Frootbatty Friday

Pierro:
Mom, this is a crummy picture!! Where are my frootbat ears?!
Today is Frootbatttt Fridayyyyy

Heyyyyyy bonkie bonkie

Happy Friday everykitty
I hope your day is super fun and full of snuggles and mischief too
Mom is home and I hope to visit all of you and play catch the mousie, rummage through some trash cans, chew on some plastic stuff, run to the kitchen and look malnourished when mom comes in there, get some pets from dad, and some scritches,
and race around the house, and run up and down the stairs, and and and

What are your plans for this beeeeyooootiful day?
headbonks forever

~Something from Tolstoy:
"The distance you have gone
is less important
than the direction you are going."

...or maybe the distance you have gone is not important at all ~mom

Whitecat Wednesday

Pierro:
Yes, I must do another bloggie on Princess's beauty.
She was just so pritty.
you can click on this pikchur to biggify
you will say "oh my"

Look how her ears got all pink in the sun.
and her furs were the curliest ever
loooook at her tummy
oh my
she was really curly all over


I hope your Wednesday is bonkbonk fun!

Every passion borders on the chaotic.
The collectors passion
borders on the chaos
of memories.
~Walter Benjamin
German critic

Mancat Monday

Pierro:
Happy Mancat Monday!!

I hope you have sunshine so you can chomp on your toys in the sunny patch

The right to do something
does not mean that
doing it
is right!
~William Safire

Frootbat Friday

Pierro:
aaakk my frootbat ears are being squished.
I can't help it in the sun. I get all melty and my ears get flat and bended.




hey are you spying on me?

Happy Frooty-batty Friday
Bonkie bonnkkkk to all of you, my best friends

Don't think you're on the right road
just because it’s a well-beaten path.
~Author Unknown

Whitecat Wednesday

Pierro:
Here is another postie about Princess!

she used to realllly like shopping at Kohls department store
She had her own credit card too *click to biggify*

Okay just kidding, but she did like being stylish and pretty - and chubby
She was once kind of chubby

I hope all of you have a headbonkbonk fun Wednesday

“Grace is but glory begun,
and glory is but grace perfected.”
Jonathan Edwards
October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758
was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans.

Mancat Monday

Pierro:
I will be here laying in the sunshine.
The big car machine is packed up with Blizzie's stuffs (a lot of shoes and dresses and hangers and books and papers) and she is moving to Arlington
for her internship in Washington DC.

I already gave her my last mancat lovies. I know she is going to miss me a LOT

Love is a sweet tyranny,
because the lover endureth
his torments willingly.
~Proverb

Frootbat Friday

Pierro:
happy headbonking zipzippy frootiebatty Friday

Most people want to be delivered from temptation
but would like it to keep in touch.
~Robert Orben

Whitecat Wednesday

Pierro
another post about our sweet whitecat Princess.

~click to bigify her beauty~
*sigh* she was sooooo beautifulllll
mom and I know she had a good wonderful happy long long life
but

we miss her beauty and her curls
her stamping demanding paws
and I miss chasing her around


I hope everycat has a very headbonkiebonking frisky day.
I am going to play with dad and nap in the sun.
Mom and Blizzie are going shopping for business clothes for Blizzie: lots of separates (that sounds scary) and good shoes, and fancy blouses

Loss is nothing else but change,
and change is Nature's delight.
~Marcus Aurelius

Mancat Monday

Pierro:
Happy Monday
this is the last week I get to cuddle with Blizzie the kollig girl.
She is still in kollig but this semester she has an internship with the State Department.
She is going to live in Arlington and take classes too.
We live in Northern Virginia so Blizzie will only be about 30 minutes away.

I don't know how she is going to survive without my mancat cuddles.

Headbonkies for a fun day

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

Frootbat Friday and completely thankful for you

Pierro:
Hi Kitties
Happy Friday!!

This past several weeks has been very difficult for many beans that had to say good-bye to beloved kitties, for some it was quite sudden and a huge shock.

We received this wonderful book as a gift from a special friend in the Cat Blogosphere.

It is a beautiful story and it is very comforting.
It looks like Princess is on the front too
We have read it over many times now. It is a lovely story.
We are very grateful to all of you for your friendship and comfort.

thank you

We feel very blessed and just want you to know that we are also here to help and support all of you too!
I hope you have a headbonking happy week-end!

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
~Jareb Teague

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

Whitecat Wednesday

Pierro:
lookie, here is a picture of Prinnie on her very first gotcha day, June 27, 1991.
She was 10 and a half weeks old.

Mom took Caesar and Princess home in a small kitty carrier that she borrowed from
her sweet friend neighbor that lived across from her house.
Mom had not done any "kitten proofing" so the safest place for the kittens was the down stairs bathroom.

