Monday night moon, Billie and bunny

Seed Moon? Feed me Moon?
Or Easter Moon?

Last night I took a picture of the full moon outside my kitchen window. On my calender it's called the Seed Moon. There is usually a full moon just before Easter. Notice the maple tree has not leafed out yet. I think if I looked very closely I might see buds.

For the kitties I call it the "Feed me moon". I stand right at the counter next to that window when I feed them and that what I said last night. Yes, I can be rather odd. :)

Billie is being so cute right now. All late morning and even right now, she is napping next to the little bunny I bought last year. She and I are worried about dear Miss Sweet Praline, who is getting a bump removed from her nose today. We are purring she makes a speedy recovery and is home to cuddle with her mommy tonight.

We are also holding Misses Peach's family in our thoughts. Lapdaddy's brother has passed away and we feel sad for them. We understand how difficult it is to have beloved family members pass on. It leaves a hole in the heart that takes a while to heal over.

This weekend was another blah, do nothing one. I did some paper doll crafting; Alice and a faerie. Other than that, some house work and napping.
I'm still down, still tired.
Oh, our dishwasher finally croaked. And it did not smell good when it did. I actually smelled the motor burning out last night. For a person with a phobia of the house catching fire this was not a good thing! My husband checked it out and determined that it wasn't going to go up in flames. I guess we know where our tax refund is going!

So another week... I will get around to visiting and I hope everyone has a Happy Easter Week! Chocolate bunny's for everyone! And Nip Bunny's for the kitties of course!

Rude Awakening

Who popped the bubble wrap?

Not us Momma!

So I received a lovely parcel of little pressies, including posh little leopard print catnip mousies, from Lovely Helena. (Thank You Helena, you are wonderful!)
In this box was bubble wrap. Big bubbles, big bang when popped. Especially at 3:00 am!

I was in the middle of somewhat precarious sleep to begin with. Cricket was on my legs as usual and Miss Billie was on my left side. Daddyman was snoring blissfully and the boy kitties were I think, somewhere upstairs. Suddenly I woke up to this loud Pop! Pop! Pop!
Scared the life out of me! See, I think a little background is needed to explain why I thought it was something very scary.

A couple of summers ago we had a very rainy couple of weeks. The house being old, has old wiring and my husband had not been able to get to all of it. (He's very good at wiring anything electrical.) It seems that some of the wiring didn't like the damp air. (this is my husband's reasoning for why it happened out of the blue)
The light switch in our dining room sparked. I mean flames shot out of it! And it made a loud POP noise as it did. I was absolutely terrified and even though power in the house didn't go out I turned off anything that was on. The sparking barely lasted a few seconds and then all was eerily calm. I called my husband at work. "Flames shot out of the dining room wall!"
He rushed home to find a freaked out wife and daughter. The cats were not fazed a bit of course even though I got out the PTU's ready to carry them out of our money pit, death trap house.
He turned off the breaker and got all the tools and wiring needed to do what needed to be done. A half hour later all was fixed. I saw the scorch mark on the plaster in the wall which was pretty scary. The metal box the switch is set into prevented it from catching fire.

So, being sleepy, with that memory in the back of my mind, I awoke to the popping noise terrified that it was happening again, this time in the family room.
No. It was bubble wrap. Being popped by my daughter and her boyfriend while they ate Ramen noodle soup and watched X Files.
GRRR!
Not only did it frighten me and my husband, the cats were really upset. Cricket flew off the bed. I think poor Billie halfway fell off the bed as she tried to jump off. And the two boys were no where to be found.

The teenagers sheepishly apologized, though I got the feeling they thought I had lost my mind. I didn't express anger, just complete fear and sleepy confusion. Husband just grumbled and fell back to sleep. (Of course.)

Anyway, that was my night. I'm tired. The kitties are napping. The bubble wrap is still here, but only because Cody seems to like the padding in the box as you can see from the picture. That cat has never met a box that he hasn't tried to crawl in and nap in.

I hope nothing goes bump or pop in the night for any of you!

Yoga Kitteh!

Yoga stretch.

Hi efurryone! Miss Billie here to say Hi. It's been a wee bit since I had a chance to blog!
As you can see, I take breaks from napping occasionally to get in some Yoga practice. Momma bought the mat for herself, but she has been having a hard time doing a lot of the poses. Usually she just ends up in "Child's Pose" and hopes she can get up from it!

So one morning while we were watching her she decided that we would probably have more fun on the mat than she was. She sprinkled NIP on it and put some toys rolled in more NIP on top of that!

