Funny Fishy Friday

Mom's happy today is Friday. Me too.  Not much going on in the snow melting department. It looks outside today pretty much like it looked yesterday.  Most of the snow is gone from our roof and the carport. We no longer have a car tunnel. 

Mom ordered a bunch of plants for the side of the house, and she's looking into getting a bat house.

Yes, you heard that right, a bat house. She says they eat mosquitoes and that's good because mosquitoes like to bite Mom, and she says if the bats eat the mosquitoes then there won't be as many to bite her. This sounds like a fishy story to me, but hey, what do I know?  I'm just a cat.

Thank goodness.

Freaky Friday

Mom has been shopping.

It sounds perfectly normal, I know. But this is different. This is weird. Let me show you.

Last night she came home with this pink purse. She didn't need a new purse, but she saw it and fell in love. She said it would "match."  Match what? She isn't pink.

The other night she came home with this stack of stuff. New undies, socks, and a bathrobe. (A couple of weeks ago she brought in a new nightgown.) That's not so strange, she wears stuff like this every day, but she didn't put these things away in her bureau. Hmmm...

When these shoes came home, I started to wonder. These shoes have holes in them. What good are they for? Mom usually wears sneakers. I am not sure if these shoes can even stay on her feets!

This, though, has me worried. Mom says it is a "bathing suit."  Look, I dunno about you, but when I take a bath I don't put stupid stuff ON, and I've seen Mom washing herself in the rainbox and she doesn't have anything on in there either, but what this is for, I have no idea. I've never, ever seen Mom in a "bathing suit" before. (All things considered though, I think the color choice is just fine.)

This doesn't make any sense at all. Inside this funny looking bottle is water. Well, it looks like water, but it isn't. This stuff stinks. Mom was all excited, gushing all over the place. "Oh Millie, doesn't this smell wonderful?"  Oh yeah, sure Mom, I can smell it across the room, you don't need to get any closer with that stuff...

Over the last few weeks she's been bringing other stuff home too. Shirts and pants mostly. Stuff she normally wears in warm weather.

I'm telling you, something freaky is going on...

Freaky Friday

Thank goodness it's Friday.

Mom's been at it again.  She did that last shelf in the cabinet. Here it is before.

And here is is after

It doesn't look like she did anything, but she did. She emptied everything out, washed the shelf and those lazy susan thingies. Then she checked all the expiration dates and threw out a lot of stuff. The spices on the double decker lazy susan (who is this Susan anyway, and why is she in my kitchen?) are all now in A-B-C order, and now she doesn't have to take stuff out of there to find stuff, so she's happy. She says she can't wait to get to the cabinets on the other side of the kitchen.

I think I need a nap. I know she needs one.

Finally Friday

Mom is at it again. Check this out.

This is the super duper freezy box. Mom cleaned it out last night. She threw away lots of old popsicles (too much sugar) and ice cream. She's not a big ice cream fan. Mr Karate LOVES ice cream, but he lives so far away now that Mom doesn't think it's worth keeping on hand. Mom also tossed a lot of bags of things she says are "mixed frozen veggies." She never cooks with them, so they are gone. And she tossed some old frozen hamburgers and "mystery meat." She kept the frozen peas, corn and spinach. There is an entire bin full of nuts and another full of coconut and different kinds of seeds. There's a bin for meat, one for real live dead shrimps and one full of yukky green basil pesto. She also keeps some granola, pizza dough and homemade stock in this box.  Now Mom is happy.  Go figure. I don't get it either.

This is what I like doing.

Watching what goes on outside.

Have a happy Friday everybuddy.

Fun, Fun, Fun

Mom's big day hunting project looked pretty boring, but then I found some other pictures on her tippy tappy lapbox that you might like to see... check this out:

Wouldn't that big pile of paper in the middle of the room be FUN for a cat to pounce on, climb on and hide in? I think it would be PAWSOME!

Where did all that paper come from?

Mom's BOSS and another lady pulled it off the walls!!!

So what did Mom do for fun?

Which kind of fun would YOU like to do best?

Thoughtful Thursday & Happy Birthday Brother!

Mom saw this sculpture in Concord. She says she barely fit between in this space. She thought it was very cool, and says it's a real rock.

Uh huh.Now this is a rock. Actually it is Mom's brother, while on belay while climbing up El Capitan in Yosemite Valley California. Mom guesses he is about 1200 feet in the air in this shot (about .36km).

This photo was taken in October. He's one of the oldest (if not THE oldest) people ever to climb El Cap.

It's his birthday today. He's 55.

You can see some of his climbing videos here.

(I'm a cat, and I climb, but this is nuts! May I say again how glad I am to be a cat?)

Sharkive Saturday

Mom went day hunting today. She has this very strange story about why. She said she had to give some of her data to a Shark.

No Millie, I had to archive some historical data.

Huh? You had to teach a Stork to dive on an Ark? Isn't that a kind of a boat?

No Millie, I purged some data from our Live data and put it in a separate place called an archive.

You taught a pigeon how to do a swan dive? Did he know how to swim in the first place?

No Millie, I deleted some old files and gave them a different home.

So you put them in the Recycle Bin. Why didn't you just say so? Isn't that what it's for anyway?

*&^%#@%^&*(&^)(#!&^%#%^&--*

Jeez, Mom, you don't have to use all the bad werds on the bad werd list. I was telling everybody what you did today. Hmph.

Mom's annoyed.

Dunno why.

Oh well.