This Caturday, some wildlife visitors and increased use of cozy accommodations.
The tripawd coyote visited again last Saturday night, but hasn’t been back since:
Poppy and Porcini having breakfast:
Pommie in front of the cabins:
An animated GIF of three cats going in and out of the breezeway cabin (crowded in there!), with another cat watching from the log pile in the background:
Three cats again, this time by their house:
A raccoon visited Porcini in a cabin:
She swiped at it and retreated out the back door; it jumped back then left. She came back later.
Pommie in the breezeway:
Two cats in their house:
Two possums in the feeder (with no food). Unusual to see two; they usually travel singly. These look young, though:
Cat closeup:
Pumpkin and Porcini; he just sniffed and left. Perhaps disappointed that she has taken the cabin he had preferred. He hasn’t been hanging around very often this week:
A rare color picture of Pansy in the back of the shop, using the heating pad:
Poppy enjoyed the cat house a few times this week:
Sun setting behind Porcini:
A cat climbing up the pole behind the cat house:
The cat on top of the pole from the other camera:
Jumping down from the pole; probably not as comfortable as climbing down backwards, but faster:
The left cabin is the original one I got before building the cat house, and the cover had torn off the heating pad, making it less comfortable to sit on, so the cats haven’t been using it. So I added an old spare flannel pillowcase to it, leaving the old cover bunched up at the back (it’s still partially attached):
Porcini and Pommie checking out the cabin with the pillowcase:
Porcini in an odd place, on top of a deck joist:
Pommie approved of the addition of the pillowcase:
Pommie and Porcini in the cabins:
At the same time as that last picture, Poppy in the breezeway cabin:
Pommie and Porcini in the cabins this morning:
Poppy checking out Pommie and Porcini in the cabins:
They’re still there as I write this, a couple of hours later. Makes me happy to see cozy cats.
So, the second coyote image caused me to think the coyote was smoking a cigar (yeah, my imagination triggers on crazy stuff).
My second thought was the coyote needed a derby hat…
What? A derby hat?
I was a Ernie Kovacs fan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Kovacs when I was a kid… I cried the night they announced his death. There was often a Gorilla in a Derby hat and the gorilla had a cigar if I remember right (hey, I was pretty young back then). I also liked the Bat Masterson show.
Later on, I learned about Jack Woolam and his Gorilla suit complete with Derby Hat and cigar.
So there’s this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Woolams#Personality and then the back story…
http://forgetomori.com/2008/skepticism/top-secret-jet-flying-gorillas/
Thanks for the many wonderful memories this post spawned from a kid who still misses Ernie Kovacs!
Fascinating. Before my time, but he sounded like quite the pioneer.
That was back in the days of Black & White Television still.