This Bead's For You.......

Or maybe that should be "This bead isn't for you, so don't touch it!"

Mickey Kitty not only loves shoes, but he's very interested in anything with beads, tassels, or glass prisms. Being that our home is very Victorian in style, there's lots of beads and tassels and prisms.

This little kitten is getting very used to being inside the house now. So much so that he doesn't much like it when I put him out on the screen-porch and shut the window so he can't get back in. I did just that last night while we were having dinner (steamed gulf shrimp and fresh-grown corn)... and wouldn't you know it, Mickey Kitty managed to squeeze himself through the two-inch space between the bottom of the window and the sill. Did I neglect to mention that Mickey Kitty also loves steamed shrimp? (We're still shaking our heads over the fact that he was able to squeeze himself through that narrow space. I guess freshly steamed shrimp is a good incentive.)

Other than his fascination with all things covered with beads, rhinestones, tassels, and other embellishments, Mickey Kitty is growing into a very fine little cat. Sometimes when he wears himself out playing (or chasing the other cats) he will just sit in the middle of the living room or breakfast room and just look around. I hope he's reminding himself that he lucked-out in coming to live here, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he will learn to be as gentle with the things in this house as the other cats are.

This afternoon, I couldn't keep Mickey Kitty away from a Victorian fan that I keep on the table near the sofa in the breakfast room. Not only does the fan look pretty sitting on the table, but it comes in handy when I get a hot flash. Mickey Kitty managed to hook his little paw through the ring of the fan and he scooped it up and let it drop on the floor, where he discovered if he moved it clockwise with his paw, the fan would spin on the tile like magic.

No sooner had I gotten him to leave the fan alone, and he found that if he ran his paw along the beaded edge of the lamp that's on the sofa table in the breakfast room, all the hanging beads make a tinkling sound which he finds hard to resist.

Nothing like a new kitten to remind you of everything that's in one house (or just one room) that can capture the attention of a tiny golden-brown-eyed bundle of fur.