Ahoy Maties and happy Caturday and Meow like a Pirate day. It’s time fur anudder Flat Cat Caturday. And meez been tellin’ ya’ dat me had a surpwise fur ya’. Last Fursday you all read da fictional account of Izzy and Tristy twavelin’ to see meez handsum mancat Andy. Ifin yous missed it, you can read it here.So today yous gunna get to hear pawrt one of what’s been goin’ on at Andys house. And even better, yous gunna hear it stwaight fwum him. Yep, dat’s wight. Andy be tellin’ da stowry today.. And be sure and tune in next week fur da pawsum 2nd pawrt. Take it away Andy.
Isn’t meez mancat handsum?
When Dezi and Christy arrived they were hot and tired. They met my whole family and got acquainted with my sisfurs Shelly and Tater. After we met them we all ate some good noms had some treats and then went to bed.
The next day was a rainy day so they went to see Grandma Jeannette. They really liked her. Grandma Jeannette has a woofie named Raymond. The people at the Shelter named him Raymond because he has a sweet personality and everybody at the shelter loved him. They sat at the table with Grandma Jeannette and had a nice visit with her and Raymond. (grandma Jeannette has been artfully cropped out because she’s shy)
The sun finally came out the next day. Mom Judy and Dad Dave took Dezi and Christy to Lakeshore Park to visit the duck pond. Dad Dave took the steps to get down to the duck pond and for some reason mom Judy decided to run down the hill. Luckily Dad Dave was carrying the Flats. Mom Judy took a couple of steps down the hill and went the rest of the way down on her backside. She was OK. They met the ducks and were not scared of them at all because they were very nice ducks. They had a conversation with the ducks and then they went home.
The next day Scouts Meiko and Pete arrived. They all went to Point Parke overlooking the Ashtabula River. The Ashtabula River goes into Lake Erie. There is a lift bridge that was built in 1925. The bridge goes up every half hour to allow boats to go to the Ashtabula Yacht Club. Right when they got to the Point the bridge went up. They also saw an artist painting a picture of the Lift Bridge. They did not want to bother her by taking her picture. Then they went to Lakeshore Park again. They went down to the water and sat on a bench. Mom Judy saw some sailboats out on the horizon. There were no little children around so they got to play on the playground.
After that they went to the Marina to check out the boats. They saw a really big sailboat that was docked. There were not very many people around so they had their picture taken in front of a big sailboat. While they were there a marina rescue boat was towing in a disabled boat. They watched it for a while and then they went home.
Stay tuned for Part II. (All fotos courtesy of Andy McIntyre, hims mom and dad)
Well it hasn’t slowed down a bit here and it’s still cwazy busy. Least dat’s da way mommy sees it cuz she not be sleepin’ so good lately. Now let me splain. Mommy dusn’t sleep so good ever, but she usually duz get a few hours of sleep at night which isn’t enuff, but she’s used to it and so it works fur her. Here lately she’s been hurtin’ so bad dat she’s not weally getting’ those. And every magazine, email and website on da subject sez dat an adult needs at minimum 6 hours and ideally 8-10 hours of sleep fur da body to feel wejuvinated and da bwain to work. Well weez not seen a full 6 hours in a while and me dusn’t fink meez ever seen 10. But mommy’s been so tired lately dat she keeps fallin’ asleep at da puter. Ifin me had fumms yous kuld see dat this is neever comfurtable or restful sleep. So there’s no rejuvinatin’ fwum it.
Mommy and me sat down last night to write meez posty and me began to massage mommy and purr and afur me knew it, mommy was sittin’ there sawin’ logs. Hers fingers wasn’t typin’ nor was she editin’ fotos. She was just sittin’ there eyes closed, mouff open, head down, slumped over sawin’ logs. In fwunt of us was a blank black scween. Me meowed and mommy jolted awake and looked at me all hazy and stuffs and sed “lets go to bed baby.” So we shut everyfin’ down and and gathered sis Lexi and headed fur bed. We purrayed fur all our furiends and each udder and then mommy laid there fur da longest afur finally dwiftin’ off. A kupple hours later…here we sit.
Now weez been finkin’…actually mommy’s been finkin’. And dat can be dangerwous on a good day. But anyways, mommy’s been finkin’, and altho’ sum of ya’ weally enjoy our twainin’ stowries, our visits and comments have been way down. So weez finkin’ dat a lot of ya’ don’t like them. So weez workin’ on anudder plan to twy to bweeve new life into meez bloggy. We will still tell twainin’ stowries, just not all da time. And dat’ll work out better anyways, cuz me has sum udder fings comin’ up. Like dat pawsum give away me was tellin’ ya’ ‘bout da udder day.
