June 30, 2005

Caution – cute alert

(If you are feeling like you have too much sugar in your system, do not read this post.)

Mer and I have been adopted. By cats. Two moms and six kittens, to be precise. They showed up on our back porch yesterday. The kittens are at the most adorable stage possible – still nursing, but playful. Three of them like to sleep in one of my flowerpots.

Image hosted by TinyPic.com They like to watch us.

Image hosted by TinyPic.com Paw-to-paw combat

Image hosted by TinyPic.com This is the big guy, leader of the pack.

They are feral – we have a lot of them in our apartment complex. There is a swath of woods behind my building and a stream, so they don’t have any trouble finding food and water. And I am hugely allergic, so no matter how much they tug at my heartstrings, they have to stay outside.

I’ll be packing again this morning, then going out to lunch with a friend, and hanging out with Steph in the evening. Tomorrow is a writing day.

36 comments

36 Replies to “Caution – cute alert”

  22. awwww:-)

    awww! those kitties are sooooooooooo cute:-)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have a cat that’s adopted us on our back porch too. his name’s snowflake. i’ll put a picture of him up in my next entry. -ashley 🙂

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  23. awwww:-)

    awww! those kitties are sooooooooooo cute:-)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have a cat that’s adopted us on our back porch too. his name’s snowflake. i’ll put a picture of him up in my next entry. -ashley 🙂

    Reply

  24. awwww:-)

    awww! those kitties are sooooooooooo cute:-)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have a cat that’s adopted us on our back porch too. his name’s snowflake. i’ll put a picture of him up in my next entry. -ashley 🙂

    Reply

  25. Adorable

    Those are the cutest kittens ever!

    By the way, I’ve been a fan of yours ever since I first was reading Speak (years ago, when it came out) and you mentioned Syracuse. I actually screamed a little, I was so excited to read a book that was set in my city, by a person who understands the whole thing with snow days. (This year it was like negative 30 with windchill and we still had school. One day the pipes broke and there was an actual waterfall in the school, and WE STILL HAD SCHOOL!) I haven’t gotten to read Prom yet :-(, but when I heard about the West Genessee thing, I was shocked. It was surreal. I’m sorry I’ve waited so long to say anything to you, but it took me a while to find this journal. I love reading it.

    Your (slightly crazy today) fan,
    Catherine

    Reply

  26. Adorable

    Those are the cutest kittens ever!

    By the way, I’ve been a fan of yours ever since I first was reading Speak (years ago, when it came out) and you mentioned Syracuse. I actually screamed a little, I was so excited to read a book that was set in my city, by a person who understands the whole thing with snow days. (This year it was like negative 30 with windchill and we still had school. One day the pipes broke and there was an actual waterfall in the school, and WE STILL HAD SCHOOL!) I haven’t gotten to read Prom yet :-(, but when I heard about the West Genessee thing, I was shocked. It was surreal. I’m sorry I’ve waited so long to say anything to you, but it took me a while to find this journal. I love reading it.

    Your (slightly crazy today) fan,
    Catherine

    Reply

    1. Re: Adorable

      Thanks, Catherine! Don’t know if you heard, but I’m moving back up there in a few weeks. Maybe I’ll run into you at the Farmer’s Market or Carousel Mall.

      Reply

  27. Adorable

    Those are the cutest kittens ever!

    By the way, I’ve been a fan of yours ever since I first was reading Speak (years ago, when it came out) and you mentioned Syracuse. I actually screamed a little, I was so excited to read a book that was set in my city, by a person who understands the whole thing with snow days. (This year it was like negative 30 with windchill and we still had school. One day the pipes broke and there was an actual waterfall in the school, and WE STILL HAD SCHOOL!) I haven’t gotten to read Prom yet :-(, but when I heard about the West Genessee thing, I was shocked. It was surreal. I’m sorry I’ve waited so long to say anything to you, but it took me a while to find this journal. I love reading it.

    Your (slightly crazy today) fan,
    Catherine

    Reply

  28. Re: Adorable

    Thanks, Catherine! Don’t know if you heard, but I’m moving back up there in a few weeks. Maybe I’ll run into you at the Farmer’s Market or Carousel Mall.

    Reply

  29. Re: Adorable

    Thanks, Catherine! Don’t know if you heard, but I’m moving back up there in a few weeks. Maybe I’ll run into you at the Farmer’s Market or Carousel Mall.

    Reply

  30. i love those cats, i was laying at your back door watching them after the zoo. the gray one has no tail, it made me sad. but they are all adorable. i want to take them all home. but my mother will not have it. so i will just come and stare at them through your back door.

    Reply

  31. i love those cats, i was laying at your back door watching them after the zoo. the gray one has no tail, it made me sad. but they are all adorable. i want to take them all home. but my mother will not have it. so i will just come and stare at them through your back door.

    Reply

  32. i love those cats, i was laying at your back door watching them after the zoo. the gray one has no tail, it made me sad. but they are all adorable. i want to take them all home. but my mother will not have it. so i will just come and stare at them through your back door.

    Reply

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