first caturday of june

Luke is no longer the only sewing room cat. Little Zoë has learned how much fun it is to explore in mom’s sewing room. While Luke would pick one of the chairs and snuggle down to nap, Zoë roams everywhere, looking for the best spots to settle down. Such as this spot right on top of a very soft piece of material mom is trying to lay a pattern out on. It’s soft and comfortable for a cat to lie upon, which Zoë is certainly doing.

Nicholas is still growing. June marks his eleventh month of life, ninth living with us. We’ll celebrate his first birthday on the Forth of July, and pretend all the fireworks are for him. You can see how much he’s grown because he now fills out the sunshine bed, spilling out over the edges. I have yet to weigh him, but I suspect he’s right behind both Beau and Luke weight-wise.

Here we have Beau holding Nicholas in a head lock. The cats like to wrestle one another, until one of two things happens: either the cats break and run away, or the cat with the headlock starts to groom the other cat. Grooming is what is happening here. I caught this between grooming sessions because it looks so funny, especially with the look on Beau’s face and Nicholas’ ears flat against his head.

Life with cats, lots of cats, is always interesting.

nicholas caturday

Nicholas is ten months old this May. He’s grown bigger overall than both of the girls, and is as long as Beau, but not as beefy. He’s still the skinny neighborhood kid of a cat, running around and running everybody else a bit ragged. When he wants to hide from everyone he’s made mad that day, he tends to find a spot under one of the deck pieces of furniture, like this one. It’s not that the other cats are vengefully trying to hunt him down, it’s just that Nicholas instinctively seems to know when he should literally lay low for a while. Everybody calms down and then Nicholas reappears.

Nicholas is the last of the “babies.” Pretty soon he’ll pass his first year of life, and then he’ll begin to mellow and calm down even more. I’ve already watched it happen to the first two generations, now I get to watch it happen with Nick.