Chilly Days

It has been pretty cold in Asheville lately. It is February, after all. But here in the southern Appalachian Mountains the weather will be warming up before we know it. The daffodils are already peaking up out of the ground.

But as you have already seen, Piglet is not a cat who tolerates the cold.

Piglet doesn't go outside very often, especially in this weather, but when she needs to she is prepared. This is mostly thanks to my sister who is just about as crazy as I am. My sister knitted Piglet a scarf.

There is a little bit of glare at the top; but this is an old scrapbook page featuring Piglet's adorable yellow scarf. It is paired here with a hunter green kitty sweatshirt that I made for her.

By the way, it is really easy to make a sweatshirt for a sphynx cat. Use the sleeve of an old sweatshirt. Cut it about the length of the cat. Cut a half oval out at bottom of the back end for their back legs. Then cut two small arm holes near the cuff of the sleeve for their front legs. VEE-ola, instant sweatshirt. In case you ever find yourself needing to make one for your cat, hairless or not. You could even do that for a very small dog.

The scarf, on the other hand, requires actually knitting skills which I do not possess.

Piglet Unleashed...or, acutally, Leashed

A couple of weeks ago my cousin messaged me on Facebook.

Do you have a photo of Piglet on her leash you can post?

Well, as it turns out I hadn't taken any recent photos of Piglet on her leash. But then I remembered that when I was still living in Michigan I spent a lot of time scrapbooking with my sister and one of my closest friends. Since I have no kids I made a scrapbook for Piglet. Don't judge me. 

I dug it out of a box and as I remembered there was a layout of Piglet on her leash.

 

 These photos were taken when Piglet was about one or two years old. She absolutely loved going out for "walks" and by "walks" I mean "follows" or occasionally "drags."

Now that I have found Piglet's scrapbook just wait for the cuteness that will unleashed in weeks to come! 

A teeny snore...

Piglet was sleeping on my lap snoring. Moving as little as I could, I used my trusty iPod Touch to get a video of it. This was a pretty quiet snore - she's been louder. In fact there have been times her snores are so loud they've woken us up. But turn up your volume for a second and check out this sleeping kitty snore.

Seriously cute, right? It is hard to get a video of a sleeping cat, though, because it doesn't take much to wake them up.

In other news, this week Piglet drank some milk from my cereal bowl. Look at that little pink tongue!

Catur...Sunday..?

I've been sick. Nurse Piglet has been attentive, but that means I didn't get to post anything for Caturday. So here is a bonus Sunday photo of Piglet. I call this one "The Rock and Roll Sphynx Cat."

Caturday Photo

Here is Piglet in front of the heat register in our home in Atlanta. This is an on-going tradition.

Piglet Helps Me Blog

Piglet would like to thank everyone for coming to check out her blog on Saturdays...er, Caturdays.

She's been helping me with my writing. I have been diligently posting at Life in 120 Square Feet and I just took some time to revive my beer blog, Beer and Now. Oh, and she is also helping me with my first book, 120 Ideas for Tiny Living.

So I thought you might like some photo proof that Piglet was helping me.

Photo modified with Pixlr. Check it out, its fun.

Heat for the Hairless

Piglet is very happy that we've moved into a traditional house for the winter. She has always loved head registers. The house where we lived when she was a kitten was built in the 1940 and had a few old heat registers that were angled out from the wall. She would put her little paws up on the top of the register and scoot her little body up to it to maximize the heat to hairless cat ratio.

This house was built in 1948 and has floor registers which have become Piglet's favorite hangout. If you're looking for her, you'll probably find her there.

First I found her sleeping there

What do you want, Human?

Can't you see I'm sleepy?

What's this?

Okay, I'm awake now...and I'm vicious!