Miscellaneous Monday

Mom's on vacation, so you'd think she'd be on the ball enough to post to the blog on time. But N-o-o-o. Don't ask me what she was so busy doing.

Uh....

Oh yeah.

Oops. Mr Karate came over for dinner and they did some stuff together. He checked out the blog, told Mom the 4th of July quilts looked nice. Then she showed him the quilts themselves and he said, "OH MY GOD MOM, these are SO MUCH more beautiful in real life."

Well like, duh.

Anyway, here are a few things I have been meaning to show you.

Remember Maddie, who likes sleeping on her dad's laptop? She inspired the laptop quilts? I told you I would post a picture of Maddie on her laptop quilt on the laptop. Well, here she is:


And remember how I said that Mr Karate had got himself tatted? And there was a request to see said tat? Well, here it is:

It must be my lucky day. Because this morning I was visiting blogs, and I was the 20,000th visitor on Daisy Mae Maus' blog! So I am a winner! Whee!

But I never meant for Monty Q to hurt himself trying to take that silly red shirt off. He asked how he could impress me with that shirt on. I told him to take it off. I don't know how it happened, but he fainted and hit his head. Oh dear.

Still, the cat who made my weekend was Beezer. Read his comment on this post. Mom practically busted something she was laughing so hard. She was squeaking like a mouse.

I promise nobody will ever mistake ME for a mouse.

I am -so- glad I'm a cat.

A True Cat Loving Bean

This is Maddie's quilt. Maddie lives in Washington state.

This is Maddie sleeping on her Gizzy quilt. But when she isn't sleeping on the quilt, where else does Maddie like to sleep?

Why, on her bean dad's beautiful laptop, of course. It's a good warm place to sleep. But I know that Mom is always picking cat hair out of the keyboard of her laptop, and neither Jasmine nor I sleep on it. You can imagine how much fur gets in the keyboard of Maddie's laptop.

Of course, Maddie's bean dad could simply shoo Maddie away from the laptop, but he is a very nice bean dad, and he loves Maddie a lot, and he doesn't want to shoo Maddie away, but he doesn't want all her fur in his laptop keyboard.

So what does he do?

He asks Mom to make a cute little laptop quilt, just the size as the laptop. In purple, since purple is Maddie's special favorite color.

And what does Mom do?

She makes it. Here it is, all 10-1/2" x 16-1/4" of it.

And here is the back.

There is something I can't work out. Which of these beans is weirder? Maddie's Dad for wanting a tiny quilt for his laptop; or Mom, for making it? Or your bean, because Mom says if you want one, email me at darlingmillie AT gmail DOT com.

Once again, I am so glad I am a cat.

(Once this tiny quilt flies all the way across the United States of Americat, and we get a picture of Maddie on her laptop quilt on her dad's laptop, we will post it. I can't wait.)


Update, 3:15 PM --
Mom just made a laptop quilt for her own laptop. It isn't as big as Maddie's because Mom has a tiny little laptop, so the quilt is 9" x 12-3/4". Mom says laptop quilts -- unless they are a lot bigger than Maddie's will cost about $12 plus shipping to any cat or bean who wants one.

(You can click the pictures to biggify.)