Talk about a party! I am nearly a 15 year old ladycat and I had a blast! So did Toeshee. Cody was more than happy to eat some NIP and go sleep. Cricket sat in a corner and glared at us. She came out later to play after we left.

The mat feels cool and springy under my paws and I can dig my claws in without hurting it. Momma would love to keep it rolled out for us all the time, but it takes up too much room in the family room and the Daddyman got cranky about it.

Momma would like some cleaning advice. She is having difficulty sweeping up our litter. Not all of it will sweep up. She thinks it's the old broom she's using and is wondering if any of you have a favorite brand of broom or a really good way to get all the litter off the floor. She saw a cool one in the store that said it was for pet clean up, but it probably was for fur.

We hope you all have a really great weekend!

Cuddles and Purrs~
Miss Billie~

Yucky Week

Long Week

Hi everyone. I'm so sorry we haven't been visiting this week. It's been a rough one. We have been hit with quite a nasty snowstorm here. Frigid temps and blowing snow. The stupid man who owns Sylvester did not let him in! My husband actually put him in our PTU and carried him over there.
We gave them the chance to do the right thing and it didn't last long.
The next bitter cold morning he was out again and on our front porch.
I brought him in and my husband said he could stay in our enclosed back porch for a while. It's still really cold back there though and Sylvester got a bit wild and knocked shelves over and just generally cried the whole time.

My husband had to go wait for his dad's surgery to be completed at the hospital, so it was just me, my daughter, her boyfriend and five high strung cats. When my husband came home he was really sad and upset.
His dad has two kinds of cancer in his bladder. One is evil and spreading. His doctor said he has six months to a year left.
I also didn't have a chance to talk about his beloved Aunt Grace, (his dad's sister) who passed away last Saturday. My husband and I loved her because she was always so sweet and kind to everyone. She was 94 years old.

There's just so much going on, it's hard to put it all down. (sigh...)

Anyway, we can not keep Sylvester. My husband said absolutely not. He went back outside yesterday and seemed to be heading back to his house. He couldn't wait to get out of here, after crying and spraying and knocking things over. He's fixed, so the spraying was a surprise. I kept looking for him all evening and he never came back. Then this morning I saw him on the front porch! I went to get him some food, hoping to coax him back into the house so I could put him on the back porch again. (yes, I'm a glutton for punishment and my husband is at work) When I returned, Sylvester was gone. :(

I am just so sad and frustrated with everything right now. Why do people have to get cancer? Why can't people care for their pets? What is wrong with them!?

Sorry about the rant there... Anyway, I still have to get my cards to the post office. We have not done any Christmas shopping yet and I just want to stay in my pj's and visit blogs. But, I need to get dressed and try to shovel and maybe chase after a cat who doesn't understand that I just want to help him.
How do we get through to his owners? What should I do?
Now, I'm crying again...

Okay, things will get better. Cricket says they must and she is the Queen of everything. So I will go give her and my other kitties some nom noms, take a shower and get on with my day. I will try really hard to start visiting too.
Wish us luck.

Cricket, here; Don't worry, I will look after her. I won't even complain if she lets that Sylvester in again. He just better not eat all my Fancy Feast! I will try not to be very naughty either. (boy, that will be tough!)

Do not adjust your moniter. It's Momma's Fault

A little blurry today.

Hi everyone! My picture is pretty blurry Momma. Maybe you better learn how to work your camera a little bit better.

We are fine. Teenagergirl is all over her flu and is back to her old moody self. Momma is much relieved! Us kitties are looking forward to some turkey on Thursday and Momma is going to try to make little chocolate cakes that have melty chocolate in the middle. She found little pans for them and everything.

Right now though she is tired and cranky with canker sores in her mouth. The medicine she pokes herself with gave them to her. She is eating yogurt and drinking cool water for now.

She promised to help us kitties visit our bloggie friends this week and hopes to get to lots and lots at least once this week. She has adorable pictures of us in her camera, but it squawked at her because it's batteries are deaded. She will have to attend to that after she makes dinner.

She is making Christmas cards right now and now is fretting because she thinks they are not cool enough. I'm not sure what that means, but yeesh! Momma sure frets and fusses a lot!
Us kitties are just content to nap and eat Fancy Feast and Party Mix.

Maybe Momma needs a yummy treat to help her relax and nap.
Think like a kitty Momma!

Hugs and Purrs.
Miss Billie~ (who is really not blurry!)

Cricket tells a scary story

Hello, the perfect Halloween black Cat, Cricket here!

BOO!

Did I scare you? MOL!

