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@mittenbird.bsky.social
MI→GA→VA. cat mama to Coal🖤, Steele🩶, and Lissy Lou💔🌈. auntie, historian, musician, genealogist. probably squinting. mad online (and offline too). lurking in the comment section. she/her or they/them. opinions mine. #FireUpChips
from last night: Steele doing a big concern because mom sneezed, but also looking ridiculously handsome as usual
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“mother, please curb your enthusiasm. I know it’s great to see me and you think I’m a very handsome boy. you’re still getting on my nerves.”
-Coal, probably
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
knew Steele was in the bedroom but wasn’t sure where. turned out he had burrowed into the pile of laundry I still didn’t finish washing over the long weekend. 😅

he’s comfy and that’s what matters!
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
nothing to see here, mom. just a normal cat, sitting very normally, going about normal cat business
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
we have a Synchronized Concern about the chilly fall weather outside
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
sweet cuddly boys taking a nap together 🥹
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I was playing Little Kitty, Big City last night and the cat sounds were a little too realistic for Coal @littlekittybigcity.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
tfw mom sneezed and it interrupted your very important people-watching work
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Coal, who is very much Not A Lap Cat, is currently in my lap.

I am so proud (and very cozy)!
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
every day is national cat day at our house, but happy national cat day anyway
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Coal is a very handsome boy, and he knows it!
October 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
these two. they started bapping each other seconds later, but look how sweet and organized they were in their respective cubicles. 🖤🩶
October 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
my mustachioed gentleman sends his regards to your mustachioed gentleman.
October 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Coal thinks the noise from me brushing my teeth is UNDIGNIFIED. 😾

practically heard him clearing his throat behind me to let me know he was there and monitoring my activities.
October 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
October 7, 1948: my great-great-grandfather, a longtime baseball and softball umpire, in the newspaper with his local baseball team after they were league champions. he’s the guy in dark coveralls in the front row.

I did not inherit any of his hand-eye coordination, for the record.
October 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
also, my great-great-uncle said there were too many girls at dances when he was a high school freshman in 1939 lmao

(a lot of my family history comes from him via my brother. Uncle Bob did not like me as a teenager since I was shrill and opinionated even then, but he enjoyed my brother’s company)
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
these two would constantly post on nextdoor if only they could type

(thank goodness they can’t type)
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Steele, the bathtub gremlin
October 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I definitely have more, but this is Coal, my vampurr bat of a cat
October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Coal thinking highly uncharitable thoughts after I pspspspsed him
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“how did you find me in here, Mom?”

well, Coal, the crinkling gave you away.

(in a basket that makes a LOT of noise with some clean sheets)
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Steele was all cozy in bed when he heard a cabinet door close in the kitchen, and now he’s afraid he’s missing something…but not enough to get up and investigate.

those ears. so alert!
September 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
my sweet Lissy Lou showed up 10 years ago today. these are the first pictures I took of her, on September 21, 2015.

she’s been gone for a little more than eight months and I miss her every day. forever my best girl. 🖤🤍
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
just Coal enjoying some belly rubs after yelling at me from atop the cat tree for ten minutes. I think he looks a little smug about this
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
current cat inventory:
-one (1) freeform loaf cat
-one (1) half-octopus cat (assembly instructions misplaced)
September 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM