Meowllo evewypawdy we sure hope yous havin’ a gweat weekend. You awe never gunna believe what all happened yesfurday. You know weez been writin’ ‘bout mommys doctow pointment day now fur a while cuz it seems sumfin’ always happens. And yesfurday wuz no diffewent. Mommy had told me we kuld write ‘bout sumfin’ els this mumff and then we went and…well let’s just say you all shulda been there.
It stawted out purretty much like any udder day. We all got wound and mommy opened da door and stawted singin’, “Here comes da sun.” OMC Wuz we ever glad to see mr. Sunshine. A lot of da ice wuz melted, and it wuz wunnewful. Unbeknownst to me tho’ mommy wuz nervous ‘bout patches of black ice, so her wuz goin’ back and forff all meownin’ ‘bout whether or not to wisk takin’ me wiff her. Wiffout me mommy gets ‘bout a 30 second warnin’ afur her passes out. Wiff me she gets almost 30 minutes. But since she wuz disabled due to a caw accident she worries ‘bout da udder idiots on da road and da wedder of course. She dusn’t like to put Lexi or me at wisk ifin her can help it, so she wuz weally finkin’ ‘bout leavin’ me at home. Well time to go and mommy ‘cided me wuld stay wiff Lexi, so she left and headed out to da doctow ‘bout 10 minutes up da stweet. Me watched and waited on da cat twee fur mommy to come home. And then…
Me saw mommy come walkin’ up da walk. She came in and saw me and sed, “It’s not bad at all honey. Come on, you’re goin’ with me to town.” Into da stwoller me went and we wuz off. Da highway wuz nice and clear and you kuldn’t even tell there had been snow or ice only a day earlier. Mommy sed she talked to a man at da doctows office dat sed da kids had been outta school since Tuesday. So we wusn’t da only ones hoo fawt it wuz bad. Anyways, we finally got to da fawmacy. And fank catness, cuz mommy had da caw weally hot. Me had to tell hers to turn down da heat cuz me wuz furyin’ in meez long fur coat. we dwopped of mommys scwipt and told them we wuz gunna go a foo doors down and let me visit wiff meez furiends at da bank. Well…dat’s when fings changed. We wuz stwollin’ down da stweet and suddenlly mommys cane went sideways, fwuntways, backways and then it wuz just flyin’ and mommy wuz slippin’ an slidin’ and…KAPOOEY!!! Down mommy went, wight on hers hineybo. You shulda seen it. Yous shulda seen me lookin’ at it. You shulda seen mommy’s face. But wait, it dusn’t stop there.
When mommy stawted losin’ hers balance she sumhow pushed da stwoller and me went rollin’ down da stweet. Me wuz watchin’ mommy flailin’ and getting’ further and further away fwum her. Me wuz meowin’ and mommy wuz hollewin’ fur me. Me kuld hear her, “Dezi, Oh sweet Dezi. Sumpawdy save my baby!!!” Well sumpawdy musta heard us or seen mommy cuz a littlle old gway haired lady on hers own cane came walkin’ outta one of da doors and stood over mommy. Mommy wuz scweamin’ and pointin’ at me, and da little old gway haired lady on hers own cane came runnin’ toward me. You shulda seen her. OMC–MOL Me wuz still rollin’ and didn’t fink dat lady had any chance of catchin’ up to me, but suddenly me felt a jolt and me stopped. Da little old lady wuz wavin’ hers awms all over da place and yellin’. Me looked out da udder side and there stood this big ole man holdin’ onto da stwoller and sayin’ “It’s okay, I’ve got it. Don’t fall.” Then all meez furiends fwum da bank came outside and one of them pushed me over to mommy where anudder couple of them wuz helpin’ hers up. Dat black ice mommy had been worried ‘bout…we had hit a patch. Mommy kuldn’t wait to get back home. Hers a little bwuised up and sore, but nun da worse fur da wear, and meez had an adventure me will never furget. MOL So weez’ll be takin’ it easy this weekend no doubt.