Momma is fa-reaking out right now! Her and the Daddyman are refinancing their mortgage and an appraiser is coming over Monday. She has to come in the house. Pretty scary huh? See, Momma gets no help at all with house work and it takes her forever just to get the downstairs vacuumed and dusted because she has been so hurty.
The teenagergirls room should be declared a disaster zone! There is a spare bedroom that the Daddyman started to renovate, but never finished. It looks awful!
When the teenagergirl re-painted her room she moved out a lot of stuff into the front upstairs sitting room. It is a cluttered mess now! Momma can't even get to her window seat without crawling over stuff.
Needless to say she is very discouraged. She is going to do her best to get some things under control.
I say, why worry? After it's all done, the house payment is lower, which means more Nom Noms and toys for us kitties! And personally as a cat, I have no interest in how cluttered the house is. It's a big playground for me! I will help her by snoopervising of course.
Cleaning a house until it's spotless? For Momma, that's scary!

BOO!

Oh, yes, I must add that we are very excited to attend the wedding tomorrow! I must pick out the purrfect outfit. Would orange silk be too much?

Be naughty kitties!
~Cricket!

What's in the litterbox, Cody?

Not to be gross...

Hey all, Cody here! I hope I do not offend anyone's delicate sensibilities, but whoa! That goop Momma has been giving me really cleans out the pipes if you know what I mean!

I am feeling much better. I am eating as much as I can anytime I want and I haven't barfed since Thursday. I am breathing better because my tummy isn't in as much hurty and I am pooing twice a day. Momma thinks they may be hairball shaped, but it may take a while to get it all out. I have to take that goopy stuff for several more days, then once a week for maintenance.
I have that yucky pink antibiotic too. Um, note to VETS: Cats do Not like bubblegum!

Now I must gain back the weight that I lost. Toeshee has been a pain, so Momma keeps him away from me. She says that when I feel all better and put some weight on she will let me give him a quick smackdown just to let him know I am the big mancat of the house.

We hear that Miss Peach's kidbean Cole is sick in his tummy too and there are lots of other kitties that are sick as well. We are purraying for all of them to get better!

Thank you all so much for your kind words to help me feel better. I will try to be good about taking my medicine to get rid of all of the hairballs. Momma is working very hard to tend to me and make sure the other kitties get attention too.
She has lots of Blog visits to make and must go grocery shopping to get our Nom Noms. the Vet said I should eat really soft stinky goodness, which makes me very happy!
The other kitties; Billie, Cricket and Toeshee are eating well and seem to be feeling tip top. Even Billie who has had her share of health problems seems to be holding steady.
Momma said no one is allowed to be sick for a very long time!
She will keep you updated on my progress in the poo department and hopefully I will avoid surgery.

We Love You All!
Hugs and Purrs
~Cody~

Miss Billie Blogs Today

Billie's Turn

Hi everyone! Miss Billie here to give a repurrt. Cody and I finally let Momma take some new pictures of us the other day. It has been rather gloomy here and stormy too. The other night we had gale force winds shaking the house all night long! All of us kitties ended up on Momma's bed listening to the winds and the Daddyman's snoring. :)
The next day there were power outages and our neighbor lost a big branch from the maple tree that overhangs into our yard. The branch landed in his yard thank goodness! Maybe we will have more sun next spring in our gardens.
Drip
Drip
Sniff , Sniff
That is Momma's nose. She has bad allergies this year. The doctor said it's probably due to her immune system being off. She had her bloods taken and now she can start poking herself with that medicine again. She doesn't like the way it makes her tummy feel, but it was helping her hurty joints a bit. So, hopefully she can start feeling better soon.

Look at the Persian puzzle next to me! Miss Peach's Mommy Karla sent it to us in a box of treasures! The Lapdaddy is a skilled woodworker; a true artist!
I am very excited because Miss Peach and Mickey's wedding is on Halloween and I am to be a bride's maid! I wonder when I will have my first dress fitting? I probably better let Momma comb my furs without biting her huh?
Momma says I have become very cranky as I get older and I need to stop turning into a prissy hissy when she grooms me.
I am usually a very demure lady, but with my own arthritis I just do not like to be messed with! Surely she can understand that!

Well, I better go have a snack and get another nap in. Momma has to clean today and I prefer to stay out of her way, especially when she brings out the vacuum. I hate that thing! I always have too! There is a youtube video of a kitty riding on a Rumba robot vacuum. I think I'll pass on that Momma. Maybe Toeshee would do it.

