ManCat Monday

Cats don't mind sharing the bed with fellow cats, as long as the area is equitably divided among them. Usually there is room for everyone on a first-come-first-served basis - under the blanket, on top of the blanket, on the pillow, under the pillow, at the head of the bed, at the foot of the bed, in that order. Any space left over goes to the owner. - Stephen Baker

In bed, it is mum, me and a big teddy bear she uses as a body pillow. I sleep where I want, on the bed, under the covers, or on top of mum. Depends on how much of  her warms I want to soak up.

I know I haven't see all the tock shots that got posted, but want to thank all who participated to cellybrate and honor Angel Derby. It means a lot to me and mum.

Mum did some outside chores yesterday once the feetsball game was done. She backed out the metal monster, changed the burned out light bulb in the opener, found out the second bulb was just loose. Swept out the grass and brake dust. Then she got the snow eater started. It took a few times until it would keep running. She will check it again in a few weeks.

Mum worked on her blankie during the game.  At first I was napping in the sun puddle, then moved to the other chair, contemplating if I should whap the yarn to the floor, then on to her lap. 

 The only thing with these balls they aren't round so they don't roll around much. I don't like that.

 Me under the blankie, nice and warm under here. Plus I get to be sitting on mum.

 Yes mum, I see you, now just get back to your crow-shay and let me nap!

Sportz Report

The Pack - scored early often and managed to keep the other guys away from the end zone many times. Even a funky play where the other QB fumbled the ball right on the goal line, it went into the end zone, then out of bounds. So that meant the balls was The Pack. ARodg was purrfect, or at least he had a purrfect QB rating. First time he has done this, mum says she is glad she doesn't have to figure this out, at least not in her head. ARodg has now thrown for 350 touchdowns and ran for 29!

Bucky Badger - mum was bizzy doing other stuff but glad she didn't watch. They losted in the last few seconds and to a team they really shouldn't have losted too.

World Series - The Nats and The Stros. Mum doesn't care who wins. She was happy the Yankees aren't playing!

Tocks for Angel Derby

A few of Derby's tocks! He would have been 16 today if he was still around. Plus you can see he loved walking on the kitch-hen counters! Mum gave up trying to keep him off.

A few my my cute tocks too!

Happy Tock-Tober!

Caturday

HiYa Ducky here. Happy Caturday! Woohoo the weekend is here. It is Angel Derby's purrthday tomorrow, so it will be a day to show us your tocks. So stop by to see my tocks for this year!

Answering a few questions.

Eastside Cats - yes, she has to put in volunteer hours for her Master Gardener thing. She has to get a minimum of 25 volunteer hours AND do at least 10 hours of continuing education each year. That is part of the thing that they help teach and train others about good garden stuff.

Timmy Tomcat - have your beans check for local county stuff. I don't know where you live but many counties have this stuff. I don't know where you live, but maybe mum could help you research. Email me at duckycat at wi.rr.com.

But even so, mum feels it is important to give back to the community where we live. So that is why she helps at the library and food panty too. Plus making warm hats and blankies for those who might need a little something extra.

Mum got a new toy this week, something that winds up yarn into cakes, not balls of yarn that mum will do by hand. It isn't good for me as these cake things don't roll around like a ball of yarn would. That means it isn't fun to play with it! Bummer.

If I don't have yarn to play with then I will just take a nice long nape.

Everyone have a wonderful weekend.

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday.

We have had a couple of frosty mornings. Not enuf to kill the plants but enuf cold to make the house roofs all white. Picture is taken through the screen on the window, so it looks a bit wonky.

Mum counted five small eggy plants growing, if slowlly. So she thinks she will have enuf for a decent meal.

Mum did a garden presentation yesterday. She went and talked to a senior group about trees and how they are colorful. Leaves, flowers, fruit and bark. She only had four people come, but hey, she gets to count the hours as time volunteered.

Mum is going to have to start with the final garden cleanup soon. Plants to cut down and haul off. She says she wants a nice day and not a windy day if she can.

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

Tuesday This and That

It was rainy, then sunny, now back to clouds. Mum did go out a couple of time earlier. Get her head furs cut and take all her accumulated hats and other crow-shays to the food pantry for them to hand out when they can.

 Here is the big bag with the littler ones inside. The inside ones keep the sizes apart

 Men's hats.

 Kid's hats.

 Lady hat's, plus a couple of scarves.

 Then three blankies, two that have been hanging out in the closet since she finished them and the one she was working on and finished this past week.

Don't worry, she has a new blankie she is working on plus a new toy! A yarn winder.

 

 So the big ball of yarn, goes from this, gets spun around this.

 And ends up like this! Wow, now she doesn't have to do all that winding by hand, it is so much faster.

But mum says she will read a bit afore she goes back to her crow-shay.

Feetsball Report

The Pack - they snatched a victory from the jaws of defeet last night. The kicker guy did his thing and made a field goal so they won by one point. Then he went and did a Lambeau Leap!

ManCat Monday

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days. - Albert Einsten

MOL, not all of us spray you know, but we stay alive in our human's memory. Mum often thinks of so many cats at The Bridge, their humans too.

Mum survived her cold morning  helping at the run. She was gone from the house about 2 hours. Showed up in time to get set up, then to wait until the runners actually passed their water station, then looped back around and come by again.  Mum filled cups with water from the big blue jugs, others handed them out. They didn't hand much out since it wasn't a warm day.

