once again, we got no t-shirt!

we are gonna hafta tell mom she can't go out wif her friend miss ginger no more. they are not a good influence on each other as far as kitties go.

yesterday they went to tour a new winery called OOVVDA, which is kinda like "uffda"; if you're a norskie, you know what that means. for you non-norskies, that's an all-purpose word that means anything from "oh, nuts! i forgot to buy sugar" to "jeez, that piano was heavier than i thought" to "WOW! what a mess we're in now" an' efurrything in between. anyway, the oovvda people grow their own fruit an' make wine from it, an' she an' miss ginger tasted eight flavors. an' mom bought a bottle, an' they drank the whole thing. an' once again, nobean brought us nuffin, no wine lickin's (they left the empty bottle there) nor even leftofurrs from dinner later!*mom thinking:* hmmmmm. i'da swore there was something in this glass just a minute ago . . .these nice ladybeans are called "bella musica" an' they played kelltick music an' even some opera tunes while people sat around an' tried wines an' enjoyed the beautiful blue sky an' cool air. it was kinda windy, though, an' the poor ladybeans had a hard time keepin' the music papers they was readin' from flyin' away! miss ginger is a flickr person, an' that means she documents darn near efurrything wif her camera. so here's one of her pictures documenting mom documenting the people playing pretty music on the harp an' flute.
once mom gets a little tiddly, she needs food, so they went downtown to nonna's italian restaurant. an' also once mom gets a little tiddly, she gets a little silly. here she is, concentrating on trying to fasten her mouthwiper to her harness so it won't slide off her lap unner the table. we think she shoulda tied it to the chair so SHE wouldn't slide unner the table herself!mom had rosemary chicken and grilled gnocchi (which she said din't look like any gnocchi she'd efurr seen before, but it tasted just fine), andmiss ginger had spanakopita with couscous salad, which was also just fine! they are both furry thankful that there are some authentic ethnic places to eat. when mom and dad came here almost 30 years ago, there weren't any!an' while they ate, a nice bean played some lovely mellow music on a guitar. they had a Good Day. but we still din't get nuffin!!! gram told us she useta carry a little plastic bag in her purse so she could bring home little tasty things to their woofie, little bit. how come mom can't do that? or miss ginger for that matter--she's got four fine kitties of her own who would love some fancy yummy foods. what's up wif these beans???? an' since dad and boy and leslie his girlfriend went fishing this afternoon, we din't even get fed our OWN food until after mom got home at 7:15. for two whole hours, we almost wasted away!! how would she have felt if she came home to find our thin little bodies sprawled vainly in front of our empty bowls, huh? think about it, mom!!!

freaky friday!

this little dude REALLY doesn't want to share his greenery wif kitties!

(. . . with thanks to dannieb1 for sending this to us!)

thirsty thursday

good to the last drop!!

meower mom & dad's trip to chicago

which, we begs to remind you, WE din't get to go on!!! we din't even get a t-shirt.

the furry furst night in chicago, they went to eat at a panera bread place, an' outside the store was this fountain--wif its own fevver factory!

here is a close-up of the fevver factory. we dunno why a sammich place would want to grow fevvers. they din't see any kitties workin' inna restaurant!

mom said she nefur saw a place where you could rent a movie from a machine--this one was outside the grocery store.
this was a beauty parlor for woofies near gram's house--"the yuppie puppie". the picture is blurry 'cause mom was tryin' to take the picture while dad was driving.

this is a mail box outside a bank near gram's apartment. it's painted to look like a character from mom & dad's favorite movies, the furst star wars trilogy.

here's granpa. he looks pretty good for bein' 94 years old. that's like squillions an' squillions of naps!!! (an' he LIKES to nap; we declares him an honorary cat!)

here's granpa's paws. they gots no fur an' hardly no skins! but his claws are furry pretty, an' up until last year he pawdicured them himself! now he doesn't see too good.

here's gram, mom, auntie marilyn, an' granpa at the ice-cream-n-cake celebration. granpa ate two pieces of cake an' four dove ice cream treats. he doesn't miss too many meals--also, an honorary kitty trait;-) a couple of weeks ago, a lady came to take him to the dentist, an' he wouldn't leave until he'd gnawed his pork chop bone all clean. that's his favorite meat, an' they don't get it furry often, so she hadda wait. we's sorry it's a little fuzzy, but dad's not familiar wif mom's camera.
spidey-man was waitin' for mom & dad at burger king, to see if they were good beans or bad beans. they musta been good; they got their coffee wifout gettin' webbed. (mom sez this picture's for YOU, daddy dave.)

this great big fire was 12 miles away from gram's apartment building. the smoke was so big, they could see it in indiana, an' the smell was smellable (even to beans) ofur in cicero, where mom & dad stayed wif auntie toni!