Meowllo everypawdy, da weekend’s here. WooHoo Well yesfurday fur National answer yous cat’s question day we let you choose da questions. And we got sum good ones dat’s fur sure. See, we ask mommy questions all da time and she answers ‘em wight then and there. And usually ifin hers can’t answer ‘em hers will find da answer. Whether dat means duin’ wesearch or askin’ sumpawdy els, so weez didn’t weally hav anyfin’ to ask hers. And we usually do da same fing wiff all of you. Ifin weez wunnewin’ sumfin’ ‘bout ya’, weez just ask. Yous always answer, so Fank you fur dat. Now me will get on to da question and answer portion of this posty.
Da first question by ow pawsum furiends da Trout Town Tabbies wuz: Why dusn’t mommy grow us more gwass in da house?
Mommys answer: I ought to. the girls love their grass, but we just don’t have the room to put a football field of grass in the house, and I get tired of stepping in and cleaning up the grass puke. MOL A little grass goes a long way.
I’z lubz da grazz too. Fankz awnty Jennifer.
Ow nex questionwuz fwum meez fellow Cat Scout and furiend Shoko fwum da Canadian Cats. She wanted to know where me sleeps.
Meez gunna answer this one. Me sleeps wight beside mommy. We hav a twin size hospital bed and mommy sleeps as faw over to one side as hers can to make room fur me to curl up at hers waist. Sis Lexi sleeps between mommy legs and rests hers head on mommys thigh.
Ow nex question got asked by a kupple of ow wunnewful furiends. Timmy fwum da Tomcat Commentary and Annabelle fwum Manx Mnews wanted to know what toy wuz boff Lexi and meez favowit.
Sissy and me talked this one over a while and came to a consensus. Ow favowit toy wuz da Cat’s Meow. we actually played wiff it so much we ran da motor out and it dusn’t work anymore. So, now ow favowit toys awe those wiff da nip in ‘em. You know da nana, da made wiff luv toys weez won and ow ball and twack toys.
Ow furiends da Florida Furkids wanted to know what ow favowit pizza is.
OMC It’s Pepperoni!!! Weez luv, luv, luv da pepperoni pizza. Dat weminds me of a question me has, when can we hav anudder pizza mommy? Oh, mommy sez soon.
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Anyways on to ow nex question which comes fwum ow adventurwous furiends da Purrfect Kitties. They wanna know ifin weez ever seen a weal live mousey.
Well… me hasn’t ever seen a weal live mousey but mommy sez she finks me wuld be a weal hunter and killer. Sis Lexi on da udder hand…she has seen a weal mousey and she joined mommy up in da chair while hers bwofur Lucky chased it down and made short work of it. C’mon now, weez posh pampurred inside Service kitties. MOL
Come here mousy meez gunna get you.
Ow dear furiend Tribble hoo got a new bwofur last year has da nex question. And she wants to know why weez hav no bwofur and do we want one. MOL Even tho’ this be a fun question it has a very serious answer, so meez gunna let mommy take this one.
Dear sweet Tribble after losing Devon to cancer and then Lucky and Ransom who both had UTI’s that essentially robbed them of their lives and me of them, I just couldn’t go through that again. Although females can get UTI’s it is more of a risk for males. So after Ransom died I prayed and asked God too send me a sweet little girl to love. And He did. He sent Dezi to me, and she is perfect in every way. I love all the boys that are in our lives including your sweet brother, but my heart couldn’t take another loss like that. So that’s why the girls don’t have a physical brother. You and your mommy are family to us, your not just online friends. That means your family is our family, including Indy.
Da nex question is by one of ow pawsum Facebook awnties. She’s been wiff us since almost da beginnin’. And she wanted to know when mommy had hers accident and ifin meez still fwaid of da loud noises.
Mommy had hers accident November 21, 1994. And yes, there awe sum loud noises dat still scare me. And meez purrawlly gunna fweak out again this year when spwing finally awwives and da lawn crew shows up fur da first time in mumffs. MOL
We saved this question fur last, cuz it might take a little time to answer. Ow furiends Pipo and Minko fwum We bees Siamese want to know how we learned to be Service Cats.
Dat’s a loaded question and wuld take a lot more time than we hav in this posty. We posted back on April 19, 2014 ‘bout Shad, Mommy’s Original Service Cat who twained herselff. And after she died and mommy wealized dat kitties kuld be twained to do such fings mommy stawted twainin’ hers very nex kitty, Devon. And while volunteerin’ wiff a wescue gwoup mommy adopted Lucky and then Lexi and twained them also. Devon helped wiff their twainin’ as well. We posted a little ‘bout Lexi’s twainin’ back on April 21, 2014 in Lexi Becomes a Service Cat. And finally me joined mommy and Lexi and they hav boff had a hand in twainin’ me.
As we hav had quite a foo new furiends join us in wecent mumffs we will be tellin’ more stories ‘bout ow twainin’ in da future. Although ow posts awe in no way meant to be a twainin’ manual as we don’t cover minute by minute. It wuld be way too boring. Twainin’ isn’t always fun or funny. We twy to post the joyous and funny times, and even lots of da oopsies. Just know dat there’s a lot of time put into twainin’. We wusn’t born Service cats, but any cat can be twained to become one. And we also posted the diffewence between a Service cat and Therapy cat on April 18, 2014. They awe not the same thing or interchangeable terms. Lexi and me awe twained Service Animals. Me has also been fwu da certification purrawcess to be a Therapy cat cuz mommy likes to giv back to da community when she can and weez not hav munny to giv but we do hav time.
Well, dat wraps up da questions and answers fwum National answer yous cats question day. We hope you learned a little more ‘bout us. As always ifin yous hav a question fur us anytime, just ask. Weez not mind answerin’ anyfin’ so long as it’s wespectful and nice. Yous know weez a rated G bloggy dat wuld be safe fur da peeps gwandchildwen to wead. so just member to keep it clean. There wuz anudder question dat rian asked. Hims didn’t actually ask us, but we wanted to share it. Hims not been feelin’ so good of late and wanted to know why hims sisfurs wus always hovewin’. Hims dad did a gweat job of answerin’ him and we just wanted to say dat we kitties be very empafetic. And when we luv, we luv deep. And we just want ow furmily to be okay. They hover Brian cuz they luv you, as do we. Yous in ow purrayers as is yous furmily.
And speakin’ of purrayers, weez askin’ you to keep sis Lexi in all yous purrayers. She will hav da bloggy nex time to tell yous ‘bout da rest of hers and mommys day togedder and giv yous an update on hers pill takin’ and eatin’. So be sure to come check it out. And check out da pawsum Purrs and Purrayers Badge ow sweet furiends fwum da Kitty Cat Chronicles made fur us. Yous can display on yous bloggies ifin yous wuld like. Fank yous so much sweet furiends, we luv it. They used lots of happy colors cuz they sed we wuz always happy. Isn’t dat da sweetest fing?
Meowllo everypawdy. We stawted out last night writin’ todays posty and fawt we might just giv dat Wordless Wednesday a twy. Me knows yous shocked cuz meez a “chatty caffy”, least dat’s what mommy calls me. but we wuz gunna twy. So a foo fotos uploaded and very foo words later, we scheduled meez posty and went to bed shortly after. Only to wake up this meownin’ and find dat it didn’t post. OMC What’s up wiff dat? Well me can only assume da net waves didn’t know what to do wiff meez posty. It wuz shocked too. MOL So me decided dat since meez posty didn’t post and weez had such an excitin’ meownin’, me wuld just wedo meez posty altogedder. So here we go, hold onto sumfin’ or you just might get blown away.
It wuz actually purretty nice out yesfurday. Da sun came out and it warmed all da way up to da mid 40’s. We had da big door open so we kuld see out. And me had meez eyes on a squirrel dat insists on playin’ on meez porch. Me chortled and chattered at him fur da longest time afur hims finally left and went back out unner da twee. Squirrel teevee gone and no bird teevee to watch me went to take a nap. When me woke up it wuz alweady getting’ dawk outside. We just hate dat it gets dawk at 5 o’clock. Me wants summer back. Anyways, since dat’s not gunna happen fur a while then me will settle in and enjoy all da cuddles dat come wiff this wedder. Now, where wuz me? Oh yeah, so when it got dawk it also stawted to get colder again and mommys pulled up sleeves came down to help keep her warm. When we went to bed we turned on da lectwic blanky and all snuggled up.