And meez handsum mancat Andy be visitin’ wiff me wight now. Okay it’s hims flat, but it’s da closest me will purrobly ever get to seein’ him up close and purrsonal. And as luck wuld have it, meez flat be visitin’ him wight now. Meez been teasin’ ya’ ‘bout a surpwise stowry ‘bout dat visit and so tomowwo da surpwise will be wevealed. Be sure to come by and check it out. Da only fing left is to ask you all what you might like to see more of on meez bloggy. Purrlease be nice, but let me know and weez’ll see what we can do to make it happen.
Ooooops weez dun dwifted off to sleep again.
As we do every weekend, weez joinin’ Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Pawade Blog Hop. Go by and check out all da udder pawsum pets.
MeeeeeOW weez been cwazy busy wound here da last few days so mommy just kuldn’t help me get a posty up yesfurday. Me told you Monday dat me has a give away comin’ up so mommy had lots of fotos to get in da puter and we luv this purroduct so much dat we didn’t want mommy to stop testin’ it. And mommy be on a mission to take a foto of sis Lexi everyday. Purroblem is dat sissy wants to do da same fing everyday so all da fotos look alike. But mommy sez dat’s okay cuz they all be of sissy sittin’ in hers lap. But enuff of ketchin’ ya’ up on what weez been duin’, cuz today be a Service cat twainin’ posty day.
Pull up a chair and let me tell ya’ a stowry.
In our last stowry sis Lexi had told ya’ dat me had finally gotten mommy safely into da pawdee box room. Sissy also told ya’ dat once dusn’t mean me be fully twained. Sumtimes she can sure be a downer, but she’s wight. Me wuld need to wepeat dat lots more times hopefully wiffout cwashin’ into da bafftub. And me needed to learn to dwive mommy down da hall and to da kitchen so she kuld make us our bwekky and hers coffee. Mommy sez by da time we head to da kitchen she be able to dwive. She still can’t walk, but she has use of hers awrms and hands; but finks it be a good idea dat we be twained cuz she just dusn’t know what da future holds. So da day me got mommy and me to da pawdee box room sis Lexi took over and got us to da kitchen. Me was still busy celebwatin’ meez success, and usin’ da big girls pawdee box. MOL
Foto fur da day 9/15/2015
So later dat day mommy got all set up fur a twainin’ session up da hall. Mommy had ‘cided dat tweat twainin’ purrobly wasn’t da way to go cuz we got too sidetwacked. Mommy isn’t fond of tweat twainin’ in general cuz havin’ a tweat on her all da time just isn’t pawsible and what we be learnin’ isn’t a twick to be purrfurmed like jumpin’ fwu a hoop. So anyways, mommy had put da tweats away and pawsitioned da chair at da edge of da pawdee box room headin’ out when she called to me. Of course me came runnin’ and jumped up in mommys lap. Me weally luvs meez mommy and wuld hang in hers lap all da time ifin me kuld. Mommy got me situated on hers wight leg and told me to turn on da movin’ chair. Me stawrted rubbin’ mommy and da awrm of da chair wiff meez head and purrin’ like a motor boat. Mommy caved and stawrted luvvin’ on me.
After a little luv fest me pawed at da power button and heard it beep several times. Mommy kuld see da wainbow of lights and told me to bite da joystick. Me bit down and da chair stawrted turnin’. Mommy had made sure da wheels was turned to make da chair veer to da wight and towards da hall. Me wasn’t sure we was posed to be turnin’ so me let go of da joystick and turned to look at mommy who weassured me dat everyfin’ was okay. Me we-pawsitioned and stepped all over da power awrm of da movin’ chair. Me finally settled in and mommy told me to push da joystick furward. Me gently pushed at da joystick and nuffin’ happened. Mommy twied to look wound meez head to see what was goin’ on, but me stood up and meez big paws purressed all da buttons on da power awrm. Me still had da joystick in meez mouff, and was pushin’ it furward. So yous guessed it, we bolted furward so fast me fawt meez head was spinnin’.
When we jolted furward me pushed da joystick even hawrder. And stead of stwaightenin’ out, da wheels kept turnin’. Wasn’t meez head spinnin’ after all; it was da room. MOL Let me tell ya’ sumfin’ ‘bout these movin’ chairs; they can turn all da way wound on a dime. So there we was turnin’ wound and wound and wound.
Lexi: Yep Dezi, frum minez seat in da livin’ room I’z fawt yawl wuz gunna burn a hole in da floor.
Oh sissy me too. Me finally got so dizzy me let go of da joystick and we came to a stop. Amazinly ‘nuff we was in almost da same pawsition as we stawrted out in. Even so, me was fwu dwivin’ fur da day. Me jumped outta mommys lap to a spinnin’ floor and “dwunkenly” wobbled off up da hall to da livin’ room to get me sum sis Lexi luvvin’. Me was stawrtin’ to fink sissy might be wight ‘bout it bein’ just luck dat me got mommy to da pawdee box room earlier. But me became more determined to purrove her wrong. Stay tuned fur da next epawsode of learnin’ to dwive.
