It's Nacho Cat: Halloween Costume

We can't get Nacho to keep her "costume" on very long, but she's always willing to pose for a couple of pictures. Hope you all have had a nice Halloween!

It's Nacho Cat: Sleepy In Cold Weather

Nacho is very active in the summer, but when the weather cools down, she sleeps as much as she can. She was a little agitated that with the wet, cold weather yesterday, there was little for her to do outside. So while I laid there on my bed (you can see my red shorts), she curled up beside me to sleep. Carolina thought it was a Kodak--or in this case, iPhone camera--moment.

It's Nacho Cat On Me

When Nacho feels like being petted, nothing else is a higher priority for her. This can make reading and compiling research for my papers rather challenging. She will often move the book out of my hand, or at least bite the edges of the pages until I release the book and start scratching her head. In this case, she just hopped on top of my lap desk and sat on what I was reading.

It's Nacho Cat...in HD

I just got a Flip Ultra HD to use for the youth group, and I needed some way to test it. Though it's a bit of a shaky video, now you can see Nacho in HD. You can actually hear her purring, too. haha

It's Nacho Cat: Stick

Nacho loves to be out in the warmer weather. Carolina decided to grab a stick the other day, and Nacho had a great time playing with it. When she's playing, she does this bizarre thing where she takes her back feet and digs her claws into the ground/carpet behind her head. You can see this in the rather bizarre second picture.

It's Nacho Cat: America Runs On Dunkin'...

...and apparently, so does Nacho.

She was very curious about my Dunkin' Donuts coffee. When I tried to lift it out of her reach to keep her from licking the lid, she jumped up and grabbed my hand with her front two paws, pulling it back down to her level, so she could continue sniffing that intoxicating aroma.

It's Nacho Cat: Tennis Ball

Nacho loves being outside on our deck in the warm weather. We sat out with her on a Sunday afternoon, enjoying the breeze, and she started attacking an old tennis ball we had lying around.

It's Nacho Cat: Taxes are Taxing

Nacho's favorite toy for the last several weeks has been this workbook designed to help you figure out Arkansas taxes. She doesn't like them any more than I do, apparently.

It's Nacho Cat: More Strangers At The Door

We continue to have frequent visits by this larger male cat that looks very much like Nacho. They have these meow exchanges that sound a lot like they're sighing. Him in his low pitched tone, and her in her high pitched one. The cat often meets us at our front door as if to say, "Can you send Nacho outside?" We open the door, and they look at each other and meow, but he never crosses the threshold to come inside, and she never goes outside. You can see her face peaking out here in the picture.

It's NOT Nacho Cat: Wake Up!

Though this is just a cartoon, my day starts off almost exactly like this each morning.

It's Nacho Cat: Kitty Plate

Whenever Carolina cooks, within 5 minutes, Nacho shows up from wherever she's been inside, or if she's outside, she'll be meowing at the door. We have a routine down where whatever we're cooking, Carolina will save a small portion of meat for Nacho and put it on a small kitty-shaped plate for her to enjoy. Nacho always devours it.

It's Nacho Cat: Pearls

We got home from church, and when Carolina took off her necklace, she suddenly got this idea, and held Nacho down to put it on her. I guess it was time to give her an upgraded collar. Nacho wasn't too fond of the process, but the funny thing about her is that she seems to understand the concept of posing for the camera. She stood still for about 5 minutes while we got the pictures we wanted, and when we were done, she was glad to let us take the necklace off. There were about 10 more pictures that I could have posted, but I thought these two were the best.

It's Nacho Cat: Bring Your Pet To Work Day...

...not really. I was about to take Nacho over to the Hilltop Pet Resort, so we could leave that afternoon for Searcy. But since we had Nacho there in her cage when I dropped off Carolina and Lifeway, we thought it would make a good photo opportunity.

I must say, this is now one of my favorite Nacho pictures. It's not often you can a cat expressing such raw emotion, because they're typically very stoic. I know there are all the ROFL cats, but I love how obviously vocal she is in this picture. You can see it in her face: she wanted out of this weird concrete jungle, and out of this cage!

It's Nacho Cat: Strangers At The Door

There's a neighborhood cat that's always hanging around looking for Nacho. I've caught him in our garage a couple of times eating her food. He looks a lot like her, except he's a little bigger. Sometimes he stands outside of our front door and meows as loud as he can. This particular evening, Carolina was cracking the door to let the two kitties look at each other. Nacho kept her distance (as you can see) and eventually lost interest. The other kitty would have come inside if I would have allowed it. I hope they become friends, because Nacho apparently has some foes in the neighborhood. Many evenings she returns home with battle damage.

It's Nacho Cat: Wii Fit

Nacho doesn't seem to get that when we're doing the Wii Fit, there is a good possibility that we could step on her. She persists in rubbing up against our legs, despite all the stepping, jumping, and leaning. But she's also glad to lay on the floor by the Wii Fit pad when we're done, as if she had been working out herself.

It's Nacho Cat: Nap Time

One of Nacho's favorite things to do is to sleep on us. That goes for upstairs in the recliner, and especially for downstairs on our bed when we take naps. Sunday afternoons, it is the three of us, all sound asleep.

It's Nacho Cat: But it's MY chair

Nacho loves this chair. Whenever we get home and let her in, she stays with us, but when she sees us walking upstairs to the bonus room, she runs ahead of us to try and beat us to the chair.

We have a little routine where I come and sit down on the front edge of the chair. She then walks around my right side onto my legs, so I can lean back. Then she sleeps in my lap. That way we both get the chair.

Since the weather's colder, she stays upstairs and sleeps here almost all day every day.

You might also see here that she's modeling her latest kitty collar, complete with a pink "Princess" name tag on it. I imagine by the time that this post goes up on my blog (I'm typing this on Dec. 1st, 2008) she will have already lost it and wiggled out of it somehow.

It's Nacho Cat: Last Thing You'll See

If you are a mouse in my house, this is the last thing you'll ever see.

Merry Christmas from the Adams Family

It's Nacho Cat: Meowy Christmas

Most people like Christmas trees because they enjoy looking at them, and they make a convenient place to keep gifts.

Nacho likes Christmas trees because she enjoys playing with the ornaments, and they make a convenient place to take naps and groom yourself.