Pierro + Miles' Happy Place

Mancat Monday

2012-01-30T01:42:00.007-05:00

Miles:
Thank you every kitty for coming to my party. It was great fun
and mom even said that we were good (MOL)

Pierro:
Today we are relaxing in the sun and enjoying it

because after a couple more spring-like days,
winter will be coming back.

bonks and bronkies for a happy Monday

"Every day I go into the world
to seek my identity,
feeling greatly blessed by the things
I don't find it in."

~~ Robert Brault

Today is MY 2nd BIRTHDAY!!

2012-01-27T01:26:00.015-05:00

Miles:
welcome to my house. we are having my bronk party at the main office here in the big room

our talented neighborkitties are here to provide
snazzy music for us to race around, and dance to

Pierro:
we have HAM

and lots of yummy snacks -- and tuna cookies

and crabbie cakes

Miles: and the other stuff...

Pierro: Enjoy yourselves and when you have to go back home
please take a bonkie toy along with you.

bonks and bronks for a happy day
dear kittypals!

The key to happiness
is having dreams.
The key to success is
making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous

It takes a long time
to grow an old friend.
~John Leonard

Mancat Monday

2012-01-23T01:31:00.013-05:00

Miles: look at my brofur. He is a great mancat
even when he is bronkie sleeping

and aaah... he smells good

and tastes good

Pierro: Miles you are a great brofur to bonkbonk wrestle with

however, you really need to tell every kitty about Friday

Miles: oh, yeah.
It is my birthday on Friday.
Please kitties, come to my party on Friday.
I am going to be 2!

Pierro: well done kitty-o

The truth of the matter is
that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
~General Norman Schwartzkopf

Frootbat Friday

2012-01-20T01:39:00.014-05:00

Happy

FrootbonkFriday

kittie pals!

Pierro: okay mom, enough photos.

Miles: mom...., Pierro and I were having a very important meeting

We hope all of you have a superb Friday
and a happy bronk snappy week-end

Winter is the season
in which people try to keep the house
as warm as it was in the summer,
when they complained about the heat.
~Author Unknown

Mancat Monday

2012-01-16T01:45:00.021-05:00

Pierro: hello kitties. This is our new upstairs office

can you see my face right in the very center of the photo?

Our new office is in mom's
bonk sewing clutter room

Miles: we have a lot of space for our work projects

and each our own bronkie room as well.
please shut the door, mom.

Bronkie Snappy bonk Monday

All intelligent thoughts
have already been thought;
what is necessary
is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Frootbat Friday the 13th!

2012-01-13T01:35:00.022-05:00

Miles: what kitty is afraid of Friday the 13th?

Pierro, where are you? are you afraid of Friday the 13th??

Pierro: Miles, I am not afraid of anything

Miles: Pierro where are you!?

where bronkie are you!!??

Are you invisabibble?
Did you disappear on Friday the 13th!??

Pierro: I am bonkbonk right here silly
Happy Friday the 13th

~~Friday the 13th is an unlucky day in much of Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Many people avoid travel and avoid signing contracts on Friday the 13th. Floors in tall buildings often skip from 12 to 14. And while the superstition is believed to be fading, many still have a keen interest in the supposedly unlucky day.
~~References to Friday the 13th as a day connected with bad luck generally began to show up in western literature around the mid-17th century. There are quotes referencing Friday the 13th that date back to 1656, or perhaps earlier. Friday's were considered a bad day for many ordinary tasks, from writing letters to conducting business and receiving medical treatment!
Here are some funny superstitions
about Friday the 13th,
and apparently, Fridays in general
from way back in olden times:

Needleworking: "I knew an old lady who,
if she had nearly completed a piece of needlework on a Thursday, would put it aside unfinished,
and set a few stitches in her next undertaking,
that she might not be obliged either to begin the new task on Friday
or to remain idle for a day." (1883)
Hearing news: "If you hear anything new on a Friday,
it gives you another wrinkle on your face,
and adds a year to your age." (1883)
Moving: "Don't move on a Friday,
or you won't stay there very long." (1982)

You can discover

more weird beliefs and sooperstitions about
Friday the 13th
*at this clickie webbypage *

Monday Mancats

2012-01-09T01:59:00.013-05:00

Pierro: Hey kitties

It is that time of the week to check our provisions cabinet.

Miles: Yep, this is our bronkie supply closit where we keep our bags and cans of tiger food

and other yummy treats,
We are fully stocked and bronked up!

Pierro: and the nip
and the bonkie toys. We have just enough for one week.

from the food room,
Happy Monday and have a great week!

"Begin each day
as if it were on purpose."
--Mary Anne Radmacher

Frootbat Friday

2012-01-06T02:11:00.004-05:00

Pierro:
Hey kitties
Oh boy it has been very cold here

Miles:
SO COLD that Pierro lets me cuddle with him!

Pierro:
Happy Frootbat Friday, kitties

It's not who you are that holds you back,
it's who you think you're not.
~Author Unknown

Mancat Happy New Year Monday

2012-01-02T01:00:00.012-05:00

Pierro:
Yay, it is a bonk new year!!

Miles: It is going to be the best year yet!

I hope all of you had a great Happy New Year party
Pierro and I did a lot of bronkie drinking

Pierro: It is a good thing today is a holiday

Happy Monday!

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.

- C. S. Lewis

Frootbat Friday and Happy Bonk New Year

2011-12-30T01:20:00.012-05:00

Miles:
We hope all of you had a safe and bronkie happy Krissmiss
and that you are ready for the Happy New Year

Pierro:
Yep, we are going to be here by the big window
and wait for the new year to tumble in.
Our Frootbat ears will be perked up for any notable bonk signs.

Happy New Year
we will bronk and bonk you next year!!

We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity
and its first chapter is
New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near,
A little gift from one held dear,
Best wishes for the coming year!!

Mancats Monday

2011-12-26T01:27:00.002-05:00

Pierro:
Hey bonk kitties! happy Monday, the day after the paper pile of fun

Miles: we hope all of you are happy and had a good time yesterday.

bronks for a happy day snooping around

Genius is a plodding intellect,
incapable of dreaming up the obstacles
that stop the rest of us.
~Robert Brault

SmashedFrootbats Friday

2011-12-23T01:23:00.002-05:00

Miles: Happy Frootbronkbatty Friday kitties!!

I have my Krissmiss hat on, so you can not see my amazing frootbat ears today.

This hat looks bronkie good on me!

Pierro:
No mom, it is okay, the scarf is fine, really.
Just bonk perfect- needs no other accessories

okaaay well
the hat is quite nice yes
I can't hear anything though

We hope that all of you have
a fun filled Happy Krissmiss
We cherish your friendship
You encourage us
and you give us great pleasure and joviality
We are so honored to know all of you

The
Christmas
tree reminds
us of the Christ;
it's top pointing to
heaven, it's lights denoting
the Light of the World, and all
the presents beneath it reminding us
that every good gift comes from above
Thanks be
to God

Mancat Monday

2011-12-19T01:47:00.015-05:00

Pierro: This is the week that will start Hanukkah

and then Krissmiss eve

Look! We got the lights up at our main office!

Come over for our office Krissmiss party

Miles: Yeah stay a while and have some tuna juice
and a Krissmiss cookie.
Guess what? mom had a big idea to get us to
wear these bronkie Hanukkah glasses!

Pierro: let me chomp these

Miles:
I liked wearing this special Hanukkah hat
that our mommie made, and forced us to wear.

Pierro: Yeah this is a bonk nice hat.

Happy Hanukkah to all of our friends that begin this celebration tomorrow night!

May love and light
fill your home and heart
at Hanukkah.

He who has not
Christmas in his heart
will never find it under a tree.

Roy Smith

Frootbat Friday

2011-12-16T01:38:00.007-05:00

Miles: Happy Frootbat Friday kitties!!
mom put this Krissmiss outfit on me,
and I feel like I am dying!

Pierro: Miles, you made a great pose for our friends
Happy day and bonk snappy week-end!

mom is learning to kwilt
She made this paper pieced Krissmiss tree

"The reward usually goes
to someone who bothered."

Mancat Monday

2011-12-12T01:28:00.001-05:00

Miles:
Happy Mancat Monday kitties

look we helped mom with this cutie wreath for Krissmiss

Pierro:
We have been so busy preparing for Krissmiss

and we have not been able to visit blogs in such a long time.

Miles: please don't be mad at us.

Pierro: Hopefully after the holidays mom will get back to her proper duties around here!

bonks and bronks!

Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing
the hard work you already did.

Frootbatty Friday

2011-12-09T01:21:00.003-05:00

Pierro: hey bonks kitties. My dear brofur Miles and I just hung our stockings on the tree.

Miles: We are all set to bronk and be good kitties until Krissmiss

Pierro: Happy Frootbat Friday!

Miles: here is a kwote for our mom
who just celebrated her birthday yesterday:
When I was younger,
I could remember anything,
whether it had happened or not;
but my faculties are decaying now
and soon I shall be so I cannot remember
any but the things that never happened.
~~Mark Twain
(hoo-bronk is that ever true :-P )

Mancat Monday

2011-12-05T01:47:00.005-05:00

Pierro: Get ready Miles, here it comes.

Miles: I am a mancat now, and I will be brave and bronk the indignity of wearing Krismiss clothes

Pierro: I will only wear a hat and sit nicely with a bunch of bonkie Krismiss stockings for now, mom

Small deeds done are better than
great deeds planned.
~Peter Marshall

Frootbat Friday

2011-12-02T01:59:00.000-05:00

Pierro: It is Decembonkster already!
Can you believe it!!??

Miles: Pierro and I are going to enjoy a relaxing Friday.
Bronks to all of you

Life is a tapestry
We are the warp; Angels, the weft
God, the weaver.
Only the weaver sees the whole picture.

Mancat Monday

2011-11-28T01:53:00.010-05:00

Miles: Happy Mancat Monday kitties. Pierro and I are back on patrol. Today we are watching mom put the lights on the deck.

Pierro: She won't bonk them on until December but she likes to get them up on the very nicest day

Miles: meantime, have a bronkerifical Monday!

"There are days when you seek
the company of your solitude,
and your solitude
just wants to be left alone."

Frootbat Friday

2011-11-25T01:13:00.001-05:00

Pierro: Happy day after the turkey day, if you live in the US.
Miles and I are going to have a bonkbonk day! It is super windy here and we are watching everything blow around outside!!

as you can see I am viewing the windy activity from the lower level of the boxfort

Miles: I prefer to bronk on the action from the sunny window

have a bronkful week-end!

Pierro: Bonkgood idea Miles

"The most basic strategy
is to get time on your side,
the most basic tactic
to sit and wait."

Mancat Monday

2011-11-21T01:58:00.004-05:00

Miles:
This is a busy week for the people. Mom is always rushing around but now she is even busier planning to make the Thanksgiving food

Pierro: then she will pack it all up and bring it to gramma and grampa for the gathering. Miles and I will manage things here at the homefront!

Miles: BRONKS for a fun week!

Thanksgiving
is America's national
chow-down feast,
the one occasion each year
when gluttony becomes
a patriotic duty.
~Michael Dresser

FrOOtbat Friday

2011-11-18T01:30:00.009-05:00

Happy Snappy Frootbat Friday kitties

Miles: have a funbronk day
and sit on your mom's place mat!

Pierro: Enjoy and bonk the little things - like mom's cool looking dried up zinnias

If you want to make
your dreams come true,
the first thing you have to do is
WAKE UP!

~J.M. Power

Mancat Monday

2011-11-14T01:14:00.006-05:00

Pierro:
Happy Bonkbonkbonk Monday kitties

Miles: and we are bronking the mancat today!

I've found that luck is quite predictable.
If you want more luck, take more chances.
~Brian Tracy

Frootbat Friday

2011-11-11T01:27:00.008-05:00

Pierro: Happy Snappybonkbonk Friday kitties

we hope all of you have a frootbatty fun day.

Miles: Pierro and I had a very busy week-
and a couple of days mom and dad were not home.
We had to be good all by ourselves!!

Today we are
bronking the day off

mmmyummycamerastraps

We Honor Our Veterans

The Voices of Courage

The call to serve.
It has no sound, yet I have heard it.
In the whispered retelling of honorable sacrifices
made by those who have served before me.
The call to serve has no form, yet I have clearly seen it.
In the eyes of men and women
infinitely more courageous and more driven than most.
The call to serve has no weight, yet I have held it in my hands.
I will commit to carry it close to my heart
until my country is safe,
and the anguish of those less fortunate has been soothed.
The call to serve is at once invisible and always present.
And for those that choose to answer the call;
for their country, for their fellow man,
for themselves, it is the most powerful force on earth!

Monday MANCATS!

2011-11-07T01:57:00.008-05:00

Pierro: YAY Happy bonkbonk Monday kitties
Miles and I are going to have a very impawtant mancat meeting

MILES, COME QUICKLY FOR OUR
IMPAWTANT MANCAT MEETING!!!

Miles: huh?

impawtent meeting? nowwww?

I am bronkie here, Pierro

Pierro:
come on in Miles.
we have to discuss serious mancat stuff right now

Miles:
Okay kitties
nice to see all of you this Monday
bonks and bronks!!

The only people
with whom you should try to get even
are those who have helped you.
~John E. Southard

Frootbat friday

2011-11-04T02:33:00.004-04:00

Pierro: Happy bonkbonk Friday kitties

Miles: We hope you have a bronkerifical day and an adventure filled week-end too

"Whatever you put aside to seek happiness,
remember where you put it."
~Robert Brault

Mancat Monday Happy Halloweenie

2011-10-31T01:50:00.015-04:00

Happy Bonk Halloweenie kitties!

Pierro: tonight Miles and I will hide and bonk under mom and dad's bed when the doorbell rings. Where will you be hiding?

Miles: Pierro and I had a lot of work this past week-end.

Mom had a great idea to clean off the pretty white outside chairs and put them in the basement.

She washed them carefully and then tried to put them in big bags

so any left over water would not drip all over the house floors,
but then she discovered that the bags did not even fit over the chairs so she just brought them in.

Pierro and I had to investigate and check for spiders.
Have a bronkie day!

On Hallowe'en the thing you must do
Is pretend that nothing can frighten you

And if somethin' scares you
and you want to run
Just let on like it's Hallowe'en fun.
~Author Unknown

Frootbat Friday

2011-10-28T01:50:00.007-04:00

Pierro: Bonkful Friday kitties.
Miles and I are taking the day off
~~ hopefully we can visit your bloggies today and this week-end-

-and do a little snooping around too

Miles: Have a bronk-ifical fun day

full of games and mischief!