Have a Happy Snuggly Day!
~Billie~

A September day with Cody

A September Day With Cody

Hi all! Cody here to share a bit of our yard with you. Can you see I am unimpressed with that woodpecker? He was loud!
Momma took me out with her while she let Mr. Sun heat up her joints. Our sunflowers are all blooming and the bees are very happy. Do you see the bee in the sunflower?
Momma has been admiring bird pictures lately. She likes this September Songbird picture a lot. Do you think he would taste good? :) I wonder what woodpeckers taste like?

As a senior cat of 15, I am moving a bit slower these days. Momma is moving slow too. We try to take one day at a time here, enjoying the good and trying to put the bad out of our minds. I am helping Momma around the house as best as I can. Last night, so she wouldn't have to, I opened up a fresh bag of dry cat food and knocked it over so a lot would spill onto the floor. Then us kitties could just help ourselves with night time munchies and let Momma sleep. It worked too! We didn't bother her for breakfast until 9:00 this morning!

Momma said, "Um, gee, thanks Cody!" Then grumbled something about a broom. I told her not to worry about it. Us kitties will just munch on it throughout the day. Just be careful not to step on it when you use the microwave. ;)

We hope you all have a great, relaxing weekend!
Hugs~ Cody

Toeshee Tells All

Lots To Share

Hi everyone, it's me Toeshee! We have had a couple of rough days here, but some things are better now.
Billie wasn't feeling well since Monday afternoon. She had not been eating and just seemed more tired and irritable. Momma of course was very worried. Then Momma had a bad fall when she tripped to avoid stepping on Cody's tail. She landed on her tailbone against the bottom step of the stairway. (why do beans have tailbones if they don't have tails?) She thinks it's just bruised and the fall hurt her joints in the wrists and hips too. So, she has been hurty and worried and weepy since Monday evening.

The good news is that Billie seems to be better! It seems she has some seasonal allergy issues and was just kinda stuffed up and couldn't really take interest in food. Momma jumped started her appetite with tuna and small bits of ham that she hand fed her. This along with sips of water and lots of lap time seemed to put Billie back on track. She is now eating normally and she is not sounding all snory and wheezy when she sleeps.

Today when Momma got the mail she was very happy to find some beautiful cards from her friend Helena! Helena lives in England and is a super talented artist. She loves cats too. We think the kitty in the card reminds us of Cricket and also a little bit like Daisy's sister Pixie. The lacy looking layers are painstakingly put together with glue. Aren't they amazing? If you want to purchase anything that Helena creates just click on her Creating a Likeness link on the side bar. She has her own little online card shop and even does commissions of pictures of your beloved furbabies. The pictures Momma took do not do her work justice. She also loves me; Toeshee the adorable young mancat! I hope she likes the picture of me in the window. HI HELENA! :)
She is my human girlfriend. My true kitty ladylove is Jelly Bean though. I think she is the cat's meow! Her blue eyes are sigh worthy...

Huh, what's that Billie? Oh Billie says she and Cricket and Cody are going to start teasing me if I don't chill. Fine, whatever!

Anyway the cards cheered Momma up a little bit, but she is moving even slower than ever. She is sitting on the sofa with two pillows propping her up. She is just so grateful that Billie seems okay. There are other family stresses going on, but as long as she has us nearby Momma feels better. Oh, and she's not mad at Cody or his tail or anything. Accidents happen and she's glad she didn't step on it at least.

We hope you all are having a great week and we send Hugs and Purrs!

With A Twitch Of My Tail...

Housework Blues

Hi everybody! I'm busy helping Momma figure out how to get the house clean. This morning I napped in the kitchen and made sure to eat all the treats off of the floor. Momma said, "Um, thanks Billie."
Now I will nap in the living room because the sun isn't streaming in the windows of the kitchen anymore.
Momma is watching her favorite old show. Bewitched! She just loves that Sam! If she were Sam, she would have a nicer husband than Darrin. He was a pain! :) She would also have kitties with magical self cleaning litterboxes!

What are your favorite old tv shows? We know Miss Peach and her Mommy Karla love Lucy. :) We also liked Moonlighting, MASH, and Cheers. Those are all curl up and watch when you don't feel well shows. It's nice when Momma rests like that because then I can curl up with her.
This weekend might be warmer! Even kitties with long floof like me would like a few real summer days here in Michigan.

We hope you are having a nice summer day where ever you are. Take some time to relax. Trust us, the work will still be there ! Hopefully a nice kitty will help you clean up any treats that happen to hit the floor! ;)

Hugs and Purrs, Miss Billie~

Broken Internets Again!

The Case of the Missing Internet!

Our internet disappeared again on Friday afternoon. Momma was glad that she was able to post and visit before it went away.
By the time the Daddyman came home it was gone again! This morning it came back and we hope it stays this time!

