Few Words Wednesday

Helping Dad paint the ceiling

Shabby Monday

Our friend Alfie has declared that today will be Shabby Chic Day. The idea is to show ways in which you have helped to shabbify (decorate) your home.

I certainly have made my share of vomit stains on the carpeting, but Mom and Dad have done reasonably well at getting them out with Stain Shot, or the Bissell cleaner machine (though not completely). I don't have front clawrs, so haven't been able to decorate a couch in that way, but my presence is keenly felt on the family room sofa by the presence of one or more blankies.

This blue and white one often resides at the end of the couch and I get it nice and furred up. This is a great shabby chic decorating touch, both the blanket's presence and the furring. When Mom washes it, the fur doesn't all come off, but forms little balls of fur that stick to the blanket. I think you can see a few in the picture, but believe me, there are many! She tries to pick them off, but never gets them all.

Now actually, my humans have had this couch for nearly 19 years, so I don't actually see how what I do can make it look any shabbier!

Mom said she thought the crossed pawsies were a nice touch. Crossed pawsies for all the humans and animals who aren't feeling tip top to get better soon.

Photo Hunt - Trees

This photo from early last summer shows part of our deck and impatiens, but it also shows the kind of trees in our yard and our neighbors' yards. This is actually looking towards, and mostly, our side neighbor's back yard. All up and down the street, the houses have lots of very tall Pin Oaks. These kind of oak trees don't branch outwards a lot, but they keep growing up and up and stay fairly slender. The have deep roots, and also sway in the wind. Mom remembers when they first moved into this house, when my human brother was a baby, they had the remnants of a hurricane pass over and it was quite un-nerving to see the trees swaying back and forth in the wind. She is much more used to the way they can do that now.

Audrey and some Advice

So a little while ago, I dropped a hint that my cousin Audrey might be coming to live with us. You see, my human sister is getting married in June and her fiance is allergic to cats. So the plan is that after the wedding, my humans will bring Audrey back to live with us. But here is the thing: they will have to do that on a PLANE, and Audrey has never gone on a trip before, and my humans have never taken a cat on a plane before. They can get a booking for her to go in the cabin with them in a soft carrier, but they are asking for anybody who has had some experience with traveling by plane with a cat to please give them some input about what to expect, and how the experience worked for them. What did you do about the cat needing pee or poo during the trip (from the time of leaving the first house until arriving at the second house, including time at the airport - they estimate this will be a total of about 6 hours if everything goes off on time). Did your cat cry on the plane? Did it freak out? Did you sedate it?

Thanks everybody!

Thankful Thursday

I can't really do a Gardening Post today, because it is rainy and also Gardeningly Boring round here (we have a scrap of forsythia and nothing else going on). So today I wanted to tell you about one thing I am very thankful for: my Dad and the Brush. He sits in his big stuffed armchair, I sit on the arm of the chair, and he brushes me with a small regular hairbrush. I think you can see how I like it. Mom is not so good for the Brushing because she tries to sneak in too much side and tummy brushing and that I Do Not Allow. So I put the bitey on her to let her know I don't appreciate it. Dad never tries to take advantage.

Tag on Tuesday

A while ago I told you how I had to get licensed and get a tag this year? Well, Mom tried quite hard to get a photo of me wearing my tag: she wanted it to show the 007 number. This is the best she got because of my furs. But she says she thinks it looks like tiny red heart. I don't wear the collar all the time, because my humans don't want my neck fur to get thinned out from it. But Mom has given Dad strict instructions to put the collar on me if ever they go on the deck, in case I escape. I wouldn't want to be breaking the law and be considered to be a feral kitty!

Easy Sunday

Sunny here, 50ish. Maybe it will warm up enough a little later for a spot of deck time.

Ginger Jasper's Mom posted a pretty picture of a Cactus bloom, and so did Marg of Marg's Pets. We also have two cactus blooming plants, one of which is a plant that originally belonged to my Mom's Mom, and the other which was purchased in honor of her sister. The paler of the two plants has been blooming these past couple of weeks, presumably because it got just the right cool climate in the window. So in honor of mothers and sisters everywhere (it is Mothering Sunday in the UK) here are a couple of pictures Dad took:

Photo Hunt - Closed

I think many kitties who feature Photo Hunt on Saturdays are posting about closed doors today. This is my version from a couple of years ago:

On the other hand:

April Fool's Day

It looks like the weatherman/lady played an April Fool's Day trick on me by telling me we were going to have a lot of snow. The temperature has stayed above freezing, and so far it has just been rain! There may be a little snow later but now he/she is saying there won't be much accumulation.

Happy April 1st, everybuddy!