Otis knows how to do it right.
Best way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
January 15, 2023 at 10:08 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: Otis the cat, Ragdoll cat, sleeping kitty, Sunday snooze
Cat lifestyles of the 21st century
December 8, 2022 at 7:12 pm (Kitty Cat)
Tags: cat videos, cats, Otis the cat
One of Otis’s favourite activities? Watching “Cat TV” on my computer.
I’ve bookmarked a couple of videos made for entertaining cats and dogs–videos that feature birds and squirrels, as well as cats playing with toys–and he will sit and watch for at least 20-30 minutes at a time.
Cats sure have come a long way from chasing mice in the farmyard. If, one of these days, he starts typing on the keyboard, I’ll truly be impressed. 🙂
My poem featured today at Katzenworld
June 9, 2022 at 9:55 pm (Creative arts, creative writing, Kitty Cat)
Tags: Katzenworld, Kitty cats, Otis the cat, Poetry, Purrsday Poetry, sock monkey
Click on the link above to check it out!
What’s ten times worse worse than dumping a full cup of coffee in your lap?
August 21, 2020 at 5:11 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: computer panic, fishing joke, laptop accident, Otis the cat, spills in keyboard, Tomigi Computer Service
…DUMPING THE ENTIRE CUP INTO YOUR LAPTOP KEYBOARD!!!
Yep. That’s exactly what I did a couple of weeks ago. I’ve always been as clumsy as the day is long, so I make a point of being extra-careful whenever I have liquids anywhere near my devices.
Except this time, when I bumped the table beside me, my full cup of coffee (with no lid on it) literally flew up into the air and landed upside down on top of my MacBook, which was on my lap. Every last drop drained into my keyboard.
I raced to the kitchen like a bat out of hell, holding the laptop upside down to drain over the sink while yelling every curse word in the English language. Once drained, I shut it down and raced it over to my awesome tech guy, who said he’d do his best to dry it out and clean it up, and we would hope for the best that I hadn’t fried it.
After a LOT of praying, I am so lucky to have my laptop back—good as new, thanks to my rock star tech guy, Phillip of Tomigi Computer Sales & Service in Markham, Ontario.
Anyway, I’m back online and hope to share some of the projects I’ve been working on in future posts. For now, here’s Otis, relaxing out in the front porch.
And here’s a silly joke that gave me a chuckle.
Otis could use a margarita…
April 26, 2020 at 6:01 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: cat in a hat, funny kitty, Otis the cat, Otis the cat wears a hat, rag doll cat
Otis relaxes in his basket by the window, wearing his Mexican sombrero as he dreams of white sand beaches and tequila shots.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Easter from Otis the Ragdoll Cat
April 12, 2020 at 4:48 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: crafts & cats, dressing up my cat, happy easter, Otis the cat, rag doll cat
Hello everyone… although I am writing to wish you all a Happy Easter, I am not so very happy right now.
Not after my mother-person tried to force me to wear a dumb pair of bunny ears that she made. Honestly, how incredibly insulting is that to a handsome creature such as myself?
Of course, I refused to wear them, making sure to kick and shake my head so that they would not stay put.
Eventually, my mother-person gave up and let them just rest on the floor. I glared at them, thinking that I might like to rip them to shreds.
And what’s with that dumb stuffed bunny she put behind me? Sometimes, she just drives me crazy. But I do love her anyway.
A HOPPY EASTER TO ALL!
Otis’s social whirlwind of a day
June 15, 2018 at 8:31 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: backyard animals, cats, kitty humour, Otis the cat, Ragdoll cat
As the song goes: “We’re here for a good time, not a long time…”
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I am on watch at my sliding glass doors.
It’s dead out there today.
A leaf flutters by.
A dumb fly slams into the window,
then falls into a crack in the deck. Awesome!
All’s quiet, when, suddenly…
A recent acquaintance, Bunnykins, hops by, googling me with her big, round eyes. Mmm mmm!
Then, my long-time pal, Chippie, stops in briefly to show off his latest finds.
As if a couple of bird seeds are enough to impress me??
Last, but not least, Squirt the Squirrel pops up to say, “Whazzup?”
I don’t know what his deal is.
He’s gone before I even have time to bat the glass with my paw. So rude!
Enough socializing—time to move to the front porch and
kick off the weekend with some chillaxin’. TGIF!
Happy Friday! Meows & hisses,
Otis
Otis wishes everyone a Happy Friday!
January 26, 2018 at 9:04 pm (Kitty Cat, slice of life)
Tags: humor, Otis the cat, Ragdoll cat
“Does this fur coat make me look fat?
…Be verrrrry careful how you answer that question.”
Otis the cat meets Robo Fish
May 30, 2017 at 5:11 pm (slice of life)
Tags: cat, cat playing, cat with toy fish, cat with water, humour, Otis the cat, Ragdoll cat
Handsome Otis models an ice-cream sundae hat
May 19, 2017 at 3:49 pm (Crochet & Crafting)
Tags: cats, cats wearing hats, corking, funny cat, humour, Otis the cat, Ragdoll cat, spool knitting, yarn crafts
He’s not particularly fond of ice-cream, but nevertheless, poor Otis found himself coerced into modelling my spool-knitted “ice-cream sundae hat.”
Much to Otis’s dismay, I recently felt an urge to try some spool knitting, or as we used to call it when we were kids, “corking.”
I can remember my best friend and I learning to cork using old wooden thread spools with four nails hammered into the tops of each. Today’s spool knitters are much fancier, not that the results are any better than what we got from those old wooden spools!
I had a collection of bits and pieces of old yarn ends, so I corked a long cord, then wound it around and hand-sewed it together to create the “sundae.”
Next, I used some red yarn to make a pompom: the cherry on top.
It is Otis’s plea that I refrain from using him to model any more yarn fashions.
“Get this @#%$!!! hat OFF me!”
Otis likes to keep a close eye on Backyard Bunny
He has suggested that, instead, I consider using his good friend, Backyard Bunny, as my model—that is, if I am ever able to catch him!
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