Wordless Wednesday

Monday is Laundry Day

Mom says she doesn't know how our family manages to create so much laundry (or Washing as my international friends may call it). She is very pleased she lives in a country where a washing machine and a (tumble) dryer are common fixtures.

I think I have a bit of an idea why clothes need washing so often around here. It rhymes with Mat Bloof.

Snuggly Sunday

Since I don't have any other kitties or woofies here to snuggle with, and I am not much of a lap cat, I usually snuggle in blankets. One favorite crocheted blanket often ends up in a messy pile on the sofa, hence it is called "Messy Blanket". Here I am particularly snuggled into it, and it is in a particularly messy pile. Heavenly and especially appropriate for a chilly Sunday.

Floofy Friday too

Today Fin has posted another of her Floofy Friday posts and I thought to myself, Floof on Fridays works for me as well! Thank you Fin for the idea, because as a Mancat, I cannot do Foxy Friday as suggested by Rumbles. I don't have frootbat ears or flying ears like the Poupounette gang.

So here is some belly floof for you for my Friday post. Stay warm and happy weekend!

Toys

I have read with interest other cats' and dogs' posts about their excitement over new Christmas toys. I have a very limited attention span for any purchased cat toys. Note the bored look on my face when looking at one of my new Christmas balls. However I will play with things not intended to be toys: rubber bands, a balled up piece of paper or foil, etc. Yesterday I discovered a 7-sided plastic container my Mom puts her daily vitamins into so she doesn't forget to take them (one small compartment for each day of the week) and I discovered I could use it like a hockey puck on the carpet. I had a fun game with it.

Mom says she is going to have a garage sale to get rid of all the cat toys I never play with*, so some other kitty can have some fun with them!

*Edited to add: or she could give them to a shelter

Toesday?

I am mostly lying on my toes in this picture. But you can see them if you look hard. I have very stubby toes, on account of the fact that my previous owners had me declawed long before my Mom and Dad got me from them. Though my Mom and Dad would not take a kitty to be declawed themselves, they notice that I do seem to do fine with my clawless front feet, and even "shred" the sofa with them on occasions.

During the Christmas holidays I get more chances to go into the living room, a sacred place that is usually off limits for kitties due to the potential for breakage of Precious Things, as well as the intolerance of the rug and white couch to Cat Barf. Here I am doing my Lion in the Cave imitation under the coffee table, where it is a little harder for Mom to get a hold of me and remove me from the room. I was also catching part of a nice sunspot.

Easy on Sunday

This blue and white checked fleece blanket is all mine - I may share some other blankets with the folks, but not this one. It usually covers the end couch cushion. However Mom had folded it back diagonally so as not to breathe in my fur when she lay down on the couch.

I laid on it anyway - even though I had to squoosh myself over against the arm of the couch in order to fit on its small size. Mom says I am a Funny Boy.

It is COLD here! I hope all furry creatures are keeping warm, wherever you are. Some of that New Zealand sunshine looks very tempting right now, Misha, Cosmo, Noggin, Rumbles, Inigo, and PoppyQ !

Apple IIe and Belle

Apparently the computer Belle is lying on (yesterday's post) is called an Apple IIe. My commenters had excellent guesses about when the picture was taken. My folks bought the computer for Christmas 1983, and continued to use it till the beginning of the 1990s. The picture of Belle was taken in 1989. Belle lived until she was nearly 14 human years old and went to the Rainbow Bridge in 2003.

Mom tells me in the"old days" they mostly used the computer for word processing, and the internet had not been "discovered" then. And that the screen was not in color, and the computer didn't have a hard drive. I cannot believe any of that. She must be wrong.

Favorite Felines on Friday

So many kitties are publishing pictures or videos of themselves when they were kittens, in honor of Fin and her Mom's birthday. Since I was already about 18 months old when I came to live with my Mom and Dad, they do not have any kitten pictures of me. However, I present this kitten picture of Belle, who came before me and also went to the Rainbow Bridge before I arrived here. Her kitten ears are quite frootbattish! She was a girl after my own heart in the way she would lie on the computer (My Mom's current computer is too skinny to lie ON, so I lie between it and the keyboard). She also loved to lie on the back of the couch cushions. Here she was a grown cat:


Belle knew Rusty, and I knew Rusty, so I guess in a way I knew her too.

Can you guess when the picture with Belle lying on the computer was taken?