They were good kittens and very cute.
It is nice that they had each other.

I hope that today is your best day ever!
mom is home today and she is going to help me visit some blogs

headbonks for a happy day

Some of the world's greatest feats
were accomplished by people not smart enough
to know they were impossible.
~Doug Larson

Mancat Monday

I am a proud mancat to have a blog that Caesar and Prinnie started.

Now I am just me but I am two years old. I think I can have a good blog.

Okay, let's get down to business!
Surprise!
I have a new room!!!!!
Here is my old room. I used to be down the hall far away from mommy I know she couldnot hear me calling her - near Blizzie's room. Remember I had my own cool big bloo bed?

Well, mom took that bed and put it in her and daddy's room on the floor!
She claims there is no insulation above the garage and their sleeping room is cold as Siberia in winter. When we have winter, mom puts all the extra comforters and pillows and my bloo big mattress on the floor in there to keep it warmer, well not around their bed but the other part, the lower part of the room that is over the garage. That is where dad sometimes watches tv and mom has a huge book shelf in there which is really fun to climb on - and knock stuff off too.

Well, mom made my room close to her now. I am not sure but I think this used to be Prinnie and Caesar's room but I am not sure. It looks a lot different.

This is my new room!!!!!

I have all of my stuff in here and my cool radio and my litterbox and all of my mancat toys
and my midnight snacks bowls. just wowie.
I am living like a king!

and I have a really nice heater that is on all night!
mom and dad are shivering in their bed and I am warm and snuggly,
look at all of that snuggly stuff!! I could have a sleep over with my mancat friends.

My new room is closer to mommie, so when daddy opens my door at 6:00 in the morning, I meow 5 times, meeow meeeooowww meow meooow meeeowwww and then I go to mommie right away and I snuggle with her. She loves it.

I hope you have a headbonking first week of January.
It is VERY cold here but we have sunshine.
Mom might go skating today. She did not skate all of December because she was home kissing and loving Prinnie. Her skate friends emailed her and begged her to come to see them soon. She thinks she is brave enough to do that now. She feels stronger than after Caesar's sudden passing which made her cry for a month or more even!!
We still miss Princess. Mom still cries a bit.

bonkiebonks, Pierro

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more,
- a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert

We wish
God's blessings
to shower on all of your days
this Happy New Year
Love Peirro and Rosemary

New Years Eve

Rosemary~ Thank you so much all of you, every single one of you dear friends, for the emails and cards. Thank you very much for your kind thoughts and prayers.

It makes a big difference to have a silly Pierro around. He is the most incredibly adorable kittyboy ever, ever. He is a clone of Caesar.
These past days we have spent remembering and looking at photos of Caesar and Princess. It is nice to look back over sooo many fun years of adventures.

Pierro wants to change this bloggie and make this his own Happy Place!
we will work on this together and make his bloggie super happy!

Pierro:
Hi kitties!
Thank you for being my friend.
I had a very fun Christmas and got some cool mancat toys and stuff.
look at this nifty scratch mat I got!!
I love it and I keep it in my new room upstairs.
I will show you my new room next time

Thank you for all of your purrrs
mom is going to help me visit all of your blogs soon.
Headbonkies for a happy last day of 2009
and happy headbonks a super dooper headbonking 2010!

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

your friend always
Pierro!

Happy Christmas and headbonks

Rosemary:
Greetings lovely kitties and people!
Thank you so much for being our friends and being so kind to us.
Your caring thoughts and prayers and gentle purrrs are very comforting.
I printed out those tributes from your blogs. Those will be cherished and saved forever!
Princess will be greatly missed around here.

Look at this adorable fuzzy photo of Lizzie with Princess waaaaay back in 1991 when they were both kittens! Lizzie is 22 now!
Last Friday Lizzie found a lot of wonderful old pictures that I would love to show you now and then.
I have to laugh. I do not know how I did it with two little active girls and two wild very athletic and mischievous kittens way back in the 90's

I am certain that when Caesar went to the bridge in January 2008, he felt completely sad and sorry for me. Caesar was my little helperboy. I was so crushed, so shocked, so heart broken I did not think I could ever have another kitty in my life.
The idea of another kitty was just impossible.
Caesar was irreplaceable!
One day in March 2008 I was reading the Washington ComPost newspaper and picked up one of the sections with the comics and the classified section just fell out onto the floor and there, right there was an ad for Cornish Rex kittens. There was a website listed and I went to just look at the kittens and fell completely and instantly in love with Pierro. Now this is crazy, I had to go see that kitty. Well, you know the rest of the story and I am quite certain that Caesar had his paw in that almost two years ago . . .

