A cat named Intrepid, no doubt.
Bonus Cat – His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
Posts Tagged ‘nature’
What is sappy cat blogging about this week?
December 6, 2013
“The Monastery of Saint Nicholas of the Cats is regarded as a sacred cat haven in Cyprus, as it’s name has been linked to felines for almost 2,000 years.
The original monastery was built in 327 AD, by Kalokeros, the first Byzantine governor of Cyprus, and patronised by Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great. At that time, a terrible drought affected the whole of Cypus, and the entire island was overrun with poisonous snakes which made building the monastery a dangerous affair. Many of the inhabitants left their homes and moved off the island, for fear of the snakes, but Saint Helena came up with a solution to the plague – she ordered 1,000 cats to be shipped in from Egypt and Palestine to fight the reptiles.”
The monastery endures and today is run by six nuns and about seventy cats.
December 6 is also St. Nicholas’ Day
Why am I smiling?
December 5, 2013
This was the temperature . . . this morning at
On December 5 in Cleveland – I was smiling.
What am I sappy cat blogging?
November 22, 2013
Cougars are the topic – the four-legged variety.
Here is a map from the Cougar Network showing the expansion of cougars across the U.S.
The solid green areas depict established populations. The red and blue dots indicate sightings.
Long ago the Inca called them puma, but today — though they belong to only one species — they have many names. In Arizona they are known as mountain lions; in Florida they are panthers, and elsewhere in the South they are called painters. When they roamed New England, they were called catamounts. In much of the Midwest they are known as cougars, and that is the name everyone understands.
From Wikipedia:
An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, after the jaguar. Solitary by nature and nocturnal, the cougar is most closely related to smaller felines and is nearer genetically to the domestic cat than true lions. [How about that?]
I consider this expansion a natural way to manage the deer population.
What is tattoo Tueday about?
November 19, 2013
My thoughts and prayers are with the people who are coping with their losses.
It is Tuesday, so here are some tornado tattoos.
Whose drawing am I looking at?
November 18, 2013
“Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be — we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.”
This quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson in his comments about Carl Sagan on the occasion of Sagan’s papers being acquired by the Library of Congress. I read the story here on Brainpickings.
The drawing above is part of the collection that will be in the Library of Congress. It was created by an eight year old Carl Sagan in 1942. As an unabashed geek and fan of Sagan, deGrasse Tyson, and most things astronomical, I found this tidbit fascinating.
What am I sappy cat blogging?
October 25, 2013There is a plethora of cats on Sappy Cat Blogging this Friday . . .
Found in Down East magazine, this tabby named Slim commutes from Badger’s Island, Maine to Portsmouth, NH over the Memorial Bridge. Click here for his story.
Thanks to my friend, Cindy for these racing cats.
And to HMS Defiant for this little cat clip from Moonrise Kingdom. Click on the image for the video. If you have not seen the film, look it up on Netflix.
Who am I looking at?
October 24, 2013
I have been reading about companies that will test your dna to see how much Neanderthal is in your genetic make up, but why stop there.
What is my best friend on tattoo Tuesday?
October 22, 2013
Are diamonds a girl’s best friend? Perhaps they are on Saturn and Jupiter according to some researchers who hypothesize that heat, pressure and chemical conditions on these two giant planets may be conducive to the production of diamonds – diamonds that may rain down through the atmosphere.
This research opens up new and interesting ways to look at the composition and mineral wealth of the solar system. As for me, I am working on the development of my Hydrogen Integral Squeezing System (HISS) in order to produce more helium – because the world needs more helium.
And here are the tattoos:
What is tattoo Tuesday about?
October 15, 2013Tattoo Tuesday is about jellyfish – because I think they pretty and interesting. I remember gathering and studying little pink ctenophores – which are comb jellies – relatives of jellyfish, when I was in college on a biology field trip to Chesapeake Bay. We tromped around the Bay in February, gathering specimens and studying them in the Marine Fisheries Lab nearby. I was particularly taken with the comb jellies. Their rows of cilia undulated down their bodies, propelling them along. Fascinating to watch.
Here are the tattoos:
Gunsmoke and Knitting 