update

strange stuff going on around here....the TV was on earlier for something called "Macy's Parade"-- it was fun chasing the big yellow bird on the screen! Then stuff got moved in the living room and mom started cleaning!!-- I found my missing bottle-caps when she was doing that..but then the carpet monster came on and of course I went down to the basement where it couldn't get me and played. Now mom is peeling some things called potatoes and people are supposed to be coming over later......I will try to do more updates!!

Thanksgiving

Mom let me go outside and get the paper!!! It's furry cold out right now and there's this white stuff on efurrything-- what's that? Oh.....Mom says it's called "frost". I had to stop and investigate of course, this frost stuff is kinda wet but it makes efurrything smell different and sound different, too. Wow, this day is starting out great! Gotta go eat some breakfast now, I'll try to post again later today, but if not...Happy Thanksgiving!

window problem

See the red box? That's my window-seat. Normally, it's against the window, but lately Dad has been snatching it to use as a foot-rest because "that's what an Otto-Man is for" and then later Mom has to put it back by the window. But now there's something new...
it was like that overnight..for the adhesive to stick better...

then this foam was put on top of it, which I promptly took a bite to taste it.
(if you click on the picture to biggify, you can see the corner I bit and the piece of foam in my mouth......that Mom took from me *sigh* how's a guy supposed to learn anything?)

then a cover was put on it and I was dropped onto the cover (it's sheepskin)


Ok, ok, I'm sitting on it! Can you put away the flash-box??



Then I wouldn't stay on it, so Mom tossed my Bear to get me up there...


which I promptly took off and put on the couch and I settled on the floor underneath...


Then she tossed Bear up there again!


*sigh* I like my Otto-man...not sure about the new seat..plus, now I can feel the cold air thru the glass.


zzzzzzz.....

Last present

This is the last present I got from Mom & Dad's trip (abandonment)...I was excited at first because it had a mouse on it! ooo, goody, something to chase! And it says "Walt Disney World" on it. If they've got mice, I wanna go next time!


Here I am checking it out...


then I thought it was a string toy- so I started chewing on it.


They tricked me!!! I'm not wearing nuffin'! Nope, no how, no way get it off!! (I was still chewing on the strings)


*sigh* ooo, there's somethin' at the window


stupid....dang....thing....but at least I can still reach the string to chew it!


ooo, hey, look at the birds outside!


Hat? I don't care what it's called, you're not getting it on my head-- and so far, they haven't. They can put it 'round my neck, but I'm not letting it on my head! Nuffin's gettin' put on my ears!

Leaf day

Yesterday was furry fun. Mom put on a show for me and I watched from the back and front windows- she made all the leaves move!! She had this noise-thingy and blew all the leaves into piles in the back and then in the front yard moved them all the way to the street! (not on the street) It was furry interesting to watch-- noisy, but fun.

And today, Dad went outside, too. He had this biiig blue thing that he put on the ground and then stood on it and then Mom had the leaf-blower and blew all the leaves in the backyard onto it and then Dad took it up front to dump with the other leaves by the road. This went on several times and was great fun to watch.

White outside

Something happened last night-- it's cold sitting in the window now and outside it's all white! Mom says it's this 'snow' stuff efurryone talks about (she also said something 'bout puttin' on a leash and lettin' me try it out...I'm not sure about that). The other day was real neat-- things were blowing all ofur the place! I kept jumping on the window trying to chase stuff, but none of it came in. The trees on our street lost all their fur (well, mostly..the one in our yard still has lots of leaves on it).

Some more catching up-- I got presents when Mom & Dad came back after their vacation (aka, "The Abandonment"). One was a new mat for my food dishes, here's a picture below. (click to biggify)

I'm not sure about the kitty with the biiiig smile, he's kinda freaky.

Then there's this thing-- I don't think I'm supposed to know about it yet- somethin' coming up soon called "Christmas"...but I smelled catnip!



Now Mom'n'Dad are talking about something called 'Thanksgiving'-- and there's a lot of food involved! That sounds like a furry good thing to me!

