FMD17

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I like science & braille & food & cats & books. And large plaster statues of yeti.

A very cute orange striped kitty is curled up against a sleeping man (equally cute IMHO). The cat is on top of the green quilt which looks quite attractive against His Orangeness.
My favorite painting of a woman on horseback—sort of. The perspective and body parts are completely fantastic in the original meaning of the word. The horse especially looks as though someone stuck a triceratops head on a bench. It makes me happy.
A photo of a naive painting of a woman on a horse with the words RESERVE TODAY. It’s difficult to describe how “off” this painting is. The perspective is supposedly from the side but the woman is shown as though facing the viewer with only one leg, not so much sitting on the animal as floating in front of it. The horse is similarly naively painted, more like a brown bench that someone had stuck a dinosaur head on with no neck. I dearly love this painting and it makes me very happy.
A graphic from a museum exhibit that reads: “Check this out. Less time separates us from triceratops than separated triceratops from stegosaurus.” A timeline is shown where stegosaurus lived 150 MYA so it’s 84 million years apart from triceratops. Triceratops lived 66 MYA so current humans are only 66 million years apart. I stupidly tend to lump “dinosaur time” altogether but that’s my ignorance. There were a lot of dinosaurs in a time span of millions of years.
An adorable man with grey hair wearing a red shirt sits at a restaurant table eating scrambled eggs. In the foreground is an enormous pancake taking up most of the table. It’s sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar & there’s a small cup of butter on it. My mouth is watering as I describe this pancake.
A gray & white cat curled up on a blue blanket that’s on a table by a window. One back leg is resting on a piece of paper from a yellow legal pad. Could it be a top secret message? Cat is playing it cool.
A gray & white cat curled up asleep on a beige blanket. He is shaped like an apostrophe with his head tucked in and his two back feet sticking out . He is adorable 🥰
An orange striped cat curled up sleeping next to a brown striped tabby. They are lying on a red & white striped pillow on a window seat. That window seat is over a radiator and next to a sunny window = perfect cat sleeping area.
A photo of the laptop on my desk with a sweet brown tabby on the left side looking up at the calendar & an orange menace tabby on the right side pretending to be asleep
Adorable orange tabby curled up on my desk, his little pink toes resting on my laptop. Front paws curled up under his chin. My desk is situated over a radiator so the table top is nice and warm (it’s -1 F outside right now)
An orange tabby is curled up asleep atop a yellow legal pad next to a laptop computer on my desk. A useless ballpoint pen is next to the pad of paper since I certainly won’t move him to write anymore. His little paws are curled up under his chin & he is distractingly adorable.
Three cats in a doorway. A gray & white cat is lying on a small red rug next to the open door. A tabby cat is standing in the doorway looking back at the orange striped cat coming in —and with good reason, since orange cat cannot be trusted not to cause trouble.
Photo of the new national park pass with George Washington & President Mugshot on it. Text says “Visitors to national parks who plan on covering President Donald Trump’s face on their 2026 entrance passes may face additional fees.”
An orange striped cat climbing up on a decorated wooden clothes drying rack. He does not look in the least bit guilty.
A close up of the winning fashion design! Sweater is a patterned aqua & white design but appliquéd on the front is Rudolph the reindeer barfing up a big green blob that spreads across the front of the sweater. In the green textured blob are stitched on green plastic jewels to provide an extra soupçon of holiday cheer. It is a masterpiece if I do say so myself.
Orange cat sitting on a stripy pillow but one back leg is pointing towards the camera looking impossibly long.
Joan Armatrading
Sleepy tabby sprawled across a notebook on my desk, in front of my computer monitor. He looks blissfully at home & certainly does not care that he is preventing me from working
Two adorable cats on a dark red couch. Lilli is a tabby with a white front who liked to sit with her paws crossed. Esme was a big pile of white & black fluff who talked to us all the time. We loved them very much.
A photo of text on a screen that says “Yao am I can Yao pom?” which I s what the AI came up with from this conference speaker.
Overhead photo shot of Orange tabby in the doorway on his back, all four paws in the air, looking sadly askance because no one will play with him.
An orange tabby curled up in a cat tree. His front legs are sticking out in front of him in a way that looks like it can’t possibly be comfortable, yet he’s asleep
Here’s Noodle, our orange tabby, lying on his back, paws in the air but his head at a quizzical angle, as if to say, “you don’t find me adorable, do you?” (Reader, I do.)
An old vehicle with the cab in the shape of a Zippo lighter.
A gray and white cat lies on his back in the middle of the tile floor with his big white belly showing.
