Wishful Wednesday

Maybe if I wish hard enough, Patches will come play with me.

~Precious Flower~

Tummy, Tabby, Toesie Tuesday

See, Momma, I qualify for three "T's."
Tummy, Tabby, and Tosie

~Precious Flower~

Mistrie Monday

I am busy watching the purty lellow leaves falling off the cottonwood and aspen trees.

~Mistrie Rose~

Friday Fairies

Momma: Precious Little Squirt, what are you looking at so intently?
Precious: I am playing with a fairy, Momma.
Momma: Oh, let me see......
Precious: No, Momma, if you come too close, she will fly away, or turn herself into a mothy miller.
Momma: So, that is what all the mothy millers in the house are!!! How did you learn about fairies, Precious?
Precious: All kitties are taught by their KittyMommas to respect and love the fairies, Momma.

Posting Trubles

I went to post on our bloggy but I got the messaj that blogger was unabailable. I haded a ton of things I wanted to say, important things. and now I forgetted all of them. and.....it was my turn. I am furry frustrated. I am going to go look for Patches, I need to pick on her cuz I need to wear off all this energies. I think I will attack these fake fowlers.

~Precious Flower~

Wishes On Wednesday

My Grandma, who I nefurr met, used to tell my Momma, "if wishes were horses then beggers might ride." Momma says I can be a begger at times, but I sure don't want a horse, they poop way too much.

Here are some of my wishes:

** When someone makes a comment on your blog, there would be a way to answer them. Also, when I try to post a comment, that dreaded IE says it can't find it, when I know it is there.
** Momma would LISTEN to me when I talk at her.
** Precious would leave me alone when I am trying to sleep
** Momma would leave my food bowl down all the time, instead of picking it up. (She says she doesn't want Mittens sneaking any of it and then puking up all ofurr the place.)
** I could post some secrit stuff in the night when efurry furrless one is asleep, but Momma always turns the puter in the off position.
** I could go in the Out, by myself, and look for the fairies that Mistrie plays with.

~Patches Lady~

Tummy Tuesday

This picher was taken when I was still a skinny Squirt, several months after finding my true furrever home. My tummy hairs hadn't grown in yet. But, I do have a long body, don't you think? We we stretch like this, Momma calls us a train.

We gotted a special Halloween award from both Brandi! and Mia and Ghost. Wow, thanks so much.

~Precious Flower~

Monday Mews

We got this lovely award from Brainball. Thank you so much! We posted it in the sidebar.

I think we are supposed to choose 5 other cat bloggers to give it to. However we love so many, we can't choose just five.

In other mews:

Mittens is much better now. Momma gives her lactulose twice daily and 1 Tbsp of pumpkin once a day for consipashun, and she loves it. She is combing her good, efurry morning, to help with the hairball situation.

We all went to One-Eyed Jacks party. Even though Precious had her gotcha day in Sept. and her purrday is in Dec. (we think) she begged to go. They had a great hall where she could do her run like my butt is on fire. Wow, the food and drinks, it was amazing! I gotted to spend more time with my Brainball, too.

It is truly fall in the Big Piney Woods. These pichers were taken in our front yard.

~Patches Lady~

Surprise Bisit

Oh, wow. Brainball made a surprise bisit to the Big Piney Woods yesterday to see me in furrson. We haded a luvely time. He met Mittens (who told him to take his meds like a good boy cuz they are portant,) Precious (who had to show him efurry toy and efurry hiding place she has,) and even went outside to see Mistrie. (She is so shy, but showed him her winter beds and took him on a tour around the outside of the cabin.) I showed him the best windows for watching the pond and keeping an eye out for vishus deer, and we saw two!!!! Before he teleported home, he gave me a kitty kiss. He is such a handsum gentlecat. I hope he doesn't mind me sharing this picher.

~Patches Lady~

Winner!!

Hey, wake up Chase, you won our contest!

Momma got your prizes ready today. She is sending enough stuff for all the kitties in the fambly, Latte and Kaze, too. Even your Momma gets something nice from the Big Piney Woods.

Sammy and Lily were the first kitties to post the correct answer, but they don't have a blog, just a blogger profile and Momma was careful to add "FIRST cat blog to comment ." She says those two girl cats are going to get a liddle package, too. She says they need to talk their Momma into helping them to blog, too, and join our wonderful catblogosphere.

~Patches~

Prizes For Help

Patches: (tapping paw on floor) Momma I can't alieve you forgetted.

Momma: What did I forget?