And I will try to get my beans to put their funny fur back on, maybe they will be in a silly mood this weekend and if I use my "kitten look" they won't be able to resist! hmm..purring would 'probly help, too.

Oh-- and isn't it annoying that the "remember me" for the sign in doesn't actually work!! (except when posting pics with picasa)

Well, tonight was interesting. There was a pumpkin on my window seat (I finally moved it over so I could sit in the window) that was blinking and Mom & Dad were outside!! *sigh* I wish I could go outside. All these beans with their small beans kept coming up the driveway and to our door where Mom & Dad were sitting. And they all had funny fur! Even Mom & Dad-- and when the little beans came up, they were carrying bags that they opened & Mom & Dad put stuff in them!

I wonder....would that work for me? If I could get outside and just go up to people, would they give me treats?

And too bad I don't know where Mom put the flashy box-- I could've gotten back at her for the embarrasin' picture from the other day. *sigh* oooooo! she's sitting on the couch...snuggle time!!

Happy Halloween, efurryone!

Happy Halloween!

Here are some strange kitties that showed up at my house a couple weeks ago...


I had to check them out.......

nope..it's not a real-live kitty.

Anybody want a fortune told? Oh, it's a witch-kitty?



This one is shy and just stays on the stair corner


This one I'm not sure about...I think it's in cahoots with the strange kitty from the party a few months ago..


What's this trick-or-treat thing I keep hearing about?

Surgery = Presents!

Sorry I haven't been around-- I've been reading blogs, but not in the mood to blog. I was recovering from surgery last week (what am I now? am I still a guy?) and Mom said I was overdue cuz I've been acting horny lately. What does she mean by that? I'm a cat, I don't have horns, I have paws & fur! Silly humans. But now I'm feeling like myself again. But I guess I'm pretty healthy, according to the V.E.T. (I really don't like that place now!)-- and I'm 7 pounds, 10 ounces (or I was when they weighed me) and I'll be 8 months old this Saturday (Nov. 4).

Anyway........George (from the Crew) is gonna be jealous-- I got a new litterbox!! Mom says it's cuz I've gotten big and the dome was getting too short for me. Oh..and she wanted to keep an eye on me last week before she got the new one. But I got it yesterday.

Here I am checking it out- Mom says she likes this better, the liner is actually easier to put in than my other one- there's clips to slip the edge of the liner into so it stays put.



Mooooooom! Sheesh, can't a guy go in peace? It's not finished yet? So what? I gotta go!
(I just love jumping in fresh litter)

Ssooooo much better than newspaper!


This makes a good hiding place!
(don't worry, Mom scooped it out before I sat there)


This is what it looks like put together. The steps are s'posed to help with keeping litter off the floor around my litterbox..but that's only if I use them- I can still hop out!


I have lots more pictures to post and get efurrybody caught up on- but now that I'm feeling better that shouldn't be too hard. Oh- and this weird thing called "Halloween".

On another note- I think I like the beta blogger (thanks for the help, DaisyMae!) and Picasa works with it, too! It'll let you change the size of your photos each time-- but it makes you login each time, too. So if you notice anything funny, let me know and I'll try to fix it.

Pictures

Yay! Pictures are loading again! Here's one of me sitting in a window at Gran'ma's apartment.


And here's me'n'Henry


Here we are again- if you look close, you can see dark stripes on him, so he's a sorta tabby and not all gray (or click on the picture for a bigger image)


Now that it's working again- more pictures will be posted later this week. Gotta go chase the raindrops on the windows!!!

Oh- has anyone switched to the new beta thingy?

Ordeal over

Mom's trying to post pictures, but the computer won't cooperate. Picasa is furry furry slow and then there's something at the bottom saying a LAN cable is unplugged, but she's checked efurrywhere and nothing's unplugged! She thinks that might be the problem. Or is it that new beta-thing that blogger wants us to switch over? Has anyone done that yet? Is it better?

Anyway-- when I was back home that Sunday (Oct. 1), I was so excited, I ran around checking efurrything out. And then I slept all night. First on Mom's lap. Then the floor. Then Dad's lap. Then the floor. Then Mom's lap. Then Dad's lap. Then my blanket on the couch. Then the floor. Then the bed. Then it was the next day. Dad came home from work first and I greeted him with purrs'n'stuff, he seemed really pleased and did some hugging & petting, too. Mom came home later and I met her at the door with purrs and leg-rubbing.

Then I got presents!!!! I got a new floor mat for my food dishes and a catnip toy (Mom has it in the closet until she can figure out where to hang it). And...a....hat. -- more on that later.
Ohhhhh and one other thing about Gran'ma -- she's a 'nip enabler!!!! A couple times she would spread some catnip on the floor and Henry'n'me would roll alll over! *fond sighhhhhhhhhhh*
And Mom'n'Dad have been talking about getting me fixed next week. What do they mean by that? I don't need to be fixed, I'm a cat!!!!

The Ordeal

Day 1:
Strange stuff going on. The red boxes are getting stuffed with clothes and....oh, goody! Car ride! A bit suspicious because the carrier (aka prisoner transport system or pts) is in the car-- the car is stopped. Oh, no! I don't want to go in the carrier, we're at the "Pet-smart" place-- bad stuff happens there! Sure enough, I was taken to a strange room where this person CUT MY CLAWS!!!! I tried huddling, but they pulled me out...so I just worked with looking scared. Strangely, that's all that happened this time- no shots!! Yay!! Then we went back to the car and home. And THEN-- MOM STARTED PACKING ALL MY STUFF!!!! All my toys got put in a box and my food dishes and then my litter box! And then we took a really really really long car ride. It was fun at first, then I started getting anxious and then we parked in some strange place and Mom took some of my stuff and left me alone in the car. She put the car right under a tree, though, so I got to watch the birds. Finally, she came out and got me and stuffed me in the pts and went into a new place filled with strange smells. Mom put me in a small room that had all my stuff set up in it and opened the door to the pts and let me out. I slowly came out, checked the food dishes and went under the bed. Mom and the strange lady (whom I now know is Gran'ma) shut the door and left me alone. That was ok for a while, then I got tired of being shut up and started to meowing to let them know. Mom let me out and I got to explore this place! (gran'ma's apartment)-- it's smaller than home, but I love the windows! They're even with the ground so everything's at eye level. I went sniffing and 'sploring and feeling more comfortable and then it happened. Mom left me there! (aka, I was abandoned). I was so shocked I didn't know what to do, I went back to my room and moped the rest of the night. The strange lady came in and I hissed at her- this was MY room now cuz all my stuff was in it.
Day 2:
There's another cat in here, I can smell him efurrywhere. The strange lady, who told me she's my Gran'ma, let me out for the whole day cuz the other kitty had to go someplace.
Day 3:
The other kitty's back. Gran'ma lets me out for a while, then shuts me in my room and lets the other kitty out. We've been sniffing each other all ofur the apartment and doing the sniffing-paw thing at the doors, but we haven't met yet.
Day 4:
Gran'ma opened the door and we saw each other! We hissed'n'growled. *sigh* She closed the door.
Day 5:
She opened the door again and we saw each other and fought for 5 hours!! There was a lot of chasing, hissing & growling and in the end we were too tired. I was under a table panting and he was under a chair panting. So we called it a draw. His name is Henry and he's gray. But if you look closely he's a tabby like me, he's got dark gray stripes that you can see if the light's right. Oh, and Gran'ma also told us that we're brofurs.
Day 6-?:
We're bestest buds now. We play all day long and have competitions'n'stuff. Like eating-- he starts eating, so I do, and then we see who gets stuffed first (that's the loser-- the winner is the one who eats the most). And he grooms my hard-to-reach places and I groom his hard-to-reach places and we sleep on Gran'ma together. And I taught him to jump on the counter-- Gran'ma's place sure is different than home! At home, I have to jump on the counter cuz that's where the window is. Turns out at Gran'ma's there's just a wall...but since I jumped up there, so did he. After many nappings'n'stuff, this strange lady came in-- her voice sounded funny and she kept making weird noises into a white cloth at her face (those are fun to play with, too!). She also had a camera with her-- here's a picture of me 'n' Henry at the window. If you look closely, you can kinda see his dark stripes. um..well...having posting problems, will try the picture later. And she kept calling me "baby"...her voice sounded kinda familiar. Then my stuff got packed up and I was taken to another car. And we took off. I was meowing loudly to let this lady know that I didn't like being taken from my brofu and I had been purfectly happy at that place! This went on for a while..then I started sniffing the car. I knew this! Then I remembered-- this was Mom!! I was so happy!! I sat in her lap purring the whole trip and stood up for the occasional face lick. The ride was taking fur-ever, I just couldn't wait to get home..and then I didn't feel so good. I got up and went to the back on Mom's poncho and...had an accident. It was really stinky in the car! Luckily, we were only 2 minutes from home, but she didn't blame me for it. oops...I will have to finish this later!

