Asleep

Most of the time, because I don't get a chance to get on my blog I am asleep here and there. Lynettea thinks I should be more active. Today she read an article in the paper that said you were less likely to get dementia if you were mentally active.
Apparently that is now proved. I wonder how they proved that.
I don't like to think of 'thought experiments'. How did the scientists work out whether the humans were thinking? As you and I know it is very difficult to discern any real mental activity in a human. Sometimes Lynettea sits and stares at moving coloured images on a machine and almost forgets to pay me any attention whatever. I try to bring her back to life by sitting on her lap so she has to stroke me. Even then she sometimes falls asleep doing this, which doesn't show a lot of mental activity. Sometimes she sits and looks at little squiggles on a piece of paper for ages and she makes exclamations that don't seem to have anything to do with what is going on, or not going on, as it is mostly. Maybe she is already demented.
If she is, I am not looking forward to having to get my own food, as it would be difficult to unwrap the plastic bags.
To cheer me up I have posted a cute picture of my tongue. I am licking my nosie.

Asleep in my velvet house

Here I am in my velvet house. I am not using this house at the moment, after I spent a lot of time in it, day and night for around a week. Lynettea thinks it is because one of her friends patted me in the house and I didn't like that. She has washed the fluffy that I have on the floor of the house and she keeps saying, 'Look Diamond, what a lovely fresh fluffy and I have smoothed it all out for you.' Then she puts her arm in and smooths it all out so I can see.

I watch, but don't go inside. I prefer to sleep under the blanket or under the downdraft from the heater in the loungeroom. And of course during the day I just live on my hot water service. What would I do without that. EveryCat should have his own hot water service to sleep on.

Sleeping in my velvet house

I don't have a picture of it, but I am sleeping in my velvet house. Lynettea decided to get my house out from the top of the cupboard, as the nights are getting chilly. She put it on the end of our bed. I say 'our bed' because I let her use part of it at night. I am enjoying going into the little red velvet house. It has a fluffy little woolly rug on the bottom and is nice and comfy when I curl up.
Lynettea says she is willing to sleep with her legs hooked up all night if it means that I can stay warm. I don't like to use the velvet house in any of the other rooms.
When we watch TV I lie on the lounge. You have seen plenty of pictures of me doing that. And during the day I often sit on my hot water service, so I can keep one eye out for the rough street cats that jump over the fence and sneak about in the yard. (Wallis and Jai and some others).
Maybe I will get some other pictures soon to post. If I am lucky! Lynettea took some photos of me in the velvet house.

Maintaining agilty

Hello Kitties, at long last I am permitted to add some pictures to my blog. My friends have probably forgotten me by now (hint hint to Lynettea).
It is extremely important to maintain agility as we age.
I usually join Lynettea when she does her floor exercises. She doesn't let me use her special exercise mat, but she puts a couple of small carpet mats beside her larger mat and says, 'There you are Diamond, you can do some exercises too!'
I find it hard to really concentrate on my grooming exercises while Lynettea is 'trying' to do Pilates. I don't think she is very good at it. I usually offer to help her by running under her raised legs in an attempt to support her, but she insists she can do it alone. She seems more interested in whether I am still on my own mat than anything else. She won't get very far that way.
I usually concentrate on serious grooming when I lie on my wool rug on the lounge. You can see how agile I am.
Attention to detail is also very important for any well groomed cat. You can observe here that I am grooming the fine furs on the tip of my tail. See how shiny my fur looks!
Can you see my little mousie at the top of the picture. Mousie gets a bit lonely, so I play with him a bit sometimes. A pity he is such an odd red colour. I think some cruel person must have put dye on his furs.

finding a friend

My dear Kitty friends, I have been left alone. You can see how lonely I look in this picture. When Lynettea is out I miss her. She thinks I am asleep all the time, but this is far from true. Sometimes I sleep, but at other times I would like to have a bit of decent conversation with someone.

Lynettea leaves the computer switched off most of the time she isn't using it herself, so I can't even visit my friends on their blogs. Sometimes I am even driven to try to speak to the CAT IN THE MIRROR!

This is a pest cat that lurks around. I sometimes get nervous that it will spring on me when I am asleep, as it lurks in my bedroom quite a lot.

It is not a bad looking cat and if it tried to be a bit pleasant and not lurk so much it might even become a friend. There is not much sign of that at present. Lynettea read one of her poems on the radio last night, but she forgot to leave the radio on when she went out, so I didn't get a chance to listen to it. After a fruitless attempt to speak to the CAT IN THE MIRROR I brushed up on my haiku. You can see my books at the side of the picture.

GREETINGS

At last I can get onto the computer and post a message to my friends. You can blame Lynettea for not letting me send any messages. At least she still feeds me and I go out for a walk sometimes. We went out this morning and I sniffed around my favourite places.

Then Lynettea started to sweep up my outside enclosure and you will never guess, that wretched Jai from next door started clawing at the broom fronds from under the gate. Lynettea thought it was very funny and kept putting the broom near the gate so he could poke his devilish black paws underneath and swipe at it. I got down from my hot water service to take a look too.

All quiet now, so I think I will take a nap. I missed visiting all my favourite kitty friends and I hope you like my new picture.

Cruising on the Murray

Lynettea may have been too busy to let me post on my blog, but she wasn't too busy to leave me here all day and go on a cruise on the Murray River at Mannum.
She showed me her pictures that she took. This one looks nice and cool and there are some houseboats on the bank. I don't know if any cats live in them. Lynettea said she didn't see any, but she is not as observant as I am.
She said the river is very low and they had to walk on a special plank down about two metres to get on the boat. Apparently there isn't much water because other people upstream have it and don't want to let it go downstream. How mean are they! Because the swampy edges have dried out there are hardly any birds around the river at that place now.

I will have to hope it rains, although I am not personally keen on rain. I guess I can stay indoors if it rains one day or two. Lynettea says 'Don't be silly Diamond, the world doesn't run to your order.' Well I was only trying to be helpful! I like other beings to have a fair go, even if they are birds.