DERBY, THE SASSY CAT

ManCat Monday

2009-07-13T00:09:00.001-05:00

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. - Edgar Allan Poe

Mum went off to play with racy cars this weekend, but while she was there she cheated on me! Yes, she came home and I could smell woofies on her, but also kitten! Then I got a look at the flashy box and I have proof!
Here you can see mum with the kitten, snuggling up to her so nice. You can also see mum's head gear, she had to be in charge of her group, which means she had to wear the headset. But didn't that prevent her from taking time to check out this little one. From what I understand someone she knows had 5 kittens there, hoping to find them homes.
Here is a better picture of the kitten, along with the lady who will become its mum. Phew, I dodged a bullet here, that mum didn't come home with a little one. To be sure she understand, I put the bitey on her when she got home on Sunday evening.
But here is a picture of a racy car, the driver is the son of one of mum's good furiends. He did good this weekend.
Plus early in the morning, this guy flew over with his parachute and a machine attached to make him go in the air.

But what is good that mum is taking Monday off, so I can continue bugging mum about being unfaithful to me. Maybe a few more biteys, specially on the spot on her leg that looks a little bit reddish! Yeah, that should do it.

Furry Friday - Bird Bath?

2009-07-10T00:04:00.000-05:00

Mr Squirrel jumping up and getting a drink from the birdie bath. Sometimes they manage to tip the top water holding pan down, mum doesn't have it attached so she can take it off to clean it good every couple of weeks.

The ham emergency is over. The fire is out and the company said they will be back to work next week. Mum said they can bring in ham to our stores from other places so we won't be out of our goodies.
Yesterday mum came home but then didn't come inside for the longest time. She was out chatting with the neighbor, then she went and water all her plants. Finally she came in and I could get my coming home scritches.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Package Exchange

2009-07-08T21:56:00.005-05:00

My fellow ginger buddies, Eric and Flynn, can't get Greenies in the UK. So we sent them a care package of Greenies. They respond with goodies back to us.
Come on mum I need your hands to open this up. My teeth and paws just won't do here.
Lots of goodies, treats for me and mum. Mum's stuff includes teas and mints that she likes that you can't buy here. Thanks guys!

Ham Emergency!!!

2009-07-06T20:09:00.003-05:00

There is a big place around us that processes ham, bacon etc. It caught on fire Sunday evening, it has burned all day today.

So I hopes we don't have a ham shortage! I might faint away.
Update 7/7: The fire is not totally out yet, maybe tomorrow, they hope. This place is like 20 miles from our house, so no I couldn't smell anything. Plus the wind was blowing the smell, smoke and all away from us.

Mum says anything inside that building would probably make us sick if we ate it. So no, we don't want to teleport over to check it out. Plus we might get squirted by the big fire hoses.

ManCat Monday

2009-07-06T00:08:00.010-05:00

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. - P G Wodehouse

Yeah, worshipped! I can only wish.

Nice weekend, just a little of snap, crackle, boomers here. So nothing to be really scared about but I don't mind the noise too much as long as it isn't close or really loud. Plus they usually quit about 11 PM so mum could go to sleep!

Mum did some cooking outside, chilled. Did some re-arranging of stuff on the patio for the fevver food, so now there is less stuff sitting around outside. Mum is mad at the squirrels they were digging in PHE and her Christmas cactus again. Plus we saw Mr Hawk on Friday. He caught a little something, fevver? chipmonk? and took off to sit on the neighbors fence, then up into the tree. We hadn't seen Mr Hawk at all for a couple of months. Maybe he now has a family to feed.

Mum took Grampie to a purrade yesterday for Indy-pen-dense Day. It was at the church he goes to and it is a really old church so they have been having this purrade for ages and ages. The church is the first of its denomination founded in Whiskerconsin. The preachers carry the flags, both the US flag and the church flag.

A big om-pah band for music.
Fire trucks new, old, different colors and all.
Lots of kids riding and tossing candy to the crowd.
Old cars.
Horsies being ridden.
Horsies being led.
As mum and Grampie sat listening to the music after the purrade, they were near this woofie. Mum said he looked so nice and was furry well behaved. No barking, jumping, begging for foods. Just sitting nice with his beans. That is a good dog according to mum.
I hope that all of you had a good weekend too.

Happy 4th of July

2009-07-04T01:15:00.001-05:00

Happy Independence Day to my fellow American Kitties. Hope all have a great day and cellybrate responsibly.

The official big fireworks was last night in our area, some places will have them tonight. To make sure we don't get hurt I will have mum set off the fireworks. We ordered these special in that they don't make booms to scare kitties. They are pretty but won't scare you. Now to honor America, please join in and sing a few songs with me. Sing them from your heart.

God, bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her,
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
God, bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home
God bless America....
My home sweet home!

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!

