We've been tagged

We have been tagged by Rhyno (522294). We are supposed to tag 7 cats, and they are *drumroll*:

1) Dmitri: 348378
2) Feral Colony #1: 446694
3) Sugar Bear: 347524
4) Piglet: 301860
5) Bee: 455856
6) Cassius: 417707
7) Oreo's Beeefrond, Stripe: 144603


The rules:

Each player starts with seven random facts about themselves. Cats who are tagged need to write on their own diary about the seven things and the rules. You need to choose seven cats to tag and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment that they have been tagged and to read your diary.

Our Seven Facts
By Charlie, Lefty, Midnight, and Nero

1) We are Nice Food Lady's best models, especially Midnight, who doesn't mind getting close to her. She gets 10 good Blackie shots for every good shot of another cat. Usually she comes out with the camera to try to get pics of Tina, Loudmouth, or Patches (the shy ones), and she ends up with a bunch of pics of us and Swayback.

2) We used to be hardcore night owls, but now we're out and about most of time, day and night.

3) Because we used to be such nightowls, we're far less afraid of the raccoons than the other ferals. We keep some distance between them and us, but we don't run and hide from them like Patches and Swayback.

4) The Nice Food Lady can't tell Charlie and Nero apart. She figures, if he's with Lefty, it's Charlie, if he's solo, it's Nero.

5) Midnight saved radley when she was stuck in a tree. You may have known this already, but we think it bears repeating. She led the Nice Food Lady to her in the dark. She would have never seen her way up in that tree had Midnight not come along and shown her where the mewing was coming from.

6) Charlie and Lefty are BFFs, but Midnight and Nero are loners. That's just how they roll. Typically, at night, it's Charlie and Lefty in one cathouse, Patches and Swayback in the other, Midnight in the windowsill, and Nero on his lounge chair, or under the table on the patio. Nero even lived on his own, we assume, that whole year he was gone.

7) We were recently Buds of the Day in Navin and Buds.

Bluejays for lunch!

Charlie here. I had a good day yesterday. We got a brief break in the yucky weather with some sunshine and 50 degrees yesterday. Swayback, Patches, Midnight, Lefty, and I were all sprawled out on the patio, trying to soak up all the sun we could before the nasty weather came back. I noticed a bluejay in a tree, and made a jump for it. I caught him by the tip of his wing, just barely enough to hold onto him. He was thrashing around, so I pinned him down and took a big bite out of his neck, mostly feathers. He got away, but he was injured, and by this time there were 6 cats at attention and a dog barking his head off behind the fence nextdoor. He couldn't fly too high, so he perched on a tree limb, and I got him again! I am such a good jumper. I pinned him again, and we all went to work tearing him up, strewing feathers all over the yard. Sorry to be so graphic, but we hate those bluejays. They're loud and they're bullies, plus they usually fly too high to catch, but low enough to harass us. The only animals we ever really catch are chipmunks and the occasional cardinal. It was fun to get to prove myself like that. Then we went back to lying in the sun.

There are four of us!

Yes. Four. I guess one of our bros is transient. The nice food lady saw us yesterday morning. She hadn't seen four Blackies since Gimpy died. She can't tell Lefty and Charlie apart unless they're walking, so she can see Lefty's little pimp walk. I, Midnight, am the only one she ever gets to see up close, since I hang out in the window and don't run away when she brings me food. How about Nero for his name? I think it's a him because he's big, like Lefty and Charlie. He's ear-tipped, so he's old school. He must have just found another food source elsewhere. Maybe he's here all the time, but really reclusive. Maybe he's like Miss Loudmouth, who's also ear-tipped. We always think she's a gonner because we won't see her for 2 months, then she'll show up for a day or 2 and meow in the window really loudly for hours (even though she's fixed, so she's not in heat, and she has food to eat).

Also, it snowed. We hadn't had hardly any snow yet this winter, and we got about 2 inches last night. Only an inch stuck. We forgot all about that stuff. The sun came out, too, so it might melt. Patches and Swayback haven't come out of their cathouses yet today. It's 24 degrees right now. Why is there not a 'degrees' symbol on my keyboard, like a SHIFT + NUMBER thing? That's stupid.