Sat 27 Oct 2007
Green and Growing: a W in Lavender
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Fri 26 Oct 2007
Need An Umbrella With That?
This is the night that’s designated for Trick-or-Treating by the local authorities. However, a higher authority has overruled the local folks…
Reminds me of something Vin Scully says: “If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.”
So it’s on for tomorrow night instead, rain or shine, according to the note on the township website. Can’t wait to see how granddaughter Diana is costumed. However, from the looks of the Saturday evening forecast, it’d better include something waterproof…
By the way, for our little visitors tomorrow night, we have miniature Snickers, Milky Way, Kit Kats, peanut M & M’s, Reese’s Nutrageous, and Clark Bars. If you want Skittles or jelly beans, you’ll have to go to some other house. Here, we serve chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate… what, you don’t like chocolate? [I'm shaking my head incredulously now.] What are you, some kind of Communist?
Traditional Friday Cat Blogging: Nicky, suburban jungle cat
This wraps up Nicky’s week here at It’s all Good.:
The Good Cats welcome visitors from these traditional gathering places:
As always, the Friday Ark can be found at The Modulator.
Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos: Samantha & Tigger host at Life From A Cat’s Perspective.
Weekend Cat Blogging: Halloween Edition is hosted by Amar and Luna at CatSynth.
The Carnival of the Cats: your gracious hosts this weekend are Missy Blue Eyes & KC.
Thu 25 Oct 2007
We Can Work It Out (and we do)
When we got broadband a few years ago, the cable company technician seemed amazed that Pat and I have only one television in the house.l Shrug… sometimes, we don’t even need that many TV’s. No Tivo/DVR here yet, either. Still using the VCR my company gave me for my 15-year anniversary in 2003.
Only reason you’re getting that info is that during the World Series, things change around here. Game Two is on tonight, but so are 3 new half-hour shows on HGTV. As two reasonable adults, we worked it out. Pat watched her shows live, flipping over to Fox for the game during commercial breaks. The rest of the time between 8 and 10:30, we turned it to the Sox and the Rox. Hey, if anything big happens while we’re away from the game, there’ll be plenty of replays during and after…
The Red Sox have a better team, but as a good American lover of the underdog, I say Go Rox…
The Weed of Crime Bears Bitter Fruit
Humans and cats alike know that crime does not pay. Now, at least one overstuffed squirrel has learned that valuable lesson.
(Cats, wouldn’t you have loved to watch this in your back yard? Heh, heh, heh…)
Computer Messages: the Obvious and the Less So…
Here are a couple of screen prints of messages I recently received.
From Google Reader: OK, thanks for the info. But it did happen. Now what?
On the other hand, Microsoft leaves me hanging: …they what?
Thursday Thirteen #3: Nicky’s 7th birthday edition
- I call him “El Gatito Perfecto” in honor of Gato, a stray black cat I cared for back in college. Gato was a good cat.
- When Nicky was a kitten, Pat said his face looked smooshed in, and she kiddingly called him “Piggy”.
- His favorite human is Pat, and he’s very protective of her. When the doorbell rings, he growls threateningly.
- He used to like to play what Pat called the Rollercoaster Game. Starting on her lap, he would roll onto his back and wriggle down her legs before dismounting:
- Nicky will also play fetch, but only when it pleases him to do so:
- He takes a few pieces of dry food in his mouth, then grips a toy mousie in his jaws and chews and growls. It’s not hard to imagine what he’s doing.
- He hates having his claws clipped, but loves the Zoom Groom.
- More than any of our cats, he seems to enjoy batting toys under the entertainment center and making Pat fish them out.
- He is a cat who has a healthy mistrust of the vet: When we take him to Dr. Donovan, he yowls all the way there and all the way home. In addition, he hisses at other cats, like Kelly here, when they return from the vet.
- After visiting the litterboxes in the basement, he often makes a mad dash upstairs. Pat jokes after these incidents that “The Poopy Monster is after him!” (Sorry, no cartoon — someone else owns the rights to Mr. Hankey)
- Although he was just a stray, a cat the vets call a “Domestic Shorthair”, he exhibits enough of the characteristics of the Bombay breed that Pat calls him our Faux Bombay.
- Nicky is not completely black: He has one white hair on his chest.
- And by the way: here’s the difference between Nicky Cat and Nicky Katt.
