tale of two cats

i am feeling blue this morning and am procrastinating. when feeling blue, what more cheerful subject to focus on but one's cats.

this is luna. she is stepping into a basket of light. she was the runt of her litter. she is small, fast, neurotic and very sweet. she likes to chirp. sometimes she will pour on the affection and other times she will do nothing but evade you. she never likes to be picked up and will only sit on your lap if there is a big soft blanket there. luna will eat anything: popcorn, nachos, hummus. she waits patiently beside us if we are eating ice cream or yogurt because we allow her to lick the bowls clean. luna has big green eyes that often seem unreal. she flirts with dogs, likes to stay out all night and never gets into trouble.



this is loki using me as a bench. he's been doing that a lot lately (and i've been laying on the couch a lot lately). loki is luna's brother. he is a bit of a brute. he is rather territorial and often gets into fights with other cats. he is not very nice to luna, and likes to swipe at her when ever she walks by. loki is fat and goes completely mad if he doesn't get his food when he wants it. he is super affectionate though. he loves to curl up on me or beside me and purr like a jet engine. sometimes i think he'll make us both levitate, if he weren't so heavy. loki is terrified of dogs. dan has had to rescue him from many a tree. loki also likes to sit on the coffee table. and if there are things on the coffee table -- books, magazines, mail, artwork, scissors -- he'll sit on the whole pile. sometimes he takes a flying leap onto the coffee table and everything that was sitting on it scatters to the wind. loki goes wild over cat nip, but he's a mean drunk. after a roll in the cat nip he likes to bare his teeth and claws. and then he passes out in a big orange puddle of cat bliss.




both cats sit in really funny places sometimes. the other day luna was sitting in the planter that runs along the house. her whole body lounging in damp dirt and her paws hanging over the bricks. loki often likes to sit at the edge of the deck with half his body hanging over the edge. sometimes they are in the linen closet or in tashi's stuffed animal drawer. when a thunder storm is coming they sometimes huddle up on the stairwell or under the kitchen table.

they are our good friends and we've had them for nearly six years. our anniversary falls around halloween.

ok, i am ready to move along with my day now!