything – was painted mint green.
• The windows are the old fashioned kind with the rope pulleys.
• The house directly across the street was recently gutted by fire. I look across and see the neighbor’s white cat, waiting. It will be good once the neighbor’s back and they are reunited.
• I love our house. It is small and it is old and it is home.

MISC

• That box and laptop bag are not usually to the left of my computer. I’m kinda annoyed they’re in the shot.

Up close and personal.

DESK

• Mug of something hot. Not usually in a Scorpio cup. But I am a Scorpio.
• Undealt with mail and miscellany piled to the left.
• Space for sleeping cat to the right.
• Prescription bottle of cat antibiotics.
• Cheap, half-destroyed headphones. Expensive headphones destroyed by Pumpkin. Cheap headphones half-destroyed by Pumpkin.
• Birds close at hand. Good for me, good for the cats. (Cat TV.)

AND FINALLY:

Jadwiga, Mama Cat and Little Bastard, from many moons ago.

An old photo, perhaps 2005. Before Jadwiga died, before Little Bastard got sick, before Mama Cat got old. The whole family sitting on my desk, looking out the window.