cat blogging

It's been a while since I posted about our cat, Ptolemy. Having just received another one of those "no one cares about your Mars stuff, we're just reading for the Firefox news" emails, I thought now would be the perfect time.

Ptolemy turned 6 last month. She's an indoor cat but gets to have supervised walks in the yard with her harness and leash. Deanna snapped this shot (at the right) tonight just as it was getting dark outside.

She's a pretty large siamese (about 11 pounds,) built like the more traditional apple heads with a rounder face and more sturdy build than today's competition breed.

Yes, we know that Ptolemy is traditionally a masculine name. She's named after Claudius Ptolemy who painted the geocentric theory in its finest light about 1,865 years ago. Our Ptolemy is pretty darned sure the universe revolves around her, hence the name.

The photo on the bottom left is from about five years ago when we lived in Austin, TX. Ptol made the flight here with us in a soft carrier on my lap :-)