Stumble It!
Ties that bind
Puzzled by our pokiness in disentangling her tether from the chair, Sweet Tiny Pea pondered the mysterious workings of the mind of her servant this morning as we scrambled to get a couple of good shots, while she scanned the environs in our direction with backward-turned ears llistening for clues. Note to self: The tether is looking a little frayed around the edges. 'Better get some new line before it breaks during one of the animals' adrenally-assisted double-barreled lunges, wherein they drag the chair across the yard in pursuit of some feline or other faunal intruder.
Tiny found herself enmeshed in a cat's cradle of her own making midmorning.
"Still pinching them, she moves her hands farther apart, until the string is taut," instructs Ifyoulovetoread.com (above photo) in "How to Do Cat's Cradle," an illustrated step-by-step tutorial in the "game in which a string is looped on the fingers to form an intricate pattern between a player's hands that can be successively varied or transferred to another player's hands."
We had tied the tether she shares with her brother Baby Cakes -- offscreen a few feet to the right in photos above and below -- to a lawn chair, with each cat having about 10 feet of play for alternate surveillance and napping exercises. Unsatisfied with her range of movement, she had made things worse by circling around and around the base of the chair seeking a way out.
Okay, Grandma. Put down that camera and get me out of this thing.
Update: Say cheese. Lots more pictures of all things bright and beautiful plus commentary at the wonder of it all at Modulator's Friday Ark #154.
Looks like Tiny is ready for a trip downeast to the unfettered wilds.
Posted by: goomp | August 30, 2007 at 01:09 PM
LOL - in later years when we had to tether our sweet old dog Sam, she would wrap herself around a small tree in the yard and could never figure out how to unwrap. Eventually we blocked the access on one side of the tree and it solved that problem (much to her dismay because she kept trying to walk that way LOL).
Posted by: Teresa | August 30, 2007 at 01:54 PM
All I could think of was - I want to HUG her! She is so very appealing. Right now she is also my more-than-life-size computer background at work. I know when to display BEAUTY by golly!
Sam awakened me at 4:45 a.m. today and wanted cuddles. He is a very satisfactory partner for that kind of activity and I've had far worse starts to a workday!
There are still people out there who don't like cats. What truly sad pathology!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | August 30, 2007 at 02:04 PM
I can't get over how sweet and nice Tiny looks through her cat-cradle.
Your pictures have that EastCoast wistfullness.
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Posted by: Steve | August 31, 2007 at 03:17 PM