Finally Friday

Ahhhh, we have had great weather so the windows have been open. I can sit in the window and watch and listen to the birdies. Sometimes the buns and squirrels come by to entertain me as well. What is also cool is the fireflies. Just as the sun starts going down, they wake up and start flying around. It is so cool to see them flitting around.

Flower Friday

One of our many types of daylillies. This one is dark red. It is getting now so the flowers that bloom in the late summer are opening and making the garden pretty.
Happy Weekend Everyone.

It's Mum - What She Didn't Do

Since mum is the purson who takes the pictures, she isn't in them! But last week she came home and put this on the front of cold box. It does look like her. She got it when her company had a picnic. They had a guy who would do pictures of people. It is her! It really looks like her!
Plus she came home with stuff, one a prize for winning at bingo! The other a blankie for just showing up.
As I said on Monday mum is on my short list for ignoring or forgetting me. Last Saturday after she went out to eat with Miss Lynn she came home, did a few things and went to bed. She forgot to feed me and clean my box. So William was partially correct, she forgot to feed me.

So very early Sunday morning I started jumping on the bed, getting on her feets, knocked a fake plant on the floor. Just generally made myself noticeable, nothing got her out of bed early. Once she did get up and walked into the kitchen she immediately noticed my VERY empty bowl and put crunchies in in immediately. She 'pologized but that didn't make it right. My little tummy was rumbling.

Then she went down to wash all her clothes and finally cleared the box out too. Thanks, it really needed that, plus a refill on the litter.
Don't let it happen again.

ManCat Monday

Never try to out stubborn a cat. - Robert A. HeinleinI am not happy with mum, so she gets to see my backside for the most part. Her actions to me over the weekend were not acceptable. I am doing my best to ignore her or put the bitey on her.

GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART, GOODNIGHT

There was a linky on the CB the other day to a guy singing this song to some puppies to make them go to sleep. It worked!

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
GOODNIGHT, sweetheart, good night.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
GOODNIGHT, sweetheart, good night.

Well, it's three o'clock in the morning,
Baby, I just can't treat you right,
Well, I hate to leave you, baby,
Don't mean maybe, because I love you so.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
GOODNIGHT, sweetheart, good night.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
GOODNIGHT, sweetheart, good night.

Now, my mother and my father,
Might hear if I stay here too long,
One kiss and we'll part,
And you'll be going, you know how I hate to see you go.

Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
Goodnight, sweetheart, well, it's time to go,
I hate to leave you, but I really must say,
GOODNIGHT, sweetheart, good night.

Circa 1953

Words and Music by Calvin Carter & James Hudson
© ARC Music Corporation

Mum sings this, at least the refrain part, to me a lot too when it gets to be bed time. If fits me well as I am "Derby Sweetheart Cat" to my lovely ladycat Ms Princess Mia Bella. I don't always fall asleep, but mum does! She sings herself to sleep.
Plus you can check out the original way this was sung so many years ago. It was sung by The Spaniels, maybe that is why it was so good to put puppies to sleep. I know other people sang it too.

Mum and Grampie finished up the metal monster room project today. Mum is happy and so am I, less noise from out there to disturb my naps.

Plus mum pulled out some of the left over roast beast for their lunch. I got some too. Now mum is off to have dinner with Miss Lynn, I hope she brings home some good stuff to eat.

AHHHHHHHH, Friday

Woohoo, the weekend is almost here. I know mum will be around this weekend, she and Grampie have to work on the stuff in the metal monster room.

I saw this on Max, The Pyschokitty blog. A site that will donate kibble to shelters. All our beans have to do is answer the question. Actually it will donate if you get it right or wrong. Mum takes the quiz at home and also at work. That way we can double our donation.

So go out and take the trivia challenge every day and help out shelter kitties so that they can be fed properly.

Flower Friday
A sunny flower that the birdies or squirrels must have planted from the feeders. In time the flower will feed the birdies again.
Me I will just hang out in one of my tents. Happy weekend one and all.

Doing the Q

This is Smokey, the woofie of one of mum's furiends. He does the Q very nicely. Here he is at his house looking out the windows that go to the floor.
I don't do the Q, and mum hasn't gotten a picture of me doing the full monty. So not sure if I will be able to enter the contest. I have just been chillaxin on my bed.
Glad you like my voice, I understand I have gotten a few of the ladycats all excited when listening to my voice. MEORRWWWW to all of you.

