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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-03-24 05:42 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-03-24 05:42 pm
Entry tags:
- alex,
- bella,
- berry mad,
- cy,
- doing things,
- family,
- model horses,
- pictures,
- taylor
End of week time away:
On Saturday, everyone returned from their respective "trips." I have lots to catch up on.
Alex went to a model show in Kansas last week, so I brought the dogs and stayed with my mom and sibling for a few days, Wednesday through Saturday, since I didn't have access to a vehicle at home, plus didn't want the dogs to be alone for 9+ hours while I worked.
Berry Mad got to stay home alone, though we of course made sure she had a full pond and she got the last of the most recent batch of crickets.
She's so cute! Standing up all tall.
I was very worried about the extended time with the dogs in the house with Jaspurr, the new cat. Not so much because I expected anything to go badly, but just knowing that if something did go wrong, it could go extremely wrong.
Fortunately, nothing bad happened! Really... nothing much at all happened.
Jaspurr did stay upstairs basically the whole time, but he also didn't seem distressed about it. He did not hide or get anxious. He just didn't want to be around the dogs, though it seemed like he sort of enjoyed watching them. That was a relief, because that was basically my ideal scenario: cat with his own safe zone to stay in without needing to be confined, with no evident stress for anyone.
This was basically the whole three days: Bella in motion, Cy oblivious, Jaspurr judging from the railing of the upper floor.
Bella noticed the cat a few times, but was more jealous that mom would go upstairs with treats for him and to play with him than upset/interested in reaching him. Cy also noticed him a few times, and he had a meltdown about it every time, because he couldn't figure out how to get upstairs (as we had the bottom of the stairs blocked off.) Cy loves cats, ever since he got to "help raise" some orphaned kittens our friends were bottle feeding. Cy has some of the strongest paternal instincts I've ever seen in any animal, and he loved those kittens.
Cy did realize that sometimes he could specifically see Jaspurr in the hallway mirror, which reflects more of that upper floor than is visible from the living room, so he would just stand there and stare at the mirror and cry about it.
Saintly Sister Belladonna, true martyr.
The dogs and I slept downstairs in the basement, so that we could shut the door on the dogs and give Jaspurr his house back overnight.
Cy was pretty happy about the basement sleeping arrangements, since the couch was wide enough for him to sleep on it with me.
Bella was a little less enthusiastic about the basement, because you can hear everything else going on in the house so loudly. I'm not sure if she knew it was people walking around upstairs, or if she thought the ceiling was haunted, haha. She'd walk around trying to figure out the source of the sounds.
Bella in the living room with the rainbow banana.
Dogs on couch.
Some pictures Taylor sent me while I was at work:
Couch dogs.
The saddest beast the world has ever seen.
Cy, helpfully assisting with opening the bathroom door.
Cy watchingthe oven dog TV.
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Alex's drive out to Kansas on Thursday was fine, but unpleasantly windy.
The hotel he stayed in was quite nice for a relatively inexpensive hotel. Dated, but clean and everything worked. (Which was better than we can say for the one we stayed at in South Dakota, damn.)
The Breyer Midwest model show was on Friday.
Alex did pretty well!
18 placings out of 50 models is pretty good. 6 NAN cards and one sectional champion! (Sectional champion also came with a prize model, "Sorry Not Sorry," which was a special run from BreyerFest last year. However, Alex already had this model, so he sold it to his table-mate, since she wanted one.)
BreyerWest/now BreyerMidwest has, for the last several years, had an event-exclusive model. These are only available to people who attend the event themselves: you cannot have someone else pick it up for you. This year was a glossy version of the portrait model Marc of Charm!
He's so shiny!
This is one of my favorites of Breyer's recent sculpts (sculpted by Jennifer Scott, an artist who lives fairly local to me, and who by utter coincidence is a mutual acquaintance of a DW friend of mine!) The regular Marc of Charm model is part of the general Breyer line, and we have wanted to see him in gloss ever since he was released. (Breyer sometimes does special gloss runs of other regular run models, but while others of his release year were, Marc of Charm was never never included in those events. We were SO EXCITED that he was the event model this year.)
The drive back from Kansas to Colorado on Saturday was also apparently very windy and unpleasant, but uneventful. Alex is super wiped out and unfortunately hurting pretty badly, but it was a good not-quite-weekend.
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It was nice to have a couple days that I got to hang out with Taylor and my mom, and while I started off being very stressed and anxious about the dogs and the cat, it all went just fine.
Alex went to a model show in Kansas last week, so I brought the dogs and stayed with my mom and sibling for a few days, Wednesday through Saturday, since I didn't have access to a vehicle at home, plus didn't want the dogs to be alone for 9+ hours while I worked.
Berry Mad got to stay home alone, though we of course made sure she had a full pond and she got the last of the most recent batch of crickets.