Well, now Remember Stormie?
Well, Stormie's mom, L, really had some wise thoughts about Caesar and Princess.
She thinks that Caesar has probably been calling Princess for some time. Princess was getting a little wobbly and she was getting picky about her food, feeling awfully tired, even coming up with some silly ideas.
A few times she was having a wonderful day and decided to start climbing on furniture, walking across the back of the couch, wobbling happily and confidently, stepping onto narrow edges. Going up and down the stairs was worrying me too. She was careful, but I worried greatly if she lost her balance in any of these situations, well, there could be disastrous trouble if she fell...

Caesar: Prinnnnie, curlysister, you are really taking a lot of risks there. You are not a kitten anymore. Why do you keep going up and down the stairs like that? You are going to hurt yourself. Stop walking on the furniture, you are going to break a hip, girl!

Caesar: Prinnie sweet littermate, when are you coming? I miss you.
I miss cuddling with you

Caesar: you are eating baby food now? BABY food?

Caesar: Princess you are looking so thin, so frail, so tired.
Please come to me. Please come please come please come please come ...

Stormie's mom was right.
Caesar's pleading became louder and louder, and more and more persistent.
I think he finally convinced her that it was safe to come to Rainbow bridge.
I think Caesar is pleased that Pierro is settled in and protecting our hearts.

I really had the feeling that Princess was not having so much fun anymore. She has relied on me so much in the past few months. I worried when I left the house.

Those last days. *sigh* She got sooooo much love, so much care and attention. She knew it was okay. I told her I loved her a thousand times.
I called the vet twice, thinking perhaps Prinnie would need help, but her last day, Wednesday, Princess was very calm, very comfortable. It was a beautiful sunny day and she laid on her side. She was soo beautiful. Her breathing became more and more shallow during the day, but there was no distress. I kept her warm and comfortable. she was not interested in any food but I did give her drops of water.
She passed so quietly and peacefully at 3:30AM on Thursday morning.

I thought I would share that with you.
Princess has always been our beautiful flower. I have so many memories of these two kitties. They grew up with my girls.

We are doing well here. Grieving takes time however I feel very fortunate to have been able to participate in Prinnie's last days, her last hours.
Lizzie did not make it home, but while my husband went to William and Mary College to move her out on Thursday, I was able to give Princess a lovely sponge bath (even blowdried her curly furs) and rested her in the most beautiful basket with all of her favorite blankies.
Then we got a snow storm, Two feet of snow. It was lovely.
We kept Prinnie in the very very cold garage. I made a beautiful table covered all in pink and prettiness, a big pink bow, and flowers too. I placed her basket out there so Lizzie could visit her any time and give her thousands more kisses.
On Monday, we took Princess's body to Sunset in Alexandria. They were very nice to us. We picked up her ashes on Tuesday. I am seriously thinking of putting her ashes in with Caesar's.
I sense they need/want to be together.
I wish all of you a happy peaceful Christmas.
God has been so good to us.

Pierro:
Are you ready for Christmas?

I know I am going to get a lot of wonderful things for Christmas - like LOTS of toys!

I have a lot of stuff to tell you. I hope I can blog a lot.
Happy Christmas!
I wish you peace and headbonkbonkbonkies

For death,
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life center.
~Edwin Arnold

*Princess* ~~ April 15, 1991 ~ December 17, 2009

Here is my gorgeous Princess yesterday afternoon.
She was comfortable and purring lightly.
She is a precious flower, so pink and white.
She has always been our beautiful girl
She received so many kisses, and pets, and all of your purrrs and prayers.
God was so good to us.
This is truly the end of a delightfully wonderful era.
For Princess, it is the beginning of peace, and rest, with her brother Caesar.
She is truly in Heaven

Rosemary:
Princess died very comfortably and so lovely and peacefully very early this morning.
18 and a half years of so many, so many beautiful memories.
I have been able to remember fondly so many of them while nursing her this past month.
My heart is broken.
Princess is with her dear brother and playful littermate, Caesar.

I won't be blogging for a long time
Pierro and I will come around and visit blogs
I promise
I love all of you so much. Such great and faithful friends all of you are.
Thank you so much for your friendship, your caring.
I have not been able to visit your blogs for a long time.
This is the end of a long very long wonderous adventure with Caesar and Princess
My heart is hurting.
I only ask, please, for your prayers
Lizzie did not make it home in time
I know she will be crushed
Again, thank you from the bottom of myheart.
All of you are the best most faithful kindred spirits and friends imaginable.

Matthew 11:25-30
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

For death, Now I know,
is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter Life,
which is of all life center.
~Edwin Arnold

Thank you, most merciful God, for Princess
Thank you for your guidance
and giving me the strength

Whitecat Wednesday

Princess:
I am tired.
Thank you for the very loving and kind thoughts
and purrrs. thank you thank you so much.
I love all of you, kitties, beans, doggies, rabbits, birdies
I love all of you very very very much.
pleeeease never forget that
All of you are treasured friends, and have made my life so great.

Mom is taking care of me. I know I am loved very much. I am happy and a purr a lot.
Mom is taking care of me all day.
and when I am tired, I lay in the sun
I am waiting for Blizzie. She needs to come home to me.

There is a calmness
to a life lived in Gratitude,
a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum

Mancat Monday and an uppiedate on Princess

Pierro-
thank you kittie friends for coming over and playing with me. dad is fun but he does not always throw the mowsies the way I like and mom just wants to kiss me or tell me to clean up my toys. Sometimes she calls me and I do not come.

I just pretend I do not hear her and play with my stuff.
You can click on any of my pictures to biggify and see how handsome I look
and the ones below are nice, but I am a handsome mancat!!

Princess is stable. Mom says she is pretty sure that Prinnie's kidneys are starting to fail, so she is giving her fluids every day. Prinnie does not like getting subq's. daddy has to help hold her or she tries to leave like she has a bus to catch. She gets to eat baby food hams all the time now! and sometimes when she does not feel like eating mom puts the food in a syringe and forces Prinnie to eat a little bit.

see, look at her... what a Princess she is.
Prinnie is purring. She seems a little confused, sometimes she acts like she is zoned out, but only for a few seconds. Her room is very warm with that heater, our house is cold.
She likes her room with the gentle light and the pretty classical music on the radio.
Mom put her litterbox really close by.

Princess does not have to walk far to do anything.
See, she really is a Princess!
Mom says since she has been getting this NaCl subq fluids, she seems to be a little more alert.

Our neighbors have a crazy decoration house. What do you think?

They go crazy every year and cars come down our street. It is quite an extravaganza.
Well.... next door looks really fun, but can you imagine taking all of that down and putting it away in January? No, me neither.
This is our house. we like drab.

Happy headbonkie snappy Monday

"I would maintain that thanks
are the highest form of thought;
and that gratitude is happiness
doubled by wonder."
G.K. Chesterton

Frootbat Prinnie is sick Friday ~~update on Princess

Pierro:
Hey kitties. Prinnie has been feeling kind of crummy and mom is going to take her to the vet today. She eats okay but she acts pretty bad,,, no no not naughty, she just has her eyes half shutted and she looks hurtie. She is really quiet.

We are so sorry we have not been visiting any blogs.
Mom has been waiting on Prinnie hand and paw.

Please purr okay?
headbonks from me.

ps: I am bored and would love to have a playmate today.
can you comeover? Today I want to find all 100 of my mousies and put them through

the bottom of this door that goes to the basement. I am not allowed behind this door but the mousies should go there. There is a special message on the door you can click to biggify.

uppiedate on Prinnie:
Prinnie did not have to go to the vet. the vetlady ordered some NaCl fluids for mom to give her subq and some red bad tasting stuff to make her tummy do some work. Mom picked these things up late last night.
She had some medicine for her tummy (she was clogged up) and she just had a poopie that looks like a perfect specimen for a poop. She stunk up the whole house. Now she is resting in her bed.
Mom will attempt to give her fluids today. She gave her some fluids last night... but Prinnie does not have any FAT so getting that needle in just right is hard. Mom thinks she got about 50 ml in.
Thank you soo sooo SOOOOO much for the purrrs.
Prinnie is stable.
she seems a little bit 'zoned out', very quiet and weak. she is staying in her paradise room today where it is very sunny and warm.
Thank you friends. Blizzkollegegirl will be home on Thursday and we will hope and pray that Prinnie continues to just improve and be comfortable.
Mom says Your thoughts and prayers at this time are very very comforting.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.
~Mary H. Waldrip

Whitecat Wednesday

Happy Wednesday kitties.
I hope all of you are well.
I have been spending most of my time in my own room this week
It is too cold in this house and my paradise room is well heated and very sunny
I just call mom and she comes running.
I am also very tired of cat food, YUCK! Now I demand baby food.
I get baby food every day now.
Love and purrrs to all of you
~~Princess

A good laugh
and a long sleep
are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~Irish Proverb

Mancat Monday

Oh! here she comes!!!!



Pierro: shhh don't tell mom I am here.

I am going to surprise her!



mom! you surprised ME!


Headbonkies kitties. today is a sunny day!
Tomorrow is mommie's birthday so we are going to have a party
with a lot of dancing!
do I like dancing?
Well, I like watching mom dance :-)

Every decision you make,
good or bad
- has consequences.