ManCat Monday - Happy Halloween!

Trick or Treat? I prefer treats thank you and lots of them. I will do my best today to get as many treats as I can!

Mum has said she will put me in the sleepy spot while the candy moochers come to the door this evening. Mum is set with her stuff to hand out. She found what she likes to hand out, little Tootsie Rolls, several weeks ago at a good price.

Plus I can go hang out at The Tabby Cat Club, there is a Halloween party over there today. I have a very simple costume to wear, you will have to stop by to see it. Come by after lunch. No, I am not dressing up as Waffles! HAHAHAHAHA.

Miss Megan, you mentioned Caturday that you would like for mum to come and clean up your cupboards. She accepts, provided you pay her way there and back! Plus provide room, board and some sightseeing services! Is that OK?  I know that means I will have to miss her as you live on the other side of the world, but I will sacrifice this one for mum.

Feetsball Report

The Pack - they losted by one flippin' point! But they don't have some of their better players playing, either hurt or sick, on both defense and offense. Mum says they are doing good all things considered and she did have some things to cheer about today.

The Broncos - They won! Doing OK beating the SD team.

Oh yeah, it is the last day of TockTober, so I must end my post with a tock shot!

Caturday

HiYa, Ducky here. Happy Caturday! It is starting out to be a blah day around here. The tiny bit of sun is gone, but it is nice out. We saw people on the trail in shorts, tshirts and no jackets!

My retirement series has ended, hope you enjoyed and got ed-u-cated on how things will change when your beans stay home all the time. Spitty's mum had a request that I put all of the sessions in one place. I did that! There is now a page that links to all sessions. You can see that on the right hand side, top of the side bar.

The links are very minimal, just the date, topic listed. No pictures. Very bare bones, mum says we don't need to dress it up. Why not? Give you something to do!HAHAHAHA.

It hasn't been that cold here, yeah, there was a tiny bit of ice on the fevver bath. Mum could have poked the ice apart with her fingers, the hammer was overkill! She didn't want to get her fingers all wet and cold.

Mum says she will work on her kitch-hen cupboards today. Getting them all organized and stuff, get rid of the old foods that are way old. Other stuff she isn't likely to use. Some will go to the food pantry peoples.

Mum also did a bit of work at the library this week. They were selling books they didn't need anymore. She help get the boxes of books out on Tuesday, Friday morning she helped take money from people who wanted those books.

Guess that is about all for now. Everyone have a wonderful weekend.

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday with Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

Trying to dry out! We had a wet, cold and windy day yesterday. Mum only poked her head out long enuf to pick up the paper during the heavy rain. Later after it got dark she did get the trash out for pickup. Don't blame her, it was nasty out! Nearly two inches of rain.

But the day before, Tuesday, was all cold! It was so cold that there was a little bit of ice on the fevver bath.

 So that the fevvers could get at drinking water, mum came out with her hammer and broke up the ice. It was starting to melt, but this made it quicker.

 You could see the frostiness on the naybor's roof. You can also see that some trees are bare of leaves, others still have lots of leaves.

 Here is our mum, the purple flowers have started to open up their blooms. So we still have a tiny bit of color.

Mum also started to clear out some of the garden. Getting rid of the deaded and icky stuff. Weeds and grass where they shouldn't be. She likes being able to take her time at this. Got a couple of days done, then can skip the bad weather days and wait for a nice day again.

That is all for this week. Love, Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

ManCat Monday

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comical. - Monica Edwards.

Happy Monday gang. Me and mum had a good weekend. She did work outside, said it is time to start cleaning up the flowers and such at the end of the year. Plus she hauled off all the tree branches she pruned off the maple tree a few weeks ago. 

 Me napping in the sun. We can tell the days are getting shorter and the sun angles as the sun comes in the house are much different that during the summer time. It was a nice day and mum had the big windows that go to the floor all open. Plus she cleaned them really good. That means they will be clean so we can see outside for fevver watching season.

Spitty asked about putting all of my retirement sessions in one place, so his mum can refer to them when she retires. Mum can do that, she will make a page and then put linkies in for each week. Don't hold your breath, mum may not get to it for a few days or so. She has been making a list of stuff she needs to do today. Getting longer!

Feetsball Report

The Pack - They played last Thursday and beat Da Bears, YAY. Back two Sunday's ago they losted to the Cowboys. Sort of a so-so season so far.

The Broncos - don't play until Monday night.

Have a good week everyone!

Caturday - Retirement 101 - Session 10

 HiYa Ducky here, Happy Caturday. So happy to be here with you today. I also want to thank all of you who joined in for TockTober Day for Angel Derby. 

I am hanging out with mum and sitting in my hammick. It got cool again so mum turned on the heaty monster. So it is nice hang out here, the warms flow under the hammick to keep me warm. I like it.

Our retirement session today involves Hobbies.

Now we can't entertain our humans all the time, so hopefully they do find things to do around the house that they can amuse themselves. Mum thankfully has several things she likes to do, some of which I can snoopervise or assist her with.

Reading - mum loves to read, she gets the newsy paper every day, she gets books from the library and she reads stuff on line. So when she sits down to read, I like to join her and sit on her lap.

Crow-shay -  she does this during the cold time of the year. Helps keep her lap warm, and I help out as well by sitting on her lap while she works. She hasn't gotten out the project that she started last year. She put it aside while she worked on the pink blankie for her new grand niece to come. 

 

 Gardening - mum can only do this during the warmer weather times of the year. So right now she is getting stuff ready for winter. Or preparing for next year with new bulbs and plants.

 

 

Cooking  -  mum likes to cook, well, she has to eat, me too. The grilling, the soups, the sweets. What is good is when mum grills and I get little pieces too. YUM!

 

 

 

Mum does other stuff, the things that have to be done around the house. Those gotta be done, like the cleaning.

So this brings me to the end of my retirement series. It has been my pleasure to help you kitties and your beans work through the issues that happen when your beans retire and stay home all the time.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Garden Thursday - TockTober Day

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday with Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper. 

We are all ready to  cellybrate TockTober you gotta have tock shots, so here we go! First a group shot and then one for each of us!

 

 

 

Ducky is hosting a big party over at the Tabby Cat Club for TockTober in honor of Angel Derby. This was his purrthday. He would have been 13 today. Happy Purrthday at the Bridge dearest Derby.

Love, Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

Tuesday This and That

Sure nice to have mum home. She was really good when she got home, she got the stuff inside from the metal monster, then just sat down so I had a lap. I soaked up love and scritches for a long time!

So where did mum go? Off to Ioway to see an aunty and a cousin. The aunty sold her house and now lives in a nice senior place.

 Nice size living space, a kitch-hen area to the left, bedroom below. Mum says it looks new but is really 17 years old.

 Mum had a nice spot in the guest room at the place down the hall. With her own bath and all that.

 Mum says she mainly went to visit, see the people and did lots of eating. Fried chick-hen, ham, pizza! Now she needs to eat better for a while.

 They did go to this one place that a guy makes stuff from wooden match sticks. The US Capital and Notre Dame cathedral. A bit crowded in the place, so not able to stand back and get the whole thing in the pic.

 So mum loved being in a small town for a few days, the slow pace, the harvest going on, good foods.

Mum made sure she took along lots of pictures from me. Aunty used, to have kitties, but she was getting to the point she had too many kitties. Back ten years ago mum visited with Grampie and at that time she didn't have many kitties. You can read Derby's report here.  But when she moved out of her house her cousin said they took 63 kitties to the shelter! Yikes, way too many.

Happy to have mum home, sunny day so long naps in the sun. Mum is cooking away, smells good!

ManCat Monday

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.....I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. - Frank Sinatra

Yeah, Ol' Blue Eyes was one cool cat. Even if he was a human. Mum listens to his songs now and then. 

 I am taking it easy. Mum had her little travel bag out, will fill you in on where she went later.

First I gotta get going on the stuff for Tock Tober happening over at the Tabby Cat Club on Thursday for Angel Derby's purrthday. Hope you have your tock pictures ready.

Caturday - Retirement 101 - Session 9

HiYa Ducky here, Happy weekend. Hope everyone had a good week and we are working with

Our topic today is Homemade treats and toys.


Mum does not do homemade toys. She says I already have enuf store bought toys and she doesn't have time to make me toys. I know there are some mum's who do make toys, even enuf to sell to other kitties.

Now mum has tried to do homemade treats before. You can link back to that post here, nearly 5 years ago. 

 

 

 

 Mum hasn't tried them again since. Says too much flour and not enuf tuna. Yeah, just give me the tuna, straight up!

Happy weekend!

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday with Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

The weather keeps changing here as the seasons are changing. Warm, then cooler, then warmer again and cool. Even a tiny bit of frosting on the roofs!

The trees are becoming more colorful and we are looking for fevvers that show up now for the winter. We are seeing more fevvers at the feeder, but we had one visitor that doesn't eat the seeds, he eats the other birdies, chippies, buns, and sqwerls.

 Here he was sitting in the crabby apple tree, just down from the hummer feeder. Then he flew over to the fence to sit for a while. We saw people walk or ride by on the trail, they didn't even seem to notice. He then flew off, probably looking for lunch.

 That is all for now, love Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

ManCat Monday

A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs. - Sarah Thompson

Yeah, I do my own thing. Mum asks me to do stuff. Sometimes I do, like come under the covers with her, but sometimes I don't. I do what I want to. Sometimes I do stuff that mum would rather I not do, like sit on her boobities so she can't see anything!

The weather cooled off here on Caturday. It got cold enuf in the house for me that mum turned on the heaty monster in the dungeon for a bit. 

 So once mum has the heaty thing on I went to sit on my hammick cuz the warm airs blows underneath.

Friday, mum got up super early, it was still dark out! She got dressed and then her furiends picked her up and they took off. Mum went to work a charity car event at the track for the March of Dimes.

 Mum said this was the first ever Tesla she has seen, asked the guy how much it cost and it was half of what our house is worth! Expensive toys.

 Another fancy car with a cool license plate, you include the G so GoLambo! For those of you don't know this was a Lamborghini. Mum says she has fun, she flirts with all of the drivers.

 Had a good day, windy and a bit of rain in the AM which didn't last long. Finally the clouds went away at the end of the day.

 Some of the goodies in her goody bag, but she found one thing I put in the bag after she came home!

 My fav mousie!. So we then had a nice play time.

Feetsball Report

The Pack - played on Sunday night, so mum didn't watch the hot air debate. They beat the Giant guys from NYC.


The Broncos - Losted to the Falcon guys at home. It wasn't on our moving picture box, mum was hoping that it would be.

Have a good week everyone.

Caturday - Retirement 101 - Session 8

Happy Caturday everyone! Hope all of our furiends are doing OK with the HurryCane that has been bothering those down in FLf and the SE coast.

Today's retirement topic is  House chores- cleaning

I don't do that stuff, I just make is so mum has to do it. Plus mum does not like cleaning.  Yeah, when we got the new big cold box she cleaned, she almost had too. I didn't have any toys under the old one, but boy was the floor all icky!

Plus I don't think any of us kitties care for the sucking monster when it comes out from hiding. I have never been attacked by it, but it sure does make a lot of noise. I think it is that whirring and whining noise that is the worst.

Now, hopefully your beans won't get carried away and clean every day. Our schedule has been about the same, clean enuf to keep the health inspector away, but not so clean that all of our time is spent on cleaning. Mum is happy with that too, sort of like it has been.

Ah, sun puddles and quiet. Mum isn't cleaning today. Happy weekend!

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday with Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.

First off, we are having just marvy weather. A few showers, but mostly sun and the temperatures are nice, up in the 70's, (21C). Not bad for early TockTober.

Mum decided to do something to give us a bit of fall flower color. So she got some flowers for the front baskets.

 

 

 The look purrty good and hopefully they will stay looking good for a while. That cuz they is fake flowers! Mum took lead from the naybor who does fake flowers spring, summer and fall!

Mum did get some real color too. She did buy a mum, one that has three different flower colors in it.

 

 

 Mum thinks the ones that are not open yet will be a pinky purple color. So something real with flowers to look at. Below is what it looks like from inside in the reading and fevver watching chair.

 Mum did find one tiny spot of real flowers from summer, just a tiny cluster on the butterfly bush.

Happy fall, that is all for this week from the garden. Love Virginger, Glimmer and Trooper.