Mini-ManCat Monday

 Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat. - Byron Nelson 

Yeah, winners got. We like our local winners. Well we like the local teams anyway. 

Sending lots of purrs to our furiends who might be working on the clean up after the hurry-cane. Be well everyone!

Weather continues to be nice so open windows. Mum even forgot to close the front window one night. We live in a safe area so not likely to have any bad people come around.

Me chilling in mum's lap. Half awake and just zoning out. If you look really close you can see one of my fangs on the side of my mouth. 

Yeah, again, my happy place of mum's lap with the crow-shay. Mum does the work during the sports stuff and we have lots of sports stuff going on these days. Feetsball, basey ball, racing too.

Me inspecting the latest blankie. Looks good mum. As soon as she finishes one she is on to the next one.

 She even took stock of what she has already done and I thinks it is time to take them to the give away place. See all of those blankies piled up! That is what mum had done in the past year.

Sports Report

Mum bounced between basey ball, feetball and CrashCar. 

Feetball game started first and The Pack didn't look all that good. QB1 JLove was playing but in the first part he didn't look all that great. Second half they played much better but they couldn't beat the ViQueens.

The Brew Crew in basey ball, they will play on Tuesday in the wild card game but they don't know who they will play. The other teams have to make up games that got postponed cuz of the hurry-cane. 

CrashCar mum's fav driver is still in the playoffs and we watched most fast forwarding through the first part and actually watched the end. We could do that cuz the other games were done. 

Have a good week everyone.

Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

I woke up around 4 AM Wednesday and remembered I hadn't really finished this post. I rolled over until it was really time to get up before fixing this!

Also at that time Ducky was snoozing on my pillow just above my head. He was framed in the moonlight that was coming in the window. No pics as that wouldn't have come through at all. 

Fall has arrived, along with more fall like weather. We actually had some rain this week, so the grass is not as crunchy and a little bit green. 

Last Wednesday of September too. Plus it would have been my Dad's 109th birthday. Happy Birthday inn heaven. 

Three months to Christmas!

Find More Birds I am a backyard bird watcher. I participate every winter in Project Feeder Watch which is run through Cornell University. Figure it didn't hurt to see what I could learn to do above and beyond what I already was doing. Author works with Cornell and the College of Ornithology. All the pictures in the book are hers and some of them are finds in the heart of Brooklyn.

Fatherland is a memoir / history of the author's maternal grandfather. During World War II he was assigned to teach in the occupied area of Alsace France. As the author searches to find if his grandfather was a hard liner Nazi or did he use his position to shield the residents from the worst of the mess of the party. Very interesting book.

Making It So is Patrick Stewart's memoir of his life. Most of those in the United States know him best from being in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Early career he was best known in Britain for his Shakespeare works. 

Happy Reading.

Mini-ManCat Monday

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. - H.G. Frommer 

Yep, we cats is smart. We sit or lay around and look cute. Our humans wait on us, play with us, feed us. Even get rid of our waste products! Not a bad life!

Ha, mum didn't even take any new pics of me this past week, so here is a rerun from last week! I didn't even spend much time watching feetsball with her this week. It was a cloudy rainy day and it was a wonderful day for napping.

Here is a pic mum took of the eclipse this past week. She said it looked better in purrson with her own eyes. 

Feetsball Report

The Pack won beating the Tennessee team. Our replacement QB used to play for them and they didn't want him. Plays and wins for us! 

Plus this past week our basey ball team won their division and poured champagne all over the place cuz of that. Then they went and lost a bunch of games in a row. On Sunday they did better. Mum was watching the Pack and would just check the score. At one point they were losing 8 to nothing! After the feetsball game mum turned on the basey ball game and they came back to win 10 to 9! Wowza!

Have a wonderful week. 

Wonderful Wordy Wednesday

I finished my 100th book of the year this past week, well behind last year's pace, deliberately so. Need to do more than just read in the afternoons. Out getting exercise and stuff. I also noted that this latest batch of book has included more non-fiction than usual. Those are usually slower reads.

Weather continues to be nice, warm and dry. Dry to the point the grass is getting a bit brown and crispy. That means I don't have to mow!

My Name is Barbra is a book in search of an editor who can rein in the author. At nearly 1000 pages it covers pretty much of her entire life, although 90% of the book covers up to 2000 or so. Just 10% of the last portion of her life since. There is a chapter for each of her various movies. If you are a big Streisand fan, you will like this. I just skimmed chapters when she was writing about movies that I had never seen.

Murder Most Royal another installment of the Queen Elizabeth Investigates. Author notes that she was finishing this manuscript just when the Queen died. A severed hand is found near Sandringham and the Queen recognized who it is based on the signet ring. What else can she contribute to solving this crime?

Father and Son is a memoir of the author's stint in rehab after a stroke and a recounting of his father's life during World War II in the English army. The book was more about the father than the son, but it also shed light on what people go through after strokes.

Chinese Menu stories behind some Chinese foods we all love and some I have never heard about. This is a children's book, but it still was fun to read about the foods we eat. Only one recipe included, for Scallion Pancakes. 

Yes! Go to the library. Get out of your house. Turn off the TV. Especially now with all the election hype going on. Just under 7 weeks to election day.

Part of being happy, read, crochet and other stuff. I read an article this past week that arts and crafts can improve your mental health. So escape reality for a while, we all need it!

Out of the 38 I have not done 15 of them. One of them, #15 was waited for book to hit kindle. I took that as just putting a book on hold and being in the 100+ people waiting for it. The longest queue I have been in I was over 300 waiting for Lessons in Chemistry. Then I found it on our lucky day shelf. I've also put a book on hold even before it was released, but it was in the catalog as being ordered. I got to be the first person to check it out!

Happy Reading.

Mini-ManCat Monday

The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls. - Eric Gurney 

It is Monday again. We had another really good week weather wise. No rains, warmish, lots of open windows. Enjoying it, as is mum. 

We never did catch our ground hog with the trap our pest man put out. Mum has even been watching and hasn't see it. Lots of chip-the-monk, sqwerls, bunnehs, but no ground hog. The pest man took the trap away yesterday. 

Mum was not happy with me. I was burrowing my way into her lap and I got a claw snagged on the blankie. Mum had to pull the stuff out and redo it as she likes her stuff to be as purrfect as possible. It wasn't a super amount she had to redo. After she fixed it, she did clippy claws on me!

 Mum took a pic of me in the mirror. I was snoozing on the back of the other chair. It is a bit fuzzy and mum cropped it down so you can mainly see just me.

Feetsball Report

The Pack pulled out a victory, even with QB2. Good that they didn't lose the game as they would have been the only team in the NFC Central without a win. They beat the ponies from Indy. 

You can see me sitting on mum and the crow-shay during the game.
 

Mum watched lots of sports yesterday. The Pack feetball game, the Brew Crew baseball game, CrashCar and some other feetsball games too, but not the entire games. 

You all have a good week, hope you are getting lots of open windows like I am.