Easy Like Sunday ?

It's not the easiest Sunday here in O Hi O. Our lives have been disrupted! Daddy has moved all of our furniture out of the living room. There is plastic on the floor and there are containers of stinky colored stuff all over the place. We are not allowed in the living room! Diamond is having a hard time being a good boy and staying out of the living room because he always has to be where Daddy is.
We'll show you photos of the whole mess this week.
We are also very sad because our friend Halloween left for the Bridge. Please take a moment to send some comfort to her Food Lady and Food Dude.

Photo Hunt - Spotted

Puff has a spotted ball!

Stuck on her clawrz!

It's lots of fun!

Wanna' Play?

Please Help - Day Two

 

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It's the last day to vote for Wayside Waifs kitties!  Wayside Waifs is in the running for a prize of 10k - they have submitted a video for consideration called "7000 Stories" - it shows just a few stories of the animals they help. Please go and vote for it - PLEASE! Just click on the above link and look for the merle doggie (he's the gray, black and white doggie), if you hover over his photo you will see "7000 Stories" - click on that to vote.
Thank you so much for doing this, and please send your prayers to Halloween. She's sick and needs our purrs and our prayers.
Smoochies to all of you, all of us can make a difference - really!

Please Vote - And Do It Tomorrow Too!

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Huge favor kitties, huge favor - please! Wayside Waifs is in the running for a prize of 10k - they have submitted a video for consideration called "7000 Stories" - it shows just a few stories of  the animals they help. Please go and vote for it - PLEASE! Just click on the above link and look for the merle doggie (he's the gray, black and white doggie), if you hover over his photo you will see "7000 Stories" - click on that to vote. You can vote today and tomorrow - and please ask all of your friends to do the same!

It just takes a few moments, watch the video and you will see why Mommy is proud to be associated with such a fine organization. They deserve to win this! Thanks and smoochies!

Wordless Wednesday

Tattle Tail Tuesday

When Mom's out of town we enjoy sitting at the dining room table. Oh, and furring up Daddy's coat - that's a lot of fun too! Daddy says that we should have bought stock in lint rollers! How many lint rollers do you have in your house?

The Rudy Report

What's the haps' kitties? Rudy-Patootie here with the Rudy Report!

Goodness gracious sakes alive! Aren't I gorgeous? Even when I'm bad, I'm good! Look at those paws, those ears, those eyes...the floof! YIKES - I'm the whole kitty package...but enough about me and my splendor. It was a wet weekend here in O Hi O. Rain and rain and rain - all of the snow is gone, just in time for more snow in a few days. At this rate I will never get out on the deck. Speaking of the deck, I have what the 'rents call "cabin fever". Every time they go upstairs I run after them and sit by the door. Then I say "meow, meow, meow, MEOW" - which, as you know, is kitty-speak for open the door! NOW! The 'rents say "No" - which, as you know, is kitty-speak for "we are too stoopid to listen to you". And if that isn't bad enough they made 15 bean soup for the weekend. What kind of stoopid food is that? Food with 15 beans in it? Does that make them cannibals? Get it? Beans eating beans??? HaHaHaHaHa! I crack me up!

Anywho...I hope you kitties are all doing well, we've about got January over with and soon Parker will be all about Valentine's Day and swooning over a certain psycho tabby. She's such a little love-sick kitty.

Mommy is leaving us to go green-paper hunting in another town for a few days. I like it when she goes for a little while, Daddy is a lot more liberal with the treats. But I will miss her giving me skritches, she knows all the good spots!

Asta la' pasta kitties - keep your furry side up!

Easy Like Sunday

We had big thunderboomies and lightning last night! All of our snow is gone because it's raining. Mommy says that it's raining CATS and dogs! I don't see any cats or dogs in the sky, so I think Mommy is a little strange. Puff is no fan of loud noises and she's hanging close to the 'rents. Rudy is being himself, so that means I need to keep an eye on him. We are warm and dry inside, but if there are little raining cats and dogs out there, I hope they are having fun! Have a cozy Sunday kitties!