mom took this picture (an' the next one) back in december when she went to see gram for her birthday. but they got to go to the restaurant again this time. dad likes their liver dumpling soup an' roast pork an' bread dumplings wif gravy. we hasn't nefur got to taste them, 'cause there aren't any bohemian restaurants in springfield. an' we prolly wouldn't get any, anyway--mom & dad allus lick their plates clean when it's bohemian foods!

inside the restaurant, it's real old-fashioned european-y. a long, long time ago, a local man whose business card said he was a "used furniture broker" had special rooms inna upstairs where he an' his friends played cards an' ofur kindsa games. auntie marilyn went to high school wif his nephew, vince. we dunno why that's special, but mom an' dad are impressed. the man's name was al capone.

these are some cousins (jasmine an' mocha onna blanket, an' marla onna chair) that we've nefur met. it's nice to see them an' get a better idea of our extended fambly. mom & dad & gram & auntie marilyn went to marla's mom's house for "coffee and" one day. that means a little snack in the middle of the day or after supper, with coffee to drink and pastry to eat--mom took a little video there, but hasn't got it ready to post yet. mom & dad brought some home goodies from a bakery there, an' the little pies called "kolacky" (ko-LAHTCH-key) are yummy!

mom an' dad had a really good time visiting an' making sure the old folks were perkin' along ok, but they were really glad to get back home. an' we even missed 'em a little bit, too. we din't make 'em suffer by ignoring them furry long when they came in the front door, eifurr. (mom: yeah--because it was suppertime when we got there!;-)

xing lu's meme

the handsome pumpkin (wif dreamy blue eyes) has tagged me to tell seven random facts about me, so here they are:

1. i like woofies, if they aren't too antsy.
2. i don't like ofur cats--they all scare me dreffully even just looking at me. i don't know why. maybe i had an evil step-catsister or brofur where i lived before i came to be with mom an' dad.
3. i don't remember anything of my life "before".
   
4. i hardly said a word in the first couple of years wif mom an' dad (except for shrieking at the boycats), but recently i've learned to "sing for my supper" as loud and long as nelson lapurr does.
   
5. i have also learned that "the squeaky cat gets the treats" fastest at bedtime!
6. my furs are soft as candy floss (but not sticky), an' i don't shed furry much at all.
7. i don't like to have my armpits skritched; efurrywhere else is fair game for petting!

thank you, pumpkin, for thinking to tag me. i have never been tagged before, and this was fun!

edmund's meme

marie the defender tapped me for "Seven Random Facts About Me", so here they are:

1. i have a brofur who looks just like me, except he's not fluffy. he lives in arizona.
2. when we were born, he was called piglet, an' i was called cow.
   
3. i want to treat xing lu to a toofy death, 'cause she thinks mom's front is HER perch; it's not. it's mine, an' allus has been.
4. i was born on mom's purrthday.
5. i am lergic to fleazers.
6. it's me who moves the water bowl on the uncle eeker memorial cat window perch around (and sometimes down onna floor an' into the living room), not a haint, like aunt debbie thinks.
7. i am a plastic-head--i loves the smell of plastic an' put toof marks in efurrything, from milk jugs to shrink wrap on packages to wal-mart bags! if there's no plastic to munch, i puts the bitey on paper--newspaper, book pages, bills, magazines . . . you name it. mom calls me her little train conductor. i don't know what that means, but she smiles when she says it, so i guess it's ok.

so, thank you, marie the defender for tagging me! i hasn't been tagged before!

yay! mom & dad are back!!!

not that aunt debbie from next door isn't furry nice and takes the goodest care of us, but there's no lap like mom's! or dad's! they had a furry good time an' all is well in chicago. they's already told us some stories an' showed us some pictures, so we will share them wif you in the coming days. we even gots some pictures of auntie denise an' uncle rich's three new baby kitties--they are all SO cute!!

we'll catch up wif you all soon!

hello, furriends

it's me, meower mom! meower dad and i are in chicago, visiting relatives, so we turned the computer off at home, lest it get fried in an electrical storm. i see that a couple of the boycats have been tagged for memes, so as soon as i get home on monday night, i'll get the system fired up (if it's not storming!) and let them catch up on the kitty blogosphere. hope you're all having a great time, wherever you are; we are!!!

we THOUGHT something was funny . . .

an' we don't mean "laffin' an' laffin'" funny. mom came home smelling furry strange last night. we sniffed an' sniffed, an' it wasn't anycat WE know. now we know why!

it's a puppy--a baby woofie! miss jennie, who works wif our mom, got a new puppy 'cause her house seemed so empty since little felix went to the bridge. he doesn't haf a name yet, but she's leanin' towards "jake". he is SO little!! we don't ordinarily post about woofies, but this guy is pretty cute. miss jennie sez he's 'spos'd to be a beagle & cocker mix. does that make him a coagle or a beaker?