After a night of semi peaceful rest (me will tell you why in a minute), we awoke to sounds of bangin’ and cwashin’ goin’ on. OMC Wuz da neighbor okay? Maybe she wuz havin’ a fit or sumfin’? We just kuldn’t magin what kuld be goin’ on. See she came home weally late last night. So late in fact dat yous wuld actually hav to call it early meownin’. After all dat’s what 4 a.m. is, isn’t it? Since we had only been in bed ourselves fur ‘bout 30 minutes we heard all da clammewin’ and bumpin’ and clangin’ she did when she got home. Thus da semi peaceful rest. Of course it’s first fing in da meownin’ so even tho’ weez all wanna know what be goin’ on, mommy can’t move so weez can’t check it all out yet. Lexi and me spwang into action. A little massage here and a little massage there and mommy wuz weady to be pushed into da chair. After finishin’ up in da pawdee box room we all headed up da hall to da kitchen fur bwekky and to check out all da clangin’ still goin’ on nex door…or so we fawt.
One of da first fings mommy duz is open da big door and da blinds. She opened da blinds and there wuz mister sunshine. WooHoo Anudder sunny day. 2 in a row, wow Awe we sum blest kitties or what? Dat’s what me wuz finkin’ alwight. Till mommy opened up da door. Mommy slowly turned da lock and then da knob and then she pulled da door as she backed up in da chair. And as da door came open, da porch bwoom came flyin’ into da storm door and….BANG!!! Wight into da door. A bunch of leaves went swirlin’ wound and a pot of sumpawdy’s dead flowers flew past and hit da rails on ow walkway. CWASH Da pot hit da gwound, busted and dwy dirt flew everywhere. Me dwopped to da floor flat as me kuld make meez selff and stawted to slink off down da hallway. Sis Lexi jumped up on da twee and peered out side. Mommy stawted forward again so she kuld shut da door, and da neighbor (who we fawt wuz wesponsible fur all dat noise) came walkin’ swiftly wiff hers awms folded tightly twyin’ to keep warm wiffout a coat down fwum da fwunt buildings. Da bags unner hers eyes kulda carried dat coat she needed to hav on, but she’s not weal bwight weez discovered.
This wusn’t fwum this meownin’ but a foo days ago.
Mommy got da door shut again and fixed ow bwekky. Me dug in, but sis Lexi looked at hers and gave it a quick sniff and then hopped down and went over to da tweat cabinet and meowed. Mommy told her dat tweats wuz fur good girlys hoo ate all their bwekky. So back to da table she went and ate a foo bites while momy got hers coffee and went to sit down. No sooner had mommy sat down than Lexi wuz standin’ in fwunt of her lookin’ att her wiff dat look. Yous know da one. It’s da one dat sez meez beggin’ wiffout sayin’ anyfin’?. You wuld fink mommy wuld quit twyin’ to dwink coffee, cuz it’s not like we leave her be in da meownin’. Or anytime hers has a coffee cup fur dat matter. Well of course mommy gave in and put a foo tweats in hers plate wiff hers bwekky, and then came back to hav hers coffee. By this time me had eaten a bit and now it wuz meez turn to get sum mommy attention.
Up in mommys lap me went and then down again. And then me stared at hers fwum da floor. Mommy weached down to pick me up and off me ran just a chortlin’. Mommy looked down again and there wuz sis Lexi. Those wusn’t da tweats she wanted. This time mommy didn’t give in and told hers she had to eat what wuz alweady in hers plate cuz it wuz not only good fur her, but it wuz good. Me came back up fwunt cuz mommy wuzn’t answerin’ meez squeaks. Lexi went back to da kithen and ate a foo more bites and me walked over to meez plate to hav anudder bite…Swoosh, Bang!!! Fings outside wuz blowin’ wound everywhere and cwashin’ into everyfin’. Me dwopped again and mommy sed, “Dezi, don’t worry about all that noise honey. You’re safe.” Me went over fur sum luvvin’ and then back to meez plate fur more noms.
