Helping

Here I am, helping Momma hang decorations on the railing.

There, that looks purrty good.

~Precious Flower~

On Sunny Spots

To sleep

Purrchance to dream

Of mice and birds

Of sunny spots galore.

To wake

Purrchance to watch

A mouse or bird

In a sunny spot outside.

To meditate

Purrchance to think

Of mice and birds

In my sunny spot on the floor.

~Patches Lady~

Dec. 2007

Pest!!

If you look close, you can see I am sticking my tongue out at Squirt. She is such a pest. This is MY chair, but she doesn't seem to understand the concept of "I was here first." I hope Momma doesn't see what I am doing in this picher; please don't tell her.

~Patches Lady~

Tabby, Tummy Tuesday

~Precious Flower~

A Good Start

Momma looks at me really close and says, "I love you to pieces." I say, "Merow" in my highest squeeky voice. Momma says, "oh, you little love, you little sweetie, you make me so happy." I purr loudly and say, "Merow," again. That is how we start our day, me and my Momma.

~Mittens Pollypaws~

Hide And Seek

Under the table
On the chair
High in the cat tree
Oh where, oh where.

Inside the closet
Behind the bed
Looking for Mittens
She finds Precious, instead.

~CalicoMom Toni~
Dec., 2007

Pichers

Momma is busy hogging the computer, for days now. She is putting together photo albums. So far, she has bought five of them, and has one of all camping pictures, one on fambly stuff, one on just fowlers. These are now done. Now she is working on one she calls The Big Piney Woods, which will be all photos taken of our home, mountains, sunsets, trees, winter scenes, wildlife, etc . The last one, and the most time consuming, is called Cats, Cats, and More Cats, (it is going to take two albums for just us!!!) She says now her and Daddy can enjoy four years of digital pichers, cuz Daddy doesn't know anything about computers and doesn't want to. It is all so furry tiring.

~Patches Lady~

Wordless Wednesday

Rise And Shine!!!

Marching in place

On the bed, today

I am telling you

Get up, and stay.

You can't be tired

You've napped all night

The moon has set

Soon it'll be light.

I stare at you

My eyes so black

I paw at the covers

Get out of the sack!

~Patches Lady~

Dec. 2007

Monday Mews

Snow, snow, and more snow!!!!

Winter has really come to the Big Piney Woods, and all of the Pacific Northwest. Even Seattle got snow! It started Saturday night, and by last night we had well over 2 feet! Then it turned to rain, so has packed, and is so heavy it is almost impossible to shovel. Yesterday, it was incredibly beautiful, a marshmallow world. The ski area is set to open on Wednesday, so hope they don't get the rain we are getting in the valley. The schools are closed and the plow has gone passed our place four times yesterday, and again early this morning. We lost reception on our dish 5 times, and had to clean it off. Luckily, we still have power, although the lights have flickered. The cats are unaffected, except when the snow slides off the roof!! Mistrie is keeping warm in the woodshed.

CalicoMom Toni

Possession Is 9/10 Of The Law

Is this my Daddy's shirt?

Oh, yes, I luvs it!!!

It belongs to me, now.

~Mittens Pollypaws~

Thursday Thoughts

Momma said, maybe I could be good, so she left me out in the house, last night, instead of going in my bedroom. I started out good; I stayed on the floor, then got on the bed and I snuggled on Daddy's legs, for a long time. Then, I saw a blanket monster, and had to kill it, so it didn't get Momma and chew her tosies, cuz it was right by her feet. She sat up and told me, I was inches away from going downstairs. I moved closer to Patches, who was on the edge of the bed taking her nightly bath. I inched closer and closer and then made myself real long, pushed my tosies out forward as far as they would go, until they were almost touching her. She sat up and batted at me.......well, for sure, she wanted to box, so we started a match. Momma said, "that does it," and whisked me to solitary.

Well, I slept better, not having Patches around to watch, or having to protect them from monsters. I guess Patches must protect them, as they have all their tosies.

~Precious Flower~

Cat Blogosphere Honorary Day

Mittens checking out the new calendar. She found her picture and the rest of the Big Piney Woods Cats' pictures.

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We are constantly amazed by the wondrous Cat Blogosphere website, and all that is done by Mom Robyn, and all the volunteer repurrters. We want to send out our special thanks to all of you for such a wonderful place, our own newspaper. So much good is done by all of you and we don't think you get the praise you all deserve. So, in no particular order, below is a big thank you to all the repurrters, from the Big Piney Woods!!!!

In honor of all the volunteers below, we would like to make this honorary Cat Blogosphere day! Please go to their site and give them special thanks, add a banner to your blog, or do some shopping.

KC
Sanjee
Sophia, Diva Kitty
The Bad Kitty Cats
Beau
Daisy
Dragonheart
Emma
Emma's Cat
Grr, Midnight & Cocoa
Mr. Hendrix
Jack
Pablo
Samantha Black and Tigger
Skeezix the Cat

Also, please try to help find homes for Dina and The Six Mites. Mary Lynn has done such a wonderful job of taking in Dina (MomKitty) and socializing the lovely Mites. (Mary Lynn also does so much for everyone, so a special hats off to her.) Now they all need furrever homes!!! Check out their website, and PLEASE consider one, or more. The following is posted on their site:

Thank you all for your help. We've used Continental to fly kitties everywhere, so the mites can travel if necessary -- they charge by weight, so it wouldn't cost that much to fly a Mite! If anyone wants information on how the Mites would "fly", here is the website. If you want to adopt a mite and can't afford the flight fee, arrangements can and will be made to pay it for you! Continental website is HERE.

~CalicoMom Toni ~

Happy Anniversary!

As main spokescat for the Big Piney Woods Cats, I would like to take this opportunity to wish our Momma and Daddy Happy 42nd Anniversary. Wow, that is a lot of naps! Here are seven facts about them.

1. They moved to N. Idaho from central Minnesota, 32 years ago.

2. They raised 3 children, 2 boys (one is MeezerDad) and a girl.

3. They builded houses for a living, in Idaho. Momma designed the plans for the cabin, and her and Daddy builded it. It is their tirement home.

4. Daddy USED to be a *dog* purrson, I said, USED to be.

5. Momma has always been a cat luver, her first cat was Mimi, a grayboy, she had for 12 years. She got him when she was about two.

6. In Minnesota, Momma worked as receptionist for the Burlington Northern Railway; Daddy worked in the Parts Department at Ford, in Brainerd (you know, the movie Fargo, well, that wasn't actually Brainerd in that movie.)

7. They love the outdoors, camping, fishing, (Daddy) flower gardening (Momma); but love us gurls best of all!!

Patches

Pee Esss: We gotted at least 8 inches of white stuff. It fell out of the sky and made efurrything purrty and made works for Momma and Daddy. I don't know why they just don't leave it alone!!

Meezer Monday

Momma and Daddy had Fanksgiving at The Meezertwin's house.

Look at dem bloo i's.

Who is who????

~Patches Lady~

News.....

Hunter went in for her gardenladiectomy on the 20th. She is cuperating at home.

~Patches Lady~

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

The Big Piney Woods Cats

Patches

Mittens

Mistrie

Precious
CalicoMom Toni

Meme And Award

The Meezer tagged us for a Meme........random facts about us. Here goes.......

Patches: I sneak Mitten's speshul food, so Momma has to put it up.
Mittens: I sneak Patches' and Precious' food so Momma has to put it up.
Mistrie: I have my own hidden boundaries, and never venture far from the cabin.
Precious: I wait for Momma in the morning to get her coffee, so I can make biscuits in her belly.
Patches: Momma says I am the talker of the group.
Mittens: Momma says I am the purrer of the group.
Mistrie: Momma says I am the mystery of the group. It is a mystery why I won't come in the cabin and a mystery where I came from.
Precious: Momma says I am the clown of the group.
Patches: I attack the stairs with bunny kicks when I am happy.
Mittens: I purr and talk at the same time.
Mistrie: I purr, headbutt and drool for Momma, and for her only!
Precious: I jump straight up in the air when I am surprised.

We aren't going to tag anyone cuz we think everyone has played.