It’s anudder Monday and da mumff is goin’ by fast. Christmas will be here afur yous know it and so will da cooler wevver. Our weekend was purretty busy here. It stawrted on Furiday night when me planned to earn meez Campfire tails badge at Cat Scouts by tellin’ da stowry of flat scouts’ Izzy and Tristy;’s travels. Me had been wantin’ to earn this badge fur a while but since mommy’s bwain dusn’t work so good at tellin’ tales me was just too nervous to twy. When we ‘cided to do these stowries me fawt it was da purrfect time. And when Scout Charles suggested it; dat just confurmed it was time. Me didn’t make a big fuss and da wesult was dat not many scouts turned out fur meez stowry tellin’ time. Meez sweet Andy showed up to support me and scout Pete H came by too. Foxy’s daddy, unkle Edward dwopped by cuz hims was missin’ Foxy. Member we wrote dat they was bein’ displaced. Foxy has gone to stay wiff scout Charles fur a bit till unkle Edward can find them a place to live.
Cat Scouts awe so pawsum. You offen read posts all over Blogville ‘bout da fun and games we have. And we sure do have a lot of them. Us scouts know how to have a good time. But there’s anudder side of Cat Scouts dat we don’t talk ‘bout offen, and dat’s da serious side. Mommy’s been a little unner da wevver since late Caturday so me told her she kuld take a bweak fwum da finkin’ posties today and let me tell y’all a little more ‘bout Cat Scouts. Weez wecently had quite a few new scouts join up. And dat’s pawsum. Lots of us scouts invite kitties when we write ‘bout our fun activities. And there’s not a fing wrong wiff joinin’ up to have fun. But dat’s not all Cat Scouts is about and Den Master has had to add sum new rules fur new members so they’ll unnewstand dat there’s a lot more to scouts than pawrties.
One of our new scouts Daedalus made this fur me.
Cat Scouts take helpin’ udders very serious. Every mumff scouts send birffday cawds and holiday cawds to peeps in hospitals and homes. And member last Christmas when sissy and me got purresents fwum Angel Scouts? Wiffout those pawsum scouts sis Lexi and me wuldn’t have had much in da way of purresents. Now meez not sayin’ we have to have purresents, cuz we got da bestest purresent ever when we got a home wiff mommy. But me will also tell ya’ dat it sure was nice. We also have a chapel where we list purrayer wequests. And we all take dat seriously. And it’s not just udder scouts dat get purrayed fur. Weez all post da needs of all our furmily and furiends. We have quests a few times a year. We do have fun, but quests also teaches us fings. We learn fings like how to work togevver, and how to take care of our planet. We learn fings ‘bout udder kuntwies flags and ideals. We learn ‘bout what flowers and plants be okay fur us kitties and what be dangerwous in our botany tests.
Meez a face painted clown fur da cawrnival
A pawsum face painted me
We awe there fur each udder and twy to help one anudder any way we can. Sumtimes dat means a purrayer or word of encouragement. Several of meez fellow scouts have helped wiff sis Lexi’s meds and VET visits and foods. And sumtimes it’s more. Like scout Charles openin’ hims home to Foxy so she wuldn’t have to go to da shelter and kuld be weunited wiff hers daddy. These awe real fings. Altho’ most of da fings we do at scouts is virtual, we do make a diffewence in da real world too. Ifin yous just joinin’ Cat Scouts yous’ll need to get a unifurm wiffin’ da furst week. Dat’s no purroblem; our Sewmaster scout Gracie can whip you up a customized unifurm complete wiff badges in no time. Speakin’ of badges, yous’ll need to earn a few shortly after joinin’ up. But hey, dat’s easy. Most of ya’ have fotos alweady in yous awrsenal. Da furst badge me earned was da Meatloaf. Most kitties have at least one meatloaf foto hangin’ wound.
Da Ferris wheel at da Cat Scouts Cawrnival.
And lastly, new scouts must pick a patwol. We all have fun hangin’ wound da campfire but a patwol is a smaller gwoup compwised of a leader and udder members. These patwols work togevver on fings like da quests and makin’ floats and booffs fur cawrnivals and such. They help to keep all of da scouts infurmed when one of their members has a need. So Cat Scouts is a fun place fur kitties, but it’s also a pawsum place to gwo and learn to be better cats and cat peeps. It’s da “be all you can be” place fur cats. Ifin yous lookin’ fur a place to belong and be supported and gwo, Cat Scouts just might be da place fur you. So just click here and head on over. Me will see ya’ at da campfire.
Andy and me takin’ a memowy foto at da cawrnival
Me also wanted to tell ya’ bout a few fings comin’ up on meez bloggy. We have a pawsum weview and give away comin’ soon. And guess what? Meez give away is gunna be open to all wesidents of da USA and Canada. And it’s sumfin’ every house wiff a pet needs. Weez also got more twainin’ and flat scout stowries to tell. And…mommy just might be duin’ a little weview of hers own here. So stay tuned cuz yous not wanna miss anyfin’.
Service Cats U.S. 