Whatcha Doing Out Here Mom?? Can We Get in the Way... uh... Help??

 "Ummm, mom?  Why are you putting stuff in our yard??"

 "We need green papers for Jen & Corwyn for Homecoming."

Mister Kitten "But they come home all the time!"

"Never mind.  Hey mom!  I think it's a customer!

Never mind, it's just a leaf."

 "Well, if you won't let me play in the ceiling fan boxes

I want to go back inside."

 "Don't look at me!!  I'm on the job!!"

The Ultimate Cat Job

Time to Vote!! Sleeping Contest Categories!!

"The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde would like to welcome everycat to their First Annual Everycat Sleeping Contest.  Here are the rules.  We will give you seven categories plus one special category which doesn't involve sleeping.  Your job, regardless of whether or not you choose to accept it... oh wait, that's something else.  Ahem.  Everycat will reply with their vote(s) for as many categories as they please (after all we are cats!).  The cat with the most votes in each category wins.  The winner will contact us and will choose their own award graphic!!  Now onto the categories!!  May the best cat win!!"

"The first category is Synchronized Sleeping!

Two or more cats sleeping together in harmony.

This can be either cuddled up or in the same position."

"Comely Catnapping!

This is one of the basic cat sleeping positions.

We learn it at our mother's paws."

"Delightful Dozing!

Most of us find this easiest to do on mom or dad's pillows.

After all, they smell like them and are soft to boot!!"

"Splendid Slumbering

Curled up into a ball... ahhhhhh so comfy.

You don't have to be curled up,

just as long as you are slumbering splendidly."

"Luscious Lounging

It's hard not to look luscious when you're lounging!

No pictures please!!"

"Tantalizing Tummies

How can anycat resist?!?  Seriously.  It's a tummy!!"

"Resplendent Resting

So many of us can sleep with our heads up...

after all, who knows when a mousie or

other treat might come along!!"

"This is our special category!!  Cuteness Exercises!!

They are tremendously important!!

Everycat must do them everyday!!"

"Now you know the categories to vote on, you'll find entries sc-cat-tered throughout the comments to our posts from the last week as well as your fellow voters.

We look forward to seeing everycat's vote!!!"

"Mom was singing with the HHS Alumni Choir all weekend.  This is comprised of people who were in the Varsity Choir directed by Joe Giles at the high school both she and her husband attended.  They had a great time but it was hard work having to sing choral music again after... years.  So we're lounging gracefully for them!!"

You can now find everycat who entered HERE! 

Oh Noes!! Mom's Pulling Out Her Hair Again!!

"Ow!  Mom is pulling out her hair again!  I think it has something to do with the camera batteries going kablewy and losing our pictures again!  This is frustrating because mom got some really good ones this time of the new kitchen and everything!"

"I've been doing my best to help out by making mom take naps and sleeping really really hard at night.  I am not doing it just to make Star jealous.  And I am not answering to Star's name.  Just saying.  ::gives best innocent look::"

Wow!!  There are some really great sleepers out there!!"Mom spoke to her friend last night.  They still have no news on her friend's ex-husband's cause of death.  Today is their children's birthday.  No, they are not twins!  The son is older than the daughter (even if she did produce a grandchild first!).  She hadn't heard yet about the kid's grandfather and how his surgery had done.  The children's late father will be cremated per his wishes and any ceremonies will be

held in a couple of weeks"

 "Because of mom's friend's ex-husband (boy that gets confusing!) passing away so suddenly, we've been having to look at the sleeping contestants Catch as Cat Can.  Plus mom has been working on finishing up the kitchen so our food bowls will stay in one place and not move around.  ::closes eyes & twitches ears::  (Mom should give us our own computer account like the young mom & dad have!!  It's not fair!!)  Anyway, as we do, we've been leaving messages about the Cool Cats that we've seen."

"So you, yes you (even you in the back, I know, you think I can't see you because you're scrunched down behind the guy in the blue sweater but don't be fooled!  bwahahahahahahaha!), are being given an extension!  That's right.  Because we haven't had enough time to really look properly, you now have until Monday midnight (because everycat knows that it's not the Witching Hour, it's the Twitching Hour, when we all twitch our ears about making decisions.  So, you still have a chance to put up a picture if you haven't already!!  Our next post will be the place to give us your votes for Catnapping Cats & what Cat-agories where you think they fit!  Things like Synchronized Sleeping, Coordinated Catnapping, and so on.  Keep a thesaurus & rhyming dictionary handy (or bookmarked on your computer! and I'm sure you'll do fine!)  ::grin::  We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Thanks!!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde"

"There's a reason we made this bumper snicker"

Tired Thursday: A Beginners Course in Napping...

"Thank you for joining me for Tired Thursday where we will learn

the best way to nap following Sink Exercises with Mister Kitten.

Obviously, the first thing you need to do is to nap in the sink.

For those students who are afraid of the sink or 

who are not allowed on the counter, 

you may skip this step and eat some extra food."

 "When you first get out of the sink you may find yourself

being slightly unsteady because of exercising so hard.

Because of this you should sleep using the buddy system.

