prairie point

writer blocked

As if I don't have enough problems writing, I am having to do it with my cat lying across my arms. Sapphire would rather be on the keyboard and I would rather she sat on the desk to the side of the laptop. We agree on a compromise in which she lies on the desk between me and the laptop while I reach over her. Every few minutes she butts my arm with her head as if to say "these hands should be petting me." In a few minutes she will rest her head on my wrist effectively pinning it down. Nope, I was optimistic - here it is already. Eventually she will work her lower body over my other arm too.

Sapphire is a breed called a ragdoll and it is an apt name. She is shy around strangers but very needy of attention around Tricia and me. She prefers to be sitting in a lap or being held, and when she is there goes completely limp and passive, as if there is not a bone in her body. That's just fine when I am on the couch watching a movie but not so fine if I am sitting and doing anything else.

I am lucky that she divides her attention between Tricia and me. Tricia has an even harder time because Sapphire wants to sit on the sewing machine and rest her head on her hand as she works the material under the needle. Which puts her dangerously close to that flying needle. Some day she is going to wind up with her ear sewn into a quilt.

Oops, she got up and stretched and now she's going to lie back down on the keyboarfffdhgkll