She's so cute! Standing up all tall.
I was very worried about the extended time with the dogs in the house with Jaspurr, the new cat. Not so much because I expected anything to go badly, but just knowing that if something did go wrong, it could go extremely wrong.
Fortunately, nothing bad happened! Really... nothing much at all happened.
Jaspurr did stay upstairs basically the whole time, but he also didn't seem distressed about it. He did not hide or get anxious. He just didn't want to be around the dogs, though it seemed like he sort of enjoyed watching them. That was a relief, because that was basically my ideal scenario: cat with his own safe zone to stay in without needing to be confined, with no evident stress for anyone.
This was basically the whole three days: Bella in motion, Cy oblivious, Jaspurr judging from the railing of the upper floor.
Bella noticed the cat a few times, but was more jealous that mom would go upstairs with treats for him and to play with him than upset/interested in reaching him. Cy also noticed him a few times, and he had a meltdown about it every time, because he couldn't figure out how to get upstairs (as we had the bottom of the stairs blocked off.) Cy loves cats, ever since he got to "help raise" some orphaned kittens our friends were bottle feeding. Cy has some of the strongest paternal instincts I've ever seen in any animal, and he loved those kittens.
Cy did realize that sometimes he could specifically see Jaspurr in the hallway mirror, which reflects more of that upper floor than is visible from the living room, so he would just stand there and stare at the mirror and cry about it.
More pictures of the dogs:
Saintly Sister Belladonna, true martyr.
The dogs and I slept downstairs in the basement, so that we could shut the door on the dogs and give Jaspurr his house back overnight.
Cy was pretty happy about the basement sleeping arrangements, since the couch was wide enough for him to sleep on it with me.
Bella was a little less enthusiastic about the basement, because you can hear everything else going on in the house so loudly. I'm not sure if she knew it was people walking around upstairs, or if she thought the ceiling was haunted, haha. She'd walk around trying to figure out the source of the sounds.
Bella in the living room with the rainbow banana.
Dogs on couch.
Some pictures Taylor sent me while I was at work:
Couch dogs.
The saddest beast the world has ever seen.
Cy, helpfully assisting with opening the bathroom door.
Cy watching
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Alex's drive out to Kansas on Thursday was fine, but unpleasantly windy.
The hotel he stayed in was quite nice for a relatively inexpensive hotel. Dated, but clean and everything worked. (Which was better than we can say for the one we stayed at in South Dakota, damn.)
The Breyer Midwest model show was on Friday.
Alex did pretty well!
18 placings out of 50 models is pretty good. 6 NAN cards and one sectional champion! (Sectional champion also came with a prize model, "Sorry Not Sorry," which was a special run from BreyerFest last year. However, Alex already had this model, so he sold it to his table-mate, since she wanted one.)
BreyerWest/now BreyerMidwest has, for the last several years, had an event-exclusive model. These are only available to people who attend the event themselves: you cannot have someone else pick it up for you. This year was a glossy version of the portrait model Marc of Charm!
He's so shiny!
This is one of my favorites of Breyer's recent sculpts (sculpted by Jennifer Scott, an artist who lives fairly local to me, and who by utter coincidence is a mutual acquaintance of a DW friend of mine!) The regular Marc of Charm model is part of the general Breyer line, and we have wanted to see him in gloss ever since he was released. (Breyer sometimes does special gloss runs of other regular run models, but while others of his release year were, Marc of Charm was never never included in those events. We were SO EXCITED that he was the event model this year.)
The drive back from Kansas to Colorado on Saturday was also apparently very windy and unpleasant, but uneventful. Alex is super wiped out and unfortunately hurting pretty badly, but it was a good not-quite-weekend.
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It was nice to have a couple days that I got to hang out with Taylor and my mom, and while I started off being very stressed and anxious about the dogs and the cat, it all went just fine.
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It was quite sad for poor Cy... he was lucky enough to be in a household with cats that liked dogs pretty well for a while, but since then none of the cats he's gotten to meet have wanted to have anything to do with him. :( Poor boy.
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Congrats to Alex!
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I wish I truly had a picture of Cy with the little kittens. (I know it was at least 75% that they were messy eaters, so he was licking food off of them. But he wanted so badly to just sit and groom these tiny little kittens. For years up until he went deaf, playing the sound of very young kittens would send him hunting around for them.)
Sister Belladonna made me laugh very hard. She looks so angelic.
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That is a lot of ribbons! Cool that Alex was able to get such a cool model and that it's so specifically one you'd want.
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It was very exciting that the model was one that we'd so specifically been hoping to someday see made. Glad to have one, and glad the event went well... though wish I could have gone along. (Though it was probably better to have someone staying with the dogs.)
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Jaspurr did stay upstairs basically the whole time, but he also didn't seem distressed about it.
This is so good to hear! <3
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