Drinking water

Daisy loves to drink water from everywhere other than her nice fancy water dish that Tammy had gotten her.  Daisy doesn't jump up on the bathroom sink counter when I am in the bathroom.  However the other day when she sat on the floor next to me and asked to be let onto the counter I made the mistake of lifting her onto the counter and running water in the sink for her.  Of course she loved drinking out of the sink.   Now everyday when I wash up Daisy comes in and asks to be lifted onto the counter so she can drink from the sink.  Of course I give in to her.

Bag cat

Daisy is amused by the simplest things.  Here, it is a bag I meant to toss into the wood stove.  That is, until Daisy decided to play hide and seek in the bag.

Roof and tarp

Daisy amused herself while I worked outside.  When I was working in the yard she found a way to get on top of the tool shed.

Can you get me down?

Playing "keep away".

Then when I shoveled snow from around the large hay bales she kept me company.

Climbing up on top of the large bales... No problem when you have sharp claws.

Wow!  Lots of snow up here.

No problem.  I'll just sit on the snow and watch the cattle.

Here is a 48 second video of Daisy getting off the hay bales:  http://youtu.be/aiEdWJmVrZU

First mouse of 2015

Daisy caught her first mouse of 2015.  She went outside at 6 am, and even though it had snowed three or so inches overnight, she stayed outside an hour and a half.  Even with all this snow she caught a big mouse and laid it by the front door for me to admire when I got up in the morning.

This evening I let her outside.  Even though she was outside only about twenty minutes, apparently I didn't check often enough as she chewed me out once I let her back inside the house.

House roof snow cat

Today I worked on getting the snow off the house roof.  I got 3/4 of the roof cleaned before dark.  I was able to uncover the sun tunnel to get more light into the house.  I also uncovered the sewer vent.

Of course Daisy joined me.  In fact, when I first went up on the roof, before Daisy joined me, I found her tracks in the snow.  She had been on the roof earlier.  You can see her earlier tracks on the left. She climbs the shrub to get on the roof.  Here she is poking her head into the shrub looking... well, because it is there.

Deep snow?  Not a problem for 'The Dazer'.

Snow roof cat

Daisy was active all day today until now.  She got me up at 6 am to go outside, and after I checked on her every 20 minutes, she finally came back in the house at 7:20 am whereby she jumped on my bed.  When I woke up later she had the middle of the bed and I was now on the side.  How did that happen?!!

In and out several times this morning.   When inside, and when I walked and did not pay her attention, Daisy would leap and grab my leg by wrapping both her front legs around my leg.

Later in the afternoon when I started to clear snow from roofs she was all about supervising my work when she could.  Before I knew it she was up on the roof of whatever structure I was shoveling snow off of.

Tonight she was laying by the wood stove when I walked to the sink with my supper dishes.  When I returned to my computer she had quickly claimed the computer's chair for her own.  Laying on the table in front of me as I worked wasn't good enough tonight.

I'm not sure how she is sleeping as she is laying on her back with her head hanging down over the side of the chair with her face facing the bright light of the lamp.  But she is sleeping as her tail is still.  Her tail was wrapped around one of her hind legs which is sticking up in the air until I turned the camera on.  Then she moved her tail.

Daisy... Daisy... Daisy.   Princess Daisy.

Walking on the fences as I cleaned snow from the house's entryway roof.

As I began to clean snow from the patio roof, Daisy laid just under the roof.

Once I had a good amount of snow cleared from the patio roof Daisy then went up there to inspect my work.

You missed a section!

As it got dark I started on the tool shed roof.  I was standing on a step ladder and using a shovel instead of the snow rake.  Once I got an area cleared Daisy came out of nowhere and jumped up on the roof where I had just cleared it.  She must had climbed the fence, from the fence post jumped on top of the step ladder and from there jumped up on top of the roof.

What a cat.

No Daisy.  You can't jump over to the power pole and climb that.

What a cat.

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Keeping company

After sleeping much of Sunday, Monday morning Daisy had plenty of energy.  She accompanied me each time I went out to give hay to the calves, and to fill the water trough.  She played with the small fluffy snow balls when I shoveled Friday's snow off the front driveway.  Sometimes she would push snow off my shovel.   She checked everything out making tracks here and there.  She ran around and around.  She even tried to run through the two feet of snow in the back yard I hadn't shoveled.  That didn't go well as she sank deep into the snow and she quickly turned around and struggled out of the deep snow.

Here she is fence sitting as I add water to the cattle's water trough.

Another photo?!

Daisy followed me when I went out to check on the large bales and then on the cattle and large bale.  Daisy follows me all over.

Snow cat during Snowmageddon

Daisy went outside in the morning when I shoveled paths.  She mainly stuck to the paths.  The snow was too deep.  Daisy will go through snow, but she doesn't like it when the snow is deeper than her head.

Due to the never ending falling snow, at times Daisy was almost all white instead of black and white.

Did you make this path for me?

Playing with the snow

Waiting while I shovel more snow.

I'm done with the snow. I want to go back inside the house.

Nap time after being out in the snow?

Yes, it is nap time.

84 mice

Daisy was outside on Dec 31 for a short time.  Long enough to catch a small shrew.  That makes 84 mice caught in 2014 (that I know of - I suspect the real total is higher).

Daisy wishes you a "Happy New Year".