America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!

now a bit of calypso style America The Beautiful.

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Furry Friday Bunnie Baby

2009-07-03T00:08:00.005-05:00

More of our wildlife in the back yard. Bunnies a baby who was eating the dandy lions, mum says the buns can eat all of the dandy lions they want, just don't eat her good plants. You may have to biggify the pictures to see the buns!

Mum got home from day hunting early yesterday, went out in the garden, dug out the couple of dead plants and put new stuff in. The butterfly bushes didn't come back this year and she wants to get more pictures of butterflys.

Mum and Grampie went to another concert in the park last night, it was a calypso band. Even Grampie liked it. Here are a couple of samples of their music.

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Yes, that is mum! Another couple of samples tomorrow!

Happy Weekend everyone!! All US peoples cellybrate safely.

ManCat Monday

2009-06-29T00:08:00.001-05:00

All cats love a cushioned couch. - Theocritus
You bet we do! A nice, soft place to nap, be it a couch, a bed or where ever.

I had a very quiet yesterday, mum left and I knew she wasn't dressed to go play with racy cars. But she was gone for the longest time. Seems she and Grampie went to help some peoples cellybrate being married for fifty years. Boy, that is a furry long time! Mum says they had a good time, it was a nice party/dinner and got to see lots of people they hadn't seen in a while.

Fevver Friday Mr Oriole

2009-06-26T00:07:00.000-05:00

Mr and Mrs Oriole continue to stop by and get foods to eat. Mum has to fill the jelly cups up every other day.Now the feeder is hanging under the crabby apple tree so usually is in shade like the above pictures. But at just the right time the sun hits it and here is Mr O looking pretty.
The he flew over to the nectar feeder for a couple of nice long drinks for more energy too.
Checking out the oranges on the side too, although mum says they eat more jelly and nectar than the oranges.

Mum went out last night and took Grampie to a concert in the park. The little community band is peoples teens and up who can play music good. This little group does two concerts each summer, and they have other groups during the summer too.
Mum says it was hot sitting there even in the shade, but nice to be outside enjoying the music.

Hope every one has an excellent weekend.

Dare #5

2009-06-24T22:06:00.003-05:00

Join in the fun, go over to The Cat Realm and read all about this latest dare. I have done my thing and made my suggestion. You have until June 29 to join in. Go do it, you know you want to!

Back to Normal

2009-06-23T20:15:00.003-05:00

Phew, I have the house to myself again. Uncle Stormie left this morning, so I have that bed to nap on again. Lately I have been liking napping on that bed, so I didn't like that he closed the door on me. So I had to hang out with mum on her sleepy spot instead, but at least I know she loves having me around.

Uncle Stormie isn't much of a pet bean. Mum wanted to give him a treat to give to me, he wouldn't do it. I tried to lick his leg a little bit, he kept moving away. I asked to lick the milk from his cereal bowl, no go there either. Oh well, mum says he has always been this way, so a hard nut to crack. I will keep trying whenever he comes to visit.

Mum is happy we don't have company now too. She can do what she wants, eats when she wants and watch the picture box or the puter. Plus today is hot, Hot, HOT, so we are just chillaxin'.

ManCat Monday

2009-06-22T00:02:00.006-05:00

The reason cats climb is so they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds. - Kay Buffington

I don't hate birdies, I like them, they taste good, as chick-hen and turkey are birdies. But I have never eaten a wild birdie, but I do like watching them from my windows. Here I am by the big windows that go to the floor, wide open for me to watch and hear birdies.
This is the highest spot I can get to on top of the big cold box. I like it up here, I can watch mum do food stuff and hopefully some of it will be given to me.
Still busy with company, Uncle Stormie will be here until Tuesday AM. That means I have him to bug. I tried to leave him a present to step in outside his sleepy room door (he shuts me out), but mum cleaned it up! Darn her.

But Grampie, Uncle Stormie and mum sat outside and watched birdies yesterday afternoon. Mr Oriole came by but is shy and would sit in the tree but not come to the feeder, but they got to see him.

It's Box Day

2009-06-19T00:33:00.000-05:00

Yep me and boxes, it's a kittie thing. Mum bought some new shoes, I like the box the best.

We had beans along our walking trail with snap, crackle, pop things tonight. It is two weeks yet until the for real, snap, crackle, pop days. Mum says it better not get too bad, she likes her sleeps.

Happy Weekend. I have found out we are getting company this weekend. Uncle Stormie will be here for a few days for Father's Day. So Happy Father's Day to kittie Dad's and the kittie bean dad's too.

Happy weekend.

Pop Up

2009-06-17T00:50:00.003-05:00

Make sure your pop up blocker is turned off. Stop by on Friday, new and exciting box pictures will be revealed.
Super BIG PURRS for Fat Eric's mum. She got hurted and now is wearing plaster on her leg! Now she needs a cat scan. I am happy to help out!