I'M BACK!!

Hey efurrybody, I'm back! And my teeth are all grown in, so I can talk normal again! Sorry it took so long to post, but there was a problem with the internet connection and it was SLOW and the phone wouldn't ring when people called, just a busy signal. (turns out someone had left a phone off the hook-- why did they look at me?? Why do they just assume that because there's a nice, dangly cord thingy hanging that I'm the one who did it?)

Nemo update

Nemo is at his grandmeow's and is missing Mom & Dad. Last update from grandmeow (his Dad's mom) is that he was sitting in her room on his blanket (from our house) cuddling his Bear and looking pitiful. Thankfully, he's not refusing to eat or anything like that, just moping right now. He had a really big day and will probably tell all his friends about it when he gets back.

First we went to PetSmart and got his nails trimmed and then he got some catnip for his toys (he tried to get in the catnip during the car trip) and some Feline Greenies that he loves.

He did really well in the car trip, mostly sat in the back window watching cars go by. Then he got a little anxious (it was a 45min drive) and moved up front to sit in the seat; batted at the rain on the window, did some nuzzling, then moved to the back window again. He only meowed one time the whole trip. Then at "Grandma's", we set up all his stuff in a room and then moved him in. We kept him in that room while we ate late lunch and then heard him meowing and opened the door to let him explore her apartment. Grandma's cat (one of his littermates) was kept in a separate room the whole time (he gets the snip-operation tommorrow). And Nemo seemed to be getting a bit more comfortable-- he certainly likes her windows! Her apartment is on the bottom floor so her windows are even with the ground. She let Henry (her cat) out later, but kept Nemo shut in his room, so they have sniffed each other's scent in the apartment, but it will probably be Saturday or Sunday before they meet, seeing as Henry is having surgery tommorrow. We did some cuddling and then waved bye.

We're missing him already! It was strange packing tonight without the little guy running around in everything. We will be picking him up and bringing him home sometime on Oct. 1. So, no posting until then! Nemo will be doing a LOT of catching up on blogging when he gets back.

going away

They're going away and leaving me behind! I tried being exthra affecx..affecth..exthra nith, rubbing the legth and purring lot'th! But they're sthill leaving.

Mom tried to butter me up when sthe told me I'd be taking a long car trip tommorrow. I'm going to be sthaying at Grandma'th while Mom & Dad are gone. Sthe thaid there will be another kitty fur me to play with-- that he ith one of my brofurth. (I'm not sure I remember him..I wath really little when I decided to stay with Mom & Dad). And all of my sthuff will be going, too...I'm glad-- I don't think I could sthand it without Bear!!

And maybe I'll be able to talk again when they get back! I'll try to do a quick potht tommorrow before I leave-- stho I can find out how long I'll be gone.

thomthing's up

Thomthing'th up around here. There are weird boxeth thitting out and Mom and Dad are putting their clothesth in them. Aand...I overheard them thaying thomthing about "having to leave our baby behind at Grandma'th" -- I had to run around the housth at that to confirm, and I didn't find any blurpy thing anywhere, tho I think they were talking about me!
And juth now- before I could log in here, Mom wath uthing the computer and printing out thomthing called directsthons and then thith thingy bethide the computer stharted sthpitting out paper! I gotta find out whath going on!!

