Equal Time

Having wished Atlas a Happy Birthday below, I have been reminded rather forcefully that we have two grandcats as well as a granddog. The grandcats belong to Other Daughter and Son-in-Law.

This is Osiris. Osiris is large, and has stripes as well as an identifying orange patch on her tail. You see her here in the process of playing with a ball on a string. Or, perhaps more accurately, in wondering why this person is dangling that irritating object in front of my face; I must now consider bashing it with my ferocious claws and showing it where it belongs.

The second cat is her sister, Isis, who has quite clearly (and properly) decided that the only appropriate way to handle these dangling articles is to lie flat on her back, so that she can more readily manipulate this irritating object with her paws.

The astute reader/observer will have noted that both these cats are, er, to be polite, inordinately large. That is correct. In fact, my daughter and son-in-law note that they have not seen their landlord in more than a year now; the cats' sudden weight gain may have taken place around the time the landlord disappeared. Isis and Osiris aren't saying, but they do look rather smug...