White Cat Wednesday

Princess:
Mom says she is exhausted. too much driving....
she is driving out to Annapolis to get Blizzie today.
Then, she will have a few days to breathe... next week is the big trip to William and Mary
so this is Blizzie's last week home.

look at my silly brother Pierro.
He likes following me around. Sometimes that is annoying!

I hope all of you kitties are doing well
Love and purrs always

Tough and funny and a little bit kind:
that is as near to perfection
as a human being can be.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Mancat Monday ~ Caesar + Canmat-in-Braining ~ Pierro

Pierro:
This is Caesar He was mommie's helper
He was really good at snoopervising and checking the empty boxes
look at him what a sweet face and every cat and bean misses him I wish he were here
Prinnie does not like to play much even if I first kiss her a lot


I like to inspect all of the stuff that mommy brings home from hunting
I know there are some things here that might belong to me


I hope you have a supergreat Monday and a very successful week mom is still running around all over the place she took daddy to the eye doctor after his surgery he is still healing he lays down a lot and I get to sit with him He might get his left eye operated on next week this is Blizzie's last week before she has to go away to the college place
she is at gramma and grampa this week and mom will pick her up after she brings daddy to his eye check up appointment
mom is really busy and she will try to let us visit this week a few times
I have to go now and help mom some more

~Set lofty goals~
then
*achieve them*

Whitecat my health update and daddy's Surgery Wednesday

Princess:
Well, two things:

first of all, mom has my blood results from a week and a half ago and they look pretty much the same as the tests I had in February, I have mild kidney disease and I guess that means I should continue on my once or twice weekly subq's. Mom is planning on making an appointment for me in September with a new vet (that specializes in senior kittys) that is closer to our house. We loved our vet in Leesburg, but our favorite vetlady left the practice and moved to Maine to be closer to her extended family.
So, the other vetman is not that great. AND he never called mom back on these test results! so, that is why mom has the latest blood work (she is an olde nurse). She casually requested a copy of the results when she went to get Pierro's special allergy foods and exchange some foods for me.

Okay that was long. ...

Today is daddy's cataract surgery on his right eye. Mommie will take care of him.
Blizzie is home with Pierro and me, but she has a lot of busy stuff to do like practice the piano and worry about college classes.
I might not have a chance to visit much for the next few days... after daddy has the right eye done, he will have the left one done. Mom needs to take care of him.

I hope all of you keep well and happy.
Love always

"There is no normal life, Wyatt,
there's just life,
ya live it."

-- Doc Holliday, Tombstone (1993)

Mancat Monday ~ Caesar + Canmat-in-Braining ~ Pierro

Pierro:
My brother Caesar was a good boy he took long naps in the sun hogging Prinnie's bloo blankie



I like to sleep on Prinnie's pink blankie.

" Let others lead small lives,
but not you.
Let others argue over small things,
but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts,
but not you.
Let others leave their future
in someone else's hands,
but not you."
--- Jim Rohn

Frootbats and Flowers FRIDAY!!

Princess:

This was a busy week... and next week is going to be really busy, and the week after next and the week after that.
Next week, daddy gets eye surgery on one eye, then the next week he gets eye surgery on the other eye, (he has CATaracts) then the week later... Blizzie goes to college.
I just thought I would let you know all about that. Mom has a big role to play in this activity... mostly as driver back and forth to numerous doctor appointments and check ups, and nurse, and mommie to Blizzie, helping her get packed up and then moved in to college in Williamsburg.

This is a very cute bunch of flowers on the front porch of our house.

Those yellowy-orange flowers are sun flowers! they only grow about 18" high and they are called "Fuzzy Face" Aren't they adorable?
Here is our other fuzzy face:

I hope everycat is doing well.
Pierro and I wish you a very happy week-end.

Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly....
Leave the rest to God

Whitecat Wednesday and Wacky Pierro

Princess:

Long long long long story . . . .
Mom was hoping to hear from the vetman yesterday
but so far, no results on my 6 months check up.
This all started last week.... or.. no, when Pierro came to live here. See, he is a typical rex cat with the extra waxy ears. Caesar and I never had noticeably waxy ears, so mom never cleaned our ears.

Mom cleans Pierro's ears one day every week... so last Wednesday she decided to look at my ears and see what they looked like, then she cleaned the outer parts with a dry q-tippie. I did not like it!! It felt reeeeally wierd.
so, I started scratching my left ear like crazy after that... I scratched all of my furs off!!!!!

this is a picture of my right ear so you can see what normal is:
(yes, I am laying on my white sheepie skin)

By Friday morning, mom was getting a bit worried about this scratching. She tried to look into my ears with a small flashielight, but I was too stubborn to let her (she is an olde nurse). She kept a sharp eye on me all day Friday and had to remind me to not scratch, but after she would leave the room, I would do some scratching.
Mom thought I might give myself an infection... so I ended up getting shoved into the prison box Saturday morning!!! We got into the black musheen and Blizzie came along to be with me too.

Wow, what a long story... well, here is where it gets really horrible.
Our vetlady moved back to Maine to live near her family, so we had to see the vetman. He had kind bloo eyes. He said I looked good. The helpergirl weighed me and said I weigh 7 lb 14 oz which is pretty good for a 17 year old ladycat. The vetman tried to check my ears, the helper girl took some goop out of my ears and that test came back good, no germies, so the vetman gave mom some oinkment to put in my ears... it feels very gross and greasy.
THEN! the vetman said "why not go ahead and have Prinnie's 6 month check ups" with the bloods and lots of touching and squeeeezing? It was extremely frightening and terrible and oh my I was soooo upset. I do not bite or scratch but I did... cry. Mom wrapped me up in my pink blankie and when they took me back to the torture room in the back, they also let me be wrapped up in my blankie.... oh I was dizzy with fear.
When I got back to the cold room, mom opened my prison box, I jumped right in there and went to the back of that box.

I always went to the vet with Caesar. He would be in the front near the prison bars and protect me. I always hided in the back... this time he was not there for me, so it was just terrible terrible terrible

We finally made it back home and mom brought me upstairs to her room and let me have some peace and quiet... I have not been scratching my ears anymore. I just decided to stop doing that and besides, now my ears are sooo greasy.

Well, mom is still waiting for the phone call about my lab work... I hope it comes back super good.
I feel pretty good, I eat really well and the sub-q's are rather annoying but I know that they are good for me. I only get sub-q's one day a week and I always get two Temptations and some kitten crunchies.

Purrrrs, thank you for reading all of this and being so nice to me.
Here is a picture of silly Pierro to make you laugh :-)

I love all of you
purrrrs

Treat everyone with politeness,
even those who are rude to you
- not because they are nice,
but because you are.
~Author Unknown

Mancat Monday ~ Caesar + Canmat-in-Braining ~ Pierro

Pierro:
Caesar was brave and he climbed up on top of the cabinets over the refrigerator It is a dangerous climb.

Even in his last days Caesar would climb up to look over his house and watch over the peeple. Mom used to worry that he would fall and since he was almost 17 years old she was really worried that he would break his bones But he was brave and always took the chances for this was what he loved to do every day, climb.

I am brave too I love climbing, and I am so fast mom can't catch me!


so sorry we have not been around to visit much Mom was sick for a few days (she never gets sick!), and she did some visiting and some driving and some gardening and some baking
(a home made peach pie)

and other "slave-ish duties"

Prinnie had to go to the vet on Saturday !!! and she will tell you about that on Wednesday
she told me it was so horrible she can't talk about it yet!

High paws and 5-marble purrrs ~ Pierro!

The problem with troubleshooting
is that trouble shoots back.
~Author Unknown

Whitecat and Whiskers Wednesday

Princess:

Today is a good day to snuggle on my bloo blankies. I has been a while... lately I have been snoozing on my pink blankies.

Do not worry kitty friends. Pierro got some new cubies. Mom got them from Target!
You have to click on this picture to see Pierro's whiskers.
He loves napping on this very narrow window ledge!


I hope your Wednesday is fabbie-rrific.
Mommie is driving out to Annapolis to get Blizzie from gramma and grampa today.
She will probably be home late.

Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
~Wendy Wasserstein

Mancat Monday*Caesar & Canmat-in-Braining*Pierro

Pierro:
Caesar was a good mancat he liked to sit quietly and have video-chat with gramma and grampa
this is an old picture sorry the quality is not that great you can see Caesar in the upper right corner


I can be in video-chat too mom has to coax me with a snack it is still a bit scary click to biggify you can see me

gramma and grampa are wonderful

see I am gone already


Today is mom's last day to skate for a while she has been really busy too
Happy Monday

A good friend is a connection to life
- a tie to the past,
a road to the future,
the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse

Whitecat Wednesday

Princess:

happy whitecat Wednesday. I am napping in my pink bed in mom and dad's bedroom.
It is quiet in here and I just love being in the mombeans room.
Well now, I have some very bad (silly) news....
my tentie is ruined, yes, see the blog entries below to look at my beautiful red and yellow tentie.
Now it is garbage. Mom says it is too dangerous to have in the house...

Thanks to Pierro

This was such a nice tent... and now it is in the recycle bin


Mom is searching for a new tent... or maybe new tents
How are those play cubes from Target? Any cat have one of those?
I hope you have a fabbie day today.
You are, of course, always loved by me.
Purrrs

Fear
and courage
are brothers.
~Proverb

Mancat Monday ~ Caesar + Canmat-in-Braining ~ Pierro

Pierro:
Caesar was a big helperboy and he liked to be in charge and to protect the family



huh? no I am not drooooling no I am not



Awwww oh I did not know Forest she was a pretty girl wow I love her furs Princess says she was a very wonderful kitty I am very sad for her family now
look... she is so beeeyotiful everycat at the bridge is welcoming her
she is safe now

"Do, or do not.

There is no try"

Yoda ~~ The Empire Strikes Back

Frootbat Friday

Princess:
Happy Friday and happy 'get ready for the week-end' day!
I hope today is your very best most marvelous day!

Mom is skating the dance session this morning.
She is going to start ice dance lessons in the Fall!
She will be home early because the session is early, so I am going to wait here in my tentie while Pierro is having fun with his new toys!

Pierro:
I got some noo mousies I will show them to you next week... after I find them...
one is red one is green one is wite and one is yello I used to like my old bloo mousies the best but now I like these noo ones a lot I lost them once one of the mousies went under the couch and my head got stuck because I was trying to reach it and mom had to save me I got in trubble yesterday for wrestling with Princess and she got very mad (Princess got mad)

today I am also saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to my new buddy and Caesar's tuxie brother, ADAN!!
Here is a screen shot from yesterday afternoon at 2:00 sharp the weekly video chat with gramma and grampa I was busy playing with my noo mousies

Character is doing the right thing
when nobody's looking.
There are too many people who think
that the only thing that's right is to get by,
and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
~J.C. Watts Jr (R)
former US Representative
from Oklahoma

Whitecat, meme and wacky Wednesday

Princess:
Well, it has been sunny here. I have been taking full advantage of all of the greatest sunny spots.

I was taggied by MissPeach to do this fun meme.
Here are the simple rules:
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!

this is the outside of our coldbox. It is always covered with papers.
mom says this coldbox is getting replaced soon...
You can click to biggify

One especially nice thing on our cold box is of course our wonderful picture of Caesar (on the left).
Also, you can see mom's rink schedule (bottom right). she is skating three days a week for a few weeks, then there will not be much ice time available so she will take a break and do other things to keep her skating legs in shape, like dancing around and taking long walks.

Okay, inside our cold box you can find two pots of kitty foods!

Now I am supposed to tag some kitties so who ever wants to do this meme I would love to see the front of your cold box!! please tell me that you have done it and I will come and see!!

Here is our wacky boy, Pierro.

mommie has lots of funny names for him: Mr. Mcskunkersons, Shorty Mcstinkypants are two of them haha. He is a very good kitty boy and we love him.

I hope today is your very best day ever!
You are loved by me!

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mancat Monday ~ Caesar + Canmat-in-Braining ~ Pierro

Pierro:
I never met my bruther I know he was a very good helper and a good boy mom called him her helperpuppy she says I am a little helperpuppy



Icanbe a helper just like him he licked the pots of cottage cheese and I can lick the yogurts cuppy

mmm yummy


I hope my kittie friends have a happy day mommie is going to the ice rink and then she is going to come home and clean the bean litturbox rooms and other important stuff I like to help her

Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Happy Fourth of JULY

We hope you have a very

Pierro:
Here is a picture of Blizzie hugging me

here are two pictures of gramma and grampa during video chat!!
This first screen shot is grampa showing us the cookies they are eating!

This picture is when they signed out already.
gramma always does that job. Grampa calls her Miek the geek.
Miek is gramma's name, not her real name but what grampa calls her.
It comes from the dutch word meisje which means girl.

Ha. Miek the Geek.
actually grampa's the geek, but gramma can do a lot on the computer


purrrs from Princess and Pierro

We often take for granted
the very things
that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick