Tuxie Tuesday

When Mom finished one project, she moves on to another. I am napping on the backing for a blue quilt she is making for our friend, R. Of course, it is my perogative to nap wherever I choose.

Here's the obligatory snow shot, and this exemplifies why Mom hates the month of March:

Our first guess for the When When Contest is coming up soon - March 17. The contest is going to be a good one this year!

Millie Meeting Monday

Here we are, La Girlfriend and me.

I let her get -kinda- close, and she brushed my tail.  That's enough for a first visit. She is very nice.

La Girlfriend, Mr Karate, Mom.

I have given LG my Paw of Approval.


And now the sun has come up, here is the obligatory snow shot:

Sunny Sunday

I am ready to meet La Girlfriend, who will be visiting later today. Maybe I will pose with her. Maybe not.

To all of you who are worried I will knock over the big stack of paper that Mom has worked so hard on... don't fret. Mom has the whole thing on her computer, which she backs up regularly using an online service.  And she has tucked those pages away in a safe place.

For those of you who can't see the title, that's because there isn't one.  Mom does have a working title, but she isn't quite satisfied with it, so it isn't on the pages.

For Megan, who successfully read "This is a true story" upside down in teeny tiny letters, Mom and I salute you. You are correct.

Here's the obligatory outside snow shot. As you can see a lot has melted in just one day. The temperatures in our fair city hit 53F (11.6 C) yesterday, and Mom did her errands with the metal masheen's sunroof wide open.

The Big Deal!!!

Mom has done it! She has finished the "first draft" of her tippy-tapping project. Here is the result of all her work:

Yup, that's it. Just a stack of paper.  277 pages, to be exact. Mom says that Mister Soft Word told her there are seventy-nine thousand seven hundred twenty-four words on all these pieces of paper.

All I can tell you is that they all have writing on them, but Mom being as tricksey as she is, she won't be showing you yet.  But you know what the weirdest thing is? Now that she's got it all done, she's going to put it in a box to sit all by itself.

Mom says she'll take it out when the snow is all gone, and then she'll start "murdering her darlings."

Yeah, I don't get it either.

Here is the obligatory snow shot. It is a beautiful day, sunny and warm. (Well, warm for March!)

Update on When When

You're not seeing things, but this picture was taken 11 years ago on April 26!!! So Jewel, you do have a chance to win the When When Contest this year!!

Mom has added all the names of the contestants and the dates of their guesses on the sidebar. Please check to see if your name is there, and that Mom has spelled it correctly. If something is amiss, you had best let her know NOW.  We have ten days before the contest really gets going (because the first guess is March 17th), so I'm sorry to bore you with outside pictures of the dullest part of the neighborhood, but oh well. These pictures make it look so yukky, but really, come summer when everything is green it is really nice.

OK, it's snowing now, and it's dark. Mom will add a photo of what it looks like outside when the sun comes up.

Here is the view outside this morning. (sigh)

I really do hope it STOPS SNOWING because a Virgin (I kid you not) is supposed to be bringing La Girlfriend here from sunny California to snowy New Hampster later this weekend and I really want to meet her.

PS, I am napping under a quilt tent.

Truthful Thursday

Napping is a good thing to do.

Mom bought herself a new crooked pot. Not just any crooked pot. She bought herself the Cadillac of Crooked Pots.

She has filled it full of tomato stuff and lots of PORK! (Not beef!)

Because there is more snow coming. 

(Sigh.)

Wordless Wednesday

Tattle-Tail Tuesday

Do you want to know the REAL reason Mr Karate came to visit? I'll tell you.

Mr Karate came to New Hampster to implement the M-word*** and get his stuff out of the pit of despair (aka the basement). Some of it he will take back to Catifornia and La Girlfriend. Some of it he has thrown away and some of it he will give away.

Oh, you want to know more about La Girlfriend?

This should tell you everything you need to know. This photo was taken in Paradise (also known as Hawaii.)

And once the sun comes up, Mom will add the obligatory out-the-window snow shot (yawn!)

(Guess which place I'd rather be?)


No tippy-tapping last night because Mom was too busy cleaning up the mess left by you-know-who.





***The M-word means MOVE for those of you unfamiliar with it.

Mr Karate Monday

That's Mr Karate on the right, and PlusOne on the left, when he was little.  I thought you would enjoy seeing this picture. You can compare it to yesterday's.

And here's the obligatory snow shot:

Speechless Sunday x 4

 1. Mom does not know why I decided to lie UNDERNEATH my cat hammick.  I'm not telling.

2. (Ahem) That white stuff falling from the sky and on the ground is just what you think it is.

3. PlusOne (in the red shirt) is sixteen years old today. (Here he is goofing off with Mr Karate in a photo taken last year.)

   4. Mr Karate is here from California visiting. Here are the two cousins today! (Lookit, PlusOne is taller!                  

Saturday Caturday

I got tired of having snow pictures lead off my blog, so I put my paw down.  Mom snapped this photo of me this morning.

Here is the obligatory outside snow shot.

Mom likes it when there is no snow on the driveway or the street. She likes it when the snowbanks on either side of the road are gone so it's easier to drive. Otherwise the snow doesn't bother Mom much at all.

So when will this stuff melt? 

Dunno, but there is no snow forecast for the next week, and above freezing temperatures during the day.

Furry Friday

This is what it looks like outside this morning. Mom says it might "flurry" all day but it won't amount to much of anything since the temperatures will be well over 32F.

Mom and I finished Max's book last night. You should get a copy or two or three. It's amazing how much adventures we indoor kitties can have in a lifetime.

Mom's been tippy-tapping and now she's getting those "artistic insecurities" about whether it's good enough. Hey, she's been helping me write my blog for six and a half years now, so I think she'll be fine. 

Have a furry Friday!

Slushy Thursday

What's worse than snow? Sleet and freezing rain. What's not quite so bad, but still yukky? Slush. When it snows, then the weather gets warmer, it rains. Rain on top of snow makes slush. It's slippery to drive through, and extremely heavy to push around, but it looks super yukky.  We didn't get snow yesterday, but we got a lot of rain.

When will the snow melt? I dunno, but the weather guys say it is supposed to be above freezing every day for the next six days. They are often wrong, but you never know!

Mom has been tippy tapping up a storm!!! She is almost finished the thing she calls "first draft" and she really wants to get it done. There is a lot of stuff she wants to do.  I keep telling her she has to add the list of dates for the When When Contest entries and she -assures me- it will happen very soon.

I shall be patient.

In the meantime, Max wrote an autobiography!!! I am so furry excited. Mom bought it for her Kindle and we have been reading it together. Oh Max! I am enjoying it so much!

Wet Wednesday

It started snowing very early this morning, but now it is raining. We might get between 3 to 6 inches of snow, or some mixture of rain and snow.  Right now it's just rain, and the temperature is above freezing, but if the temperature drops, the wet stuff on the roads will freeze and the driving will be nasty (read: bad)

I'm camped out on the recliner, under a quilt so nicely provided by Mom.

My good friend Poppy Q asked me if we keep the heater on all the time here in cold New Hampster in winter. The answer is YES! With the average low temperature of 10F (-12C) and the average high of 31F (-0.5) in January, we need the heating monsters. (By contrast the average low in the hottest month, July, is 58 (14C) and the average high is 82F (27.7C))

We have a gizmo called a thermostat on the wall. Mom sets it at 64F (17.7C) at night and during the day when she is gone. The thermostat makes sure the house never gets colder than 64F. When it gets to 64F, the heating monster kicks on and heats the house to 66F, and then shuts off. Depending on how cold it is outside, the temperature in the house will fall quickly or slowly. (when it's -20 it gets cold fast.) When Mom gets home from day hunting, she turns the thermostat up to 67F (19.4C) and keeps it there until she goes to bed, when she pushes it back down to 64F.

That's why Mom bought me a heated cat cup, and leaves lots of nice cozy pillows and blankets all over the house for me to nap on and be cozy. Mom always wears a fleecy sweater in the winter, and walks around in her stocking feet and her LL Bean "wicked good" slippers.

Mom usually turns the heating monster on for good about the middle of October, and it goes off for good usually at the end of April. We can have a freeze (32F) right up until the end of May, so sometimes Mom turns it on at night if it's going to be that cold.

Tuxie Tuesday

Megan wanted to know how Mom was going to get the metal masheen out of the driveway yesterday.

Answer: Mom drove out. There was only an inch or so of snow, so it was easy.

I love napping on my little quilt. From here I can watch Mom as she tippy-taps.  She didn't hold up any fingers last night, she just yakked on the telephone. 

Why do I look so sad?  The weather guys say we are supposed to get MORE SNOW this week.  Enough all ready!!!

Millie Monday

Need I say more?

Sn-Sn-Snow!

It's snowing here in New Hampster. Big fat fluffy flakes are falling. Can't see them?

Mom says these big snowflakes make for heavy wet snow that pulls down wires and breaks trees.  It's supposed to snow all day.  Mom has got a big slab of BEEF in the crooket pot, and she's got some bread going. She'll be doing some tippy-tapping (she held up SIX fingers the other night) and then she has to cook the books.  Later we'll watch some guy named Oscar.

Speaking of which, last night we watched the movie Argo. It was very good, and had Mom sitting on the edge of her seat, even though she knew the ending.

Again Again

This is what it looks like outside this morning.  We are going to get more snow.

 Again. This will be the third weekend in a row we get snow.  This time the snow is supposed to be very wet and heavy. Mom has done all her errands and we are stocked up with foods. The washing machine shuffle is going on and the kitchen is clean. Mom has a nice big piece of raw BEEF to go into the crooked pot tomorrow.  We will be all tucked in and cozy.

Lookit what Mom brought home last night. One of her friends gave it to her. "I kill plants," she said.  "this plant looks like you, and I know your thumb is greener than mine."

Well, this lady must be nuts because my Mom's thumbs are the same color as the rest of her fingers, but the plant is very cool looking, so it is going to stay.

Unless, of course, I start eating it.

Heh.

Thursday Truths

So this is what it looks like outside this morning. Not much melting going on. In fact, the weather guys say we are going to get MORE SNOW this weekend. It's not surprising. This is usually the coldest and snowiest time of the year.

It is not a time to let down one's standards. I work hard to keep my white furs looking lovely.

Not Wordless Wednesday

Ok everybody, the contest is closed. Over the next few days Mom will add a list of everybody's guesses on the sidebar. Mom and I were kinda surprised how many cats picked days in April. I would have guessed a day in March, but we'll see.  This is what it looks like outside as Mom and I write this today.

I made sure Mom had a good picture of me, because photos of MOI on this blog have been scarce lately.