Geoff's Garden - a lurking cat and some strangeness.

[Geoff]

Hello loyal readers.

For your enjoyment today, two pictures from my garden...

Firstly, my cat, lurking rather suspiciously :

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/755004478_b3777b4393_b.jpg

[Geoff]

Secondly, my chilli plant for the year, with the fruit growing upwards A new one on me, any ideas why - or seen it before?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/754998850_8301bd1474_b.jpg

-Geoff

[Ivy]

Your cat looks like a Beatrix Potter cat! (My daughter says it looks like Mittens. I thought Tabitha Twitchet but I'm not the expert here.)

No help on the upside down peppers, I'm afraid. That is bizarre looking.

[rivercrow]

Secondly, my chilli plant for the year, with the fruit growing upwards A new one on me, any ideas why - or seen it before?

-Geoff

Chili plants that grow under a blue moon invert their seed pods. Scientists have been unable to determine why this happens, but it does seem to be a documented fact. June had a blue moon. All the local chili plants have inverted seed pods as well.

[rivercrow]

I was kidding, btw. I have no idea why your chilis are upside down. I did notice that the chilis used for landscaping decoration all have inverted seed pods, and I did wonder why, so I made up a little story... ;)

[Geoff]

I was kidding, btw. I have no idea why your chilis are upside down. I did notice that the chilis used for landscaping decoration all have inverted seed pods, and I did wonder why, so I made up a little story... ;)

Perhaps you've hit on the truth by accident. Or maybe I ought to ask my cat why she is looking so suspicious.

-Geoff

[AllAboutSoul]

You made it sound good RC. I bought it. :blush:

[cafe]

Yeah, I was thinking "Strange, my bell peppers do not seem to be growing upside down. Maybe it's because they aren't chilis. Hmmmm . . . "

[Shimpei]

aww, your cat is cute

[digesthisickness]

what i imagined that cat thinking while watching a geoff get all up in his business with a camera cracked me up.

let's just say the words, "any closer and i'll shove your precious chili straight up your... yeah, you better back the hell off" came to mind.

[curmudgeon]

Pretty kitty!

[Geoff]

what i imagined that cat thinking while watching a geoff get all up in his business with a camera cracked me up.

let's just say the words, "any closer and i'll shove your precious chili straight up your... yeah, you better back the hell off" came to mind.

Well... I was about 10 feet away, with a zoom lens, so I dont think I was quite as close as you think. In any case, you are quite right on the nervy/grumpy/lashout approach - for the last while, she has regular trips in the car in the cat carrier, and she *hates* it. She associates me with the evil car monster so treats me with the utmost of suspicion at all times*

*probably not a bad idea


-Geoff

[Ivy]

Well... I was about 10 feet away, with a zoom lens, so I dont think I was quite as close as you think. In any case, you are quite right on the nervy/grumpy/lashout approach - for the last while, she has regular trips in the car in the cat carrier, and she *hates* it. She associates me with the evil car monster so treats me with the utmost of suspicion at all times*

*probably not a bad idea


-Geoff

Heh. We inherited a cat once who was pretty much unvetted (my parents take a Darwinian approach to pet care) so she had never been in a cat carrier or even a car for that matter when we got her. Noah tried putting her into a carrier one time, and only one time. The lacerations he got on his arms all the way up to his shirtsleeves discouraged him from repeating the attempt. It was much easier to lure her into the car with some food and then drive quickly to wherever we were going, with her panting in the floorboards.

[NoahFence]

Noah tried putting her into a carrier one time, and only one time. The lacerations he got on his arms all the way up to his shirtsleeves discouraged him from repeating the attempt.

She kicked my ass so bad I'm not sure it even qualifies as an attempt. I picked her up just fine, pet her some, then moved to put her in...her face was a good foot from the door when she realized what was up. Over the next several minutes, the only time I got her in the crate at all, I grabbed the back of her neck in my left hand, her back legs in my right hand and stuffed them in...she promptly sank her front leg claws into my right arm and pulled herself out of my grip, and the carrier. She then twisted around and attacked my left arm with fangs and all four paws. She had a ninja-like sense of leverage and balance, of lightning strikes and strength power moves...it was uncanny.

It was much easier to lure her into the car with some food and then drive quickly to wherever we were going, with her panting in the floorboards.

Except that time I took her in the truck, and she crawled up into the back window on top of the seat. She forced herself behind my head, then got claustrophobic or something, freaked, and did her Scrambling Claw Frenzy of Death to get out. Nearly killed us both, the biyatch.

[Ivy]

She kicked my ass so bad I'm not sure it even qualifies as an attempt. I picked her up just fine, pet her some, then moved to put her in...her face was a good foot from the door when she realized what was up. Over the next several minutes, the only time I got her in the crate at all, I grabbed the back of her neck in my left hand, her back legs in my right hand and stuffed them in...she promptly sank her front leg claws into my right arm and pulled herself out of my grip, and the carrier. She then twisted around and attacked my left arm with fangs and all four paws. She had a ninja-like sense of leverage and balance, of lightning strikes and strength power moves...it was uncanny.

Except that time I took her in the truck, and she crawled up into the back window on top of the seat. She forced herself behind my head, then got claustrophobic or something, freaked, and did her Scrambling Claw Frenzy of Death to get out. Nearly killed us both, the biyatch.

*sniff* I miss her... Sylvia's just not the same. (I'm sure after Sylvia's gone we'll be saying the same thing about her in relation to the next cat.)

[Geoff]

She sounds great. Like a crazy windmill of death.

I am surprised it doesn't happen more often; a cat realising it has more than enough weaponry to outgun us...

-Geoff

[mystery]

Secondly, my chilli plant for the year, with the fruit growing upwards A new one on me, any ideas why - or seen it before?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/754998850_8301bd1474_b.jpg

-Geoff

hey hello:hi: how strange looks cool ....hmmm myst thinks obvious reason are that they reaching for light ...reaching for something ...something lacking

[Sahara]

hey hello:hi: how strange looks cool ....hmmm myst thinks obvious reason are that they reaching for light ...reaching for something ...something lacking

God? :blush:

Lol just kidding, Geoff your cat is lovely and your chilli's look good even upside down. :)

[mystery]

God? :blush:

Lol just kidding, Geoff your cat is lovely and your chilli's look good even upside down. :)

:rofl1: i said they lacking something ....not god ......:D

[still water]

That's a great cat shot. And I do believe the conservative term for your peppers is "excited". Well, they ARE hot, right...LOL