Blogging Break

I am going to be going on a little bit of a blogging break

as Mom is going through a lot of stuff right now.  She

will not be able to go visit as many blogs as she goes

to New York City, working, and graduate school.  We

have been getting fewer comments and we feel that is because

she has not been able to keep up with our friends and they

might think we do not care about them.

I will try to do important cat events like Mo Cats Day

and Talk Like a Pirate as we do still want to be involved in

the community.  It is just that there has not been as many

visitors and with everything it would just be too much on

the plate to keep up with the pace as it seems that we

lost some friends by not visiting them as much as we could.

Purrs Willow

Tortie Tuesday-Roadblock

Often times I find my path in Mom's room has changed.

This means that I have to investigate the area to see if

all is going to be well.  It is important to do a sniiff inspection

on the area as there could be something strange that needs

to be dealt with by an experienced kitty.

Then there are times when the thing becomes a roadblock

that should have been moved out of the way of cat

traffic flow.  As there is stuff on the other side including a

toy basket that has to be played with.  So in those instances

I stare at the object to get it moved out of the way before proceeding onward.

Searching

Where did all the commotion go everything is so much

more quiet now.  I am looking here and there and I

can not find as much excitment.  It might have something I said as

 there was a lot going on and now I do not see the same level

of activity as before so things are peaceful.

Thank Cod that some things have calmed down and

that the flurry of activity has somewhat slowed down.  As

there was much to much going on so a little bit of an Easy

is much appreciated as I get some purrsonal time with Mom

before she becomes extra busy in the coming weeks.

Rowboat?

Does any kitty have a rowboat as I now have

my own private little river outside from Irene.

She was actually not so bad once she reached here

with no power outages as other East Coaster's had.

I spent a lot of the time under the bed, but once the

worst was over I slowly ventured out to survey all

of the water outside.  This made me again purr for being in a

safe home where Mom was purrpared to take us

to safety with a plan for both of us,

Rolling Around

It is an uneasy Sunday as I roll around in wait for

our turn with Hurricane Irene.  It has become smaller

in size, but it still has its bite.  I spent much

of yesterday under the table after Mom got home

from shopping as I did not want to invite Irene in

as a guest to our home on Sunday when she's been so rude

to the rest of the East Coast.

I have been weird with slipping in just opened closets

and dropping a bunch of books on the floor as

I meow my protest to Mom.  Mom thinks my different

 behavior was because there was too much activity

with the noise and moving of stuff from the neighbors.

As well as her getting ready to start back up with Grad

School next week and that a little bit of Fishy Flakes will

make me feel more purry and calm as we stay largely

technology free tomorrow with the high winds and rain so no

surges hurt the computer and other appliances. Purrs

Photo Hunt: Symbolic

Normally I love to rest under the umbrella, but I 

decided to bitey the umbrella in a symbolic gesture

in response to the Hurricane.  Mother Nature has been

very temperamental lately by difficult weather for all of

our friends by drought conditions for some areas and

then this hurricane here so I am taking my furstration on this

symbol of the crazy weather with a twitch of my tail and a good bitey.

Then I gave a symbolic talk to the tail to the umbrella

so that it would not be bothersome and instead start to

behave.  The weather needed a talking to and one

way to do that is to express my displeasure at

a popular symbol of inclement weather.

What all of this bad weather taught Mom was

that it is good idea to have a plan as the 

historical has happened in the last week. So 

I am going over my plan with Mom and posting

 Zoolarty's graphic to keep provisions on paw as these

weird weather patterns persist.

Marco Close-Ups

Mom was playing with the camera while I was purring

on her and took some shots of me up close and purrsonal.

My Mom is amazed at my orange eyelashes and the length

of them.  They help me make a sultry look for any man-cat

admiriers that would come by.

Mom says this photo captures the texturary nature

of my fur and how it is purrfect to ruffle during

pettings.  It is soft and manuable fur that makes for

deep petting massages that make me content and a

little bit sleepy.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful that Mom got potentially good news

after all the medical news.  She got a call from one

of the librarian jobs for an interview.  While it is only
a part-time job it will let her gain some contacts if she

gets it as well as opportunities to other jobs when the

economy is better and there is more places hiring.

It is also fun to be thinking about if she needs to change her

course schedule so she could work and take classes.

I am thankful to be planning for a happy thing as

things have been so down with everything.  It is only an

interview on Friday and there might be other candidates,

 but it is a tiny bit of brightness that makes me purr. 

August 24th Hat Day for Mom Judi of SAS

Mom Judi is famous in the cat blogosphere besides being

the bestest Mom to  Sammy, Andy, and Shelly she has also

hatted nearly every cat, dog, human in the community as

well as working on making over blogs and providing

wonderful banners for our furiends.  She has recently had

a tough family crisis and after all the help and love she gave

we want to show our support and help her and her family by

blogging about the hattings and just helping out for this special day.

Mom Judi really captured my purrsonality and spirit in this

hatting and I am happy to lend a paw the best way I can

to provide the support needed in this time to help them as

they helped others. With Mom's stuff a comment-a-thon can not

 be done monterary so I am posting my hatting for solidarty

and pointing to sites where donations for them would go. 

You can find the donate button at their blog  SAS .

There is also an ongoing Auction at Helping Our Needy Furiends

with plenty of items up for bidding.

In order to help Mom Judi I will turn off my comments.

Be sure to leave various comments on blogs that are participating in the comment-a-thons for Mom Judi

Cat Talk Time

After all of the worrying news and still some uncertainty about Mom

I was glad to see that the Zoolatry Girls are doing a fun activity

so we can think positively until the next steps of healing her.  Mom loves to

talk cat talk with me as she refers to our time as pettings sessions

and my revving motor when I am making a lot of purring noises.

What we love best is the chin scritches as I always

demand a lot more by head boinking her and directing

her hand to the wonderful spot.  It makes me so very

happy and purry to get a good chin scritch as it is the

bestest thing and makes us both very happy.

Sometimes if I want a more gentle scritch I will

go for a the side as this is a tamer experience with

a more peaceful feeling of contentment.  When there

is a more Zen Mood it is definitely the way to go as

there is a more lazy type of scritching going on.

Love Bug

Update: Mom is weirdly rare in a lot of ways and

this seems to be the way the cancer is super rare

and that means the cancer doctor wants to send

her to a specialist somewhere else in New York City

before they start treating for the best medicine.

I love sitting on top of Mom and purr, purr, purring or

just watching some tv.  I am a love bug in that I spend

a lot of time with her.  It might be a lot with

loving times, but I think it is necessary to be on Mom

leg even when it disrupts my comfort.  

Mom is a very restlesssleeper and before I left her

alone since I could not get comfortable on her.  Now

for the past few days she would wake up seeing me

resting on her leg.  I figure a little bit of movement is worth

it and spend a lot of time grooming her and purring and being

a love bug as it is my duty to do this for her.

Hanging Out

I'm hanging out on the edge of my computer chair this

Sunday so I can soopervise my Mom.  This position

helps me watch over her better to give advice on what

I think would be best to write on different blogs.

From my hang out I also look way up at the

tassels that hang from the shelves.  I never tried to

jump up to these shelves as I know this would  be

dangerous, but I am fascinated by them and watch when I

choose to hang out to help Mom on the computer chair.

Photo Hunt: Drink and 100 Posts

Sometimes when Mom has a drink I try to drink from

her cup.  When I am very persistant she would get me

have a glass of water from one of her small cups so

that I can enjoy it and let her drink in peace without

cat paws in her cup.

The small glass is the best way to drink as I can

fit my face into the cup with ease to take little sips

from it.  I have other places to drink, but I like to

drink from cups as it is something my Mom does and

it looked like a lot of fun.

Today is also my 100th post it seemed as if the time just

passed so quickly.  I did so much during this time and

love how close, sweet, and wonderful

the cat blogers are as my Mom is going through this health

problem.  I love being here and purry headbuts to everyone

for helping and making things so wonderful and welcoming.

Friday Love

UPDATE 2:50 P.M:  I want to thank everyone for

the purrs and support it helps us very much.

  The news from the surgeon today 

was not good as they said it was positive and

made an appointment with an cancer doctor for my

Mom on Monday for a consultation.  They said the cancer

doctor could explain more about everything, but do

not panic as it is super-slow growing and high survival at

this stage.  We purr very happy about that and do not

know what else to say right now but purring purring lots of thanks.

I am giving some Tender Loving Cat (Care) to my

Mom as she gets ready to hear the results.

She got the call that they received the test back

when they reminded her about the appointment. 

We are hoping to pass this test with flying colors. 

I applied my purr power to her leg to encourage all

the positive energy reach the surgeon.  A purr goes a

long way to improving the chances of everything being okay.

I told her that answers are good things and that things

would be fine no matter what they say.  Love and

purring help and this way I was doing something for her.

Coincidence or Fate?

I was going to talk about my new special spot when

I looked closer at the picture and noticed something odd.

The truck above this table was made and painted

by my Mom in 7th grade does anyone recognize a similar

theme in coloration.  Even way before I was borned

she had this split type of design for a school project.

Her initials are also painted a different color than

the one side with the brown in the middle of the truck body.

This is the similar pattern as my fursuit and she did not

realize it till now.  Makes me wonder if it was

coincidence or fate that led me into her life?

Wednesday Yoga Moves

I been leading my Mom in some yoga moves so that

she could start moving around more and playing. It

has been working wonderfully except for a slight twing she is 

almost back to normal activity.  (Purring a thanks to the

surgeon for good work).  So I am helping her be in tip-

top shape.

I do several types of yoga through my two most

popular are modified from my flopping and rolling.

It is the downward CAT and in this pawsition I

have my tail up straight with my head lowered.  This

allows for all of the endorphins to flow and wake up the body.

The other move is based on finishing the roll

and is the CAT-angle pose where the body is

pointed in various directions to face all the points in

the room.  This may be a bit advanced for my Mom,

but I hope to work her up to cat shape.

Tortie Tuesday

This Tortie Tuesday I am making preparations to my

castle as I want it to look the best as there has been

a lot of activity here the last week.  I do not want other

people to think that I ignore the maintenance of my

space.  After all cleanliness is an important cat virtue.

With the sprucing up done it is time to take a nice

nap in the castle where my work can be admired with

a pettings from any guest.  As Queen I want my subjects

to be pleased with my decorating skills.

"Nosy" Willow

I like to push my nose leather against my Mom's hand

as it gets her to pet me.  It is extra wet and this causes

her to move her hands against the nose and start a little

headbutting love.  I can play and have pettings

at the same time when I do this so it is double fun for me and Mom.

I like to look at her first before I start this as I want

to surprise her with this action as it makes her start from the

sudden wetness.  This is the most fun to wait and see the

Mom leap a bit after I plotted the best way to nose her hand.

Easy Sunday

Today I am going tocontinue to take it Easy and rest

on top of Mom so I can rumbly purr.  Saturday morning when

Mom waked up she saw I was resting and hugging the

right leg where she had surgery and purring up a storm

as I knew my warmth and purrs would make Mom feel better.

I am going to request that Mom pull down both covers so that

there would be padding where I could lay on her and use 

my powerful purrs on her.  She always tells me that my

body heat works wonders on tired muscles so I know that this

will be the best way to spend an Easy Sunday.

Photo Hunt: One

I take my job seriously as furrier of furniture. Since

I am only one cat it is an daunting job even with the

small size of the house.  There are just so many different

places that need to be rubbed with fur, but I can only

do so much.  Mom says that I am number one at my

job especially on the edge of the couches.

I continue to do due diligence an make sure my

one cat effort succeeds in purrsuing the  fashion

of furry furniture.  It is a task is purrsued by many

of us in the cat community and I hope to be ranked

higher as my Mom is biased and I want to get a 

Number One rating from Fur Fashion magazine. 

Welcome Committee

I love to be the a major part of the welcoming committee

and go to the area where people are as it is my business

to be in the middle of everything.  I like to expose my belly

to them and carry on a conversation with them as they need

to know my opinions on things.

Understanding and waiting strangers is an important

role that I take seriously as I also investigate the peoples

bags.  Welcoming committee work may be hard, but

is has the rewards of being praised for being a pretty

and friendly kitty.  Purrs are also appreciated from visitors.

Gentle Touch

I was gentle with my Mom when she got home

as the typical lying spot was tender after the operation.

Though I could not rest on her in the normal position

I was able to apply gentle touch to Mom as the 

surgeon did a good job of minimizing the area that felt pain.

It was nice to look over my Mom as she took a lot of little cat naps

throughout the day as the medicine wore off and she was glad that

through the person could not stay all day to help there was enough frozen meals

so she only had to heat up the meal.  This whole experience

was exhausting and we are both hoping next Friday that the

results are good and not anything bad. 

Nurse Willow

I am getting ready to be a nurse for my Mom

as I want to make sure everything is ready when

she comes home from surgery. I am being stern with

my Mom so she does not eat or drink this morning until

the surgery or else it will be cancelled as that is a No-No.

Mom says that I am all prepared  to be a nurse as my

fursuit resembles the current uniforms that nurses wear

with all of the designs to be more cheerful for patients.

She has a ride that will take her and pick her up from

the surgery and prepare a meal for Wednesday night as

she was told not to do much when getting home.  I went 

to her twice to make sure she was okay for this and

the long weekish? or more wait for the results. Good

energy purrs are a part of my nursing skills.