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

Busy Day...

Yesterday I spent a lot of time putting in some graphics in the shop that I'd forgotten about making.  (oops!)  Fortunately my kids were home from school which meant that none of the boys were inconvenienced in being let in from outside.  By the end of the day, I was actually tired and ready to turn over and sleep when bedtime came.  Mister Kitten, on the other hand, had other ideas.  It's been a while since he's been able to be Flop Cat on me because of my total knee replacement back in January.  So last night, just as I'm getting ready to turn over, ker-plunk!!!  Yep!  Flop Cat.  I was heart broken.  On one hand, I didn't want to move because he was ever so proud of himself for waiting patiently until I was well enough to handle him.  On the other hand, I was tired!  I let him stay for a minute or two and then I tried very hard to get him to come get on the body pillow beside me.  Alas, neither he nor Star came.  ::sigh::

Today I'm feeling like I've overdone it a bit and I've been noticing Mister Kitten staring at me.  I think the next time that he does that I'll put down the laptop and let Flop Cat have his way.  Oh.  What was I putting in?  ::chuckle::  Most of it was nine different cats saying "Bipolar... Next Mood Change in 5...4...3...2..." I just had this evile thought about someone going to a party wearing more than one t-shirt.  Each t-shirt having a different cat on it and the person going off into a private room and removing a shirt every so often.  Can you just imagine other people at the party starting to go, "What a minute!  You weren't wearing that..."  heh  heh heh  The next thing I knew I had nine designs.  I am a bad bad woman. 

Ask my cats!   (sorry, had to stop and pet Thomas)  I am sooooo mean!  There are times when I just won't empty the food bowls and fill them up with uberfresh food from the Big Bowl!  Bad, bad Cat Mommy!!

Can I Have My Feet Back??

Thus far this morning I have:
1. Fed the cats, this entailed putting all of the perfectly good food which was left in their bowls back into the Big Bowl* and then refilling the bowls (primarily with the same food that was in them beforehand).  If I had not done this, the cats would have starved to death in a dramatic scene reminiscent of Shakespeare (we have very well-read cats).
2. Let Thomas out into The Snow because he is brave enough and tough enough to take it.
3. Let Thomas back in from The Snow because he's not that tough.
4. Watch Mister Kitten dart out into The Snow and wonder how long it will take him to realize that this was a Big Mistake.
5. Finally figure out which door Mister Kitten has deigned to dash into the house from The Snow; because he is so paranoid and there was no other cat out to dash ahead of into the house.
6. Have my feet quietly and softly attacked by a Ninja Kitty.

Can I have my feet back now??

*The Big Bowl contains the Real Food.  All other food is stale and suspicious.  There is no telling what it might contain.  Mister Kitten is sure that it might just be poisonious.  Ergo, if there is a human available, it is always best to have the bowls refilled or refreshed with food from the Big Bowl.

Give Us Food or We'll Eat Your Toes

I came into the kitchen this morning to find Oberon in such a state that I feared for my toes.  No, really.  You may not know this, but when cat bowls are completely empty, cats will eat your toes.  So when you come upon a member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde in the kitchen prancing about and saying, "Feed me neow or I'll eat your toes!", it behooves one to check the cat bowls immediately!

Thus, I rushed (okay, I went as fast as I could given two bum knees) over to the Big Bowl™ and the cat bowls (one for each member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde).  It was just as Oberon had said.  The bowls were empty.  Obviously the cats were going to starve to death and we would be subjected to having our toes eaten.  Ergo, I opened up the Big Bowl™ and began filling the cat bowls with the supervision of Oberon.  He was well pleased and our toes were saved... at least until the next time the bowls are empty.