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Best Intentions...

I woke up this morning, with such good intentions... I was going to go through my blogroll to see what was out there... I was going to snoop around the other blogs in my ranking range on the Ecosystem... Then I planned to go to work for a bit...

All that went right out the window when I was having my morning cup of coffee... (ok, its a pot... but I was on my first cub... sheesh...) It was a nice morning, so I opened my screen door... That brought out the stray cats I feed... No big deal... I went out, said hello, played with them a bit, and fed them... As I sat back down with my mug, I heard the very distinct sound of a very small kitten... So, out I went, sitting down on my porch to see if I could see the little furball... Sure enough a few minutes later, an adorable little grey and white kitten stumbled up the steps to my porch... So there went my plans for the day... I spent most of the day, sitting out there, slowly getting the kitten to trust me, under the watchfull eye of its mother... Eventually, I had the kitten and one of its older siblings asleep in my lap... (two litters for the mother this summer) I swear, I can't think of anything cuter than a kitten... To give you a sence of size, when I picked it up to get it down from someplace it was scared to jump down from, only 3 fingers fit between its front and back legs... That's 2-1/4"...

I followed the sound of some more kitten cries, and found two more kittens, that were still too small to be able to manage the stairs... They're both white and almost black...  Absolutly adorable... I didn't crawl into the bush to try to play with them, they will come up to my porch when they're ready to...

Unfortunatly, my occupation makes it hard to have a pet... So these cats are as close as I'm going to be able to get untill I can get some kind of predictability in my life... I couldn't be happier that these cats have chosen to spend time with me... Yes, I feed them, so its natural for them to come around a bit... but there are atleast 3 other apartments that feed them as well, and they pretty much live at my place... I guess I'm winning the kitty popularity contest...

Hopefully, I'll be able to get a couple photos of the new arrivals... I brought home the digital camera I have for work, so I'm already getting some shots of the first generation and the mother...

Later...