cats

The day I brought them home.

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Noor tries to bypass the "jump for the toy" part of the game.

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One of their favorite look-outs, on my Ikea Trofast storage bench.

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They shredded the sheepskin soon after this.

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They love the screened porch in back--and the hammock.

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Luz liked to drag this felt cat bed around the house.

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Somehow it always ended up in the bathroom. Once she actually dragged the heavy wool blanket off my bed and into the bathroom. Why???

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Noor loves playing in the bathroom tap. When I go to the bathroom, she jumps up to the sink and waits for me to turn it on. Once I came home and found the tap running. Thank heavens she's never figured out how to replicate that day's success.

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Luz with her felt mouse in the sunlight.

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I don't know what they heard in the wall that day.

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They were sure it was very important though.

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I keep their wand toy above the door trim.

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If I don't wind the string up the stick, they will jump for it until they bring it down.

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Study in monochromatic pattern.

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Really sure they could kill that squirrel if only I would let them at it.

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Noor used to love to nap in this bowl.

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One day Luz tried it out. Noor was not having it.

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Victory! The bowl has since been broken however. It was one I brought back from Morocco in 2003, long before I had a house to put it in. I actually cried when they broke it.

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Study in monochromatic pattern II.

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The magic of Christmas ornaments.

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The magic of Christmas wrapping paper.

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Noor loved napping in my closet in the wired drawers. One day I came home, and she didn't come out even when I fed them--unheard of. I found her here, stuck. She was mad that I went for the camera and took her picture before freeing her, but how could I not? She's really going to miss a closet that she can open the doors to.

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Noor's other favorite spot that is going with the remodel, a window sill in the kitchen. It is at one end of the longest straight shot in the house, so she gallops from one end to the other and leaps up to the window. Particularly important when a cat passes between the houses on top of the fence, or when I'm cooking and not paying her enough attention.

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