An orange cat on a bed with a dark green bedspread. The cat is twisted into an impossible shape with his top half facing just off the camera’s view & his back leg & tail hovering above the bed. His other three limbs aren’t visible. He’s sort of in the shape of a trussed croissant if you can imagine that.
The sign depicts a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark over a depiction of an open book. I have no idea what it means—beware of literature? This book is rude? Don’t believe everything you read?
Line of protesters marching after the speeches—goes on for blocks!
Woman in a crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”
Woman in a crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”
Woman in crowd holding up a sign that says “Trump is a jagoff!”
The inside cover of a hard cover book, with the words written in pencil.
Toby, a tabby cat, lies peacefully on a window seat pillow next to Noodle, an orange tabby. They are curled up within inches of each other. There’s an open window behind them that’s out of the frame.
Orange tabby curled up in an office chair with his head upside down.
An orange tabby & a brown-striped tabby sit next to each other on the sill of an open window. They are intently watching birds. Both tails are curled in the same way. Just a few short months ago they couldn’t even be in the same room!
Noodle, our orange menace, loves to lick my hands while I try to work on my computer. This photo is a close up of his face as he dutifully washes my hand.
A photo of the base of a light pole where it connects to the sidewalk: there’s an arc-shaped piece of metal that curves down just below two large bolts. It appears as if the base of the pole is a large frowny face and I can certainly relate.
One orange striped kitty in a cardboard box on the floor; behind him is a tabby cat lounging in a basket. A
A portion of an illustration that was actually an old (1950s type)ad for ice cream but it’s been cropped so all you see is a woman and a young child with their mouths open (screaming?) and in the foreground the profile of an another child grinning (evilly?). Up in the top left corner are are letters REAM
Orange tabby curled up on a chair, belly exposed. This chair, by the way, is covered by a towel and there’s a heating pad underneath —not visible in the photo but definitely a cat magnet.
Photo shows the head of a gray & white cat peering over the table as he stares seriously at the camera. A placement & napkin are in front of him. He looks as though he has just sent his meal bank to the kitchen because it was not up to his standards.
Toby (tabby cat on my desk) leaning over & giving Tip (fat cat on office chair) a sniff.
Winter scene of a small meadow. Tall brown grass on either side of a middle path, tall trees in the background, gray & white wispy clouds creeping in on the left of an otherwise blue sky.
An orange cat is sleeping curled up next to a great & white cat on a red striped pillow. They are curled up head to butt in a furry yin & yang. I love them.
A small pond covered in a thin sheet of ice in the foreground. The pale blue winter sky & gray clouds are reflected on the surface. In the background bare trees & brown marsh grass, and the winter sky overhead. It is late afternoon and my fingers were frozen as I took this.
A photo of a one page advent calendar with shiny “scratch off” spaces. Some have already been scratched, revealing excellent facts about various frogs.
A very sad rotting jack’o’lantern, with huge eye holes and a mouth that perhaps used to be a smile but has now sagged into a straight line.
A tabby cat on a blue towel rolls over for petting. He has long white stockings on his back feet. I’ll bet you can hear him purring from here.
Noodle, an orange tabby, sleeps in his basket in the sun. This headshot highlights his little pink nose and ears
Orange stripey guy snuggled against fat gray & white cat on an office chair. The gray & white boy has his back legs dangling in the air.
Hyper nephew (stripey orange boy cat) begging prim & proper bachelor uncle (gray& white cat) to play with him by attacking him. Gray & white cat is not amused.
A close up head shot of a sleepy orange cat, his eyes closed. He’s sitting up in his cat tree, one little paw up on the edge. The sun is coming through the window and making his fur glow. He is oblivious to how cute he is.
Tip, a gray & white cat, appears mostly white when he rolls on his back to present his fat white tummy to get attention (it works, btw).
A sleeping orange cat is barely visible as a larger white & gray cat sleeps in front of him on an office chair. The gray & white cat is dropping off the edge of the chair, his back paws in the air.
Our couch, topped with a dark red cover, has a large and suspicious lump in the middle.
Sleepy orange kitty with right front paw extended dramatically.
Sleepy orange cat curled up in a round “nest” in a cat tree. His right front paw is crossed over his left and sun coming in from the window behind him. He looks perfectly content.
Large gray & white cat sprawled in the middle of kitchen floor
Orange tabby laying under a chair with the sun causing dramatic contrasts of light and dark (that said cat is completely oblivious to; while adorable he is not known for his brain power).
Orange tabby letting on his side on The Petting Rug, front paws stretched out in front of him.