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wednesday cat blogging [photo post]

05 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Teazle’s latest favored place to sleep is in the box where Hanna keeps her knickers. She has to jump up onto the shelf above and then worm her way into the box. It’s a process we shamelessly mock her for.

Gerry, meanwhile, clearly feels relaxed enough these days to do a dead bunny impression. She slept this way for a good half hour on Sunday, effectively trapping me on the couch!

Sunday was definitely a day for snoozing.

Hope everyone’s week is going well and that y’all are staying warm. We’re definitely ready for spring!

a year to carry on carrying on

20 Friday Dec 2013

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Gerry practices her balancing skillz on Hanna’s lap.
Looking back on the past year with my therapist on Thursday, I realized that this is the first year in over a decade (for both Hanna and I) in which no major life-transitions have taken place.
Neither one of us began or ended a relationship (yay 1st anniversary!).
Neither one of us began or ended a job (or moved to a different position within our workplace).
Neither one of us began or ended an academic program.
We began and ended the year in the same city, neighborhood, and apartment.
We began and ended the year with the same two companion animals.
With the exception of my grandmother, Marilyn, in June, we had no major illness or death on either side of our immediate extended family.
Cats, they give no fucks for your life accomplishments.
Of course, many other things did change in the past year. The Defense of Marriage Act was ruled unconstitutional. We got new tattoos. We witnessed the wedding of our near and dear friends Diana and Collin. Hanna delivered a conference paper at the Northeast Conference on British Studies. I briefly served as a guest blogger for Family Scholars Blog. Teazle learned to scale the drying rack; Gerry learned to be a lap cat.

But overall, this was the most uneventful year I have had since turning eighteen.

And I can’t say I’m disappointed with that.

mid-week cat blogging [photo post]

20 Wednesday Nov 2013

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A couple of weekends ago, Hanna and I got out the map of Boston so we could draw a three-mile radius from Hanna’s workplace in Longwood so that we could get a sense of what neighborhoods our likely-next-year new apartment search might encompass.

Geraldine had a few ideas.

Most of them involved scratching her between the ears.

Teazle had other plans, as she so often does.

When I was finally able to achieve access to the map without feline assistance, we determined that our “within walking distance of work” primary criterion gives us Allston-Brighton, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, the North End, Somerville, Cambridge, and all of central Boston (though most of that is not affordable/unattractive to us for a variety of reasons.

Gerry seems to be voting for Chestnut Hill/Newton — too far, little kitten! Your mommies would not appreciate the commute (and you would have to wait even longer for evening tuna).

Stay tuned in 2014 as the Clutterbuck-Cook family starts looking for new digs!

from the neighborhood: autumn sights

03 Sunday Nov 2013

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A few photos I took last weekend.

Afternoon sunlight on the fresh flowers we bought to put in the flower vase / tea pot brought home from the Thormoto wedding.

Shortly after I took these photos, of course, Teazle discovered the flowers and the vase had to be removed to higher ground.

Geraldine, on the other hand, couldn’t have cared less. Why should she, where there are laps/pillows available to sleep upon?

The house with the abundant garden on our walk to Coolidge Corner is settling in for the winter season.

The Hubway bikes will soon be put into storage to make way for snowplows and snowbanks, but for now they’re still available to take out for a spin!

A couple of months ago, Hanna and I realized that the central marquee on the Coolidge Corner movie theater often makes amusing found poetry. This is the latest iteration.

Enough said.
All is lost,
Don Jon:
12 years a slave.

teazle vs. the top shelf

25 Friday Oct 2013

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Last week I shared a video of Teazle perched on the drying rack in our living room and snatching a little stuffed critter from the bookshelf. Since this is not one of her toys, we moved the critter to the top shelf of the bookcase and moved the drying rack away from the shelving.

Since then she’s been doing complex mathematical modeling in her tiny kitty brain, and tonight she put her latest model to the test.

Successfully.

cats with new tricks [photos]

17 Thursday Oct 2013

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We’ve been chilling at home a lot the past two weeks, even more than usual, due to Hanna’s convalescence (she’s on the mend, but under strict instruction to keep on resting through the weekend).

The cats are delighted. Also worried. Worrlighted?

Gerry has decided, around the third anniversary of her joining our family, to become an intensely human-centric companion. As I type this, she is hunkered down between me and Hanna on the bed.

Teazle, on the other hand, has gone the opposite route: instead of crowding closer, she’s taken the opportunity to get up to no good. She’s like her own walking, talking marauder’s map.

This is her latest trick. She’s been trying for months to figure out how to scale the drying rack, and just this week mastered the act. 

She’s so proud.

Here it is in video form:

the cat’s in the bag [photo post]

02 Friday Aug 2013

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Recently, Teazle has developed a thing for paper bags. She was always curious about bags and boxes, but for some reason this particular paper bag holds a real fascination for her. She sleeps on it, she sleeps in it, she pushes it around the living room floor, then falls asleep inside it again.

When she’s not sleeping, she likes to get up to no good. Like shredding paper towels.

While we’re posting cat photos, here are a few of Houdini I didn’t put up last week!

Hope y’all have a good weekend!

houdini the adorable [video post]

25 Thursday Jul 2013

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We’re still on holiday, so here are some one-minute videos of Houdini being adorable.

Our own cat-sitter, a colleague of mine, remarked on Tuesday when we crossed paths at work that Hanna and I don’t actually have two cats: “You have a watch dog and a squirrel!” she said.

I thought the descriptions were apt.

Houdini vs. the Human I (Big Scary Toes)


Houdini vs. the Human II (Big Scary Hand)


Houdini vs. His First Jingle Ball