It’s Caturday.

Let’s start with a GIF of a cat climbing a tree:

Pommie and Bella:

Porcini and Poppy watching me from a safe distance:

They were a little concerned when I walked past, on the way back inside:

(This little patio area is quite nice, though we don’t use it. It used to have a fire pit, before we bought the place, but we’ve never used it for that, as there is too much foliage around it now.)

Two possums in the feeder; unlike with raccoons, it’s unusual to see more than one at a time:

Poppy, Porcini, and Spud at the cabins:

(I really need to clean the cabin cam, but there’s pretty much always someone there, so I don’t want to disturb them.)

Three cats outside their house:

Cat prints in the snow:

Poppy watching me walking past from the comfort of a cabin; you can also see the cabin cam in its little shelter (the cam is waterproof; the cover is to stop cats rubbing on the cam and making it askew):

Two cats with some snow:

Spud by the cabins:

Porcini and Poppy:

A couple of cats in the feeder:

Porcini looking concerned as I approach the cat house to attend to the food dispenser, with Poppy below:

Porcini stayed inside, but Poppy left; she can be seen near the center of this picture, with Bella nearby in the grass:

That picture also gives some context around the cat house — a peek of the cat cabins in the upper-left, the aforementioned old fire pit patio, the bird feeders, the small pond, and the cat house.

Bella in the grass on the edge of the field:

Poppy watching me from the path by the bird feeders:

Finally, a random shot of the high shop ceiling, from the cam there; it is an old pan-tilt model, that rotates when it resets, but is getting stuck at weird angles:

For Caturday this week: cat food, cabin cats, a raccoon, a possum, a GIF, a Paladout, and more.

As mentioned on my personal blog, the feral cat food dispenser was running on batteries during our big power outage, and reacted badly to low battery capacity by continuously dumping all of the food from its hopper:

In that picture you can see the empty hopper and the top of the feeder tube, full of food (the dispenser is on a drawer I can pull out to make it easier to refill). Below, you can see the rest of that tube, and the big pile of food it has dumped:

I scooped the excess back into the hopper after I replaced the batteries. It’s nice that it has a battery backup when not receiving power, but running continuously might not have been the best way to preserve battery capacity.

Here are Porcini and Poppy watching me approach on a rainy morning:

Poppy didn’t bother retreating; she knows I’m not a threat, so long as I keep my distance:

A raccoon briefly visited Porcini in the cat house. She informed the raccoon that it wasn’t welcome there:

The raccoon was just waiting for a possum to get out of the way:

Bella in front of the feeder. I do wonder where she sleeps; she doesn’t avail herself of any of the heated shelters, unlike the rest of her family:

A cat in each doorway:

Poppy arriving, with Porcini and Spud in cabins:

A GIF of Poppy going into a cabin with Porcini, Spud in the other cabin, and Bella walking behind the cabins:

Do you see three cats?

Hint:

Poppy and Porcini inside the cat house:

Doing my morning rounds, having visited the ducks, I noticed Paladout on the hidden path by the pond:

Closer:

Three cats inside the house this morning:

Finally, Poppy watching me from under our main deck: