Remembering Our Princess

Pierro:
Today I am going to tell you about Princess.
When I came to live here in my forever home, I had a nice sister named Princess.

She was an olde lady but a very cute one, a little crouchy but that was because she was rickety, also I was new and she just lost her beloved littermate Caesar.
Prinnie was born, with her tuxie brother Caesar in 1991 on April 15th
Mommie got Caesar and Princess in July of that year.
Here they are in their new forever home.

Blizzie was only 3 years old and Christabelle was only 6!!

Princess was a good girl when she was a kitten, but she liked to get into things. Once she went behind the washer and came out all black - ew.
Once she was in the unfinished basement and she climbed into the insulation. Mom had to cut her out.

these two were quite a team
the beans have a lot of good memories
Caesar and Princess were two good cats!

Last year, Missie Princess went to the bridge. Caesar was calling her to come home.
Missie Peachies' mom made this lovely picture for us

Princess was so curly

and just like a pink flower.

She was really smart and beautiful

Dear Princess
sweet sweet snowy white flower ~ We miss you so so soooo much
We can not believe it has been a whole year since you went to the bridge to be with your brother Caesar.
Sometimes we still cry when we think about you.
We miss you.

*sigh* two best friends
together again.

pretty in pink

You really were our sunshine

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
~Francis Kazinczy


When you are sorrowful
look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that
which has been your delight
~Kahlil Gibran

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Wordless Wednesday

Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?

Mancat and Canmat-in-Braining Monday

Pierro:
today I want to share with you two things that Miles and I do when we help mom in the kitchen.
See, I have to show mom where the mixer is and she can take it out to make the cookies. Then, I remind her that it goes back in this closit next to the olde coffee maker

Miles: I like to stand in the door of the refrigerator.
Mom says it is not helpful but I think it might be.
She has to close the door gently when I am standing on it.

Pierro:
Miles and I rest a lot at this window in the sunroom.
we relax and talk about being mancats and lots of times we wrestle too.

Miles:
bronks for a happy Monday

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Two peppy and cheerful Frootbats Friday

Miles:
Greetings, thanks bronkloads for the birthday wishes for mommy.
We were good boys all day!!

*sigh* It was very hard to be a good boy.
Pierro is my role model. He is always angelic and he does not even have to try!!!!

Pierro:
Miles is a bonkbonk excellent kittyboy. He just needs to keep working on personal restraint.

bonkbonkbonk for a happy bronkie week-end!!!

we are soooooo excited. Blizzie is coming home on Sunday
She only has one more kollig semester left and then she will graduate and be a working person. She is so amazing... and smart, she already got a job!!!
A very large consulting firm here in Northern Virginia snapped her up. So she will be fully employed in June just a month after she graduates.

okay, so we are going to enjoy the sunshine and
look for the birdies.

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life’s only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.

Wordless very windy c-c-c-cold Wednesday

Never put off until tomorrow
what you can do
the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain

ps: Don't tell any kitty, okay? but today is mom's birthday.
We think she might be 105 bonkbonk years old now!
We are going to try to be good boys for her. Don't we look like angels?
bonks and bronks

Mancat Monday and Canmat-in-Braining Monday

Pierro:
Happy Monday kitties.

Today I am going to show you what Miles does every day after mom and dad have dinner.

He does the dishes!!!!

I did not even need to teach him this!

I think he is growing up to be a very good helper!

Miles:
I am still a canmat-in-braining but I love learning --and helping mom in the kitchen!

Pierro is a super fun and smart mancat!

Happy snappy bronkiebronkbonkbonkbonk Monday

It is the second week of Advent

have a lovely week preparing for Christmas!
It will be here soon.

and

It is Sinterklaas this day
for all of my friends in Holland!
When mom was a tiny girl 100 years ago, she lived in Holland and
loved Sinterklaas! Christmas was a blessed Holy day
a celebration of Christ's birth
and Sinterklaas was the fun festival
for presents and candy - it starts on December 5th.
Wow that has changed so much....

You don't have the power
to make life "fair"
but you do have the power
to make life joyful.

Frootbat Friday

Miles:
Happy bronkbonk Frootbat Friday to my kitty pals and peeple pals too
wait! ....
I need to look for my big brother, Pierro



Miles: Hey brother I found you
Pierro: huh? wha??!!


Miles: today is frootbat Friday!!

Pierro: well then!!
Happy FROOTBAT BONKBONK Friday!!!!


Happy week-end!

All the so-called
"secrets of success"
will not work
unless you do.
~Author Unknown

just laying around Wednesday

Pierro:
Wednesday greetings dear kitty pals
we are having a hard time getting mom to help us.

she says she is busy preparing for Christmas

Miles: *yawn* she says she has a lot to do.

We will try to visit a few of you everyday but mom says she can't keep up
What about us mom??

bonks and bronks for a happy day kitties!

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Mancat and Canmat-in-Braining Monday

Today is owr grampa's birthday

We are going to make these mancat sunny bonkie poses for him

Happy 87th bronk birthday dear grampa

Have a bonkie and bronkful Monday

Yield to temptation.
It may not pass your way again.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Frootbat Friday

Miles:
Happy bronk Friday
We are going to try to visit bloggies this week-end
we hope you had a nice day yesterday with your peeple

Pierro:
Bonks!

Excellence
is to do a common thing
in an uncommon way.

Wednesday Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends

Miles: Mom made these pictures of us in "picnik". The big girl, Teeniebelle, showed mom how to use it when she came home to see mom on Sunday.
Then on Monday, mom sort of forgot how to use the program but ....
She is not very artistic so this is as good as it gets, kitties
I feel a little bit warm

Pierro:

Well, at least I am not a "bronk orange alert"

I feel kind of cool

We hope you have a lovely bonkful Thanksgiving.
We will be looking out for tastes of yummy turkey, and maybe some stuffing or potatoes!! OOoooh and gravy!

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace,
the celebration of work and the simple life...
a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons,
the beauty of seedtime and harvest,
the ripe product of the year -
and the deep, deep connection
of all these things with God.
~Ray Stannard Baker

Mancat Monday and Canmat-in-Braining Monday

Pierro:
Today I had to show Miles how to be a good helper in the kitchen.
Mom was making oatie meal cookies.
You have to check the machine - but beee careful.

Miles:
Like this Pierro?

Pierro: no no Miles do not lick!!!!

Miles: can we have a nap in the sun now?
Hey happy Monday everykitty
have a bronkful day!

Selfishness is not living
as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live
as one wishes them to live.
~Oscar Wilde

Frootbat Friday

Pierro: Yay it is Friday!
Just think,, one week from now, everybody will be full of turkey and pie.
.... and Blizzie will be home too!
Miles and I are going to help mom clean up the house and get ready for a fun Thanksgiving next week.
Have a bonkful week-end

Miles:
I like helping
Bronkiebronk Frootbat Friday and week-end!

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

no more rain Wednesday!

Miles: yesterday we got a lot of rain and no sun.


Pierro:
It was a great opportunity to catch up on much needed rest!


Today we hope we get some sun!
bonks and bronks!

Friendship with oneself is all-important,
because without it
one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Mancat Pierro and Canmat-in-Braining Miles!

Pierro:
Miles and I are looking out the back window.
This window is very sunny and the birdies are all over the back yard.

Pierro:
See the bird house Miles? The blue birdies live here.
This is called prime real estate!

Miles: ohhhh okay.
soooo.... where are the blue birdies?
Pierro:
we have to keep looking. This exercise takes patience, Miles

Miles:
Hi kitties. Pierro and I are doing our morning rounds!
Bronkiebronks for a fun Monday

Why be difficult
when with a bit of effort
you can be impossible?!!