ManCat Monday

Who amoung us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily live and to relax completely. - Karen Brademeyer
This is me just all stretched out on the coffee table in front of mum. She was probably furry busy on the puter or reading the newsy paper or whatever else she does that keeps her so busy. Me I just crash wherever and whenever I can.

Mum left me on my own this weekend for the most part. She was off being busy with some of her friends.

Glad you like to hear my real, very own meows. If you didn't hear them yet see the post before!

Derby's Voice

Mum managed to record me talking! Yes my real life meows and merfs. The first one she is getting ready to make foods for dinner. So I am asking for something to eat. I am usually also rubbing around her feets too! This is the picture that she took just before she recorded the sound.
Pardon some of the extra noises, you can even hear the floor creak!

Get a Voki now!

The second one, this is my love voice. When mum hears this she knows I am the love bug mode. Give me pets, scritches and a whole lot of attention. I want some of that food you have up there lady!

Get a Voki now!
So now you know what I really sound like! Mum discovered/remembered that her camera, if you push a button will record noise for 30 seconds after a picture is taken. You just have to remember to push the button.

Mu Shue is still with us for now, guess his mum said he was feeling better, so he hasn't gotten to the bridge just yet.

Farewell Friday

This week we are losing another of our blogging buddies, Mu shue. He was a senior catizen and had some health issues. He will be helped to The Bridge today. Even with this he was a hero when a fire happened in the apartment back in April, he guided his sisfurs, Lily and Iris, to safety.
Go in peace my friend. A flower for you. A pink lilly.
Have a good weekend every one.

Cold Box Meme

I got tagged for the cold box meme by Mindy and Moe, Team Tabby.

"A fun and simple MEME for the hot summer. Show us a photo of the front of your Cold Box and tell us about at least one thing on it and one thing you keep inside of it! Tag your friends and remember to stay COOL!"

Well mum has lots of magnets of places she has been or of works of art she wishes she could own, but could never afford to buy. You can biggify any picture to get a better look.
Magnets too about the Squillions and the Cat Olympics that we had!



A good looking ginger cat as well. Could that be me? Some sticky things that are of kitties too.

Inside, well the freezy part has ice cream cones! Chicken and not yet roasted beast!
In the bottom, the just cold spot, the lower shelf, the box with the red lid on the left. That is the remaining roast beast from the other day!
I tag anyone and everyone who wants to play along!

Fancy Invite

Mum got this real thick envelope the other day. She said it was for a wedding! Mum smooshed out the last names on this to protect the innocent.
Is that Sanjee getting married mum? It looks like her name? No, mum says that is Sajeev and that is the groom. Also notice it says Mrs and Mr So-N-So, unlike here where the names are Mr and Mrs Such-N-Such.
These names of the towns are so much different that I have seen, this must be a fancy place to have such a loooooong name.
Cool, can we go? Mum said no. No?! Why? It is half way around th world! We live in the USofA in Whiskerconsin.
The wedding is in Kerala, a State in the Republic of India, which is on the lower west coast of India.

Goodness who do you know that lives in India that would invite you to a wedding? I know you used to talk to people on the other side of the world for your work, it isn't one of them, is it? No?

Oh, it is her nephew's wife's, sister that is the bride. She met her and the rest of the family when the nephew got married three years ago. The bride and groom live here in the US, but his family still lives in Kerala, which is where the bride's family is originally from. Her parents actually live in Botswana, which is in Africa.

Whew, I don't think I can keep this all straight. Oh there is a party to cellybrate the wedding later in the US, but going to either of these would cost lots of green papers. Really lots of green papers if she had to go to India.

Hey, that was just before I came to live with you, right? Right! She postponed adopting a kittie so she could go to the wedding.
I can rest easy now, mum won't be taking off to visit the other side of the world.

ManCat Monday

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. - Rodney Dangerfield

No respect, I get no respect. Well, that isn't really true, but that is what Rodney would have said.
I guess I do get some respect, KellyCat honored me with this award. Arte y Pico, I think that is in a language I don't know, so I really don't know what it means.

This award was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity and their talents, also for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium.When you receive this award it is considered a "special honor". Once you have received this award, you are to pass it on to 5 others." What a wonderful way to show some love and appreciation to your fellow bloggers!!!

The rules for passing this honor on:

1) Pick 5 blogs that you would like to award this honor to.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

OK so here is my five of the kitties blogs who have inspired me to get started doing my blog.

