Me: winding aluminum wire around a heavy steel wire to make a mini gooseneck. Them: that's what *you* think! You're playing with kitties!

Beans wants to know why I can't reply to anything; it says the reply is sent, but doesn't appear in the thread. Trying a post.

Wait...wait...Beans gonna walk by any minnit now. Quiet an waitin... --sTuffin🐾

No, I don't remember how I got up here. Now get me down!

Havin cool tube time! Thanks, Ant Ka'ra! Beans is scareda our tube but that don't mean nothin. She's always scareda new stuff til she sees I ain't. --sTuffin🐾

Stevie Cookie went into the garage some time during the night, and this morning, with much encouragement from Big Steve...he exited on his own! Go, Cookie, go!

Why am I just finding out about this? ♥️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, look! I know lotsa people don't like AI stuff but lookit me if I 'cided to be a machinist! She said the big thing is a Bridgeport mill, and I'm usin it to fix a part. Cause CNC is for makin lotsa parts, not fixin one. She said I must have skills! --sTuffin🐾

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, Mum got us pizza smell! She said I hadda let her do her stuffs an if I did, she'd get pizza. An I did! I even got a piece-a ham an so did Beans. Mum likes the one got ham an pine apples on. Why do they put Chrismess trees an apples on pizza? --sTuffin🐾

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, you wanna know how smart Miki is? Our doors unlock with our chips, an Miki ain't got one, but that don't stop her. She sits by the door an waits for a boy to unlock it. When the door goes click, she pushes him outta the way an goes through the door! --sTuffin🐾

Mum been workin on her projeks all day an Beans oney wanted to sleep inna catio. Nobody wanted to play with me, so I gotta box an I done a projek my own self. --sTuffin🐾

My happy Herd and House Ladies are celebrating Caturday Eve with rotisserie chicken. They share with me...usually.

What? I gotta find the ones I wanna play with!

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Hey Ant Ka'ra, did you get your book done yet? I wrote a story about me finding Mum. But it ain't a whole book, just a story. Can my story be in your book?

Stevie Cookie has let himself out of the garage this morning. Now we shall see if that means he's forgotten how to get in...

Stephanie, HOW?

An odd couple.

Miki loves Big Steve. Big Steve is indifferent.

@karaisntactive.bsky.social Ant Ka'ra, Mum said I shoulda told you she ain't never been in prison. But she useta work there an that's why she knows what it's like. What's prison? Is it like when I gotta get in jail to go see Kitty Doctor? I asked Mum but she said never mind Stephanie. --sTuffin🐾

Poor Stevie Cookie. He's truly mastered going through the cat door into the garage, but has completely forgotten how to go out. Error: out of memory. Press to continue.

My vacuum cleaners are playing Battle Bots in the kitchen.

Poor Stevie Cookie. He somehow managed to get himself through the cat door into the garage during the night--a new skill learned--but he forgot he knows how to get out. All four crunchies bowls are empty, and he didn't want his breakfast. I feel ya, buddy; I, too, am guilty of boredom eating. 😹

This is my pillow. It smells like Mum, but it's mine!

Camo Steve.

Plenty of milkweed, but so far just this one little dude.

Hey Beans, you want a worm or a ball? --sTuffin🐾

Two more days in the giant rice steamer that has been southern IL for the last two weeks. It's supposed to be only 81F (27C) on Thursday. Guess I'd better get out my mittens and long underwear.

I was gonna eat Beans but then we got sleepy. --sTuffin🐾

Pingu.

I looked around for sad, skinny cow kitty this morning, but no joy. Poor little thing. I'm not sure (s)he'd have come anywhere near me anyway, since I walked across the back yard with an entourage of six cats trailing behind me. 🙄

Oh no. The skinniest, saddest-looking cow cat I've ever seen in my *life* just walked across the patio. None of The Herd chased the poor thing, so they've met. Maybe I know who's been coming in the garage and eating all of the crunchies while I'm at work. If it comes back, The Herd will be seven.

I printed Hulk arms for my brother's cat but forgot I'd sprayed the print bed with Aqua-Net to do some small parts earlier, and now I can't get the arms off. I'm going to work. 🙄

The paper bag has been vanquished. We must rest.

I was scratching and biting myself, and Mum was worried that my flea medication wasn't working. Then she realized I was lying...on an ants' nest, and they were running all over me. I'm not a smart man. --Stevie Cookie🐾

I don't know what she was doing in the bathtub, but there were thumping noises and Crazy Eyes, so I just left.

Steven J. Cookamier, Ph.D. in Cat Door Opening. * *to exit the garage only. He is still in the research stage of cat door entrance.

🎉🎈🎉Stevie Cookie just let himself out of the garage through the cat door!!! 🎉🎈🎉

Besties. ♥️

The bumblebee population in my yard is secure. The purple and gray-headed coneflower, and the blazing star are in full bloom, and I have plenty. I took my bird-counting clicker out and got to 86 bumblebees before I gave up. It sounds like a drone show out there!

Probably a good thing that I saw the antenna before I grabbed my purse. He's still a baby, but he can bite!

A new tail for Stephanie's poor...whatever it's supposed to be (a mouse?)

No, Stephanie, don't eat her. She's not that kind of Beans.

Ahhh. Naptime my comfy resin downspout splash block.

Stephanie: Box of cat toys, meh. Blueberry that fell onto the floor, BEST TOY EVER!

Really? You exited a dry garage with a fountain of fresh water to drink rain water off the carport floor?

It's raining so hard I just moved my car out of the carport onto the uncovered part of the patio to rinse off the dust and cat footprints. 🐾

Hol' still! I gotta wash your ears. Clean ears is very 'portant. --sTuffin🐾

I have the biggest bunch of drama queens in the known universe! Backpack guards the inside of the cat door and won't let George in. George guards the outside and won't let Andy or Backpack out. I bought another cat door to install in a different wall. Am I smarter than a cat? We'll see...

I got this thing all figured out! --Beans🐾

I put The Herd's cans of food in the fridge before I left for work this morning. They left a bunch of food when I fed them yesterday because I forgot to chill it, but they didn't today! 😁