 The rest of the crew and the leader, a guy on a bicycle showing the route, the first runner, not far behind.

The first runner and then runners going back to the start/finish line. 

 Moovies!

Sportz Report

The Pack doesn't play until tonight against those lion guys.

Bucky Badger - unbeaten and pitched another shut out beating Michigan State. So far Bucky has play 3 teams from the mitten state and beaten them all. Matter of fact two of those teams didn't even scored a point. So Wisconsin 134 - Mitten State 14

Basey Ball - in the playoffs and mum is at the Ho-Hum stage. She doesn't really care who wins, but she does watch at least some of the games.

So everyone have a good week and Go Pack Go tonight.

Caturday

HiYa Ducky here. The day is getting off to a frosty start and mum is going to have to go out early today.

It got cold yesterday and just before bed mum took a pic of the temperature thing. We haven't been this cold in ages!

 Mum brought out her crow-shay, done working on hats and now back to finish a blankie she started last winter. Now cold enuf that it feels good to have me and the blankie in her lap. Helps keep her warm.

Mum has to get going, she is helping at a run, 5K and 10K, they will donate green papers to the food pantry. Mum will try to get some pics and we will share on Monday.

Have a good weekend everyone

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to The Garden this week. We have been having a few nice days. Sunny and warmer than normal. However that is going to change this weekend. It will be furry cold and windy. None of that white stuff out there, at least not yet. Mum was being silly while she sat outside and took a picture of the shadow of of her feets. 

The community garden is pretty much done for the year. They harvested the last of the stuff, carrots, eggyplant, peppers, kale, swiss chard and a few onions. All the plants are pulled out too.

 The raised beds all cleared, the poultry netting taking down. They dug around a few of the metal raised beds, they need to be treated so they don't rust some more.

 The pile of what is left of the plants, they get composted. They may have a work day or two for working on the metal and clearing out the flowers.

Plus at the end of the season the dahlia finally decided to bloom. Sure, just in time for frost to set in.

 Mum snuck one carrot out to bring home for lunch. She loves the smell and taste of really fresh carrots. Yes, you see Ducky's lunch too!

So mum will now have to think and do about working in her own yard! Time for cleanup at home too.

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

ManCat Monday

Does ownership of the family cat, and all its by-products, immediately transfer to the female head of the household whenever the word 'hairball' is uttered? - Barbara L. Diamond

MOL, well around here mum has to do everything. So she is the head of the house period. So she has to make sure all things are taken care of. Last week she had the heaty monster checked out and because it was running I headed for my fav winter spot, the hammick. I loves it when the warm air flows under me and I can put my paws out to get them warm. 

 Nice napping here.

Sportz Report

The Pack - they beat the CowGirls in Big D! They looked pretty good, the D caught some of their passes. ARodg looked pretty good too. Although mum was thinking the guys and one gal in the black and white stripes were trying to take our game away.

Bucky Badger - won again and is unbeaten. WooHoo, go Bucky!

BaseyBall - mum is watching but doesn't really have a fav team now that our team is out. She watches and works on her crow-shay. She has lots of hats done and will turn them over for give away in a few weeks. 

We also had a nice sunny Sunday. Mum filled up the feeders for the fevvers yesterday and took the last hummer feeder down. We are supposed to have a pretty nice week with sunny days and sort of warms.

Everyone have a good week.

Caturday

HiYa Ducky here. Happy Caturday. I am hitting another milestone today. 3521 days. What does that signify? I have now lived here with mum as long as Derby did. Thankfully I am planning to hang around for a while. 


 Mum has finally decided to get out of  bed, she slept in for a bit. Said she needed the healing power of sleep.

Mum is a bit achy from falling and going boom. All the joints work, she can walk but her elbow is tender and sore, she has a funky bruise on her had from where she was carrying her phone, and yep, the backside is sore yet too. Mum is just taking gentle walks and keeping moving.

Part of keeping moving means making foods for her. She did a big batch of onions and made soup. The fancy soup that you make french by adding cheese! The house smelled of onjuns and garlic, but it was a good smell. Mum said it was very tasty.

 Carmelizing the onjuns first, then into the crockpot for hours to get all mellow and tasty.

Then add bread, some cheese, put it in the hot as hell box, then pull out and enjoy. Mum said it was yum.

 

So what do I do while she is all bizzy in the kitch-hen. I was hanging out on my tower, waiting for her do be done so I could sit on her lap. She finished, got her book and we spent the afternoon just hanging out together. 

It is a cloudy day and they weather guessers say we will get rain later. Guess I will find mum and her lap for another day of snuggles.

Happy weekend.

Garden Thursday

Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday. Our heads are above water as we have had lots of rain lately. So things are green and still growing! With the rain we went from warms to cool and cloudy.

Mum hasn't seen the spider in her door in the last week, so has taken off for somewhere else, or at least not where we can she her. But we can see her handiwork!

 

 

Mum went over to work on the community garden yesterday but no one else showed up. Not much to do so she took some video of the garden and the stream.

 

 

She didn't realize it and the bridge was super slippery and yep, she slipped. Landed on her well padded backside. Did hit her elbow too so that is sore, but it works just fine. Hey, don't be mad at us for talking about her backside that way, she talks about it that way.

Yes, we will be heading into hibernation but probably not until next month. The weather is still OK for us for now outside. All the fall cleanup still has to happen.

So thanks for visiting and see you next week. Love Virginger, Glimmer, Trooper and Fleur.