One Word Wednesday

WARM!

Memorial Monday

The purpose of today's holiday in the US is to remember the men and women who have given their lives for our freedom. Especially at this time, we wish to honor the estimated 5,885 who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan during the past 10 years and also the many who have been injured. As Spitty's Mom points out indirectly by his comment, it is a good time to honor all who serve or have served, whether they were killed or injured, or fortunately not.

This picture is from last year with my American Flag and catnip, because this year's nip plant is still small.

Sunday Sniffing

Here is my pressie from my humans to make up to me for going away. It didn't come in the suitcase, but it came from the garden center yesterday. I hope you all approve. I plan to spend as much time as I can on the deck today along with my new catnip plant.

PhotoHunt - Looking Down

In other matters, yes my humans are home. Many of my friends thought I should punish them for going away, or that they should bring me presents, or SOMETHING. But they came without gifts because the Delta Airlines didn't get their suitcase onto the plane, and I was SO HAPPY to see them that I just purred and snuggled and fawned all over them - I just couldn't hold out. I am fine, I had plenty of window ledge time, no hairball accidents or other mishaps. I am sure I will keep Mommy awake at night purring and purring for several days till I finally become accustomed to their return.

Happy weekend, all. I hope to be better at commenting on your blogs now that I have secretarial help again.

Floofy Friday

I am pretty much napped out. They should be home today, then things will get more interesting.

Thursday's Gardening Post

::3 Paw Taps::

Mom doesn't have any new good outside pictures of me in the garden, but I wanted to show you my Dad's orchid plant. He is especially pleased with the number of flowers on the plant, because orchids are not all that easy to grow, even the "easiest" kind like this one called a Phaelanopsis.
It usually stays in the "kitty free zone" of the living room bay window, but I am actually pretty good and don't try to eat it.

Would you believe that they were willing to leave me home just in the care of a pet sitter, but Dad didn't trust the pet sitter to care correctly for the orchid, so he took it to a friend's house?

Anyhow, they are going to be home very very soon. Next week I hope to post real outside pictures! And better than this one:

Wordless Wednesday

Tabby Tuesday

Mom usually thinks of tabbies as grey or brown cats with black or darker brown stripes orsplotches. However I am an orange tabby. Mom wasn't sure that I really qualified as "tabby", rather thinking of me as a striped "ginger cat". Out of curiosity, Mom looked up "Tabby Cat" on Wikipedia and learned this interesting fact about tabbies, orange tabbies and why you can never get a solid orange cat:

The tabby patterns are due to 3 distinct gene loci and one modifier:

The agouti gene, A/a,^[7] controls whether or not the tabby pattern is expressed. The dominant A reveals the underlying tabby pattern, while the recessive non-agouti or "hypermelanistic" allele, a, prevents it. Solid-color (black or blue) cats have the aa combination, hiding the tabby pattern, although sometimes a suggestion of the underlying pattern can be seen (called "ghost striping"). However, the O gene for orange color suppresses the aa genotype, so there is no such thing as a solid orange cat.

This is from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat

There is more there if you are interested in Tabby Genetics!

Sailing Sunday

Come, kitties, let's get Admiral Hestorb to lead us on a sailing adventure today! See, I have lots of yachts for us to use and the weather is perfect!

Mom and Dad got to see these sailboats gathering and starting in the Leukemia Cup Regatta yesterday. It was quite exciting to watch. They don't know who the winners were: prizes go to the fastest sailboats, but the grand winner is the team raising the most money, which goes to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Isn't that a great idea?

So now let's borrow those boats and sail away, mateys!