nitro wants to make a playmate of him, but for "jake's" sake, we hope that doesn't happen! here are some pictures:

holy mackerel!!! (an' ofur saintly fishes)

we missed our 10,000th poster!!! that seems like quite a milestone to us, an' if we'da had our heads screwed on straight, we'da had a present for that lucky kitty!! we looked back in our counter/tracking software to see if we could identify him/her/them at least by ISP, an' it was so long ago, they don't have it logged any more!! pfui!

so. howzabout we reckernize the 11,000th visitor? we will move the counter thingy up closer to the top of the page (that's why WE forgot about it), so you can see it better. an' if you are the 11,000th visitor to our site, just email us wif your snail mail address an' we'll send you something nice an' ozarkian!! or not ozarkian. depends on how we feel that day;-)

btw, mom an' dad are goin' to see our gramma an' granpa in chicago from the 10th through the 14th for both mother's day an' for their 65th anniversary. so we will prolly not be posting in that time, since mom usually shuts down the puter so it won't get blown up by a lectric storm while they're gone.

frootbat friday

at furst, we wondered if he was transparent, and we could see his last meal!!

but our Boybean, who is studying to be a tattoo-er (an' is also a tattoo-ee, like mom), says in the tattoo world that koi fishes are traditionally associated with good luck. so he must be a lucky cat! maybe he has furry good luck catching fishes!! (we doubts it is a real tattoo . . . maybe he gots it from a crackerjack box?)

acceptance speech by Right Black-Sock

Members of the Acatemy and Movie Lovers everywhere: It is a bittersweet pleasure to accept this award with thanks and gratitude on behalf of my twin sister, Left Black-Sock. She was so honored to appear as Miss Midnight’s body double and understudy! She often said that she would remember her first day on the set as the day she knew where her life’s work lay!

As many of you know, Sea of Love brought Left to the notice of the movie world and resulted in her being given the starring role in Laundry!, currently in production. She was thrilled right down to her toes by this acknowledgement of her talent!

With great sadness I must now tell you all that, while filming an action scene, she vanished. Like so many other socks, the Great Void has taken her. ::sniffle:: Please join me for a moment of prayer for her sole. Thank you all! I know I’ll meet her again on the dark side of the moon.

(Raises award) ::Lefty, this one’s for you, babe!::

the REST of the story . . .

you or your beans may have gotten an email with this picture, claiming it's hercules, the world's biggest woofie:
mr. snopes sez it's a fake: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hercules.asp.

we think hercules was really real, but has gone to doggy heaven, 'cause the man & lady's new pet eated him!!






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goliath the kitty came to town!


(jeter--are ya laffin' an' laffin'?)

we 'members.

about magic, by her mom and dad . . .

(our auntie denise and uncle rich say about their kitty, magic muffin, who went to the bridge on 4/26/07:)

She was special, found on a snowy day in November, barely 3 weeks old, looking for warmth, when I drove into the parking lot for work, hopping on my car hood and a voice that could be heard a block away. She was full of worms, had fleas and bronchitis so bad we didn't think she would make it. She was all of 1.5 lbs. We fed her by hand around the clock, popped her in a basket with an electric blanket, and prayed. She was also a devil, the feral in her never left and every spring and fall she would caterwaul at night and go pee where ever her little spirit took her in the house. She loved to play with her dog-brothers Avery, Sparky and Harrison, she would tackle them with her front paws and they would play her game by falling over and roll around with her, like wrestlers from the WB RAW. She has two other kitten sisters, Erin and Merlin, and it was a tough sell at first with each of them as they joined the family, but she accepted them and kept her place as the Princess Pee, HRH and they acquiesced to her.

She will always be in our hearts, and we know she is free and happy now and is with her other brothers and sisters and friends who left for the bridge before her.

(meowers' note: there are two posts about magic here, please scroll down to see them the second one)

in memory of our cousin, magic

we nefur met our cousin magic, 'cause she lived fur away in illinois. but we know that she was a Good Kitty, and furry much loved.

on a cold november day 19 years ago, our auntie denise found her sitting on the hood of the car, trying to keep warm. so magic got to come inside and join The Zoo, where she became the old, wise kitty that all the critters (an' there are a buncha them) looked up to. she is sorely missed, and never to be replaced in their hearts.

however, guess what?? two tiny little feral boys (jupiter and mars) were being brought to the v-e-t just as auntie and uncle were leaving after magic's trip to the bridge. they are even now waiting at the v-e-t's office to get old enough to join The Zoo. these little guys won't replace magic, but it seems just a little "magical" to us how those two little lives came close enough for auntie denise an' uncle rich to pull them into their orbit just as magic was leaving. maybe magic called to them, knowing they needed a peaceful, loving furefurr home. we wish them all long, healthy lives together! l'chaim!

and shalom to the hearts of all who miss sweet magic.Glorified and sanctified be God's great name throughout the world which He has created according to His will.