Momma Lorianna here: Our internet provider shares the telephone poles with the local phone company and works out of their building downtown. Somehow literally or figuratively wires were crossed and we lost the ability to get online. What I don't understand is how I was able to get online earlier on Friday after it was down the first time and then what happened to it after I got offline and later that day? Weird...
Anyway, a repairman finally came out yesterday, determined the problem and gave it to the phone company to fix since they caused the problem in the first place. That of course meant the problem wasn't fixed until this morning.

So now we can blog and visit again! :)

Toeshee says: Yay! I was getting bored Momma!

Hugs to everyone!~

Black Cats On Friday

Black Cat Friday


Hello everyone. Cricket here to give my update. We lost our internet for a couple of days, but the Daddyman helped the man at the company figure out what was wrong. Now, we have lots of visiting to do!

We were tagged by Amy and her House of Cats and The Kewl Kitty Crew to post the 6th picture from our 6th folder. Finally Momma remembered! Only, the folder had just 4 pictures. So, she chose the last one. It's Cody outside last August with Momma on our front porch. He can go out at night if Momma is with him. He doesn't like it, but, those are the rules.

Toeshee and I got in a minor scuffle this morning. I settled it with a loud hiss and a good thwap! Momma hadn't had enough coffee yet to get involved.

This weekend will be cloudy and chilly. It's like that right now. After Momma gets our Nom Noms at the grocery store, she will probably just clean and read. Us kitties will nap of course.

We hope you all have a great weekend and I hope all you kitties find something naughty to do!

Hugs!~ Cricket

Toeshee the homewrecker/woodpecker cat

Homewrecker!

Hi! Toeshee here! Momma says I should be ashamed for what I did to the woodwork. She doesn't know how to fix it and can't always stop me in time when I'm doing it. I just love sharpening my claws!
See me practicing my ashamed look? Pretty good huh?
Momma says I'm lucky I'm cute.

We hope everyone will have a happy weekend. Cody will let you know how is coping with the 4th of July. He hates fireworks!

We all send hugs!~

Billie and the Flooof Thief

Billie and the floof thief

See this purple comb? It steals some of my floof every time Momma uses it on me! She likes it because it is smooth and gentle and she combs me very carefully with it. Momma says the comb is not stealing my floof, I'm just losing a lot because it is late spring. I still do not trust this comb or any other grooming utensil for that matter!
It is not as warm as it should be here. The teenagergirl just came back inside all grumpy because it wasn't warm and sunny enough to sit outside and read.
She complained to Momma for like, five minutes! Momma has a headache now... :)
I am going to spend the rest of the afternoon napping in the blue chair.
I hope everyone is having a happy day! Hugs!
Billie~

(See Praline? It was my turn! Yay!)

Take Time to Hug a Kitty and Smell the Flowers

Too busy! Too Tired!

Hi, it's Billie and Cody here to give an overdue update.

The Teenagergirl graduated from High School. She has been rather irritable since then. Momma calls it growing pains, but she looks all grown to us, so we don't get it.

Momma is getting a hole in her tummy. She says it's an ulcer. She is taking medicine to block acids from making it more hurty. If that doesn't help she may need to get it patched up. That does not sound fun at all to us! She hasn't been feeling well for a while and still needs to nap a lot like a kitty. Her special medicine for her hurty joints doesn't go through her tummy because she pokes herself with a needle for that. It is probably from all her pain medication and all of her silly worrying.

We are doing our best to take care of her. We sit on her lap and purr and eat our food without complaining. She has been very frustrated with feeling so icky sicky all the time. We have all been feeling pretty frisky and healthy and we know that helps with her worries. She hopes her bloggie friends are not disapointed that she has not been by. She promises to be a good girl and take her medicine and rest so she can feel better enough to visit and blog more often.

Lorianna here: I knew something was wrong with my stomach. I had this burning sensation in my upper adomen and I have been so queasy. My PC Doctor put me on Prevacid and I really need to lay off the Ibuprofin and asprin. We will just have to see how it goes. She discussed an antidepressant and perhaps some counseling, but I just am not ready for that. I'm not saying I don't need it. I'm just not sure if it's something I can deal with. I think I just need to stop worrying and letting everything upset me. I think my doctor is ready to give up on me. :) She has brought this up before and I took a pass. No more medicine please! I'm starting to rattle...

Billie and Cody here again: We will make sure to keep Momma cheered up! Cricket will keep her in bed later in the mornings so she can get some rest. Once Cricket is on you, there is no moving until she says so!

Hugs from us all!