Tuesday

It is absolutely beauty-us here. Mum has the windows wide open, a gentle breeze and we are all loving it, including mum. Although mum sounds a bit off. Her voice is icky, sounds like she has been eating rocks! She is tired and while she came home late from work Monday, she was right on time today.

We know she isn't with it. She left the talking box on when she left to day hunt today. We will try to get her into her sleepy spot on time if not early today.

 See how purrty it is outsideQ

Us, in the open window!

ManCat Monday

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer. - Bruce Graham

I don't think we would, ahem, do our bizzness on mum's puter. If we did, we wouldn't be able to blog and let you know what is going on here.

So, what is going on here? Not a whole lot. We got cooler air, rain showers late Sunday afternoon, so lots of open windows for us to enjoy.

Mum did her chores and Derby decided he needed to help with the bed making.

Well at least she had the good sense to just leave me be and finish making the bed later. It was nice to sleep between freshly laundered sheets!

 Mum went out to eat Caturday with Miss Lynn. She brought home a box but says it is not for kitties! Says it has spicy Eye-talion sausage in it. But we did get some gooshy foods on Sunday for lunch, so I guess that evens it out.

CATurday

It is finally nice again, so we have open windows and fresh air to enjoy. Mum likes it too.

 Enjoying a cool treat.

Or just napping the morning away.

Enjoy your day! We are and mum is bizzy doing her chores. All is well.

Garden Thursday

::MEOW::

Hello and welcome to  Garden Thursday with Virginger. At least this week we can upload pictures. So here is what I wanted to show you last week. 

This is two weeks ago, the flowers stalks had sprouted up on our yucca plants. This doesn't bloom every year. Maybe it has to do with rain as we had lots of rain this year. 

 The pictures below are from last week. You can see the flowers opening up and other shots of the whole plant.

 The neighbors have them too and they are blooming and still have blooms on them two weeks later, they last a long time. Mum is seeing others as she goes day hunting or driving around town.

That is all for this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Love, Virginger

Galileo!

HiYa, Ducky here again.  Some of you commented on the Galileo thermometer in our last post. This is a touchy subject with mum.

A number of years ago Derby messed with mum's Galileo thermometer not with good results. Mum was ready to have him lose one of his lives! You can go back here to see the results of broken glass in the middle of the night!

The little one you see in this picture was Grampie's and mum took it over. It is plastic so not likely to break.

Plus mum has her really good one and that is out of our reach now, but when she first got it, yep, you know who was at it. 

See his tail? Then he was ready to tap at it.

Mum has it hanging up high now, we can't get at it.

So hopefully no more breaking of things!

Mini ManCat Monday

If it's not tied down, it's a cat toy.

HiYa, Ducky here. It is Monday again, time for us ManCats to show our stuff. On Caturday we showed you this top picture of Derby messing about with mum's glass of pens. Laila and Minchie wanted to know how he got there without knocking something down.

Well he did knock something down, his picture! Better to knock over his picture than mine! But we have a back way to get on this shelf. And the picture was knocked off from the back, not front!

We get on the table next to it and walk in from the back! The case stands away from the wall by a few inches, more than enough for us to walk through. Plus mum's music playing machine sticks out the back, so we even have a place to walk! Easy Peasy.

 Here you can see the table, the music player and the cabinet.

I have been back there too. Me getting back there to check out the silk flowers.

Yep, mum caught me, but I don't care. She knows we explore all sorts of places and as long as nothing is damaged, she is OK with that.

The hots are back, so the cool blowy thing is working and the fans are moving the air around. Mum makes sure we don't get too hot even if we are inside the house.

Have a good week everyone.

Caturday

HiYa, Ducky here.

Excuse my backside but, the windows are open, it is a beauty-us day. Enjoying the fresh airs. The windows are wide open and soft breezes are coming in.

 Derby is getting places he shouldn't, messing about with mum's mug full of pens.

 Oh, the doorbell just rang. gotta go hide. Have a great Caturday.