May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days, and within the life of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon; and say, Amen.

May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.

Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.

May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen.

He who creates peace in His celestial heights, may He create peace for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen.

wacky wednesday

80-lb. cocoa thinks she is a lapdawg. now THAT's wacky!
that's a waste of three perfectly good cat-spaces!!

tues-news!

update on our furriend, scooter
scooter lives at the best friends animal sanctuary. his picture is in the right hand column of our bloggie; if you clicks on his picture, you can read about how he came to the sanctuary. we sponsors him efurry month, 'cause we likes his spirit and purrsonality! he doesn't know he's handicapped, or if he does, he sure doesn't let it bother him! mom would gladly drive alla way to utah to 'dopt him but can't, since coco-cocoa wouldn't play fair wif him. (prolly neither would ed, an' xing would hissssss & scare him). he's prolly better off where he is, meetin' an' greetin' lotsa folks! anyway . . .

last saturday, we gots a email telling 'bout how he's doing these days, an' thank bast, he's doing great. it feels SO furry good to know that we are helping anofur kitty have the safe home an' lovin' care he needs if he can't live wif us.

if you don't already, whyn'tcha do the same for some down-on-their-luck kitty? you'll be glad, an' so will they!

please vote for my movee!

it is the most romantical movee efurr,
and stars my heart-throb, the lovely miss midnight.
it is called "cast away on a sea of love".
thank you!!! sir edmund percival hillary

mancat monday

geezer-cat cheesecake (geeze-cake?), ladies!mom allus sez, "the older the violin, the sweeter the music!"

our mom has done something VERY bad!

at least, that's what we think. y'know that squirter thing that gets you all wet when you're doing something that you shouldn't? we watched in horror from the Big Litterbox doorway this morning as she used it to blast herself in the HEAD--repeatedly!!!!! YIKES!!!! =8-O

it must have been horrybul for her; when she came out, her hairs had gone all curley, just like she says will happen to us if we accidentally stick our claws in the little 'lectric holes in the wall! why would she DO this? what could she have done that she felt she deserved this drefful punishment??? is our mom losing her marbles??

nip! Nip!! NIP!!!

mistress of the obvious . . .

this toon sez it all!!!

sleepy, snowy saturday

remember, folks--it's the middle of april in southern missouri

ed catches a cuddly nap on mom's lap by the woodstove, while . . .snow whirls down around our barn . . .
the irises and surprise lilies look furry disappointed (mom even heard the robins saying bad words), an'
the poor trees that suffered so in the ice storm have snowy insults piled upon injuries, as they struggle to put out some greenery despite their losses.
sadly, there are lotsa trees in a 50 mile swath all along from oklahoma/kansas right through missouri that look like these because of the january 15th ice storm. *sigh* mom says her druid is hurtin'. we din't know she had one, but we feel sorry for him. lotsa fev-vers won't haf places to live this summer.

friday feast

garfield may have his lasagna, but WE has our RAVIOLI!!!ahhhhhhhhh, what luscious lickin's to be had when mom finishes--an' there's allus extra cheese (which she hadn't melted on yet in this photo) stuck to the plate!

wacky wednesday

honest, mom! we was just taste-testin' 'em.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

the bunnies' revenge . . .

big brother bun has the easter egg route this year, so watch out, all you beans who have been cruel to bunnies. ofur beans an' fuzzies haf nuthin' to fear from him; he will bring you goodies!!

feminine feline friday

i'm ready for my close-up, mr de mewlle . . .miss xing lu ("xingxing") pierce's first formal portrait

thursday 13 - quotes about cats . . .

collected from the innernets, of course:

1. Any question addressed to a cat can be counted as rhetorical.
2. An aquarium is just interactive television for cats.
3. Cat rule: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you; just bite the one that won't feed you fast enough.
4. Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
5. Cats instinctively know the exact moment their owners will wake up. Then they wake them 10 minutes sooner.
6. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
7. Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say that the cat died nobly.
8. I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
9. People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
10. There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
11. There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
12. You know it's time to shave your legs when the cat uses them for scratching behind its ears.
13. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

WACKY! warning! may scare buns . . .

easter is coming--chocolate buns beware!!!

never forgotten . . .

tweetin' tuesday

here's nelson lapurr enjoying one of the "mewvies" that mom ordered for us--he really liked the sparrows, but didn't seem interested in the chickadee clip at all. we still have bugs and tree-rat videos to preview. we'll keep you all posted!

mancat monday

this is uncle eeker, the Cat-That-Came-Before (the brother of The First Cat, mouse mc nasty). now HE had cattitude!! mom loves this picture, and privately refers to it as "uncle surly".we thinks we has posted this before, but he's just too good to see only once!