First one without either of them in 19 years

I miss my girls.

Recent catting

Things Hiihoo has been up to.

I'm so glad she likes the little bridge I put between my desk and the table near the window for her. She likes to sit and nap on both, and to look out the window, but she's old and not a good jumper anymore. This reduces a bit the number of jumps necessary for moving around. She's getting a ramp up to one of these surfaces when I figure out how to place it.

And gotta have walks.

Hiihoo kitten photos

Baby pictures of my baby. I didn't have a digital camera when I adopted her, so these are scans.

First day in new home, or not quite, since we spent that first day at my parents', before taking her to my apartment. It's January 2004 and she's about three months old.

Masu kitten photos

Baby pictures of my cat's little sister, who lives with my brother, and is still pretty little despite being 13 years old this year.

August 2006, about three months old and newly adopted.

So smol.

A Blep

big scary birbs

Watching the raptors in the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park just now to check something (with headphones on). Hiihoo was sitting on the desk behind me, and I thought she was napping, but when I looked behind me she was staring at the laptop screen like this.

Vintage catwalk collection

Some selected photos of Hiihoo's walks from years 2016-2018 and earlier this spring.

My cat asked me to build her a pillow fort

Originally posted to tumblr on December 15 2016. Reposted here for archiving of posts I want to keep.

I sometimes take for granted that I can tell when my cat wants something and what she wants (food is always a good guess), like she meows in front of a door so she probably wants me to open that door for her etc. But sometimes I stop to think about how glad I am that we can communicate despite being different species, and that I can do things for her that make her happy.

Today I was doing something near the bed, and saw her sticking her head under the comforter but not burrowing under it, then looking at me expectantly. And I realized, she wants me to make her a pillow fort. Which I sometimes do, to give her a place to hide in, and some variety as I don’t build one every day lest she get used to it and it stops being new and interesting when it happens. It’s just 3 couch cushions for walls arranged around her blanket with the comforter on top. She loves it, but it’s always been a surprise when she gets one, this time she asked. So I quickly put one together as she watched, and then she immediately crawled in there and curled up for a nap, confirming I read her request correctly.

I just. My cat asked me to build her a pillow fort. I’m so happy.

Raptor repaints process

Originally posted to tumblr as separate posts, this is just a copy and all of them collected together into one very long post for archiving.

Photos of the finished repaints: at iperyys.net - at deviantart - at tumblr

August 30 2018:

Raptor socializing happening on my desk, where I am finally done with the touch-ups to their paint. Also what is this concept of multiple figures of the same character, Blue just has a daughter now.

Latest on the catwalk

Doing a sleep

Is this a pigeon?