the stacking kitties

So I am about to start scanning in photos from my last 2 trips-- Whistler in October, and Costa Rica in March...I have only just had both rolls of film (yes, I know..rolls of what now?) developed, and am quite happy with a few of the shots.

In the meantime, here are a couple pictures of my cats. For those of you who don't know, they are twin sisters, and 14 years old, and they stopped enjoying each other's company about 9 years ago. If they were a married couple, they would be divorced and prowling the single's bars long ago (cougars, hahaha) (oooh, just had a mental image of that awesome scene from Team America: don't be afraid, my sheva sisters! Your captors are behind that glass...)

Anyhow, one is submissive and passive aggressive, and the other is butch and alpha. They regularly compete over who gets the lap when I am sitting on the couch. Rufus, the butch, usually wins. Freaky, the other one, has recently begun to fight back with a little move I like to call "the stacking kitties". She very casually jumps up onto the couch, and slowly climbs over Rufus and lays down pretty much on top of her. As if she "didn't notice" Rufus was sitting there already. She has done this a few times in the last few months, and I managed to catch them on film recently:





Pretty ballsy, Freaky. I'm impressed.




Note Rufus' extremely displeased expression. I'm surprised she allows it. but I guess that's the thing when you're alpha: you don't give up that lap under ANY condition!