Patches: (crabilated beyond belief) I just can't alieve it. (turns and walks away)

Momma: For heaven sakes, Patches, what did I forget?

Patches: Ask Mittens, I am not talking to you. (swats at Precious)

Momma: Mittens, what did I forget, that I should have remembered, that has Patches nose all out of joint?

Mittens: I don't know, Momma, but I am a senior catizen and don't have a gud memory. (goes back to sleep)
.
Momma: Does anyone know, what did I forget?

Patches: Here is a liddle hint...

Be the FIRST cat blog to comment and tell me what I forgot, to win!
Send your full name, address and city/state/zip to calicomom@gmail.com
(Something special for the furless one from the Big Piney Woods, too.)

We have a winner: Kaze, Latte, and Chase....Concatulations!!!

Sammy and Lily (guessed first but don't have a blog, but Momma is going to send them a little something.)

Tuesday True Love

Yes, it is true. I have a boycatfurriend. You will nefur guess who it is, it all happened so suddenly. I admired him from afar, but all the furless ones thought he was a gurl, but I KNEW. All of us kitties knew. So we all played the game until his Momma found out the truth.

Brainball is a he-mancat and he wants me to be his ladycat and I said "yes." We Piney Woods Girls are attracted to ginger boys, Precious has Beezer, you know.

~Patches Lady~

Monday Meme

Patches: I have some portant news, Momma, can I have the blog, please?

Momma: Tomorrow, honey, I have to post our desktop Meme.

Wow, we finally got tagged for the desktop Meme. Thanks Karen Jo.

My desktop shows a picture overlooking Fish Lake (a mountain lake in the Panhandle National Forest) We love to hike to this spot and have a picnic lunch. I don't have any icons on the desktop except for the recyle bin. All my icons are next to the start menu, for easy, one click access. Click to biggify.

Here are the rules for the meme:

Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop.It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.Here’s how you can do a screen capture:

1.Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). note: On a laptop you use the Fn + prt sc keys then paste it into a graphics program.

2.Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can “edit” the image before saving it.

3.Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.

4.Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktops as well.

I tag the following blogs:

Beezer

Taz and Angel

Mia and Ghost

Jasper McKitten-Cat

Cat Crossings

Flower Friday (Last For The Year)

The Final Three

Asters

Pansies (blooming since May)

Nasty Urchines (nasturtiums)

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Signs it is close to winter:

1. Studded snow tires are now allowed in Idyho and Mountaina
2. Wally World has Christmas decorations out

3. After the rain clouds started to leave, there was snow in the mountains

4. All the summer birds have left
5. The sunspots are great because of the angle of the sun now
6. Momma is starting to get rid of some of the Pet Tunias that have stopped flowering

7. Momma's burning bush is on fire

8. It went from 85 to 58, in one day, for a high
9. There was frost on the pumpkin


10. The vishus baby deer have lost their spots

11. Momma is complaining about the short summer
12. Daddy is winterizing the house that goes on the back of the metal monster
13. There is so much more darkness now that Momma turns on the false sun about 7:00

~Patches Lady~

Time On My Paws

Momma, it is time for you to get ready to go to town. Daddy is waiting for you.

~Precious Flower~

Tabby Tuesday

Precious finds some sun.

Monday Mews By Mistrie

I get to post today, me, Mistrie Rose. I have nefur posted my own werds before. Momma wants me to tell you my news, so here goes.

1. I am growing my winter furs now.
2. Momma and Daddy made me two beds up in the woodshed. They left a little tunnel for me to climb through and get way back in, all safe and cozy.
3. Momma washed all the bedding in my other two beds under the deck.
4. I raced around like my butt was on fire yesterday. Momma gave me worm medsun and flea medsun and I am feeling so good now that the weather is cooler.
5. I had a nice chat with the fairies, who are going to be hibernating, come November.
6. There were 6 vishus deer out in the yard yesterday. I watched them closely but I am so stealthy they didn't see me.
7. There are 22 ducks on the pond right now, who I visit with a lot. The geese that were raised here came back to say goodbye to me, and told me they would see me in the spring.

Luv from your furriend
~Mistrie Rose~

Flower Friday

Close up of picture above.

Thanks Efurrycat

I have been thinking a lot about all the answers my nice furrends sent to me, about lissards, and how their tails fall off, and such. I think it would be nice to have one as a pet, then I could put my pawsie on their tail and make it fall off and then maybe eat it, or not, and then it would grow another, and the fun would start all ofurr. I could keep it in a speshul cage and torment it, yup, I could. Please send lissards.

