Blue Blanket

Do you remember the blue blanket that was left at the napathon in January? Well, nobody ever did claim it, so The Mom said she would let Mistrie have it. Here she is, enjoying it; so whoever left it, a big "Thank You."

We also want to say how sad we are for everyone over at Caturday for the loss of their darling Silas. We know he is happy at Rainbow Bridge with little Fergus, and all the kitties "who went before."

Patches

Gardening

The Mom picked a bouquet of daffodils yesterday. They are so pretty, all yellow and springified. She got all the cowpies spread and she is now starting to plant. She is always moving things...she plants them one place and then next week, or next year, she moves it somewhere else. Unproductive, if you ask me. The only moving I do is from one chair to another, or from the food bowl to the window. The Furless Ones need to be more observant, they could learn a lot from us!

Patches

Mittens... On Purring

The Mom was upstairs, I was downstairs, on the chair in the dining room, when I began calling her. At first, she was concerned; was something wrong? She came down and patted my head. I jumped down and purred her a nice melody, letting the sound go really deep in my throat, wrapping around her legs and talking fine, of things important to me. She listened and petted me and talked back in her funny human talk, some words I know, others are a mystery, they make no sense. She bent down and said, "Mittens, you are so sweet." Why didn't she just say, "Mittens, mewowr murp," it means the same thing; but I don't think she grasps the concept of easy language, she prefers it difficult. Edsel agrees with me on that, check out his post for Monday.

Mittens

Climbing Tree

This is a picture of the climbing tree for the catolympics. There is a yellow mark on the tree where your front paw has to touch, shown by the yellow arrow. This is catolympics regulation height for climbing, The Mom checked in the book to make sure.

On another note, you must go over and see Timmy, (the April 22 post) if you haven't already. He is quite the scholar.

Patches

Billie

For those of you who attended our nap-a-thon in January, this is Billie, the girl who gave us the talk on "How to get the most out of your human without them knowing it". She is our cousin kitty and lives with one of the Mom and Dad's boys up on Sugar Mountain. She is about 8 years old, a real ginger cutey. She has been with the boy since she was a kitten.

Patches

Cow Pies

In Phase One, The Mom and Dad raked about five acres of the Big Piney Woods and are now ready for Phase Two.

In Phase Two, The Dad will be working on a retaining wall and spreading grass seed and fertilizer. The Mom will be spreading bull.......excuse me........cow pies.....the real kind, the kind kids like to walk in barefoot and throw at each other. The Mom and Dad went to the neighbors farm (it is a steer ranch) and Farmer Jack loaded the Metal Monster truck named Blu with four buckets of rich steer dodo the Mom calls Black Gold. (I call it just plain stinky.) While The Mom was waiting for Farmer Jack to load them, she played with a black and white woofy. She tossed a plastic disk to him and he would jump up in the air and catch it, bringing it back to her, all slobbery. She smelled all dogified, so I huffed away, having nothing to do with her.

In Phase Three, The Dad will be using the Grass Eating Monster (aka lawn mower) and the Skinny Cutting Monster, (aka edge trimmer) and The Mom will be spreading the Black Gold on her flower beds and planting lots of flowers. She bought a whole bunch today, wave petunias, wallflowers, gerbera daisies and pansies. She says this is a start.

In Phase Four, The Mom and Dad sit back, relax, and enjoy their work, inbetween mowing, watering, weeding, killing bugs, more fertilizing, which takes up most of the summer. There really seems to be something wrong with this picture because, come fall, it all dies anyway.

Patches

Clicky Box Lessons

The Mom is going to the library place this morning to take a class on taking pictures with her clicky box. Oh, no!!!! Does this mean she will be taking MORE pictures of us than she already does? Does this mean we will be bothered when we are trying to sleep, bothered when we are eating, or playing or meditating with the flashes in the face? Does this mean she has gone mad??? I think I will hide so she can't click away at me.

Patches

News

We have Catolympic news. A blog has been created to view news, updates, any information that becomes available about the event. Go HERE and bookmark this page for future reference.

We have been tagged by Zeus. We need to list five kitty words we like........here they are (well six):

Happy Toes (spreading toes when very happy)
Making Biscuits (kneading and purring)
Monsters (huge noisy large machines, run by beans)
Little Wafers (tiny children)
Pancakeing (curling up in a ball)
Motor Running or Purr Machine Going (purring)

Now we must tag five kitties...let's see.......we tag:

The Monsters
Lone Star Purr
Oreo
Fat Eric
Furry Paws

Patches

On Napping....