Photo Hunters - Balanced

Our resident Orange Menace trying to balance on Auntie Lois's lap.

What a graceful and balanced guy!

Traffic Congestion

...I thought trolls were supposed to live under bridges, not at the top of the stairs! I don't know what the password is, but I'm going to try this one - MOVE!

The Cat's In The Bag

What you see here is Powder exploring the joys of a paper bag with the handles removed. She really enjoys a good game of "kitty in the bag"...as long as the bag isn't a plastic one. You see, way back when, before I was born, Powder had a little "incident" with a plastic bag. She was just an itty-bitty kitten playing with a plastic shopping bag and she got her neck stuck in one of the handles - she panicked and ran and ran and ran through the house with Daddy trying to catch her to remove the bag. Powder ran under the sofa and proceeded to get the bag (and herself) caught in one of the sofa springs. Daddy had to put the sofa on it's side and cut the bag from her neck. To this day if she even hears a plastic bag she runs away from it. To this day, if a bag comes in the house - plastic or paper, Mommy cuts the handles off of it!
Good times kitties..good times...

Wordless Wednesday - Powder

A Table For Two

Powder may be tiny, but there is nothing tiny about that girl's appetite! At least she comes up for air every once in a while!

The Rudy Report

YahSU kitties, It's me Rudy the Cutie with the Rudy Report. It was a working weekend here at the kitty domo in O Hi O. We were forced to help with some early Spring cleaning. I can tell you this, cleaning chandeliers is hard and tedious work. Your claws get caught in the little crystals and I am no fan of working with water.

Puff was not amused when daddy suggested she use her floof to polish the crystals. I think that all crystals should stay in our litter box where they belong. There was a reward of ham at the end of the day - fair payment for a day of labor! Between you and I, I'm glad that it's Monday and I can get some rest while the 'rents go to their hunting places!

Sweet, Sweet Memories...

Hi kitties, woulda' look at me in this photo? Gentle warm breezes and the sweet sun on my furs...
I'd like to feel those things today but that's not going to happen.
But a little kitty can dream, can't she?
So on this Sunday I will be napping and dreaming sweet dreams of summer.
January can be a very long month.

Photo Hunt - Jiggly

It was almost too easy, when I think of jiggly...well my belly fits the bill.

I was honored with this award by the lovely felines at Four Crazy Cats! I am late in thanking them - but I am so happy that they thought of me!

The Superior Scribbler Award was started by The Scholastic Scribe to celebrate their 200th post. To read more about the Superior Scribbler Award click HERE.

As with every award, there are some rules that need to be followed:
Each Superior Scribbler (SS) must pass the Award on to 5 deserving blogger friends.
Each SS must link the author and name of the blog from whom he/she received the award.
Each SS must display the award on his/her blog and link to the post which explains the award.
Each SS is asked to visit the post which explains the award and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List.
Each SS must post these rules on his/her blog.
I would like to pass this award on to the following serious scribblers:
You and you and you and you and you!

Smoochies - have a nice Caturday - we are helping the 'rent clean chandeliers today!

Starting the Weekend Off Right...

Ahhhhhhhhhh...

In Memory of My Friend

 For a friend

Our thoughts and prayers to LC's family. She ran to the Bridge yesterday and became it's newest angel. I posted this poem when her brother Skeeter passed away a little over a year ago. I hope it brings some small comfort to LC's family. LC, someday we will meet at the Bridge, save a sun spot for me.

Where to Bury A Cat


There are various places within which a cat may be buried. We are thinking now of a tabby cat, a striped cat, whose coat was like watered silk, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This cat is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good cat. For beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or chased bees, or lifted head to challenge some winged intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. For if the cat be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that cat sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in kittenhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where the most exhilarating moles burrow. It is all one to the cat, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a cat. One place that is best of all. If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have guessed, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living cats, they shall not hiss at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no mew pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a cat. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place to bury a good cat is in the heart of his owner.
by Ben Hur Lampman, Portland Oregonian, 1921

Wordless Wednesday

Keeping A Clean Machine...

