Starting the Day With Buzz
Silly Baby Buzz (Basia) continues to make me laugh. She’s taken to staying in bed with me for an extra hour in the morning, letting Ken get ready for work without her help. About 45 minutes after Ken’s alarm goes off, I hear Jeremy’s alarm down the hall. That is when I start thinking about getting out of bed. I think Basia knows this because when we hear the alarm, she sits up beside me and looks at me. If I don’t move, she snuggles back up to me and purrs. (She likes sleeping in!) However, if I’m stirring around, checking email on the Crackberry or anything, she’ll walk all over me, demanding I pay attention to her.
Once I finally get up, she races into the bathroom ahead of me. She jumps on the counter so she can have a drink out of the faucet while I brush my teeth. Sometimes I leave the water dripping while I take my bath and she’ll stay on the counter playing with it. Other mornings she’ll sit on the side of the tub while I bathe and bat her paws at the water.
This morning she was rowdier than usual and couldn’t wait to go downstairs before she started playing and getting into trouble. She knocked the bottle of bath gel from the side of the tub into the water. Yes, on purpose. Then she spotted my razor and intended to do the same with it, but I grabbed it before she could. She then jumped onto the counter and swatted the hand towel hanging from the rack. It fell down on the counter. Her job there done she moved to the top of the toilet tank so she could reach Ken’s and my towels hanging on the wall there. Once there, she proceeded to bat and pull at them until I got out of the tub and moved her away from them.
It’s the same kind of thing most mornings. Buzz goes from sleeping and cuddling to full speed in a matter of seconds. She doesn’t know any speed except full out. And as I told her Daddy Jim today, she a VERY helpful little cat. She helps cook. She helps do dishes. She helps us brush our teeth. She helps fold clothes. She tried to help us install the new dryer vent last night. She insists on being in the middle of everything that goes on at our house. Good thing we love her.
In case you haven’t noticed, Rand’s and Aviendha’s new pictures are on the website. They were good kittens and posed very nicely. Pam in MN asked about Rand’s cute little black nose… His nose will not be a drawback or a plus either way when it comes to showing. (If his new owner wants to show him.) It’s been very interesting to me to see if change from pink to black over the past 12 weeks and now it’s almost completely black. Now Avi’s little spot… It might drive her owner crazy and it’s possible that a judge might think it’s dirty rather than a “beauty mark” because of the grayish color to it. But trust me, it’s not dirt. Like Rand’s black spot — when it was much smaller — I’ve tried to wash Avi’s spot off, too. It’s permanent.