My tags

OK, I tagged:

Fafnir
Friday
Bailey Gray Cloud
Junior Fluffkins
Manytoes

My favorite spring things

Jasper tagged me on the spring game, so here goes.

Five Things I Like About Spring:

1. Momma Mouse moves into the cellar and starts having litters. Fun for me!!
2. Ants and ladybugs and cave crickets to hunt in the house.
3. We get to spend some time on the screened porch.
4. Chirping birdies and scampering chipmunks to watch from the windowsill.
5. The best of all: Walks in the yard on my leash!

I'll figure out who to tag later....

Gifts in the night

I visited Mom in bed at an ungodly early hour this morning. She was sleepy and scratched my ears and told me it was still dark and not time to get up yet. Then she went back to sleep.

Well, heck, I knew it wasn't time to get up yet. But I had to wait for the sun to come up before she finally opened her eyes and got out of bed. Then she turned around to make the bed and discovered that she had been sleeping on the lovely little mouse I brought her as a present earlier.

Boy, did I have a good birthday!

I had a great day yesterday on my 4th birthday. I got all sorts of treats from my peeps, and pawmail and gifties from my friends, and Samhain's family even baked me a birthday cake!

Thanks everybody, for making my day so special.

Thank you, friends!

Wow, Mom went to work early for a week and instead of getting a lousy T-shirt, I got a DDP!

My wonderful friends Friday and Big Harry made pictures for me, and I'm going to feature them on my page alternately. Thanks, guys! I am lucky to have such talented friends.

And thank you to the family of Mac, Ivy, Legolas and Zander, and that hotbed of dreamboats, the family of Milo Blue Eyes, Angel Smokey Joe, Angel Timmy, Zig, Sam, Rhett and the bee-yoo-ti-ful Mallee for the blue rosettes!

C'mon, Mom. Where are the treats? I need lots to share with my friends.

Bonus night!

Weird happenings this morning. The alarm went off in the peeps' bedroom when it was still really, really dark. Mom got up and stumbled off to the shower while Dad slept on. We got fed and Jasper got his medicine way early. Then Mom got in her car and left while it was still dark! She never does that.

And then, what do you supposed happened later? She came home while it was still light out! We were completely puzzled.

But she said not to get used to it. She just has a schedule change this week for training. She says it's not easy to switch from night person to morning person. I don't know why not. We can do either one, as long as we get plenty of naps.

But we get a bonus night of having Mom home, so that's all good.

Rats. No snow.

The humans are relieved that the Mid-Atlantic snow storm didn't seem to get up this far north. No snow at all where we are. They hope it was less than anticipated further south as well.

Me, I'm crestfallen. I was so hoping for a tall drift to climb.

Shame on Mom!

We had the Christmas tree in the house for more than three weeks, and not one bauble was broken by any of the four-legged inhabitants of the house. We were very, very careful.

But yesterday Mom took it down and packed it away, and broke THREE ornaments, including two of her favorite golden glass angels.

It's perfectly clear that she can't be trusted around fragile things. We will have to put stuff where she can't get at it until she learns not to be so destructive.

The BEST movie!

The other night Mom was looking for something interesting on TV in the afternoon. She doesn't usually watch TV then, but she was off Christmas week and needed a break from working on her year-end reports.

She paused in her surfing and went to answer the phone, and when she came back, she saw she had stopped on the Disney channel and "Lady and the Tramp" was on. She picked up the remote to change it, but then she saw me sitting Sphynx-style on the ottoman, watching the TV intently. So she sat down and we watched it together.

I LOVED it. I even meowed in protest when a commercial came on. Vicki came in and watched a little bit, but I stayed for the whole movie! I especially liked the bloodhound. Mom wondered how I would have reacted to the Siamese cats, but that part of the movie was already past when we started watching.

The tree is wearing a skirt!

Hey, something is new at our house this Christmas! After Mom put up the tree and hung all the ornaments on it (the unbreakable ones at the bottom, as usual. What's up with that?), she put a skirt on it. At least she says it's a skirt, although it just covers the floor at the base of the tree.

It's gold with tassels, and quilted so it's nice and comfy, and at first I thought she was being thoughtful by providing us with a soft spot to flop on our backs and play with the ornaments.


She says she hasn't had one for years because Severian peed on every one she put down. But Sev is banished from the living room now, so she indulged herself.

Hee hee hee. I may pee on it.