ManCat Monday

2009-06-15T00:02:00.008-05:00

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet-trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. - Joseph Epstein

Yes our cat mum's taught us well and most of us rarely, if ever, have accidents. Mum will be nice and not put a picture of me using the box on the post today. She would get the bitey if she tried that.

Mum's first poppies popped yesterday morning. She went out and took pictures before she went to get Grampie for church.
When they came back, mum was walking on the roof of the house! She says the fastest way to clean the gutters is to get on the roof and use the leaf blower. Mum said they needed it badly as she didn't get them super clean last fall. Parts of them were all stinky.
Because she and Grampie spent so much time outside, when they were done they just sat on the patio drinking, tea or soda. Plus a nice picture of PHE and Virginger from yesterday morning in the sun on Sunday. Much better than on Caturday, when they were all dirty! Mum thinks a squirrel jumped up and dug out the flowers, giving them dirty faces.
Mum cleaned them up and moved them to a different table and spot away from where she thinks the squirrel can get at them. It is a baby squirrel, furry small.

Fevver Friday Splish Splash

2009-06-12T00:46:00.004-05:00

The fevver was having a great time giving his fevvers a bath the other evening. I will stick to the way we kitties give ourselves a bath! Biggify the pictures to see all the splashes.

Mum was unfaithful to me last night. She was outside planting some of her little plants into pots, morning glories and moonflowers, when the neighbor came over with their little woofie. Mum picked him up and got all sorts of kisses from him.
I have been ignoring her, except when she offered treats. They were eaten and then I took off to ignore her. That will teach her to mess with the little woofie and let him give her kissies. Thankfully she had to come in and wash good to get clean, so that got rid of the woofie smell.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

International Award

2009-06-09T20:23:00.002-05:00

I have been graciously award this by both Amy of the House of Cats and Team Tabby.

The rules for this award are simple:

1. To link to the person who passed you this prize.
2. Display the badge, the rules and the questionnaire in all or one of your blogs
3. To publish the date when the award had passed to you.
4. To answer four questions following this rule.
5. To list at least seven (7) friends in its list of blogs.
6. Come back to BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR (PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS LINK) at http://bloggistame.blogspot.com and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List..
7. Have fun!

Questions & Your Answers:

The person who tagged you: Amy of House of Cats - http://houseofcats-amy.blogspot.com/
Team Tabby - http://teamtabby.blogspot.com/

Date when you were tagged: May 29, 2009 and June 4, 2009.

Persons(kitties) you tagged (see below)I’m passing this award on to:
Fat Eric
Eric and Flynn
Pablog
Poppy Q
Ramses
MacVet, Slash and Bronzy
Huffle Mawson

I figured if this is an international award I better award it to kitties who live internationally!

That is enough!

ManCat Monday

2009-06-08T00:56:00.004-05:00

A day without cats is like a day without sunshine.
Mum always says she misses me when she is gone, that I brighten her day when I am around. Her little ray of ginger sunshine everyday.

Well the weather guessers said it was going to be a rainy day, but the sun came out anyway. So we had a nice enough day that mum could open windows. I did a lot of sitting in the window and chittering away at the birdies at the birdie bath.

Mum was home most of the day, other than going to the store to pick up foods. She got through her pile of stuff she wanted to read. Plus she finished another crow-shay baby blankie yesterday. She hopes that she can take a break from making baby blankies, she hopes the beans at work take a break making babies!

Mum is glad that you like our library, it opened shortly after she moved here, in 2002. Mum says it is the library that garbage built, as some of the funds to build it came from the fees people paid to dump their garbage in our landfill! The quilt was made by a local purrson and put up to add color to the building. The library even has a page on Facebook.

Sleeping Saturday

2009-06-06T20:45:00.002-05:00

This was me and mum the other morning when she didn't have to go day hunting. She was pretending to be sleeping, and I was doing my bit of purring and making biscuits. It was nice we didn't have to get up and going early.

Mum went to the library today, not just to get a book, but to be shown around to see the changes they have made. Mum was on a committee over a year ago to recommend stuff and they were showing off the stuff. Here is a picture of the building.
Plus inside they have a neat and fancy quilt hanging. Bet Darling Millie's mum would like to see this and could probably make one like it too.

Fledgling Fevver Friday

2009-06-05T00:01:00.000-05:00

As always, biggify the pictures for maximum enjoyment. Mum found the grackel's nesting up high in our pine tree. She didn't get any pictures of the birdies on the nest, they would go away whenever she pointed the camera up there, even when she was standing far away. You can even see Mr Moon up above the tree.
So now we have some of the new baby fevver birdies showing up with their mum's and dads.
Here the little one is sitting in the crabby apple tree waiting to get some yummy that his mum had just pecked off the suet feeder.
On another day they were over by the seed feeder, while the little bird can fly, it would not fly up to the feeder, so mum had to keep going up and down to the feeder to get goodies.
Then they went over by the birdie bath for a drink, the little one didn't even try to drink. I hope he learns quick, cuz his mum will soon make him do it himself.
The robin checking out for bugs or worms in the lawn.
The baby waiting on the side of the patio for mum to find him a snack.

Hey, this is my blog, where is my picture?
Yeah, that is better, me waiting for her to turn on the puter box so I can share my life with you. I had extra mum time yesterday, she didn't go day hunting but was in and out taking Grampie to the bean VET for his regular check-up. He is fine, come back in a year.

Happy weekend everyone.

ManCat Monday

2009-06-01T00:59:00.003-05:00

God allows cats in heaven just so he can keep an eye on them. - Dixie Carter
I did a lot of napping this weekend. It was cool again, so the windows weren't open much. I did get in some fevver watching as well. Some of the baby birds have hatched and are getting big enough to leave the nest.

Mum was around most of the weekend, doing the normal stuff that she does on the weekend. But last night she lefted around dinner time and said she was going to meet Chey's mum? All that way to the left coast? Oh, guess her human is visiting nearby and they meet for dinner. Mum brought a box home so that means I will get something to eat soon from that box.

Mum said that a bunch of the humans got together this past weekend in a Shy-town. She sorry she couldn't make it, she had to be around with her work puter during the weekend for day hunting duties at month end. Maybe next time.

Fevver Friday

2009-05-29T00:09:00.003-05:00

The other day one of the little wrens was checking out the bird houses for a place to raise a family.
In, no out, not sure, is there anything else available?
Well mum has collected a few birdie houses that are like ginger houses. You can see the ginger head in the back, plus this ginger cat in front.
So is this one any better?
The view is OK, even from the top, you are in the nice crabby apple tree. Near the feeders too.
Mum is now at me with the flashy box, never ending flashy box.
You keep that up I give you the paw of doom!
Happy weekend everyone!

Super Comment Award

2009-05-26T22:26:00.001-05:00

About this award: "We give and get awards for having a great blog and being a good friend. What I want to award are those people whose comments have meant the world to me. It takes time to visit a blog and leave a comment ... I wanted to recognize some special bloggers whose comments have made such an impact on me. The “You Don’t Say?” Award is awarded to these special bloggers in hope that they will pass the award along to 5 of their best commenters!"

My local furiends, The Crew, sent this on over to me. Now The Crew and I started blogging about the same time, so some of our first commenters are the same, so I gotta find a few that they didn't give this award to.

Gosh, there have been so many comments and commenters over the years. The year I had my purrthday party, I had over 300 comments just over that one weekend. That was before we got Chatzy to hold our parties on.

Now whom to share this with. Hmmmm......... I like The Crew am going back to see who were some of my first commenter and furriends.

Opus and Roscoe ( I Gatti Americani) - Roscoe went to The Bridge last fall.

Mia and Ghost - Ghost just went to The Bridge.

Timothy Dickens

Princess Mia - now my Sweetheart!

Fiona Bun and Sophia The Diva Kittie

Sanjee with the rest of the House of Mostly Black Cats, now better known as The Hotties!

Whoops that is more than 5, but hey, they are some of my earliest furriends. Thanks for welcoming me back so many years ago and continuing to be my furriend.

Purrade

2009-05-26T00:17:00.002-05:00

Mum and Grampie went to the purrade yesterday, they try to sit in about the same place. Close to the start of the purrade and a good place to put the metal monster so they can get home after it is done, not too far to walk for Grampie.Across the street, there is double decker seating.

The first of many color guards coming by.

The War Dogs made an appearance again this year.

Here is a closeup of one of the war dogs. And this year even a few kitties made an appearance.

Slyvester

Garfield

Just a few horsies

Plus a fly over of some Blackhawk Helicopters. At first mum saw three.

They flew right above mum and she got two of them in this shot.
But as they helicopters flew past, there were actually four of them that came to visit.

After the purrade, mum and Grampie came home, did a little bit of stuff outside in the metal monster room. Then mum grilled out for the two of them. Then later mum chopped off the grass again. When she was done she sat down, saw the Oriole come to visit and she also saw two hummers. The first hummers of the season. Hope you all had a rewarding weekend as well.

Memorial Day

2009-05-25T00:56:00.001-05:00

Honor and Remembrance to all who have served our country.

Thank you.

ManCat Monday will return next week. We have had a quiet weekend so far. Mum did lots of work mulching the garden, but she finished that on Friday night moving all of the mulch to the back. Otherwise mum is doing simple stuff, working on her crow-shay, watching racy cars on TV.

Today mum and Grampie will be doing the purrade, pictures to follow. Everyone continue having a safe holiday.