Smidgen

If you are looking for me in my usual places...

I'm not there any more...

I didn't talk about it much, but I've been dealing with chronic kidney disease for a long time.  Seven years.  Finally, though, my little kidneys said "enough!", and they pretty much weren't working any more.  I went to the v-e-t yesterday and Mom had them help me on my next journey, Over the Rainbow Bridge.

I feel like a kitten again.  And I have my tail in all it's long and beautiful glory.  hee hee!

Thanks, Mom, for not letting my fierce kitten-tude scare you away those 14 years ago and for bringing me home out of the wilds.  Life was good.

Until we meet again...

The purrfect weekend...foiled

by Smidgen

Caturday started out pretty much as usual.  A little later in the morning, mom started messing around with our ptu's.  Uh-oh!  I made myself scarce!  If she had a car ride in mind for me, I wasn't going to make it easy.

Turns out tho, it was the boycats and that kitten Lilly that she packed off.  She came home later in the afternoon...by herself!  Oh my cats!  This looked like the start of the most purrfect weekend!

But then later in the night, not long after it was dark, the sky exploded over our house!  Fireworks, mom said.  I guess this is the first weekend in June when our town sets them off for their annual Pioneer Day Wriggley Day celebrations.  I guess they don't realize he isn't here anymore...or that he never liked fireworks...

So here I am with my Easy Sunday.  Mom took off again earlier this afternoon and when she came back ::sigh:: she had them with her.  Turns out she let Sharpie, Ditto, and Lilly spend the night at camp to escape the firework boomies.

well, I'm going to get back to my Easy Sunday, such as it is.

Easy Sunday

We are ready to get our Easy Sunday started!

We've had our breakfast.

Some of us have gotten our crazy kitten zoomies out of the way.

 

Bring it on!

 

Have a good one, everybuddy!

Thankful Thursday

Ahhh!

 

I'm thankful to have this monster-free moment to relax and enjoy.

Now if only the pawparazzi would go away...

::sigh::

This will have to do....

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

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and not even a minute later...

 

Risky proposition

I really want to go out to the catio.

But I have to pass by the Monster's lair...

 

Maybe it won't notice me...

Must. 

Move.

Slowly.

 

Uh oh...I think it is out of it's den.

Act non-chalant...

La la la!  Hmmm...what's this?

Ok, I'm almost in the clear.

 

I can pick up my pace now.

 

Made it!

 

 Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is!

The monster in the bathroom

It all started last week on Friday.  Mom came home from her workplace with a cat trap huge monster trap...with a little black kitten big scary monster inside!!!

 

And would you believe that our mom actually released this little kitten big scary monster in our bathroom!?!?!

At least mom moved our litter box out but it is still too close to that monster

for us to want to use it!

 

Thankfully she put up that gate in case it was sick so it couldn't get out and eat us.

I don't have a good picture to show you, but this monster has made a den in one of our ptu's.

 

Our mom is very brave and has been taking this monster to work with her.  Apparently it doesn't want to eat on it's own yet she doesn't want to risk it eating us while she is gone for the day.

It has been here for almost a week now and mom still has it locked up in our bathroom.  She took it to the vet a monster expert and it has an upper respiratory infection must be really dangerous and is contagious could attack us at any moment.... 

Time to blog!

I'm just getting ready to do our blog post.

Wait...what's our computer password again?

Oh yeah!  Okay, I got it now.

Hmmm...

Maybe just one game of solitaire first...

Wordless Wednesday: and then there were two...

 

 

Monday Funday

Hey everybuddy!

Come on out to the catio...

 

 

and bring some pawty mix...

 

 

The Squirrel Channel is on!

 

 

Hee hee!

Easy Sunday

As you see, I am pretty much summing up our Easy Sunday and weekend.

 

Course, mom did run some errands yesterday and did some yard clean up.  She and Wriggley went for morning staggers walkies both yesterday and today.  Mom said Wriggley did ok and they proly managed a mile both days.

We, well mostly me, enjoyed some catio time today and bird watching.

Mom always puts the sprinklers on in our backyard on Sunday mornings.  The birds sure love the opportunity for a shower, especially the hummerbirds.  One even came to check me out while I was on the catio.

 

Not the greatest pic, but can you see the hummer? 

Maybe it's on account of the heat or the drought but we get a lot of action at our bird baths.  We have about four different saucers out in our yard.  Today we had some visitors that we hadn't seen before.  Our flashy box doesn't have the range so mom took some good looks through her field glasses and then we looked them up in our bird book.

First we saw these yellow birds.  We knew they weren't Goldfinches and mom was stumped until the male dipped his head for her to see his black cap.  From the book we could figure it was this guy...

Wilson's Warbler

We saw a male and a female.

There was so much action at the baths today that mom refilled them three times!  Third time was when she saw a group of these guys...

Northern Flicker

There were four of them.  Mom figured they were juveniles because their heads were all grey.  Their body markings were definitely Flicker, though.  Mom took a chance while they were still in our yard to do that third refill on the bird baths.  She was hoping if she scared them off they wouldn't go far and come back for more water.  So far we haven't noticed them come back :(  When mom lived in Davis, she said she would see them alot.  This is the first time we've noticed them in our yard where we live now.

Well, I'm going to get back to my Easy Sunday...

until dinner time at least.

Have a good one, everybuddy!