ManCat Monday - September 2

Because his long white whiskers tickled, I began every day laughing. - Janet F. Faure

Me and mum are having a good weekend so far. Nice and relaxed. Mum worked on the yarn that Auntie Trish sent. Not much left, plus she used some of her own. What is left plus some of the hats.

 

 

 

 I napped on mum's lap and we got caught up with watching the Serengeti series. Lots of cool pics of the big cats and other animals from Africa.

One year ago today mum landed in France! So I told mum she could re-post from her travel blog here and share the memories once again. Not every day, just some of the more important days to reshare.

Sunday September 2, 2018

Arrival in France! I swear we were deplaned at the gate farthest from everything! The walk to get to passport control took at least 10 minutes, and then you ended up in a long series of switch backs for queuing up to get your passport stamped.

Then another hike to get to baggage claim and miracle of miracles my bag was just popping up as I got there, so no wait to get my bag. Another hike to get out of the baggage claim area and to the area where non-screened people can meet you. Unlike in the US, baggage claim is not an open place for any one. At this point I am having to handle all my own baggage.

I passed down the line of people waiting to meet family and tour reps waiting to meet passengers. Found my tour company and she got me to a quiet and cooler place to wait. Shortly after two more people arrived and based upon arrival times the three of us were sent off with a driver to the hotel in Paris. It took about 30 minutes from Charles De Gaulle airport to the hotel.

When we got to the hotel we were met by our program director Anne who let us know our rooms were ready, so we could rest! Yipee. I was tired and looking forward to a nap.

Typical European windows, no screens and they fully opened with just a bit of iron work outside. They warned you about not letting your kids get out. I was on the first floor, keeping in mind in Europe the floors are ground floor (0), 1, 2, 3 etc.

Little spiky things to keep the pigeons from roosting!

Hotel was on the Place de la Republique.This open air plaza we were told is a place where Parisienne's gather to protest, but no protest while we were there. Also a subway stop right there to hop on to get around the city.

The art in my room, must have know a cat lover was coming to stay!

Didn't do much during the day, took a short nap, then did a bit of a walk on my own with lunch sitting outside at a cafe. Later our program director took us for a walk to show us the immediate area, how to use the subway, even where a local grocery store was in case we wanted to purchase food to eat in our rooms versus eating in a cafe.

Caturday

HiYa Ducky here. Happy Caturday. Hope all of my Mericky furiends will be enjoying the long weekend. Sending lots and lots of  purrs to all on Florida and any place the hurry-cane might be affecting. Be safe everyone.

Mum did lots and lots of work outside the past few days, so now she is going to rest up on the weekend. Read some, maybe crow-shay too. She is going well with her hat things.

 Lately this is where I like to sleep at night, right on top of where mum puts her head at night. Sometimes I take up way more space that she does on the pillow, and at times she shifts to the other pillow, but then so do I. MOL!

 

 Remember mum got this a few weeks ago. Well, I resemble that don't I? I think that is why mum got it. I usually sleep all curled up, but my tail isn't quite that long.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend gang.

Garden Thursday

Hello and welcome to Garden Thursday. The weather has been really nice, so mum has been bizzy doing lots of stuff outside.

First she took some bags of dirt to fill in some low spots in the yard. She was tired of stepping in the holes. Then she added grass seed but so far no new actual grass.

 Then she has been working on the never ending weeds and cutting off branches on trees that like to grow up in our back fence. Mum sure wishes she could get them deaded so they don't grow back.

 But with all of this she has a huge pile of stuff to haul off. She hasn't hauled the stuff to the compost pile in a while, so this will take a few trips to get rid of.

She did get out to the community garden this week. Working on harvesting, tomato, carrots, eggplant and a cucumber.Lots more carrots but waiting for them to get a bit bigger.

  Onions getting dried off in the sun and lots of green beans to eat, they are still going strong.

 

 The old netting for the peas, they are done for this year. Mum took down the netting and the posts so they can be stored for next year. Do you spy that orinch thing below? That is a pumpkin and there are two more that haven't started to turn orinch.

 This is the group that had the broccoli in the back gone and the middle row are brussel sprouts that aren't producing sprouts at all. They look more like cabbage that hasn't done anything either. So that was a big miss. The garden is winding down now.

So that is all for this week. Love Virginger, Glimmer, Trooper and Fleur.

ManCat Monday

To err is human, To purr is feline. - Robert Byrne

I purred lots this weekend as mum was seated working on hats. Yes, more hats but these are for big people from the yarn that Auntie Trish sent. Caturday mum got one hat done and another started afore she went to the sleeping spot. She got a couple more done on Sunday while watching the moving picture box. 

 

 

 

 

  Plus mum brought these two boxes up from dungeon. Said she needs to double check if she wants to keep anything. Otherwise she knows someone who might want the stuff. Mum would be happy to have a few more things cleared out of the house.

 It was a super nice weekend here with lots of open windows, no fans running and listening to the crickets as we fall asleep.

Have a good week everyone.

Caturday

HiYa Ducky here. Happy Caturday. Things have been interesting around here. Mum came home the other day smelling of other kitties and yesterday I saw her consorting with a woofie along the trail! The horrors!

 Mum went to meet these two cats, Dakota on top, Orca below. Seems she will be cat sitting for them next month while the humans are out of town. Just for a weekend and their mom is one of my care givers for when mum was gone last year. Orca is three and Dakota just six months. Mum says she will be getting better pics when she visits them next month.

Mum got a box in the mail yesterday from Auntie Trish of Katnip Lounge. It was filled will all sorts of yarns. Mum hopes to make some hats for bigger peoples from this.

Auntie Trish loves me even though she has never met in the fur, but she sent smoochies to me. I send them right back at ya Auntie T.

All sorts of colors to use, about enough to make one hat from each color. Mum will get started on this when she can, she needs to spend more time outside working in the yard.

Yes mum, I see the goodies, so put them down so I can come and sit in your lap. I know you are tired from all of the weed pulling and tree pruning with more to do. Just don't hang around with those woofies.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. We are supposed to have more really nice weather.

Garden Thursday

Hello and welcome to Garden Thursday. Not much going on this week. Mum skipped going to the community garden this week. Said she needed a week off and do some other stuff.

Mum picked all of the eggy plants that was on the plant. You can see the lighter stuff that never seemed to get ripe and purple. Mum ate the few on the table for dinner the other night. The rest she cut open and they were really seedy, so not good to eat. She sees new blossoms on the plant, so maybe she will get a few more to eat this summer.

 We also spied this interloper inside the other day, no update from mum or Ducky.

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

ManCat Monday

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk -- there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. - Sir Walter Scott

Yeah, we cats do think more than just treats, toys and foods. Some of what is going on these days is weird and we wish it wasn't.

Hat update. Mum is done making hats for this year. She set a goal for herself to make 214 hats and she actually did 215 since she had enuf yarn for one last hat. Why 214? Well she started making hats on March 1 and it is 214 days until the last day of the program on September 30. So she figured if she did a hat a day she could make it. Well, knowing mum some days she made more than one, so hit her goal early. You saw the stash of new stuff she bought, she will be happy to not be making everything with purple!

 Mum is giving herself a bit of a break from doing crow-shay, reading books, doing work outside, running around seeing people and such. Last week she had two picnics and a volunteer appreciation lunch. Plus meeting a furiend for lunch. She wasn't around much!

 Plus she has been shopping for a little table to sit between the two new chairs. This is to hold the remotes which she needs from both chairs, depending on which one she is sitting in. Plus the remote for the fan and her phone. She had to put it together, but it fits just like she hoped it would.

 So I promised on Caturday a few final pictures of hats. Mum pulled a fast one one me showing me one of the last hats she finished.

 Yes, she managed to slip it over my head and it is so big it covers my entire head. I don't like not being able to see where things are.

 

 

 I managed to shake it off really quick and she better not try to do this to me again. If she does she is likely to get a bitey put on her!

Happy week everyone.