We were taking pictures of the kittens for this year’s Christmas card, and briefly considered using this sequence. Cooler heads prevailed, but here it is for your enjoyment.
Yeah, posing kittens is easy.
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Nov 19 2011
Posers
Well, the kittens are still a little young to be very cooperative when we take pictures (they want to look at everything except the camera) but we stuck to it and are proud to present the First Lady Litter….
Bess (Truman) Δ
Abigail (Adams) Δ
Ladybird (Johnson) Δ
Tipper (Gore — should have been First Lady…) Δ
Jackie-O Δ
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Oct 30 2011
They plump when you feed ’em
It’s amazing how big those kittens get after a few days. They look like plump little furry sausages. Maybe we’ll name the Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Andouille, Knackwurst, and Chorizo.
Okay, maybe not.We have a rule about not naming kittens after food, no matter how tasty they look.
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Oct 27 2011
Maybe’s Babies
Maybelline gave birth to five big kittens on Tuesday morning! They quickly proved to be more mobile than the usual litter. One of them crawled out of the nest within minutes and we had to put up the barrier. These beasties were a little late, so they must have used the extra gestation time productively…
This is the look that either says, “I am a content mother.” or “Do they ever stop eating? I think they’re draining my life force!”
The usual kitten cluster.
Maybe we’ll call this one, “Pumpkinface!”
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Oct 24 2011
Did you get my good side?
Time to get some pictures of the Patootie-Pumpkin litter before they go to their new homes! This sounds like an easy enough thing, but there is a certain technique, you see. You can’t take pictures right after a meal, because at that point they’re all zipping around and all you get are pictures of blurs. The timing has to be right, somewhere between “Rocket” and “Nap/coma.”
Smudge made it easy by just sitting on top of the cat tree and holding still.
Spot! Just hold still for one… more… second. Okay, the real trick is to take a lot of pictures, because the one you thought came out good and looks great on the little camera LCD turns out to be blurry when you look at it on the computer.
It was so much harder in the old days when we made web sites by taking Polaroids, gluing them up on pasteboard and pointing a webcam at them. Okay, I made have made that one up. We actually chiseled the web sites into stone tablets.
Notspot (a.k.a Spotless, a.k.a. Dash) was about thirty seconds from a nap when I took this.
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