The Rudy Report

Greetings and salutations kitties! It's me, Rudy the Rudester with the Rudy Report. If you are like me and live in God's deep freezer, I hope you are staying warm. If you are the lucky kitties in the land down under and such, I hope you are staying cool. And if you are in Hollywood, call me, I need a good agent!

Mom decided that she should make pasta on Saturday. You can see by my expression how underwhelmed I was! I was less impressed with the tomato sauce...

Pasta = Blech!

Fast forward to Sunday.What do I hear? Sizzle? What do I smell? Pig?!? SCORE! BACON!!!
That made up for pasta and tomato sauce and coconut cake - bacon is sooooo good! We all got teensy-tiny tastes, but man-o-man was it ever nommy! I can't begin to describe Parker's behavior other than to say we called her something that rhymes with blog...

Easy Like Sunday

Mr. Sun made a rare appearance here in O Hi O and Powder made the most of it. All of us caught a major case of the "kitty crazies" and we played THoE, chase the foam balls and some Cat Dancer. It was great. The only thing that wasn't great was that Mommy did NOT make HAM with catnip seasoning. She made pasta with tomato sauce and there was no sharing, which really was OK with me. She also made a coconut cake for Daddy. Again, no sharing. Thank goodness for Stinky Goodness is all I have to say...

See? What kind of cat treat is this I ask you???

Saturday Caturday

It's a good day for me to show the 'rents how to relax - I've been playing with one of my 3 Blind Mice from Marvelous Melissa  and now it's time to be velcro kitty on one of the radiators. It's very, very cold  - 0 degrees! Daddy only lets Diamond outside for a few minutes because any longer than that and he would be a pupsicle!

I think the 'rents need to stay inside and cook something yummy. Maybe some HAM seasoned with catnip!

Formerly Feral Friday

It's snowing in O Hi O. A lot. A whole bunch. Mucho snow. I sit in the window and snicker at Diamond when he goes outside. I am so happy I have litter boxes at my disposal. And radiators. Radiators rock!

Thankful Thursday - Chilly Edition

I am thankful for a warm home.

On the other side of this window is my Daddy scraping ice off of the truck.
Brrrrrrrrrr!

Wordless Wednesday - Puff

My Sister the Hussy

What the H-E-double hockey sticks is going on here?

What's she doing in Daddy's arms looking all cute???
That's MY job!

What a little hussy...

The Rudy Report

Hey Hey Hey!

 Rudy here for my first edition of the Rudy report in 2010!

How's the new year treating you? Good I hope!

2009 was a year of many ups and downs and all arounds. I love the new year, it's a time to start off with a clean slate. I have only made one resolution and that's to have more fun and laughter. So far, so good! Today is the day that Mommy goes back to her hunting grounds and I have to tell you kitties, if she made the same resolution as me...well she would have broke it this morning. Not a lot of laughing or fun outta' her. But I'll be right here waiting for her when she returns this evening with a smile on my face and some floof on the floor! Mondays can be a drag if you let them - I am bigger than Monday!

Stay happy kitties and keep the home front ready for the return of your 'rents this evening. They'll need your purrs and comfort after facing the mother of all Mondays!

It's Official...

...the holidays are over...

My poor tree is going to become mulch.

Clean up in aisle 10!

Saturday Caturday

Mommy says that she has a very long list and a bad case of the 'busys' today. And Daddy is taking all of our decorations down! Our tree is being taken outside! SOB!  I was enjoying the last few weeks, I was giving Mommy relaxation lessons on the couch and now all of my hard work seems to be forgotten.
I wonder how many of you kitties are noticing the same thing - You just get the 'rents all trained and relaxed and the next thing you know they've forgotten everything you have taught them!
ps - our purrs and prayers are going to Bobbie she is very ill - please get well soon!

The Best Way To Start A New Year...

...is with Daddy skritches! I am so thankful I have 'fomerly' in front of feral.
Happy 2010 kitties! We had a great night with great food - shrimps! Cows! Temptations! And when the ball dropped we were with the ones we love.
Here's hoping that every day in 2010 is as good as the way it began!