(If you don't have another cat in the house, you may substitute a dog,

Feeder, pillow, or favorite toy.  As you can see, the first nap

after exercising can still give you problems even with a buddy!!

"Because of this, you may find it beneficial to find a new buddy

or a new site to have your nap.  This is fine since you need

to take at least five or six... or seven or eight or... 

mmmm napppp.  What was I saying???  Oh yes.  

This is much easier if you live in a multicat household like 

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde."

"Of course, if you have a preferred napping partner,

it is purrrrfectly acceptable to nap with them exclusively.

This is called monogomousnapping.

If you monogomousnap, see about getting matching collars."

 "Make sure not to leave your Feeder out when you nap.

It is imperative that you nap on them... 

prefurrably on more than appendage.

Time it just as they need that appendage."

"This concludes today's lesson.  Thank you for joining us

for Tired Thursday: A Beginners Course in Napping

Following Vigorous Exercise with Mister Kitten.

Please join us whenever we decide to have another lesson,

I  can't tell you when or what, I have to take this call."

mmmmmm organic cotton t-shirt... whoot!!

All the News That's Fit to Print...

"Hello, this is your reporter StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty.

First up, our brother Tanis duQuat DragonSlayer is still at home.

(At least so far as we know.  His mom hasn't called her dad.)"

"I've spent a lot of time hanging out with

mom because she's been sick.

Well... with a few forays over to the dirty laundry.

It's piled up enough that I can almost jump to it from the bed.

As it is, I have to traverse dad's night stand.

I hope he doesn't catch me!!"

"This Super Sekret Special Report... [What??  Oh...]

This Special Report brought to you by Zaphoid Beeblebrox.

My young mom (who is the daughter of my other mom) and

her brother are going to their dad's house for the summer.

[What??  Right.]  They are leaving today.

But they're coming home every other weekend."

"The pear tree has been taken down

An anonymous man, who shall remain nameless,

came by and took it down with a chainsaw.

We will miss seeing the woodpecker."

"This Special Report just in.  The Feeders are STILL PAINTING!

As you'll see in this horrendous picturre below,

they have not returned our food to it's proper place!!

This makes it especially hard for Zaphy to find his food.

However, he is going out again.  We are pleased."

Sir Thomas of Snuggle and Mister Kitten

nap in protest of the food and water

being moved to the bathroom.

(the only place we could really put it!)

"And that's all the new's that's fit to print.

We thank you for tuning in to the

Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde News!!

Hmmmm, do I smell treats?!?!?!"

bumper snicker

If a Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush...

... how much is a bird in the kitchen worth??  Yesterday dad woke up to a bird in the kitchen.  It was a full-grown bird who ran right into the closed window when dad came into the kitchen.  Dad went and got a blanket and managed to catch it in the sink.  He went to the front door and released it outside.  Dad noticed where we'd gotten it on one wing but our new toy was okay and flew away.  We're not sure why dad took our toy away.

"Did it go that way??"

We're all very good hunters and mom & dad don't mind when we hunt things that come into the house by themselves.  Any mousies that try to eat our stuff had better beware!!  We find them and leave them for mom & dad so they know how much we love them.  (But for some reason they don't give us treats!!  We think they should give us treats for doing that!!)

"Christopher taught us everything we know about hunting!"

Our yard is full of birds.  We like that.  Mom doesn't know why there are so many birds around.  She doesn't know all of the different kinds we have.  We know that there are blue jays, cardinals, woodpeckers, and finches.  Mom won't put out bird baths or catfeeders (that's what she calls birdfeeders) because she says we have enough toys as it is!!  There is a tree out front that has a squirrel who taunts us.  More squirrels live out back.  Behind our backyard there is a biiiiiig field where a farmer grows hay.  Sometimes we find voles to bring home to mom.  But she makes us take our toys outside.

"We brought in more toys when Mister Kitten

was a baby to try to teach him how to hunt."

Mister Kitten didn't join the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde until we moved into our new house.  So he is the only one of us who wasn't trained to hunt by Christopher.  Chris taught us that you should never ever ever put your presents where mom or dad will step on it.  Not only does it make mom or dad yell but it might make mom fall down.  You don't want mom to fall down.  Then she hurts.  We are good Nurse Cats so we try to keep everyone in the house as healthy as possible.  That means making sure they don't overdo and take lots and lots of naps.  Sometimes we put our heads on mom's hand when she's on the computer to tell her it's time to stop.

"Time to stop mom!!"

"Mom would rather we use a pet bowl"

Mom's Surgery is On!

Ooooooh Calender!

Sentry Duty

Yes, we've got a couple of Da Boys in place, ready to make sure that no one sneaks up on the back yard!!  Be they human or beast, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Horde will be prepared!!  The alarm will be sounded!!  The household alerted!!  A call to claws!!  Oh wait, we just might have to take a catnap first.  Or work on our grooming.  All of this sentry duty can be exhausting, doncha know.  And the things it does to your fur!!

Hey!!  Who's supposed to be on sentry duty?!

Sentry duty?  nomnomnom

mini-poster... put it on your door or in your room