I am in your furrever debt..

~Precious Flower~

Please ignore her request for a lizard. I saw a tiny snake in the flower bed and told her I would get that for her (like that will ever happen.)
CalicoMom Toni

I Need Answers!!!

Can somecat, that lives in the South, where the lissards are, please explain to me bout them loosing their tales, I mean tails.........Patches and Mittens know all about it, but are keeping it a secrit from me cuz they say it is awful, and I am too little to hear about such things. I akst Momma, but, to tell you the truth, I don't think she knows the ansur, cuz we live so far up in the North Country. Thanks in advance.....

~Precious Flower~

Tabby Tuesday

Fuzzy fluffball

Momma says to me

Such a fuzzy wuzzy baby

I see you in the tree

~Precious Flower~

Monday Mews

Here is the Mews from the Big Piney Woods:

Hunter Allen update: Hunter, the tabby we found in the woods by Hunters, Washington, and given a furrever home by our pet nanny, Diane, (who lives across the road) is getting so big. She luvs her new home, her sisfur 'Tinky and the woofie called Scruffy, another newcomer. Here she is in her window, with a view of the mountains, the trees, and their pond. She loves spending time on her leash in the Out watching the birds, and playing with Scruffy.

Hunter Allen

The Meezer Twins update: Bonnie Big Eyes and Molly Mew are now young ladies, and along with growing up comes the dreaded vet visit to have their gardenladieectomy. They had theirs done last week, are well on their way to recovery, even going camping with Mom Paige and Dad Leigh, down on the St. Joe River at a place called Huckleberry Campground.

The N. Idaho Weather update: We went from 85 to 58 in a matter of days. Along with the cool weather came some showers (even snow in the mountains) and freezing temps around the valley. The Big Piney Woods is frost free so far, but our days are numbered as summer has said farewell, fall is here, and winter isn't all that far behind.

Mittens Pollypaws update: Mittens continues to improve. She hates the lactulose for her constipation, but it is something she has to take twice a day. She caught a fly the other day, and is playing with strings again, is out and about, not hiding anymore. The vet said to give her pumpkin, mineral oil, or metamucil, a much cheaper alternative.

~Patches Lady~

Flower Friday

Thanks

to all of you who said my blog is still my blog and it is still The Calico Girls. I don't feel crabilated or buttified anymore! You guys are all so supportive and nice and made me feel so good, I think I will go steal some of Squirt's food and then put the run on her. I might even bite her neck, just a tiny tad.

Purrs to all......

~Patches Lady~

Words on Wordless Wednesday

When Momma helped ME set up MY blog I told her I would share a tiny bit with Mittens Pollypaws. It was called The Calico Girls then, cuz it was just the two of us calicos.

THEN, along came Mistrie, and I had to share a tiny bit with her....... this wasn't bad cuz she is outside and tells me what to write and nefur gits pushy.

THEN along came Precious Flower, who is known as Squirt by all who know her, and I had to share a tiny bit with her; however, she has really tried to take ofurr. She is quite pushy and domin-earring. Momma said, "how about we call it The Big Piney Woods Cats," but in reality, it is still The Calico Girls.

I really HATE change!!!

~Patches Lady~

Tabby Tuesday

This was taken earlier this summer, when Patches and I went in the house on the back of the metal monster, into the mountains to camp. My one and only trip, might I add.

~Precious Flower~

Award!!!

Oh, look, while the computer was at the vet, we got this lovely award from William of Mass Destruction, whose sisfur, Caroline, has been doing the destructing lately. (See their Sept. 12 post and be prepared for a lot of laffin and laffin.) Their Momma witnessed the whole thing, so William didn't get blamed for the carnage to the red gazing ball. We want to thank you, William for this lovely award! Momma is going to put it in the sidebar.

On the computer front news: Two fans were replaced, but Momma says things are still weird. When she boots up for us, so we can blog, the screen is black and says fan failure and she has to push F1. I tried to do it but hit all sorts of wrong keys. I think it is my big toes.

On the health front news: I am feeling much better. Momma pries my mouth open twice daily and I have to drink this horrible stuff and I really let out some fierce growls. She says I will probably always have to take it, which doesn't make me furry happy. Now I think I am suffering from STRESS. I may even suffer from PANIC ATTACKS, I really hate to leave home and go in the metal monster.

On the weather front news: It got down to 38 last night, although the days have been in the 80's all of September; we are in for a change, cooler/wetter. That is OK, sounds like a good time for a nap.