By this time mommy had da puter on and checked da wedder. Well da sun wuz here all wight but there’s a wind advisory in effect fur a day. No kiddin’, what genius kulda missed dat?. No wesponse wequired, dat wuz purely whetorrical. Anyways meez munchin’ down, mommy’s twyin’ to move sum of da fotos fwum da puter to da fumm dwive, and sis Lexi is standin’ over hers plate hopin’ she’s gunna get luky, and da power duz one of those flash fings and off and back on it went. Da teevee popped off, da puter and purrinter went off and mommys coffee pot went off along wiff everyfin’ els in da house. Me jumped and Lexi came runnin’ back to da livin’ room. Mommy turned da puter back on and…OMC da circle of DOOM and Mass Destwuction. Gotta tell ya’ me saw mommys heart dwop in hers chest finkin’ da puter cwashed again. And ‘bout those 1300 fotos she had just finished editin’ out da red eyes on and twyin’ to get put on da fumm dwive. She only has ‘bout half of them there at da moment. So she turned da puter back off and unplugged it and stawted all over again. Whew! (paw across forehead motion) It’s okay!!! Da puter stawted wight up and there wuz all da fotos mommy had just put back on it, safe and sound. And all this afur noon. MOL
Meowllo everypawdy!!! Did yous all make it fwu da festivities and pawties and hoopla of da new year? We had a nice quiet evenin’ at home cuddlin’ in da new year wiff mommy. We turned off da puter and just spent sum quality time bein’ togedder. You know it’s gotten weally cold here lately, so snugglin’ is weally high on ow list. After all isn’t dat what mommy’s awe fur? Yesfurday wuz 21 degwees wiff a chill factor of 17. Dat’s cold fur us. Weez know sum of yous in da single digits and below, but weez hope we don’t get dat this year. Weez can hope. MOL So anyways, today mommy had to get out and go up town fur a bit. We had da door closed so we didn’t weally know how cold it wuz outside. Da neighbor and Buddy’s daddy wuz wheelin’ wound outside in hims short sleeve t-shirt and no shoes. Course hims duz dat all year wound, so we shuldn’t hav paid any tention to hims, but we fawt it must mean it wuz a little warmer today.
Meez helpin’ mommy on da puter.
So mommy called da fawmacy to make sure she wusn’t gettin’ out fur nuffin’, and all wuz a go. She gwabbed hers coat and put on hers shoes and then looked at me and sed, “Okay Dezi, let’s get goin’.” Me stwetched a bit and she opened da fwunt door and…OMC me kuld feel da cold to meez bones. Fur coat or not dat wuz just ungodly cold. Me turned wight wound and went back in fwunt of da lectric fireplace. Mommy giggled and then sed in da sweet mommy voice, you know da one, hers sed, Dezi, oh sweet Dezi. Like me didn’t know what wuz goin’ on. Me knows she wants sumfin’ when she uses dat voice. She kep it up, Dezi she sed, sweetheart, honey, awe you gunna go to town wiff mommy, she sed. Hmmpht Yous finks me wants to go out in dat cold? Awe yous cwazy? Dat’s zactly what me wuz finkin’. Mommy musta went nuts over night ifin she fawt me wanted to leave da warmff of da house to go up town. Purrlease, what’s to see? And then she laid it on weally fick. She put on da pouty face and looked over at me and sed Dezi dawlin’, me knew what wuz comin’ nex, she wanted me to hop up in da stwoller. Me looked at hers and squeeked. And then me put on da pouty face. MOL You know, 2 can play dat game. Me fawt surely she wuz kiddin’, she didn’t weally wanna get out in at cold, did she? It wus so cold dat all da humidity and condensation had turned to ice. Mommy looked at me and laffed. She sed, “Oh sweet Dezi, I was just kidding, I’m fine and not going to be gone that long. I wasn’t goin’ to ask you to get out in this anyways. Whew Me wuz sure glad she didn’t want me to go.
At least weez not hav snow.
She went to get hers purse, and me fawt ’bout it and went and hopped in da stwoller. When mommy got back up fwunt she saw me in da stwoller and sed, “Aaaw Sweety I relly appreciate it, but really, I’m only going to be a few minutes and it would take a lot longer to take you than to just run up town by myself this time.” Me always worries when mommy decides to go sumwhere wiffout me, but when it’s these small little twips me dusn’t worry as much. Mommy left and wuz back home afur me kuld even close meez eyes and fall into nap land again. But she wuz cold fwum da top of her head to da tippy toes. So after she put everyfin’ down and took off hers coat, sis Lexi and me did a cuddlefest and warmed hers back up. So twu to da silly superstition, we spent ow first day of da new year duin’ zactly what we did when da clock stwuck midnight, cuddlin’ wiff mommy.
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