Max, The Pyschokitty
William of Mass Destruction
Timothy Dickens
The Crew
Sophia the Diva Kitty

I just report on my humble little life on what is happening in my little corner of the world.

I was helpful to mum when she brought the flag inside to put it away at night. I wanted to play on it, but mum said that was disrespectful to play on the flag. So she had me not play or nap on the flag and put it safely away.
Mum cooked outside lots this weekend. The sausages, or bratwurst as mum calls them, on July4. But then Sunday she took some meat out of the freezer to cook.
Now that might not look like much but that is a HUGE piece of roasting beast. How big you ask? Well look how much room it took up on the plate. It is also about 3 inches thick!
Mum cut only some of this off to eat last night, she didn't eat the whole thing! But she did share with me, a few little pieces of the delicious, medium rare, tenderloin.
There I am getting ready to snarf down the piece that mum gave me to start with. Below is her plate of foods. Roast beast, grapes and cauly flowers.
Sorry Sammy, Miles and Billy Meezer, mum did share her nice foods with me. Sorry your beans didn't share with you.

Plus mum did NOT manage to set off the smoke thingy this time. Usually she is good and does not set it off, it was just last week and the wind was just right, and just enough smoke from the outside cooking spot.

Holiday, Schmoliday

You would never had known is was a holiday by all of the work mum and Grampie did. Sure they did sit around lots too, but they made lots of noise out in the metal monster room too. Mum said they had to clean up and move stuff around so she has room for a new recycle thingy that is coming soon. Mum says the metal monster room needs to be better organized, so she still has lots of work to do yet.

Plus when mum went to pick up Grampie they stopped to check out the river and the falls that had so much water last month. You can see those pictures here.
The main, big waterfall. This is about normal mum says.
Here the area on the right was all under water a few weeks ago. Then mum and Grampie walked down there.
Grampie is standing where it would have been all flooded. Mum says the water would have a least been up to his knees, probably higher. The current was strong too, so no bean could have or should have walked out there when it was flooding. It was furry safe to do this yesterday.
This is the lower falls, also much calmer and really prettier than when there is a big whoosh of water going over it.

Here is the lunch mum maked outside. They sort of had a picnic, but ate inside as the mosquitos are so bad at times. But something funny happened. Even though mum was cooking outside...
.....she manged to set off this loud thing inside the house that doesn't like smoke. hehehehe. The big window that goes to the floor was open, so the outside cooking smoke came inside the house! It was furry loud, but mum came in and closed the door, to keep the smoke out. Then the thing quit beeping.
Yes mum did give me a little bit of the sausage, it isn't as good as chickhen. I know mum has more good stuff to cook outside tonight too. I hope I get some of that.

Hope that every cat and bean had a good holiday. Mum said the weather here was purrfect. Sunny, high temps in the mid-70's, a light breeze and not humid. She said if every day was like this it would be great. Rain only allowed between 10 PM and 6 AM! Ya gotta have some rain for the flowers.

Happy Indepence Day Mericky

Happy Independence Day to my fellow American Kitties. Hope all have a great day and cellybrate responsibly. Mum and I are planning to chill out for the weekend. Grampie will be here for the 4th for lunch. Mum will be cooking outside.

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!

Party Animal

You know where I will be today. Join in everyone at Kimo and Sabi's house.

ManCat Monday

If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel. - Dick Shawn [1923-1987]
Don't I look angelic here? Yep, I do. All I need are my wings.

I was a good kittie on Sunday. I didn't do anything to wake mum up early. I let her sleep until she decided to get up. That was around 7:20 AM. She went to bed about 10:30 PM, so she nearly had 9 hours of sleep. She didn't even have to bribe me with some licks of her ice cream. Plus she took a short nap in the afternoon too on Sunday.
I had some good naps too on Sunday. I took over the bed while mum was washing the sheets. Me and Mr Bear snuggling on the bed, and I got a longer than usual nap as mum washed the sheets last instead of first!

Saturday mum went to have dinner with Miss Lynn. She brought a box home but I don't know what is inside yet. It didn't smell like much to me, no ham, chickhen etc. that I could detect.

It got cooler out again, so nice open window season. I love to sit in the windows and watch the birdies and such. When I get all 'acited I chitter and my tail wooshes back and forth.
Mum's ear is getting better. She says at times it feels completely normal, then for bits of time it feels a bit wonky yet. Not to worry she will be taking care of any issues that come up so this doesn't go on for a long time. If she needs to see the bean vet again, she will do so to make sure this all gets cleared up.