Raining Like Cats and Dogs

There has been nothing but rain here for quite a while now. Mom's feeling a bit down. When mom doesn't get enough sun she gets depressed. I don't know why. She has us to cheer her up. What else would a woman possibly need to keep her happy?

Fishy Friday

Last month mom took this awful picture of something quite special. It's a photo of the only Great White Shark in captivity (at the time).. The shark is on the right and a dolphin-fish is on the left. Mom took her class to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This is their third Great White that they've kept. It was released earlier this month. Mom asked one of the aquarium staff members why the sea turtles weren't in the tank. The expert told mom that they like to have their backs scratched so they swim in front of the sharks then slow down so that the sharks run into them. They were doing it on purpose! Their games were stressing out the fish so the staff took them out of the aquarium to give the others a break. 

Here is a beautiful picture of the same shark.

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Gifts

Our first Swap 'n Tails package arrived! It came from sweet Miz Allie herself. This month's theme was red. Mom's sorry she didn't grab the camera. But as you can imagine, there were several red cat toys that Jake has already taken and hidden. The early cat gets the kibble around here. He stood over the package as Mom opened it. The lady of the house also received some gifts. A box of chocolates and a heart shaped foam picture frame that has a magnet on the back. Perfect for my picture. I look good in red.

We also received a package of goodies that mom ordered. There were some cat toys that were hand crocheted (spelling?). Many of the toys were infused with honeysuckle scent because the website claimed that the cats go wild for it. Unfortunately, there were catnip items in the same package, so everything came out smelling of nip. We did go wild over the packages Mom opened, but we think it was the nip  smell not the honeysuckle.  There was even a nip spray that Mom sprayed onto one of the crocheted balls and I spent the afternoon in nip heaven with that piece of yarn. 

We wish everykitty a wonderful Wednesday. Mom's headed out of town for the day. So much for a weeks worth of  "us" time. Oh well, she's going to try to make it back very early on Thursday. 

It's Tabby Tuesday!

Mom said that I could have my picture put on Tyler's blog today because I'm a tabby and he's not. The poor guy doesn't even get his own day of the week because none of the days start with "b" for black or even "p" for panther.

The only bad thing is that I'm not the only tabby. But my tabby sister has only been looking at the camera with murderous eyes because she doesn't like the flashy thing. And my big sister, Cookie is really good at looking mean. She hisses and growls at me daily. Of course that just makes me want to be even closer to her. I long for the day that she stops growling and actually welcomes me with a headbutt or even a nose smooch. Sometimes when she's asleep, I come up to her and sniff her furs. Then she usually wakes up and hisses me away again. She's a very good hisser. She could probably teach a thing or two to a snake.

Look what I got! Thank you Cat Realm for this honor. You are too kind to me. It was easy to help you in such a small way. This award was created by Ruis, Carl's life partner. That's a picture of his REAL PAW. I'm going think about who I want to pass this on to. There are so many deserving kitties.

Hi Friends! I Have Good News!

Without sounding like a braggart, I want to shout out that my mom will be home for a whole week! One week of snuggling afternoon naps, regular stinky goodness delivery morning and evening, efficient litter cleaning, a lap to lounge on, blog writing, a bean to follow from room to room, to give eye kisses and perhaps best of all is the ability to visit our friends blogs on a DAILY basis, ok Mom? DAILY. We've already started to take advantage of her presence. Four of us snoozed on the bed last night when it usually isn't more than two or three. 

Unlike many of you who have dependable beans, my stinky goodness isn't delivered on a regular basis. Ever since we showed our picky s. g. eating  habits of the so called "healthy" food, our goodness delivery has been sporadic at best. If mom is running late in the morn, NO s.g. If Mom just threw out a plate full of uneatable offending s. badness, no s.g. for us. Mom swears it isn't purposeful, she wants to be an organized deliverer of s.g., but swears it "slips her mind" or it pains her to waste more food. So far she's been pretty stubborn about not bringing back the TRUE stinky goodness that she treated us with a few months ago. Yet we are also stubborn in eating just some flavors of the healthy stuff. I don't care if I ate it months ago without complaint. Now that I've been introduced to the delicious cheap stuff, I simply cannot get it off of my mind. The healthy goop is hardly tolerable. 

We are also determined to catch up on posting an award that we were given by a very generous friend.

Mom has even agreed to some picture taking. The camera is home and so are we. Mom even thinks the data reader thingy that is plugged into the USB port is home, though she's not absolutely positive. 

So I hope to be visiting with you very soon. 

I'm Tattling on Mom!

Mom did something very stupid early Monday morning. She feel asleep while working on her laptop with a glass of ice in the crook of her elbow. She fell asleep, the ice had turned into water and drenched her laptop. Apple says it'll be a LOT of green papers to fix. My mom is extremely clumsy with MacBooks. She's gone through two laptops due to carelessness just last year. This one was bought last March. She decided to have it fixed instead of replacing it like she normally does because it would be a lot more money to replace. She feels so stupid for not taking better care of such an expensive item. She has to write from her yucky computer at work, so no pics until the Mac is back. We're going to write up a list of rules for using our laptop. This is just not convenient for us to teleport to her work during our nap time no less. There won't be time for us to visit our friends blogs. Life is just a mess. Mom says we should be gratefull that it's just a thing we lost use of and not a person who is sick or injured. I think she's just trying to feel less guilty. Which is just how she should feel.

Cookie Is a Crook!

Cookie stole our prize package from the cats who won it. Mom mistakenly took it out of the bag in which Siamese Rescue mailed it to us. She placed the penguin Millie bed and the purr pad on the big bean bed thinking it wouldn't be such a sin for us to test the bed out while she figured out how exactly she was going to get the thing back in the mail. Two minutes later Cookie crawled right in and stayed there for three days straight. I think she may have gotten out to eat, drink and use the litterroom, but we never saw her out of it. Now sometimes Cookie lets somekitty else lie in her bed.

Mom had to write to Artsy Catsy the winners of our contest and ask if they would be willing to pick another Millie bed from the Rescue Center. They were such gracious kitties they did pick out a new bed and we also sent them a new purr pad. Mom was relieved because she's a trusting soul, she didn't realize she was being duped by Cookie. Mom says she was grateful to be able to send the gift to the winners from the merchant and not have to figure out how to wrap the huge thing herself. Yep, she's lazy. Lazy to the core.

Mom left both of her cameras at work AGAIN! I wanted her to take a picture of Cookie in her stolen merchandise to prove my point. Maybe we'll post it tomorrow.

We hope everyone is having a restful Sunday, if you have any Sunday left by the time you read this.

I think I might just go see if that penguin Millie bed is open. We have three Millies now, but there is something special about the Penguin one.