A mistake is simply
another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

Mancat Monday

2011-10-24T02:26:00.004-04:00

Pierro: It is Monday and you can see I am in the bonkbonk conference room right now. I have given Miles the task of being the go-for-kitty
Miles, please bring the special things for our team meeting

Miles: I am the procurement kitty and I am bronkie skillful at getting the things we need for our important day to day assignments

Have a super fun, productive and sunny Monday!

Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending.

Frootbat Friday

2011-10-21T01:21:00.011-04:00

Miles: Pierro and I are bronking
at our main office by the sunny window now,

doing our project,
which involves intense investigation of the flying leaves

Pierro: and also the butterflies on the zinnias

aaah bonksunshine!

Happy Bronkbonkie Friday kitties!

When you invite trouble,
it's usually quick to accept.

Mancat Monday

2011-10-17T01:55:00.008-04:00

Pierro:
we did a lot of laying and bonking around in the sun this week-end

How about you?

We just needed to rest up from that hectic week we had.

Miles:
We had bronkieful fun too!

Now it is happy Monday

and we have a bunch of huge projects planned
I am already in my office thinking about details!

bonks and bronks

"Nature decrees
that we do not exceed the speed of light.
All other impossibilities are optional."
-- Robert Brault

FrOOtbat Friday

2011-10-14T01:53:00.009-04:00

Pierro: We have had a lot of rain,
and that makes Miles and me unproductive and sleepy
now we have sun so we can finally get some work done

Miles: I like to work really close to Pierro because he is my big brofurr

Pierro: Miles you are taking up all of the sunny patch!
How can I get something accomplished?

Miles:
Sunshine makes Pierro and me really zzzzzzz

Pierro:
Happy bonk Friday, kitties
Miles: zzzzbronk

Don't try to be different.
Just be good!
To be good is different enough.
~Arthur Freed

Mancat Monday

2011-10-10T01:37:00.005-04:00

Miles: Pierro and I are enjoying the Fall sunshine.
It is great to rest after doing house patrol in the morning.

Pierro: but we are always ready for action
you can bonk count on it!

"Understand this --
nothing you feel entitled to
is ever going to make you happy."
~Robert Brault

Frootbat Friday

2011-10-07T01:54:00.001-04:00

Pierro
Happy bonk Friday kitties

Miles:
Pierro and I are going to be right here all day just bronking around.

Or you might find us in our main office, which mom moved further into the sunshine -- I think mostly so she has more room for her sewing clutter.

Happy Bronk Bonkie Week-end too!

Every time somebody comes up
with an idiot proof device,
somebody else develops
an improved idiot.

Mancat Monday

2011-10-03T02:25:00.014-04:00

Pierro:
Last Sunday I had to tell Miles that he should not play around near mom's sewing (you might have to click on the pictures to get a good look because it was pretty sunny in the room)

Miles:

Pierro, I am being really bronkie careful

Pierro:
Miles, mom does not like it when we are around her sewing clutter
You might get tangled up in her sewing things
come on now, let's go play in the box fort

Miles:
HELP I am being tortured

Pierro:
Be careful, Miles! this chair might tip over or
mom's sewing clutter could accidentally get tangled on your claws

Miles: umm okay Pierro
thanks for teaching me about being safe and careful

bonks and bronks, kitties!
WE have had a very haaaaard time visiting blogs.
Mom has not been very helpful.
We hope all of you are doing wonderbonkful!

Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus

Frootbat Friday

2011-09-30T02:21:00.008-04:00

Miles:
Happy Frootbat friday, kitties

Pierro and I have been lounging around, we have had very little sunshine, so we sit near the window

Pierro: you are sitting just a little bit too close Miles

Miles: Okay

Pierro:
bonks for a happy day and a delightful week-end

Today is the littlest girlbean Blizzie's birthday

She is 24! Here is a quotie for her
The first hundred years
are the hardest.
~~Wilson Mizner

Monday Mancats

2011-09-26T01:43:00.005-04:00

Pierro:

Thanks loads for coming to my pawty!!

We were really happy to see all of you here and to share in the wild festivities that lasted well into Sunday morning...

Miles: And dad was not even upset about the lamp incident

Today we are steering clear of any mischief (pay off some of our "naughty debt")

big bonks for a happy Monday

The U. S. Constitution
doesn't guarantee happiness,
only the pursuit of it.
You have to catch up with it yourself.
~Benjamin Franklin

Frootbat Friday - Today I am 4!!

2011-09-23T02:00:00.011-04:00

yep, I am 4!

Pierro: I guess I should get out of my bloo blankie and pawty!
Come over for my birthday pawty furriends!

Miles: come on kitties lets have a bronkie pawty for my big brofur!
Today we are going to play on the boxfort

Pierro: our talented neighborkitties are here once again to provide
snazzy bonking music for us to race around, and dance with

Miles:
and we have HAM

and lots of yummy snacks -- > tuna cookies

and crabbie cakes
and and tuna juice

and more HAM too and bronkieCHEESE

Pierro:

and we have toys toys toys

Pierro:
AND A FISHY Birthday CAKE made out of real FISH!

Miles:
and 50 bronkie pounds of NIP!!

and of course the "facilities"

Pierro:

When you have to bonk home
please take these fun toys with you!

and
THANKS for coming
to my bonkbonk pawty!

You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
~Ogden Nash

MeowAarrgghhh Monday

2011-09-19T03:13:00.004-04:00

Pierro: Happy Monday every kitty
meowmeow-aaaaarrrrrggggghh!

mom did not help us with meow like a Pirate day

We are going to visit your bloggies and see all of your displays!

We helped mom a lot this week-end. She went to Tamela's beautiful service and she cried a little bit, so we cuddled and listened to this song a lot!

Miles:
Today is a great day to do some more helping

since Pierro and I are mancats.
Okay, first a little nap...

Have a meowwwwaaaaarrrrggh Monday

It is a far, far better thing
to have a firm anchor in nonsense
than to put out
on the troubled seas of thought.

~John Kenneth Galbraith

Frootbat Friday

2011-09-16T02:41:00.001-04:00

Pierro: We did not get to visit blogs this week. Mom was busy helping the family across the street.

It is just great to be here today and bonk all of you

Miles: yeah, and we had to pack up daddy

for another trippie to the mitten state, this time for a wedding.
Today is going to be the best bronk Friday ever

"If you don't decide
what your life is about,
it defaults
to what you spend your days doing."

Monday Mancats

2011-09-12T02:29:00.004-04:00

Pierro:
Happy Monday kitties

Mom says she is processing, so we are going to help her

that is, of course bonk, our specialty

Miles:
Owr mom's dear friend Tamela died Friday night after an 8 month battle with cancer.

processing and then moving forward is difficult:
bronk small steps mom

For I am sure that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love
of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39

Frootbat Friday

2011-09-09T01:00:00.008-04:00

Miles: We have had so much rain...

I have not seen a birdie in over a week!

Pierro: yeah and because of the buckets of rain,

there is a leak in the P.F.Z

and we were not allowed to even help clean it up!!

Have a bronk bonkbonk Friday and
a lovely hopefully sunny fun fun week-end.