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Dragonheart gave us this lovely award. Thanks so much!!! There are so many friendly sites, we couldn't choose five to tag. We just know we would furrget somecat.

Answers??

Daisy asked a very interesting question in my post on "Things are Afusing." She was wondering where time goes when it flies by. We know we have places we go.......the litterbox, the food bowl, the sleeping places, the hidey holes, some of us go in the Out, or up on the counters (which gets the NO word in our house.) Patches gets to go out on the upper deck. But there is not one furrless one, or kitty or woofy, for that matter, that can tell me where time goes. I know there is an hour that hides in the clocky. I think, prolly, time is up in the trees, with the birdies, that's what I think.

~Precious Flower~

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Sue would like to thank all of you for your kind comments on the loss of English Daisy.

Calico Mom Toni

Till We Meet Again....

1991-1992 (?) - Nov. 19, 2007

Alone and sad
Always thinking of you
Alone and sad
and terribly blue.

"But I am here," you say
With a twitch of your tail
"I am here" you say
Not sick and frail.

In memories cherished
Never to die
In memories cherished
Please, don't cry.

I have a place
Deep in your heart
I have that place
We are never apart.

~CalicoMom Toni~
Nov. 19, 2007

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Daisy's Mom, Sue, helped her to the bridge today. Daisy's Mom and I have been good internet email friends for years. Sue lives in Loughton, which is outside of London, England. Daisy came to live with her Mom Sue and Dad Stephen, 4 1/2 years ago, at the age of (about) eleven. She was an honorary Calico Girl and teleported over to our kitty napathon in January, 2006. She had a heart of gold, was timid and shy and always such a good girl, touching everyone who knew her.

She reminded me so much of my Mittens. While I never met her, I will really miss her as I feel I knew her, through Sue's many emails.

CalicoMom Toni

We Are The Kitties

The latest book from Max is ready to order. Momma just ordered ours. You can go to Max's site, HERE or go directly to order, HERE.

~Patches Lady~

Frosty Friday

Jack Frost was here last night
The wind in the trees has a special bite
Snow covers the slopes in the mountains high
As the geese and their young begin to fly.

November transitions from warm to cold
As winter begins to take a hold
Bare trees shudder and go to sleep
Awaiting the snow so white and deep.

Soon December will enter in
And winter will say "I win, I win"
Thus, for a time, the world stands still
Bundled up warm, we wait, until

Springtime again shows her face of green
A more lovely site is never seen
As we watch life starting up anew
Something we always look forward to.

~CalicoMom Toni~

Nov, 2007

Things Are Afusing

Momma says time is flying. It is already half past November. I wonder, if time can fly, then would it be a good thing to catch and eat, I mean release? She says birds are a no-no, but bugs are OK. She also says plants are a no-no cuz they can make me sick, but grass is OK. I am so afused.

~Precious Flower~

Award!!!!

Look what my mancat, Brainball, gave me......an award!!! (Well, he gave it MOSTLY to me.) Thank you my sweetiecakes.

Momma just ordered our 2008 Cat Blogosphere calendar! Yippee! Our pichers are in it!

~Patches Lady~

'Tinky's Tuxie, Tosies, Tummy Tuesday

Tinky has the cutest black toe leathers,

and the purrtiest soft, white belly.

~Patches Lady~

Kitty Sitting

Momma has been going across the road to Hunter and 'Tinky's house, taking care of them while their Momma, Diane, went to Seattle. Diane is our pet nanny and we luvs her.

Look how Hunter has grown. Hunter was rescued from the woods, close to Hunters, Washington, this summer. The MeezerDad founded her and Diane asided to give her a furrever home!

This is 'Tinky, the sweetiest of tuxies.

~Patches Lady~

Observations

I am listening.........

We have a little, bitty, jumping, singing buggy. It is somewhere in the cabin. Momma calls it a cricket. I call it noisy. We also have a toad that gets into this thingy in the wall that is supposed to give us fresh air, and he makes a lot of noise. Momma goes outside and peeks in there and she can see him. She calls him Prince. Why would you call a toad Prince, I wonder.