Garden Thursday

::MEOW::

Well mum can't get an pictures to load other than the top one which has been used before. So since we can't show you anything new. Here are some oldies but goodies.

 The thistle that mum didn't see until it was all big and blooming last year.

 Lillies, resurrection lillies mum calls them.

 Star-gazer lillies, this didn't come back this year. Probably because of the drought last year.

The old butterfly bush with a monarch butterfly. Mum wishes these would survive more than a year as she likes them so much to get butterflies.

So that is it, hopefully next week we can show you what we wanted to show you this week. We have a neato plant blooming right now.

Love, Virginger

ManCat Monday

Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.


Hmmm, we don't have a woofie around here to blame. Not sure we want to get one just to have someone else to blame stuff on.

We were bummed to find out that Church Cat Tom ranned off to The Bridge, his mum traveled over 10 hours to be by his side at the end. Lots of purrs to them and to Olives family too.

We had a quiet rest of the weekend. Mum went off on Sunday to be Wicked! She came home humming songs and all about being Popular and Defying Gravity. Not gonna happen mum, trust us, we are the two who are popular and can defy gravity.

Caturday

First we want to send out healing purrs to Olive and ChurchCatTom. Both are not feeling well and getting extra care.

Update: We found Olive ran off to join her brofurs, Opus and Roscoe, at The Bridge.

As for us, we are fine. Mum gave us breakfast in bed as she had treats in her jammie's pocket from last night. MOL, she is not the princess on the pea, she didn't remember them until we started putting our noses into her pocket.

Mum is bizzy with the usual weekend stuff along with going to get her boobities smooshed like she should. Plus get her hair all curled this afternoon. Since she will be gone, we can have nice long naps.

Happy Purrthday USA!

 


Happy Purrthday America.

Mum has gotten into the mood for the hollyday by playing her CD of the local community band and their rousing rendition of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." Our tails were beating in time to the music. Mum was clapping along!

Happy Independence Day to our fellow American Kitties. Hope all have a great day and cellybrate responsibly and have been cellybrating safely.

The official big fireworks was last night in our area, it was a cool, cloudy night unlike last year when it was so hot. We stay home where it is nice and quiet, so no loud boomies for us. 

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 us. 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!

Product Review

We are taking today to give a product review. Baby Patches over at Nip and Bones sent us a new toy for us to test out. Per the rules, we got this toy for free, we were not and are not being paid for this. This is our honest opinion.

This is a bird cat toy. It lights up as you bat it around.

A short moovie of the first day we got it and this is about as much as mum has seen either of us play with it over the past few weeks.

Like anything new we checked it out, but we really didn't get into it that much. Mum was flipping around with her feets so she could get some pics of it when it would light up. It lights up when tossed around, but that didn't seem to attract our attention that much.

But mum has let it out for us to play with for the past few weeks, she knows we play with it sometimes, as it moves from spot to spot. But not very much. So then she marinated it with nip and that really didn't spark our attention either.

So here it is all marinated in nip last week. Mum dip it in the big nip sack, then put it into the little one to stew for a while.

Ducky, checking it out after mum took it out.

Yeah, the nip was good, let me at this.

Grabbing and licking at it for the nip.

Mum got a still shot of the lights going off as I moved it around.

Our final opinion. It really didn't do much for us. The lights didn't attract our attention and even with some nip, we choose to play with other toys more. We do love to chase the red dot, so this toy just wasn't something that interested us. Maybe you will like it better.

ManCat Monday

Cats are love on four legs. - Richard Torregrossa

Happy July 1! The first half of the year is over and time for a recap.

We started off the year with posting every day. Since mum was around every day with us, and not off day hunting, that worked. But since she went back day hunting, well, things aren't happening on a daily basis. So far we did 160 posts, which really isn't too bad all things considered with 181 possible days to post on. Mum figured it out for us, that is 88% of the days we posted. Much better than the past 2-4 years where we didn't even get to 200 posts for entire year. I think we will be over 200 for this year.

We had a quiet weekend with mum. Lots of naps, open windows, cool temps and wonderful breezes.