On September 11, 1983 mom and dad were married, so this Sunday they are celebrating their 28 years of happiness.
On September 11, 2001, our dad had just left the Pentagon after a meeting. He got on a Pentagon bus and traveled off to Arlington right before American Airlines flight 77 hit the Pentagon. That bus stop was destroyed and does not exist anymore.

Mom was very happy that our daddy came home.

Here is the Wikipedia story of that day and photos of the instant the plane hit the Pentagon. It was a sad day. :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

**Oh here is Princess' account of this day 4 years ago-->here
and it appears that Daisy's mom and dad also have their anniversary on this day as well.

The way to love anything

is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterson

Mancat Monday

2011-09-05T01:47:00.007-04:00

Pierro: Happy Monday everykitty.

Today is a day off of work for the people so they are home and we cannot bonk through the closets or get into things much...

Miles: guess what?

Pierro got in trubble
for breaking something that was on the table
and it made a big crash

Pierro: oh well
...oops.
mom can clean it up

Miles: see? I am not the only bronknaughty kitty!

A mind always employed is always happy.
This is the true secret,
the grand recipe, for felicity.
~Thomas Jefferson

Frootbat Friday

2011-09-02T02:56:00.002-04:00

Miles:
Happy BRONK Frootbat Friday dear kittypals.

Today, I went to my brofur and asked him if I could work in the blankie with him...

Pierro: I told Miles there was no room in here.
He should go to the laundry room office and work there.

Miles: The laundry office is a good spot.

Pierro:
Here is a bonking cool flower in mom's garden. It is very orange!

Three, count'em, threeeeee
thought provoking quotes
from
Ben Franklin:

“Want of care does us more damage
than want of knowledge”
“He that goes a borrowing
goes a sorrowing.”
“Beer is living proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy.”

Go out and have a happy Friday!

Mancat Monday

2011-08-29T01:32:00.003-04:00

Pierro:

Monday bonks kitties.
we survived the hurrycane.

We are having a windy and sunny day

Miles:
Hurrycane weather kind of made me very tired.

Today is a good day for me to catch up on sleep

The only thing to do with good advice
is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Frootbat Friday

2011-08-26T01:32:00.000-04:00

Pierro: Yay it is Friday. This makes us bonkbonkhappy

Miles: we are going to get a hurrycane though,

we will have a lot of rain and wind.

Pierro:
We live pretty far west of the coast,

it should not be too bad for us

Miles: Yeah, we will probably have some bronkie sunshine by Sunday

Have a fun week-end and we will probably get to visit around this week-end since mom will be stuck in the house on Saturday

Never let a problem to be solved
become more important
than a person to be loved.
~ Barbara Johnson

Monday Mancats

2011-08-22T01:35:00.002-04:00

Pierro:
Well.... we had a very interesting week-end
Miles and I got into some minor trouble,
but we were basically good mancats

Then, I practiced wrestling. I have to keep up my skills

Miles: We got extra treats

because I chewed a great big hole in this bag.

bronkbronkies for a happy Monday

Why is Monday so far from Friday
but Friday is so close to Monday??

Frootbat Friday

2011-08-19T01:45:00.014-04:00

Miles: today is bronkFriday and I am glad. It is sunny

I hope you have a frootybronk day

Pierro: Friday frooty bonkgreetings, kitties

we are going to visit your bloggies this week-end for certain!
While mom and dad are at the mooovies and out for burgers

Miles and I will be on mom's compooter

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

--- go out and beat your own record!!

Monday Mancats

2011-08-15T01:16:00.007-04:00

Miles: Hi kitties
Bronkie Monday
Here is a picture of Pierro and me eating our meatglop.
As you can see, I am the little guy on the left and Pierro is my huge big bro-fur, he is my big big bro-fur and I love him

Pierro: Yep, you know it and I know it, but Milesie does not, so don't tell him. I am the biggest and the smartest and the bonkbonkBoss

Every day is a new beginning.
Treat it that way.
Stay away from what might have been,
and look at what can be.
Marsha Petrie Sue

Fr00tbat Friday

2011-08-12T01:49:00.003-04:00

Pierro: Happy bonkbonk Friday kitties

today mom says she is going to wash the sheets
and blankies from the beds... however she will have to wait.

I am not finished with Blizzie's blankie

Miles: I am having quite a nice

and sunny bronkful nap on the dryer.

Oh lookie, mom's Tithonia in the garden is blooming.

Miles: The hummingbirdies love these flowers!
They are bright orange and also called mexican sunflowers.
You can get the seeds at Homie Depot in the spring.

Pierro: Happy day, happy snappy week-end

"The thing we have in common
with the ancients
is that they didn't know
they were living in biblical times, either."
~Robert Brault

Mancat Monday

2011-08-08T01:28:00.004-04:00

Miles:
Hey bronks kitties
I spent the whole week-end playing in my tunnel.

It is right in the middle of the family room so it is great fun to create a ruckus while the family is trying to talk or watch tv.

Pierro:
I napped in the sunshine

Have a bonkiful Monday

Sometimes
we could
be thankful
we're not getting all the government
we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
(hahaha, I think)

Frootbat Friday

2011-08-05T01:46:00.005-04:00

Pierro:
It all started on top of the 'fridgerator
Miles was being an orange menace.

I said, "lets take this to the window, Miles"...

Miles: Yay I love to wrestle
watch out Pierro, orange alert orange alert!!

Pierro: I gave him a good chomp to the neck

Miles: I pushed him off and whapped him

ooops, and then I went back too far
and bronked on my butt

Pierro:
well, that was fun. we have to work on that later, Miles

Have a bonkful week-end everykitty

We first make our habits,
and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Mancat Monday

2011-08-01T01:44:00.002-04:00

Pierro:
Happy bonkbonk Monday kitties
Miles and I are resting today.
Daddy went on a road trip to visit his cousins this week-end.
Miles and I had to be the mancats around the house.

Blizzie and mom could never have managed with out us

shooo I am tired

Miles:
I ran my legs ragged this week-end.

now I just need a bronkie day off!

"Can't solve the problem?
spend spend spend
steal steal steal ...-errr
tax tax tax"
-- U.S. Congress

here is another funny but true

The hardest thing is to take less
when you can get more.
- Kin Hubbard

It is Frootbat Friday

2011-07-29T02:14:00.006-04:00

Pierro: Happy FROOTBAT Friday and

bonksnappy week-end to all of you

Miles: Here at our house the sun is still making everything very hot

bronks for a fun day
instead of laser eyes
I gave mom laser muzzle!

yippie, mom said she is going to help us visit some more blogs this week-end!!
Pierro and I hope all of you are doing super great!

“Character and personal force
are the only investments
that are worth anything.”

— Walt Whitman

Mancat Monday

2011-07-25T02:25:00.003-04:00

Miles:
Hello Happybronk Monday to all of our kitty friends

Pierro:
We hope you had a bonkbonk fun week-end

Miles: I helped my daddy fix the stupid toilet

Pierro: I took a nap in the sun

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started
is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Frootbat Friday

2011-07-22T01:36:00.005-04:00

Pierro Happy Friday Kitties

It is so hot in Furrginia, everything outside is boiling hot
but we are cool and comfy in our house - even laying in the sun on my bloo blankie is bonkbonk delightful!
Tomorrow is going to be a 100,000,000º outside and mom said she is going to relax on the couch and let us finally have some time to not only just read your bloggies, but we get to comment!! (oh my have we stooped so low to appreciate the tiniest of efforts lately...)

Miles yeah hothottie-hothot, I will stay in the shade under the table
~and think about stuff... for instance: with this extreme heat, and the stress it is having on our "electrical power grid" what will happen when everybean is plugging in their expensive electric car?
Has anybean thought about that?

mom has to go out into the hots this afternoon for her PT appointment
She is going to park her car in the shade.
Bronkbronkies for a happy day

Goodness is the only investment
that never fails.
~Henry David Thoreau

Monday Mancats

2011-07-18T01:52:00.003-04:00

Miles: phew bronk, what a week-end!

Mondays are for recuperation

Pierro: ZZzzzZZZZZzzzzbonkzzzzzzzz

huhwhat??
did somecat say something?

"If all the moms in the world
stopped to smell the roses,
who would be out there
planting the roses?"
R Brault

Frootbat Friday

2011-07-15T01:35:00.005-04:00

Miles: Yippppeeee it is Friday, kitties
I hope you had a very bronkiegood week

Pierro: mom went to the bone doctor and found out she has a squished disc in her lumbar spine. She has been a little crabby about that because she never gets hurtie. She thinks she probably got it from gardening and digging in the soil of Furrginia that is hard as concrete at times --

and NOT from skating and falling on her butt a couple of times hahabonkbonk

we hope you have a cool and comfy day and a
fun week-end full of cuddles and pets

"What if, instead of a parallel universe,
there's a perpendicular universe.
Discuss."

~~Robert Brault

Monday Mancats

2011-07-11T02:55:00.006-04:00

Pierro:
Happy Monday kitties!
How are you feeling?
I am feeling great!!

Miles:
I am feeling sleepy
being good is hard work

Happiness is a grateful spirit,

an optimistic attitude,
and a heart full of love.

Miles is home and Friday frootbats

2011-07-08T01:29:00.005-04:00

Miles:
Hello fellow kitties.
I am home from kitty prison

I am very sorry for breaking the law of flowers.

Mom and dad are not mad at me. In fact, Pierro and I got some new toys!!!

Pierro: Miles and I are very happy to be back at our house with our servants.
It is good to be back home with all of our toys, sunny windows and snuggles

Have a bonkbonkful Friday and a sunny week-end

ps: mom says she is so sorry that she has not been helping us visityour blogs. She has been busy with many things and has very little time to help us. (*sigh*) the sweet ladygirl across the street with the cancer is doing okay, she is very weak and the tumors in her head are sometimes causing pain. Mom feels pretty sad about this and she tries to help a lot over at their house. She has a lot of family there helping out, but mom knows that she appreciates a good friend face now and then. Mom's garden is looking quite nice here are a few pics:
Knock out Roses

the side of the house garden, yes, the air conditioner is here but this is a lovely garden view for the very sick neighbor

Every thought is a seed.
If you plant crab apples,
don't count on harvesting
Golden Delicious.

~Bill Meyer
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mancat Monday

2011-07-04T00:56:00.002-04:00

Pierro:
greetings everykitty

Miles and I had to go to jail because Miles broke the law about flowers.
so, I had to go and be with him to be brave. It was kind of cool, I got to watch some people do surgery on a doggie and other medical stuff.
and then I got to go home early.

Honestly... I was really not happy about this and I let mom and dad know exactly how I felt when we got in the car... I was in that black prison box and guess what I did next?

I peed. I got my pee all over the car seat and the blankies and moms hand (dad was driving) and boy did I ever stink! haha

Miles is coming home today.
I can't wait to have my brother home. then we can compare stories and scars.

--> they shaved my arm!!!

bonks for a happy day and find a good place to hide tonight.
Mom always puts on moderately loud ballet music on the evening of the 4th of July, we also get to eat junk food. It is kind of a nice party. I am excited for Miles to come home and celebrate junkfoodballetmusic with me.

The young man knows the rules,
but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sunday morning update:

2011-07-03T10:59:00.002-04:00

I just called the hospital. Both boys are doing okay. Neither Miles or Pierro are eating anything... much. They are both still receiving IV fluids. They are having a blood test this morning and if Pierro's blood work comes back good - as it has been, then he can come home this evening. Miles is doing well, and will continue another day of fluids since he did indeed ingest lily parts and we want to insure that his kidneys are protected.
That is it really.
The doc that I spoke with today on the phone confused Pierro with Miles and I had a difficult time getting correct information. basically as true to their character, Pierro is sweet and submissive and Miles is nervous. Miles is so big and brave but he shakes pitifully when he is nervous. He is not hiding. Anyway, it was confusing today on the phone: which boy ate a little bit of grilled salmon and who was "polite" for examination. Don't they keep absolute records of this? Back in dino days when I did a few years of hospital nursing, we recorded every sneeze... Well, if they were in a very bad situation at this point I probably would have gotten upset about this, but I believe they are out of the woods and just staying in a very fancy hotel with supreme room service.

I slept like a log last night. It is so quiet in our house, but I am taking advantage of this situation and have bleached and scrubbed the bathtub haha
I hope everyone has a lovely day. I do believe we are completely "out of the woods" here. I just want my boys home, I do not even want to think of the $$bill. We will adjust and manage though, this is just one of life's bumps in the road - and we always learn from those bumpy things.

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge,
then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

UPDATE on the hospitalization of Miles and Pierro

2011-07-02T14:20:00.004-04:00

Hello and greetings from Rosemary
I just spoke with Dr Leonard at the LifeCentre. She said the blood tests on both boys came back very good, nothing yet to suggest kidney damage.

It was thought earlier that Pierro could come home after this good report today, mostly because 1. it was presumed most likely that he did not eat any of the flower petals and 2. because he becomes anxious and that causes his heart murmur. However, the doc said that both boys are quite comfortable, sitting at the front of their "house" and observing what is going on in the room and engaging with the medical staff. They are taking the IV fluids well, and tolerating the charcoal treatments, So - she suggested Pierro stay another night with them. I was disappointed but I know he is in good hands. I also think that even though the boys are of course in different "rooms" they are right next to each other, so they sense that they are together in this ordeal.
I will not go to Leesburg and visit them as I believe this might cause renewed anxiety for them. The medical staff in the back and also the front desk personnel are very interested in them and because they are cornish rex and quite handsome they are getting a lot of encouragement.
I also think it is a good thing not to go there to see the boys today because that LifeCentre is very busy with all sorts of emergencies and with that there are people that are very distraught and it is a really frightening place to be.
I do not need to be there.
Thank you all of you for your wonderful and encouraging prayers and purrs and hopeful thoughts.
It is very quiet here - I miss my boys terribly
the box fort is quiet, there are no tussles at the satellite office, there are no
crackling chases through the tunnel, Pierro is not laying in the sunny patch by the window and Miles is not looking for excitement in the closets, cabinets, my sewing things, the bathrooms, or taking shoe liners out of shoes.
I am hoping for continued recovery
again, thank you so much

Friday night trip to the emergency room

2011-07-02T08:40:00.004-04:00

Pierro and Miles are in the LifeCentre emergency hospital in Leesburg.
Last night as we were preparing for bed after a long busy day, Miles and Pierro were racing around the house. There in the upstairs hall, Miles paused and then barfed up ---- lily flower parts. Yes, how stupid we were, Blizzie received some lovely flowers from her sweet boy. We put the flowers up high on a cabinet in Blizzie's room. She kept her door closed so the boys were never in there besides they never could have gotten up on that cabinet.

well, last night a few of those lily pedals fell off onto the books and college clutter below and Miles got into them... I do not think that Pierro ate any because he does not normally eat plants. (Miles eats everything, because he is orange)

So, as soon as I saw that barfing incident - and identified the contents, hubby and I packed them up in to their respective carriers and whisked them off without delay to the LifeCentre.

They are being treated for poisoning, Pierro might come home today if his bloodwork comes back good. Miles will probably stay until Monday at least since it is certain that he ingested the flower pedals.

Both boys looked okay last night.
Right now we are just being hopeful.
I called CurlieSwirlie Teri at 11:30 pm last night and it is a comfort to have such a brilliant friend. We went to bed at 1:15 to a very quiet empty house.

This morning, hubby called the hospital early, both boys are doing well.
Lilies are highly toxic - there are a lot of other very poisonous things out there, so try to learn what they are via google, there are so many informative sites which I have no brainpower to find right now.

I am not going to think about the worst outcome from this. I can't. I love my boys so much. I could babble on for hours and pages about this pair of polar opposite tiny tigers.

I will keep you updated - sorry this message is so disjointed. I have had very little sleep. Have a very lovely day every one and kitty

Faith is putting all your eggs
in God's basket,
then counting your blessings
before they hatch.
~Ramona C. Carroll

Frootbat Friday ~ it is the 4th of July week-end!

2011-07-01T01:15:00.008-04:00

May the sun in his course visit no land more free,
more happy, more lovely,
than this our own country!
~Daniel Webster
Pierro: Have a fun bonkbonk Friday

Miles: and a bronkie week-end!

This nation will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is
the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis

Mancat Monday

2011-06-27T01:52:00.005-04:00

Miles:
Happy Monday greetings from our main office, kitties
Do you see Pierro peeping at me through the little window on the left?
you can click on this to see him.

This past week-end mom and dad and the girls went to gramma and grampa to celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary.
here is a nice photo taken by our dad, in front of the Greek restaurant they went to eat food and have fun! Oh yeah, that is our mom standing next to her mom. cool huh?

Pierro:
Miles and I stayed home of course, and we were good boys the whole time.
We worked in our box fort,

our main headquarters,
Miles had a few projects and I helped with the details.

we had a relaxing day

Bonks for a happy sun-filled week.

Common sense
in an uncommon degree
is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friday Frootbats

2011-06-24T01:38:00.006-04:00

Pierro:
hey kitties
mom is baking a lot of things today and sewing some bits of bonkie cloth together

Miles: The house smells really good, and the bits of cloth are tempting us
Happy Friday and bronkbronk week-end

"To achieve the impossible,
it is precisely the unthinkable
that must be thought."
-- Tom Robbins

Monday Mancats

2011-06-20T02:50:00.005-04:00

Miles

well, some of you have inquired about my size...
YES I am much huge-er than Pierro. He weighs 6 pounds and I weigh 7+ pounds.

Mom calls me Mr. Chunkletons, but I am not a chubby guy, just BIG

Pierro
Happy Monday kitties.

As a mancat, I just want you to know that size does not matter --

unless you are talking about HUGE BRAINS

bonks for a fun day

Affection is responsible
for nine-tenths
of whatever solid and durable
happiness there is in our lives.
C.S. Lewis

Frootbat Friday

2011-06-17T02:03:00.001-04:00

Pierro:

Mom always knows where to find me
I always sleep

inside my bonkie bloo blankie
look, my paws are as big as my head...

Miles has a new hiding place and mom cannot find him this morning
she looked all over the house she called Miles, but he just would not tell her where he was!!!

Miles: I do not want mom to find my new snoozing spot on top of the refrigerator and under this bronkie cabinet.

-- besides, I am not sure I really like it enough yet

Have a fun week-end kitties!
Those who bring sunshine
into the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Monday Mancats

2011-06-13T02:35:00.011-04:00

Pierro:
Monday morning bonkful greetings from the dishwasher, kitties.

we hope you had a furry fun week-end.
Ours was exciting.
We watched birdie tv almost all day every day

Miles:

Pierro and I also practiced our mancat-noovers at our satellite office

Aim at heaven
and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth
and you get neither.

C.S.Lewis

Friday frootbats!

2011-06-10T01:29:00.001-04:00

Miles: Happy Friday everykitty
Pierro and I are having a great week.
It is very hot and sunny here but our house is nice and cool.
I like to be near Pierro all the time.
Sometimes we even cuddle.. but not a lot, but on top of the dryer, it just happens.

Pierro: Well, we play all day,
and we relax now and then to recharge and to look outside at mom in the garden or the birdies taking a bath in the birdbath

bonks and bronks for a happy day and a fun week-end!!
We are planning on it!

Whether you think you can
or think you can't
- you are right.
~Henry Ford

Mancat Monday

2011-06-06T02:15:00.004-04:00

Pierro:
Well happy Monday every kitty.
We are hoping that mom will have some time this week to help us visit some of your bloggies. Oh gosh we miss all of you so much!
Mom has been very busy making her garden beeeeyooootiful for her friend
across the street who is very sick.

We have been watching mom from the window
and urging her on in her endeavors

Miles:
We hope you have a happy snappy day.

Pierro and I have a lot to do today, as usual.

A mancat's job is never done.
bronks to all of you

"I've discovered that what you think you know about people is seldom right, and when it is, it's the other way around."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Frootbat Friday

2011-06-03T02:54:00.008-04:00

Miles:
Well, things have been busy here.

Mom is always busy. Blizzie is always busy and daddy works at home and he is busy too. So Pierro and I have to take matters into our own paws

bronkbronk, Pierro!!

Pierro:

after many unseasonably warm days in which mom did a lot of sewing to make cute things for her very sick friend, today is a deeeelightbonkful day for her to go out and get her garden back in shape.
Yesterday our three servants (mom, dad, and Blizzie) just ran off to Annapolis Maryland to attend the Greek Festival with gramma and grampa.
They came home really late last night!

bonks for a happy Friday and week-end!!

Pick battles big enough to matter,
small enough to win.
~Jonathan Kozel

Cool Mancats on Memorial Day in the USA

2011-05-30T01:36:00.007-04:00

Pierro: Today is a holiday in our country.
Today is Meow-morial Day, a day we remember and honor our brave and noble military men and women that have fought for our country and sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

Miles: Well, have a bronkibonkbonk day kittypals
Pierro and I are working on important stuff today! -- as usual.

They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old
~~
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn
~~
At the going down of the sun.
And in the morning

We shall remember them.
By: Laurence Binyon

Frootbat Friday

2011-05-27T02:04:00.007-04:00

Pierro:
Happy Friday kitties!

We hope you have a great day with sunshine and bloo sky today

Miles: and Happy BronkWeek-end too!
We are sorry we have not been visiting. Mom has been gardening!!

She said she was not going to make a huge colorful flowergarden this year but she changed her mind.
Her dear friend across the street has bad cancer. She is home and she is very very sick. The cancer is taking her life! Mom has been making the garden on the side of our house, that faces her house, really pretty for her sick friend to enjoy. The family made a special room on the main level of the house that over looks mom's special garden and flowers just for her.

Pierro: Mom has been helping the family too -- so she just comes home and kisses us and cuddles us too.

Miles:
Mom cries a lot because her heart is broken.

We love you dear friends
have a bronkiful week-end too

“Enjoy the little things,
for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.”

~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Miles: it's my gotcha day!!

2011-05-23T02:07:00.023-04:00

Miles:
Today is the day I came to my forever home family, just last year!
Missie CurlieSwirlie Teri brought me in her fancy car (free delivery) right to my new house!

I am very happy to have a big brother like Pierro.

Ever since I came to my forever home,

he is always looking after me and keeping me in line....

Pierro taught me all about being a mancat

we have great adventures every day

We play in our tunnel

we plan all of our strategies at our main headquarters:

The Box Fort

we run up and down the stairs every day -- a lot!

we snoopervise on top of the cabinets over the fridge

we check our food cabinets at least once a week.

and--

We help each other finish our foods

because we are real brothers: Miles and Pierro!
Partners in silliness, we always help mom and dad too!

The ragdoll and turkish van kitty girls (Lola, Betty, Carly and Mimi) next door changed from kittens to plus size in the blink of an eye. They grew out of their tree house and gave it to us.

We checked it out right away and gave it 8 paws of approval.
ahhhh plush wall to wall carpeting too!
It is the coolest tree house we ever had, ever!!

Now we use this as our satellite office to relax and recharge
and think of new ventures

Yep, I am a happy boy.
My mommie CurlieSwirlie Coco does not have to worry about me.
I am living the good life!
I am loved ♥

bronkies for a happy day!!

“Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.”
— Walt Whitman

Frootbat Friday

2011-05-20T01:41:00.008-04:00

Happy Friday kitties

Pierro: mom says she is so tired from the trip to Williamsburg for Blizzie's graduation from William and Mary

Miles: Blizzie graduated summa cum laude with a degree in International Relations and a minor in French. Her brain is huge!

Miles: I think she should nap with us

Pierro: Have a bonkiful day and a fun filled week-end

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

Frootbat Friday

2011-05-13T01:20:00.006-04:00

Miles: Happy Friday every kitty.

Pierro: Mom and Christabelle sister and daddy are on their way to Williamsburg today to see Blizzie graduate from kollig
so, we are staying here and guarding the house

Miles: Guess what? we will not have a mancat Monday bloggie
because mom will not be available to help us type -- the fact is, she is taking her laptop with her!!
Pierro:
Happy Week-end and we will blog sometime next week,
most certainly next Friday.

We love you kitties!!!
bonks and love and bronkies to all of you

Friends, you and me

You brought another friend
and there was three!!!

We started our group...
Our circle of friends!

And like that circle
there is no beginning or end.

Monday Mancats

2011-05-09T01:39:00.008-04:00

Miles:
Pierro!!! what are you doing in my kitten bed??

Pierro:
well, I am baking a cake.
no sorry... just kidding, I am taking a nap

Miles: but you never sleeped in my bed before, why now?

Pierro: Honestly... I have, many times.
you were just too busy jumping off of the railings, mol

Miles: okay.
should I take a nap on your bloo blankie in the sun?

Pierro: no that would not be a good idea, Miles.
You can have your kitten bed back

Happy Monday kitties.
Sorry so so very sorry we have not been visiting blogs. Mom says she has been "busy" whatever that means. This coming week-end Blizzie graduates from kollig and then after that mom will have all the time in the world.

bonks and bronkies

A friend is someone who knows
all about you

and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Frootbat Friday

2011-05-06T01:56:00.006-04:00

Pierro:
Happy Frootbat Friday kittiefriends.
We hope you have a great day and a fun sunny week-end

Happy Mother's Day !!

this week-end this a special celebration to all of the Mothers
and of course to all of you that have taken the role of a Mother
in any sort of manner. It is an honorable task - being a mom.

Miles:
All of you are special and this entire week-end is the time that you are recognised for your hard work, -the headaches, dry cracked hands and tired legs and feets, grey hairs, saggy skin, droopy eyelids
--huh wat mum? huh huh? oh. okay.

Mom says-- well... our daddy's mom
told our mom that "every day is Mother's Day" so there!
Happy Mother's Day to my mommie CurlieSwirlie Coco and her midwife and assistant mom, Missie CurlieSwirlie Teri *smooooch*

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper

Mancats Monday

2011-05-02T01:43:00.006-04:00

Miles:
This is my kittenbed.

Mom got this bed just for me! I was just a teeny tiny canmat last year when I came to my forever home this month, on the 23rd of May. I was supposed to come earlier but if you remember, first me then my brothers, got the sicks and Missie CurlieSwirlieTeri made us stay with her for whole 'nother week for observation.

I can still fit really neat and tidy in my kittenbed
if I put my tail on my head

Pierro:
Miles is a superb brother. We are quite different, however we make the perfect team!
Miles bigger than me by about a pound. He is meows a lot. He eats like a freight train, pricks the carpets and he is not afraid of strangers, and he jumps off of the upstairs railing at least once a week with a big crash! (Dr. Breezy said to keep our weight down to avoid injuries)

Me, I just guard my carrot, and I maintain a tempered composure
and always mindful restraint. Besides - observing Miles testing all of these scientifical possibilities is exciting enough!

Happy Monday, the 2nd of May!

The best angle
from which to approach any challenge
is the try-angle.
Just do it!!
Then you can say you did!
~~MILES: red mackerel boxerpants

Frootbat Friday

2011-04-29T01:05:00.008-04:00

Miles:
HAPPY Frootbat Friday kitties.
I hope you have a very fun day full of sunshine, snacks ...

and snuggling
in mommie's under frillies -
um, I mean clean laundry!

Pierro:
snoopervising.
mmmMMmmmmm yummy, helping mommie

bonks and bronks

Achievement seems to be
connected with action.
Successful men and women
keep moving.
They make mistakes,
but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Mancat Monday

2011-04-25T02:06:00.004-04:00

Pierro:
Miles is upstairs, I just know it.

Hey Miles Hey Miles Hey Miles
Heyyy bonkbonk Milesssss

Miles Miles Miles Milessssss!

Miles: huh?

whatwhat?!!

Pierro: The window Miles -- the windowwww

Miles: Oh Pierro, you are down there

I am up here.

bronkbronk

Pierro is my brofur... we are mom's helpers and good mancats
Happy Monday every kitty.

Talkers are usually
more articulate than doers,
since talk is their specialty.

~~Thomas Sowell

Friday Frootbats

2011-04-22T01:33:00.000-04:00

Pierro: Happy Frootbat Friday kitties!

Miles: yeah, today is the day we show our frooty batty ears

and also --- stick out our tongues haha bronkbronk

Pierro:
If you need us, we will be under mom and dad's bed. The air conditioner guy is coming today and Miles and I are going to be bonkbonk working the whole time!

Miles: Bronk happy Friday and snappy week-end!

Have a fun fun Easter

Our Lord has written
the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone,
but in every leaf in spring-time.
~Martin Luther

Mancats Monday

2011-04-18T01:40:00.008-04:00

Pierro:
Hello kitties!

Thank you for the bonkful wishes for my test. Let me tell you all about my adventure!
Mom got to stay with me the whole time I was there. I was not afraid really. I checked out the exam room, but when I had to go into the darkish room I did not have much of a chance to look around at all. The very nice girl vet tech was really professional, and the heartbeep doctor was very gentle. They laid me down on a table, on my side, then they removed some thing on the table so the doctor could rub a probe thing on my furs to take pictures of my heart from underneath. He took a zillion measurements. He said my heart looked GREAT! there were no signs of thickening of any heart walls and all of my heart parts were working perfectly, --until I got a little nervous and then my left ventricle started pushing too hard, but the doctor said it was just fine and normal in both kitties, and beans too. He also said my blood pressure was perfect and my pulse was slow -- that is because I am a calm kind of kitty... Mom got to hold my paws and talk to me. I just laid there and blinked my eyes and thought about poor Miles having to help daddy with his boring fone meetings while mom and I were having an adventure.
So, too bad mom could not spend that giant pile of $$ on a bag full of fabric, couple of new dresses, a new sewing machine and two months worth of skate passes and other various and sundry items of pleasure.
She got me checked out and I am good!
Right when mom and I got home from the heartbeep doctor, mom let me out of my prison box and then the fone rang and it was MissieCurlieSwirlieTeri.
MissieCurlieSwirlieTeri was out shopping for car parts and she knew we had to be home by then! Mom was soooo happy to give her the good report. Both of them were clucking like hens on the fone.

Meanwhile,

Miles checked the prison box
it reeked of hospital smell

Miles:
We had a fun week-end full of --- well, we slept right through Saturday. It poured rain here all day- I mean ALLLL DAY
Sunday was windy and sunny and Pierro and I watched the pink petals fly in the air.
But we had SUN!!! We played all day!

We hope you have a bronkie bonkbonk Monday
All of you are such great friends.
Mom has been just awful about letting us leave comments, but we have been reading and visiting all of your bloggies on google reader. sorry though that we could not leave a comment.

Pierro:
ps: here is a photo of us: two brave tigers under mom and dad's bed.

The air conditioner broke and Robert the fixer guy was here. wow, that was quite a job protecting mom and dad from any dangers. Oh and guess what? He is coming back on Frootbat Friday to put a whole new mushine in, it is going to cost a squillionbillion $$$.
Miles:
MEOW this is going to be a crazy week--- guess who is coming tomorrow?
The Piano Tooner! He plays really bad, the same song over and over again... We will be under mom and dad's bed a lot this week.... *sigh*bronks*

"There is in every life
some perfect thing that makes
all the imperfections tolerable
and the thought of any other life inconceivable."
~Robert Brault

Frootbat Friday and ECG update below

2011-04-15T13:44:00.001-04:00

Pierro:
Well, today is the day I have to go for my heartbeep tests.
Keep those purrs coming, and really bonk them up at 12:00 noon eastern bonkstandard time.

Mom is going to take me to the heartcheck place, and even bring some of my toys and snacks for me. As long as mom can stay with me the whole time, I think I can get through this.

Miles:

I do not get to come along. I wish I could, I would be a big helper for the doctors, and I love my brother so much, I want to beee with him. Dad says I have to stay home and help him. He has two meetings in his office today.

I can't wait for Pierro to come home so we can play!

Bonkbronkie Frootbat Friday to all of our wonderful kitty friends
thanks loads for the bonks and purrs too!

~~great news. (wow, it was $$expensive$$) Pierro's heart is just great.
Pierro saw a great cardiologist and he did an ECG. It was really cool!!!
Pierro does have a murmur but it is not a bad one - it just sort of appears when he is upset such as being at the torture place. He does not need any special attention or treatment. Thank you thank you thank you so much for all of the purrs and prrrayers, they worked!!

When they discover
the center of the universe,
a lot of people will be very disappointed
to discover they are not it.

~~Bernard Bailey

Monday Mancats

2011-04-11T02:48:00.007-04:00

Miles:
Hello happy Monday kitties!

Pierro:
This morning, Miles and I decided
to switcheroo our offices

Hey Miles how are things going down there?

Miles: yeah I am ready to switch back right now

Pierro: well, thank you Miles,
you got my bed nicely warmed up for me.

Miles:
It is nice and warm up here too!
We make a great mancat team, Pierro

Happpppy Monday!
It is going to be a bonkie week
full of sunshine and funbronk days

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Friday Frootbats

2011-04-08T01:04:00.009-04:00

Miles: Happy FROOTBAT Friday!!!!

Pierro: Thanks for all of the purrs dear kittypals.

I am truly bonkful.
My heart test is not until next Friday. Mom made the appointment, and she wanted to have the best doctor look at me, and he will be there next week.
Meantime... have a fun day and a sunny deeelightbonkbonkful week-end

There is a mousie that lives outside of this window.
Miles and I are watching closely.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully
to the very best advice,
and then going away
and doing the exact opposite!!
GK Chesterton

Mancat Monday

2011-04-04T01:00:00.002-04:00

Miles:

Last week was vet week. Pierro went to the vet on Tuesday and I went on Friday. Mom took us to a new vet that is closer to our house and we saw a nice doctor named Doctor Breezy.
Doctor Breezy gave us our rabbie rooster shots and checked us all over.

Doctor Breezy told mom that Pierro's heart is mumbling,

so he has to get a bunch of really expensive tests like a ekg and an echocardiogram. He has to visit some special heart doctors at a special vet place and get his heart beat checked.

Oh boy, I love my brother so much!

Pierro: Thanks for telling my whole life story, Miles. MOL.

You are a great little brother.
Mom has not made the appointment yet, but she is going to do that today.
She is worried and sad, but hopefully they will say I am healthy and I have a good heart.

Happy Bonk Bronkie Monday
This is going to be a great week!

Choosing to be positive
and having a grateful attitude
is going to determine
how you're going to live your life.
~Joel Osteen

Friday Frooootbats

2011-04-01T01:57:00.002-04:00

Pierro:
Hi kitties!! wow this week just zoomed by, huh?
Miles and I pretty much slept through the whole weeeek!

Miles:
I had a dream that I was flying.

whizzzzing up and in the sky with my ears

have a bonkiebonkbronkful week-end

April 1.
This is the day upon which
we are reminded of what we are
on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Monday Mancats

2011-03-28T01:52:00.005-04:00

Miles: This week-end was a busy one for mancats.
We are thankful for Monday!! It is going to be a great day!

Pierro: Miles and I had to check everything the past two days

Miles: It is good to check the food supply

and what mom is making with so much noise in the kitchen

Pierro: Where are the warm blankies and towels?

should I help fold these?

Miles: of course we have a meeting on the stairs,
to share gathered information

Happy bonkbronk Monday
Life is the art of drawing
without
an eraser
~John Gardner

Frootbat Friday

2011-03-25T01:20:00.001-04:00

Miles:
Today... finally sun! I am bronkful!!

Pierro and I got really bored with so much rain - and no sun - the past few days.

We got very wild and naughty
running around the house,
bouncing off of every thing,
knocking big stuff over.

Mom said "no no boys" too many times but she was not angry
We even made daddy laugh a lot.

Pierro: It was fun -- when there was no sun.

Today is a sunny bonkbonk day

Miles and I will be naughty anyway - unless the blue birds distract us.

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein