I'M PROUD OF MERLIN

Hey, Merl, you did pretty good. Got diary pick of the day! I'm so proud of you little guy! Mommy's proud too!

Today is another lazy day for me. I'm taking my evening wash of my feet.

Merl has an attack of purring fever. I guess he caught it from me or maybe getting diary pick of the day went to his head.

Got to go now. BRRREEEEEP to all you Casters!

Sampy

I'M CAMMIE'S HERO TODAY

Cammie called me her hero today because I chased that polka-dotted tom cat off the porch. He's just a mean old punk and he deserved my chasing, hissing and growling at him. How dare he steal Cammie's grub! Who does he think he is? Mommy has seen him today and told him and I to break it up. We were face-to-face in the neighbor's front yard growling and yowling at each other. I was ready to have him for dinner!

Anyway, it's over with. He better not come back, the little rat.

Also, today Mommy did a photo shoot of me on the porch and yesterday she took some of me grooming Merlin.

Not much else going on except it is after 9:00 p.m. and we're all getting very sleepy around here.

Breeeeeeeep to all!

Sampy, the hero.

I ALSO WAS BAD TODAY

It's a rainy day again and I am bored and I therefore was a bad boy today. I chewed on one of Mommy's photographs. I made twelve teeth holes in it. The photo was of Bail and Merl sitting in the window seat. This is the one that's in one of their websites. She was going to give this picture to her boyfriend. Now she has to print it over. No sweat. Luckily she has it loaded into the computer and still in the camera's memory.

We cats can sometimes be very naughty, can't we?

Right now, I'm tired and so are the other guys. Bail is curled up in a ball on the top landing of the stairs and Merl is laying beside Mommy's office chair on top of the dust cover for the monitor, and I, of course, is on my pink blankie (the one pictured on my website). I'm ready to nod off.

BREEEEP TO ALL!!!!

RAINY FRIDAY

It's a rainy Friday and my brothers and I don't feel like doing much of anything. We're not playing like we usually do. Bail and I tried to beg for some pork chops Mommy was eating, but she said pork is no good for cats and wouldn't give us any. "Hey, I'm human today, give me some pork!" I thought. She just looked at Bail and I and said, "No" again. Mommy's not that far gone to think we're human. We can't fool her, we still look like cats.

I'm tired now and I'm getting ready to nod out on my pink blankie . . . but before I do, I'm giving myself a quick back and tummy grooming.

Breeeeeeeep to all and have a good weekend everybody!

BUGGING MOMMY

Nothing's happening today except I keep bugging Mommy. Every time she sits at the computer to go online to type my entry I jump in front of the printer and want to walk in front of the monitor. She simply won't have that. She says, "get down" and then says, "sit on my lap instead for a few mintues". She pets me a few times, and then I start my cooing and purring and drooling again until has to let me down because my slobber gets on the bottom half of the keyboard.

And oh yeh, I leftMommy a really rancid food encrusted hairball this weekend and she had to clean it up. It was on the dining room rug. Gak!! Us longhairs just can't help getting hairballs like this especially around the spring shedding time.

Well, I must go now. I say Breeeeep, Bruppp, Bruppp, Kak, Kak to all tonight!

AN EASTER WEEKEND PHOTO SHOOT

Mommy took four new photos of me last night and just uploaded them today! I'm such a good-looking guy and so photogenic too!

HAPPY EASTER FROM ME! I know Bailey said it yesterday. He thinks he's the Easter bunny because he can hop down the stairs and his hair is silky and fluffy. Oh well. Mommy also wanted to do another photo shoot of Cammie and she wasn't around. As for Merlin, she tried to get his picture and he keeps moving. She uploaded one for him which was done a couple of weeks ago. He's trying to get Bail's tail!

Not much else going on now. I'm tired and so is Mommy.

Breeeeeep to all! HAPPY EASTER AGAIN! DON'T EAT TOO MANY JELLY BEANS!

ANOTHER PURRRRY DAY

I'm having another attack of the "I can't stop purring" syndrome. I just love my Mommy and am sitting in her lap and purring while I dictate this. Between dictation I rub my cold wet nose all over her left arm. The more she pets me the louder I purr. I CAN'T STOP PURRING! I'm a very affectionate cat who is a lap sitter, a compulsive purrer and licker and wet nose kisser. Face it, I can't stop purring!

Must go, now Mommy says, she's hungry and has to wrap up the diary for now.

PURRRRRR to all today.

MOMMY SAYS I SHOULD WORK IN HER OFFICE

Mommy teasingly asked me if I wanted to work in her office to help her with the mail. My part of the job would be licking the envelopes since I love to do it anyway. She's right. I just love the taste of the glue they put on those envelopes. When she catches me doing this, she takes the envelope away. What I got is technically called pica . . . eating and licking stuff that isn't food. I also will lick photographs so Mommy hides them in picture frames or in boxes or albums so I can't get at them. Yes, I'm a problem boy even if I'm the King of the House! I got my faults.

Also, I thought I might share my favorite part of a movie that was out not too long ago. "Forrest Gump" (the DVD version). "I'm talking about the extra part where the ping pong ball fills the whole screen and bounces a few times. Mommy played that and I wanted to chase it. Believe me it had me hypnotized!

Well, I'm a little on the sleepy side. Nap time again. Breeeeeep, bruuup to all!!

I BROUGHT MOMMY A MOUSE TODAY

It's late in the evening and I got my gray and white toy mouse in my mouth and carried it upstairs to Mommy's computer room door (which was closed because she doesn't want Merlin chewing on computer cords). I meowed loudly and she let me in. I dropped the mouse at her feet and she threw it and said, "go get it." "Yeh right!" I thought. I just brought the mouse to her so she would let me inside. I'm tired and I told to Mommy get off the computer so we all can go to bed.

Bail and Merlin are jumping around outside the door having their last game before bedtime. I'm on my fuzzy pink blanket grooming myself before bed.

Got to go now, breeeeeeep again to all!!!

I PURR, THEREFORE, I AM.

Today is the day for purring. I'm really in a purring mood and keep jumping on Mommy's lap and purring and kneading. She tells me I need a trim. She says I have prickly paws. I don't know what's gotten into me today . . . . I'm just a happy cat and can't stop purring. I even gave little Merlin a lick on the top of his head. I just jumped down from Mommy's lap and decided to groom myself a little bit on my back. After I did that I looked back at Mommy and let out another "Brreeeeee mauw, mauw, burrrrrrrr, mauwrrrrrrrrr" and looked at her and purred like crazy again. I can't help it.

I also feel good because the rain we had the other day washed away the pollen. I didn't sneeze at all tonight at all. That's good enough reason also to keep purring.

Well, I must go now, it's getting bedtime. "Breeeeeep" to all.