I feel like napping

Dreaming things that kittie's dream

Until the day's done

~Patches~

Back To Normal

It is really nice to get our house back to normal. There were toys everywhere and loud strange noises. The Mom and Dad stayed up too late, and ate at strange times. There were people coming and going at all hours. Each night I got under the covers and cuddled the Mom, because I missed her. I am, as Patches will verify, a real skairty cat, and I don't like anyone but them, so I hid, staying in the closet the whole time.

The Mom is going to the Drill Doctor today for her tooth. I am wondering if the Dad will have to put her in a carrier to get her there. She says she hates to go about as bad as we hate to go to T.E.D. (The Evil Dr.) I will give her extra purrs when she comes home.

*Update: Mom said the Drill Doctor was painless, but not the bill.....so I will purr to make her forget.

Mittens

Company

The Little Winnemucca Wafer and her Mom will be here for a few days, so the Mom says we should be good hostesses and stay off the computer. So......everycat, we will be back in a few days.

***Update 4/18.........we will be back tomorrow (Wednesday, yipee!!!)

Patches

Happy Easter!

I heard from Mistrie, who seems to know a lot about what is going on, that this truly is the day the Easter Bunny hides eggs, baskets and candy. Little Winnemucca Wafer got here last night, so The Mom can give her the basket I saw, later the two other boy wafers will come and get their chocolate treats. Because Mom is going to have the family for dinner, it means:

1. Mittens will hide.

2. I will be ever so cute and purr up to everyone.

3. Mistrie will do her soulful look with her nose up to the glass, as she tries to win over the company.

All in all, it should prove to be a good day; The Mom will eat a ton of jelly beans and fix a ham, and everyone will slip me some.

Patches

Getting Ready

Today we are getting company for a few days, so I am watching for them. The Dad's daughter and the Little Wafer are coming all the way from Winemucca, Nevada, to visit the rest of the family, (2 sons, a daughter, and their families) and have dinner on Easter. Mom is busy cooking and cleaning. She is going to have ham....oh, boy!!!

I saw a pretty little basket upstairs with a rabbit hanging on it, and tons of candy, which I don't like. The Mom says it is for the Little Wafers, and the Easter Bunny left them here, for them. She said usually the bunny hides them, but she is helping the bunny out, so she will hide them. Maybe the bunny will bring us something...........

Patches

Happiness Is.......

On this spring day, Mistrie found a sunny spot to enjoy, after a gray winter.
(Not taken today, it is back to raining.)

Busy Mom

Mom has been busy redoing her Idaho Nature Trail's blog template. Now both her blogs are done (yeah, right Mom; I have heard that before.) I am looking on, supervising. Without my help, it would have taken extremely longer. I didn't even get my normal nap. Now I am really tired.

Patches

Party Pictures (3)

At the dance..........

(Left) (Angelica (above) and Victor Tabbycat (below) watch the dancers.
(Right) GigoloKitty looks for another dance partner.

Time to rest and nap................

(Left) Ariel ready to nap.
(Right) Smeagol (behind) & Strider, all tuckered out.

Other kitties who stopped by for the party. (Mom didn't get pictures, sorry.)
Brandi
Meeko and Kiara
Bella and Dolce
Egypt and Dino
Luna
Georgia

Party Pictures (2)

Here are some additional party pictures, with more coming tomorrow.

(Left) While Dancing, Edsel pulls Boni's tail, as Mittens watches.
((Right) Bonnie listens to the tunes.

(Left) Beau Beau checking out the party invitation.
(Right) Sammy looks on, as Mistrie tosses party favors at him.

Party Pictures (1)

Here are pictures of some of the kitties who took hokey pokey lessons.
Helping out the kitties learn left from right paws, we put purple stickers on the left paw. More pictures tomorrow.

(Left) Miles waiting to start lessons.
(Right) Smiley Boy, Derby visits with Patches after lessons.

(Left) Chatham cleans sticker off, after the lesson.

(Right) Charlie checks his paw.

Party Posts (2)

We decided to make a second post for comments, the one is getting long and taking a long time to load. So start posting party comments here.........

Party Posts

This spot is reserved for comments for those of you attending the dance party (see post below.)
The party has begun. Put on your dancing toes.

Patches, Mittens, Mistrie