But athide from that, I learned how to drink from the bathroom think! I thusht have to figure how to make the pickthure bigger...but here I am inthpecting the dithwather. (I can't wait until I can talk regular again!!)


What a good thummer day......


Did ya have to turn on the light?

Teefth!

My teefth are growing in! See, in the pickthure below...


My top teefth are growing, too, they juth don't thow up...I will be tho glad when they're done growing- it will be nithe to talk again!! Ith hard to talk properly wif only teefth half grown.

Dad ith gone thith weekend, tho I've had Mom ALL to mythelf! When thee got home yethterday afternoon, we turned on the thurround thound and put Sthar Warth in the DVD player! That wath stho cool!! While it wath playing, Mom wath cleaning (hehe, Dad will be thurprithed when he getth home tonight-- sthee thru away loth of sthuff!) and I helped her! I liked the lath movie befth becuz it had the mothst flathy thingth to cthathe on the sthcreen! But it wuz late then and I napped on Momth lap-- then I got woked up by blurpy thingth!! I got up and glared at the tv, but Mom thayth they're important blurpy thingth. I don't care-- I DON'T like blurpy thingth!!But Mom sthayth I haven't stheen nothin yet cuz we'll watch the original trilogy today while finithing cleaning.

Oh-- and thanthks Unca John for the purty crawl thingy!! (Mom hath sthinth put it up where I can't get to it)

No teef!

My front teef are gone! I haf no fangs now-- the top 'n'bottom ones are all gone. Mom tried to get a picshure so's I could show efurryone, but she couldn't take it quick enuff. She says new ones will grow in. I hope so!

She keeps talkin' about calling a V-E-T to talk 'bout my chewing problem. What problem? Can I help it if I like her arm best? She's tried to get me to stop by distractin' me- but the toys only work 'til they stop moving, then I jump back up. Dunno why she's so mad-- I don't use my claws! And I haf no fangs! And then she growled at me! Can you belief it? Momma growled at me! So I looked all sorry and licked her and 'pologized. And then I went back to bitin' her arm- and she growled again, but since she didn't bite me, I knows I was ok. But then the growlin' gets mad- but I just keeps my mouf on her arm anyway.
And then- to make it worse...she puts something called Viks Vapo-Rub on her arm! Whhheeeeewwww! It's stinky! It's kitty-repellant or something. It's not like I do it all the time, just for a bit efurry night. What's so bad about that?

oh..she says her arms look like she's been slicing them or something....

can I help it? ooooh, gotta go back to biting!

Tuna

Tuna water. Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmm!!!!!

Aliens didn't get me! (yet)

I'm still here, I didn't go anywhere! The room upstairs wif the computer has been furry hot the past few weeks and hard to sit up there fur long enuff to write. But the heat has finally broken!!! Mom actually turned off the air-cooler this weekend and, here's the best part-- OPENED WINDOWS ALL OVER THE HOUSE!!! For 3 days!!! One window in efurry room, it was hard to choose which one to sit in!! So I know I have a lot of catching up to do.

Aliens didn't get me, but we might have gotten one in our house. It was here after all the people left.




Freaky, isn't it?




Maybe they're trying to replace me?

I mean, maybe it's an alien replacement or something- it even looks like me! Although it isn't moving..maybe it hasn't been animated yet? Are they gonna abduct me and then bring it to life?? Like..like..frankenfurstein???



hmm...what's it looking at?
What? What's down there that's so interesting? The pod transfer??
Is it gonna come up through the floor?


Where're the aliens?? C'mon...speak!! Or...is it alien goo..black stuff? Ooze?


I don't see anything.



This is stupid. Nothin's there except the carpet.
Maybe Mom's right and I've been watching too much X-Files. That's it!! I'll go call Mulder! Maybe he can help!



**hehe, go ahead and try, kitty, go ahead and try**