Blogging Break

Mom is getting busier and busier these days, what with my hooman sister's wedding getting closer and everything. So we are going to take a little break from blog posts. Where possible we will still read your blogs and comment occasionally. I will be back when I am back.

Easy Sunday

We had a couple of really really hot days here this past week. I seem to have discovered that if I lie belly up in the MIDDLE of the family room floor, it is the coolest. Mom doesn't know why THERE is coolest, but I am very consistent. Perhaps the a/c air drops down (cold air falls, hot air rises) in such a way that it really is the best right there. Surprisingly I don't lie right under where the cool air vent is.

Happy cool-but-not- too- cold Sunday. Our weather has cooled off and become wet now.

Photo Hunt - Triangle

Mom couldn't find any new credible triangle pictures related to me (as we did this theme last year), so these are from their trip to Florida. The first is from the regatta they watched:

And this one is a telephoto shot from when Dad did a bit of kite flying. It makes the kite look a lot closer to those balconies than it really was.

Thursday Gardening Post

::3 Paw Taps::

As you can tell by the last photos I have posted, I am spending much more time on the deck in my Feline Funhouse, with the doorway open. Dad has planted the impatiens window boxes and today he was seeding some bare parts of the lawn. But we don't have good pictures to show you. Instead, we will show you what Mom WISHES would grow in our garden:

These lovely roses came to her from my human sister as a belated Mother's Day gift (because they were away on Mother's Day). She thinks they are such a beautiful color! The roses came from Proflowers and, true to their promise" have lasted a week already. We just do not have enough sun in any part of our garden to grow roses, so they are a very special treat.

Now I would like to take a moment to draw your attention to the picture of TK at the top of my sidebar. Dear TK has had diabetes since his human got him, but now his insulin is no longer doing the trick. They could sure use your purrs and prayers and a visit. TK and his sister Squashies have a nice blog, and have traveled all the way to Florida in their new camper van with their Mom. They are really cool kitties.

Update: Things are looking better for TK. Go to his bloggie to read about it.

Wordless Wednesday

Meow Meow Me Me

I was tagged by both Beaded Tail and Princess Jasmine to do the Meow Meow Me me meme. Thanks, guys!

Here are the questions and answers:

1) Where do I like to hang out?

I could have lots of answers to this question, because I have many favorite spots: the wide window ledge in the basement, behind the dining room curtain, on the end of the sofa, or anywhere MOM is (I can be a pain to her at the laptop). But nowadays that the weather is so lovely here at home, Dad has set up my little table and towel inside my feline funhouse on the deck, and I hang out there whenever he has time to supervise me.

2) Who is my kitty crush?

I luvs so many of the ladies! I don't want to leave anyone out. Probably closest to my heart right now is Admiral Herstorb (alias Queen Miss Catt), since I was very worried about her not eating, and am so happy she is doing better these days and looking so silky.

3) What is my favorite scent?

I LOVE to smell the outside out my Dad's shoes, or anything he was carrying when he comes back home, such as a briefcase, or bags from the store. i sniff and sniff and sniff these things, and can tell all the places he has gone.

4) What is my favorite tv show?

I refuse to actually even glance at the human tv (where my Mom loves to watch Castle and The Mentalist, and Desperate Housewives), but the big window in the basement is my big screen tv to watch the chipmunk channel. I can see a lot of small animals but the chipmunks fascinate me the most.

5) What is my favorite movie?

I don't have an answer to this for myself, so I will say The Harry Potter movies for my Dad's favorites, and I think there may be a cat or two in those movies.

6) What is my favorite bit of feline wisdom?

Clean your food bowl and then meow pitifully an hour later with big eyes and convince them you are starving. (I try this without cleaning my food bowl and it doesn't work as well).

I need to tag three kitties to do this meme. I know quite a few have been doing it, so what if I tag all four of the handsome cats at Cat's Cats. I hope they have time to do it. Their humans just got married in Hawaii so now they are an official family, and the cats went along as flat cats! Go and check it out here. Their Mom and Dad looked so beautiful/handsome.

Dirty

This week's Photo Hunt theme is "Dirty." Let me show you a photo of Dad's work to replant some Impatiens plants in a round hanging pot:

Such dirt spillage! Hmmmphhh!

Actually, there is a longer story to the repotting. Overnight, 3 things happened on the deck, which may or may not be related.

1) Some plastic containers with baby spider plants in them (in water) were overturned

2) One of these 2 pots of impateins was knocked down from the deck railing to the ground below, mashing 3 of the new plants

3) a large bird pooped a huge poop on the deck (suspect: roosting turkey). No photo was taken before dad hosed the mess down, but believe me, it was LARGE AND DIRTY!

And to add to the dirty theme, at supper time the night before (while my humans were eating) I came into the kitchen dragging my butt on the floor. Cue the TOBY!!!! advertisement for Stanley Steamer. SO appetizing during dinner. That dirty bottom took quite some cleanup. My dignity was protected by no photography, but here is a picture of the clean product.

And while I am baring/airing all my dirty laundry, here's a picture of my dinner bowl and the mess on the floor around it.

Photo Hunt

I am postponing my Saturday Photo Hunt until tomorrow, due to the sad news we just got that sweet little Asia has gone. See my post below.

Asia Has Gone

Update: Saturday - Sweet Asia has gone to the Rainbow Bridge. Run and fly free and healthy, little Itty Bitty. We grew to love you so.

Posted on Thursday: Sweet little Asia has been sick for a while with something wrong in her insides, and now also a respiratory sickness. This beautiful Bengal girl is an "Itty Bitty" two year old. She has been at the emergency vet's and the regular vet's, home overnight one night, and has had exploratory surgery too. Please purr very hard for her to get better and for her Mom not to be too stressed. You can see her and her siblings on their blog www.epetmeadow.com Her Mom has posted a sweet short video of her for us to visualize her being better.