On the profile front news: New picher in the sidebar to reflect the change to fall.

This is Mitten Pollypaws signing off. Hope you enjoyed my ree-purrt.

More Computer Woes

The computer is headed for the repair shop, again today! The fan is making a strange, loud,noise. I don't know how long we will be gone, but I fear it will be at least until over the weekend.

CalicoMom Toni

Wordless Wednesday

~Precious Flower~

911

I think we all know exactly where we were and what we were doing on that horrible Sept. morning six years ago. Our lives would never be the same, we would never feel really safe again. So many lives lost, so much damage done. I wrote a poem and would like to share it with you today.

America

Oh, beautiful for spacious skies
This land so dear to me

How could anyone be so cruel

A coward it must be

You can't destroy a land so great

No matter how you try

For America is in our hearts

We fly our colors high

More united from this awful act

We're Americans; proud and grand

We wept for the cruel injustice

Now its time we take a stand

From the rubble and destruction

An inner strength was born

Hear the chanting of "USA"

Beware, the eagle mourns

You have not heard the last of us

A country strong and free

You cannot break our spirit

Freedom is meant to be

Toni Britton
Sept. 15, 2001

Listen!!!

Is that Precious I hear? She has been furry annoying to me and I have been sickly. Momma efun had to holler at her and she called her a bad gurl today, after she made me growl. She likes to wiggle her butt at me and pretend she is going to attack, and she calls me a big fraidy cat. I am the senior catizen here in the cabin, and deserve respect.

Do you hear anything?

~Mittens Pollypaws~

Weekends Off

Yes, as you can see, I am crabilated. Momma says we are going to start taking Saturday and Sunday off from blogging. She says we have nefur missed a day in almost two years, except when she had her eye operashun and when she and Daddy went in the monster with wheels that has the house in the back. She says we need a brake. I think she is the one who needs the brake.

See you Monday.

~Patches Lady~

Flower Friday

Morning Glories

I love the bright, large, blue flowers. I have tried starting the seeds inside, to no avail. (Yes, I do soak them in warm water overnight.) Planting them outside usually yields only about 5 plants per seed package. Here, in the Big Piney Woods, they are slow to get started, so start blooming finally in late August. Maybe it is the cool mountain nights we have, or the lack of humidity. They are well worth the wait, though, even though the flowers are short lived.

CalicoMom Toni

Mittens

I am taking Mittens to a different vet today. I took her to her regular vet last Monday for tummy troubles, again. Sadly, the vet never got back to me, after giving me two different types of medicine. Tuesday, over a week later, and three tries to get her to call me, I
decided to have all her records sent to a different clinic, hoping I can find a compassionate person. She is on two different medication right now, lactulose and cisapride, to try and get things moving in her intestines. An x-ray was taken, also, and that was sent on a CD over to the new clinic. Update to follow later.

UPDATE.....We are home!

I just got back from the vet. I am so happy with them. Dr. Vogel, who has 5 cats of his own, pulled her to him on the examining table, sat down and she buried herself in his arms. He put his head into her fur, much like we would do. Her temp, which wasn't taken at the other clinic, was normal, her heart is fine. He said to keep on with the meds, but explained in full about how they work and also said I could use mineral oil and pumpkin. The lactulose, which I got another supply of, was 1/5 the price, the office visit was $8.00 less. He said he would call in a week, if I had ANY concerns, to call, he would get back to me the same day. He said she will probably have to be on meds all the time, to stimulate the colon. She is hiding behind the chair, glad to be back in familiar territory, and waves a paw to all her furriends.

CalicoMom Toni

Wordless Wednesday

Tabby Tuesday

~Precious Flowers~

Farewell To Summer

Momma says summer is leaving. I wonder if I can watch her, as she goes.

Maybe Mistrie knows where summer is going. I will look for her.

~Mittens Pollypaws~

Easy Like Sunday

~Patches Lady~

To Momma

Today is the day, a year ago, Momma picked me up from the vet, and made the Big Piney Woods my furrever home. Here is a poem, especially for her.

She found me in the woods

A tiny sorry sight

Kittens, two I had

She said it wasn't right

Someone cold and heartless

Had left me there alone

Life had been so very hard

I was but skin and bone

I have heard my kittens

Were angels all along

They helped her to find me

The lady made me strong

She said I have a home for you

You are my kitten now

Your name is Precious Flower

I answered with "meow"

~Precious Flower~