Meet Spike the Cat, with other sundry pictures: a picpsam.

[juushika]

On a much different note!


Meet Spike the cat.
Spike is century_eyes's just-turned-seventeen domestic shorthair ginger tabby (with who knows what on his background, although he has a long and graceful tail) who has more fur than any cat I've ever met, dramatic deep-set eyes, a quiet little purr, and plenty of charm (even if he can run a bit low on dignity). He looks lovely against green.


Here's a clearer shot of his features—his face and eyes are so beautiful and unique.
There's a windowsill in the living room which is low enough to get to, wide enough to sit on, and faces out onto the street. The house is on a quiet residential road a few blocks in either direction from a main road. There's about four outdoor cats in the neighborhood, some of whom come visit the porch outside this window.


So it's Spike's window, now.


It's a good window.
When I got here Spike had just recently come to town (Dee waited until the upstairs carpet had been replaced, for minimum cat-traumatizing banging) and he pretty much spent all his time holed up in the bedroom, sleeping. It took a few days but now he's so engaged and it's fantastic—he explores every corner of the house (this is the sort of cat who wants to sniff everything) and goes tearing up the stairs and lays around in perfect comfort so that you can brush out those handfuls of fur he sheds. My bedroom window is almost always cracked, so—


Sometimes he comes to investigate my room when the rest of the house starts to shut up for the night.
So that's Spike. Isn't he lovely? He's so lovely.

In other news, I have achieved the impossible inevitable, and recreated

    
Miwako's "Magic Medicine" jar from Paradise Kiss.


Because we picked up some kompeito at Uwajimaya. (Kompeito is my favorite-ever candy, just so you know.)
Also, for junkmail, I have a picture of those stuffed cats on my windowsill:


Since you were curious. ^_^ They're not mine, actually—century_eyes surprised me with them on my first night here. She says they used to be in her office at work, but they're pretty well at home here in my window.