~Precious Flower~

Thursday Thirteen

1. We don't smell you in inappropriate places.
2. We don't bark, at everything, all the time.
3. We don't have to be walked, but use our litterboxes.
4. We purr.
5. We eat slowly, and with manners.
6. All we need is a window to keep us entertained for hours.
7. We smell good, and never need a bath.
8. We don't jump up on you.
9. We treat company with respect.
10.We don't get into the garbage, strewing it all ofurr.
11. You can leave us for a few days, and we are fine.
12.We are independent, not slobbery, but we love you, just the same.
13.We are a mystery, and all furless ones like a good mystery.

Composed by Patches, with help from Mittens, Precious and Mistrie.

To My Kitties

Painting by Nicole Jahan

My kitties give me love

Wrapped up in a purr

Sweet bundles of wonder

All covered up in fur.

Independent and elusive

A mystery to me

Strong willed, yet charming

That's the way they'll always be.

All these things endear me

To their sweet and gentle way.

I wouldn't change a thing about them

I love them more and more each day.

~CalicoMom Toni~

Nov., 2007

Ode To Mistrie

A lone cat passes

through the shadows of the night

Quietly, unseen, unheard

Pounces with delight

The tiny mouse scurries

As the coyotes start to howl

Watch out all you rodents

Mistrie's on the prowl

~CalicoMom Toni~

November, 2007

Meezer Monday

The Meezer twins

Impurrtant Messj

and gain an extra hour of napping.

~The Big Piney Woods Cats~

Falling Leaves Friday

Looking South

Looking North (I was standing in the same place for both pictures)

The last of the leaves fell right after these pictures were taken. The Big Piney Woods is ready for winter. Shovels and snow blower are handy, Husband has been picking as many leaves up as he can with the bagger on the lawnmower, piles of leaves are being burned, Mistrie has her winter coat, we have ours. The days are short now and we have had three hard frosts. The girls are looking forward to long winter naps. Goodbye fall.

~CalicoMom Toni~

Note The Following:

1. I am on the top of the tree where no cat has gone afore.

2. Patches "thinks" that basket on the floor is her basket.

3. That is Mistrie's round bed you see outside.

4. My ear is inside out, on purpose, of course.

5. We need a new tree, this one is a wreck.

~Precious Flower~

Happy Halloween

Please keep all kitties safe and indoors tonight.

~The Big Piney Woods Cats and Calicomom Toni~

Rubber Thingy

Daddy has this rubber thingy that he leaves on the pull out tray Momma and Daddy use for their coffee, tucked in the back. (It is my toy.) Daddy says he doesn't know what it is, just that it is probably furry important and could be a matter of life or deaf, so he saves it. (It is my toy.) He putted it in the drawer cuz he found it on the floor this morning. (It is my toy.) Enuf said on the subject; oh, and if you have any idea what it is, please let us know cuz right now it is my toy.

Living proof it is MY toy!!!

~Precious Flower~

Meezer Monday

On Saturday, Momma went up to Sugar Mountain to check on the Meezer twins, because their Momma and Daddy were gone for three days. They came charging down the stairs, when she opened the door.

Molly Mew and Bonnie Big Eyes, in no particular order, because Momma can't tell them apart.

MommaPaige had left them plenty of food, but the water had a buggy floating in it, so Momma gave them fresh, scooped their litterbox, gave them treats and cuddled and talked to them. (They didn't want to cuddle much.)

More pictures next Monday.

~Patches Lady~

Flower Friday

Every year my husband threatens to cut down these huge cottonwoods, they do leave quite a mess. However, the power lines could really cause a problem.

Late blooming asters.

I still have a few flowers and the leaves are so pretty, however, it was 24 degrees this morning, so I am sure that has put an end to my flowers.

~CalicoMom Toni~

Thoughtful Thursday

At least she lets me nap close to her.

Many of my furriends have expressed a desire to come and play with me. This is an open inbitashun for anycat to come ofurr, anytimes. We can run like our butts are on fire, tease Patches, play with all my toys, run up and down the cat tree, play hide and seek, playbox, and when we get tired, nap on the furless ones napping place. Lots of food is always around, too.

~Precious Flower~