{"id":349,"date":"2012-02-24T13:59:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2021-01-08T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:44:34","slug":"day-18-something-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/day-18-something-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 18: Something Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, more day shifting.\u00a0 I completely forgot about getting a sunset shot last night, and I hear it was a beauty, too.\u00a0 Today is brought to you by the color orange.<\/p>\n

\"Something<\/p>\n

In case you don’t recognize it, that’s an end cap for a pipe.\u00a0 Hubby likes to keep it where he can find it when he needs it next (on the shelf by the back door).\u00a0 Lady, the Rescue Puma, thinks we hide it there for her to find it and play with it.\u00a0 (Note the several punctures and scratch marks, which were not native to the device.)\u00a0 In fact, anything we hide or put away, Lady seems to think we’re hiding it for her amusement, because we get a lot of, “Hey!\u00a0 Look!\u00a0 I found it!\u00a0 Here it is!”<\/p>\n

For a long time, the shelf above the microwave was a safe place to put pens, tweezers, or hubby’s rings that he doesn’t wear while he’s working (something about wanting to keep all his fingers, what’s up with that?).\u00a0 No longer.\u00a0 Tarzan (and probably Lady) is regularly pulling items down from there and playing with them.\u00a0 Worse, Natasha is getting bolder about getting onto flat surfaces we don’t allow her to get on when we’re right there.\u00a0 Until recently, the Siamese at least played the game that they didn’t do such things (at least, not when we were around to witness it).\u00a0 The kittens have been a bad influence upon them.<\/p>\n

Hubby always said he preferred Siamese because they were smarter than other cats, but we’ve had these kittens since birth, and they seem smart enough (but perhaps a bit independent — I think they got that from hubby).\u00a0 I tell hubby it’s all his fault for making them a maze when they were small.\u00a0 That has piqued their intellectual curiosity, and we are not keeping them challenged enough.<\/p>\n

I wonder if How To Teach Physics to Your Dog will work with cats?\u00a0 Do you think if I leave it open on the bed upstairs that they will read it?\u00a0 Or should I hide it from them to make them think I don’t want them to find it?\u00a0 Perhaps, a cat who can do physics could earn its keep?\u00a0 Or at least pay for the 14 lb bag of food they consume every couple of weeks. (Yes, these are the big bags of Purina One urinary tract special diet cat chow at Wal-Mart — if you have four cats, that’s just enough to keep them happy for a short while.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, more day shifting.\u00a0 I completely forgot about getting a sunset shot last night, and I hear it was a beauty, too.\u00a0 Today is brought to you by the color orange. In case you don’t recognize it, that’s an end cap for a pipe.\u00a0 Hubby likes to keep it where …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15144,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/15144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}