Monday Halloween Week Fun

We are so excited it is Halloween week!! Since it took so long to get our beans to help with our costumes, we asked Zoolatry to help us. Look at the cool graphics they made for us!! Thanks Zoolatry!! We will be posting more throughout the entire week now leading up to Halloweeen!

Fun Featherball Friday

We are so glad it's almost Friday!! Mommy has been very busy and has not even had time to help us with our Halloween costumes so we've not been able to enter any of the great Halloween contests going on. We are pretty ticked off about this and we have decided we are going to lie on her head and bite her toes until she helps us make them this weekend.

Hope all your beans are being more agreeable... Mommy does have some pretty big news to share soon though. She said we can't tell you yet but pretty soon we will be able to tell the whole Cat Blogosphere. Things are going to be real different around here soon!! Yay!

Happy Fall Saturday

Today is a great day! It's a beautiful fall day here in Lansdowne. The weather is sunny and crisp. Great snuggling weather! This morning, Mr. Chen woke up mommy and daddy by playing chase the sleeping bean's toes. Later on we are going to watch the squirrels as they run back and forth on the back deck and then take snoozes on each others beds.

Hope everykitty has a super fab weekend!

Sunday Snoozin' with Dad

Hope everkitty gets their Sunday Zzzzzz's today! Catch a sunbeam or curl up with your bean and get some much needed R&R!
Also, check out our new banner image on our bloggie! Thanks to Zoolatry for creating it and some great Halloween images which we will reveal soon!!!

So you think you're a Maverick, huh??

Check out our friend Freeway's new website, My Cat Is A Maverick. We know A LOT of mavericky kitties are out there in the Blogosphere so we thought we'd share this with everyone so you can send in your stories right away. Let's show 'em all who really has the right stuff!! Send in your stories of maverickness to Peebs (aka Freeway) now!

Thirteen Ways We Are More a Team of Mavericks Than That Other Team of Mavericks
1. Just yesterday, we slept in each other's beds (see photo above).
2. Mr. Chen scratches the kitchen cabinets even though he's repeatedly told not to.
3. Mr. Chen scratches the dining room chair legs even though he's repeatedly told not to.
4. Ollie cries at the top of his lungs whenever our blurpy girl is asleep even though mommy chases him and sometimes threatens him with the pink water sprayer weapon.
5. Ollie goes #1 in the Breeze box but not #2.
6. Mr. Chen won't go in the Breeze box at all.
7. Mr. Chen won't go in his regular box if it's messy.
8. We both climb on the kitchen counter whenever we possibly can and mommy's not looking.
9. Mr. Chen licks nan - even when mommy and daddy ARE looking.
10. When we first came to our forever homes, Ollie's nickname was "No Ollie NO" because he was such a maverick.
11. Mr. Chen takes his food out of the bowl and swats it around on the floor like a toy.
12. Ollie will attempt to get into any toy or device that is meant for the blurpy even though mommy tells him not to.
13. Even sitting still doing absolutely nothing but licking ourselves, we are still more mavericky than that other team of mavericks.

Don't forget to check out My Cat is a Maverick and tell your tale!

Wordless Wednesday

Blurpy Feedings

Here's a tip for all you kitties with blurpy things... When the blurp can wield a spoon - run for the hills!!!

Fun Fuzzy Friday

Hope everykitty curls up with a good fuzzy blankie today!

Mancat Monday

Haha - you think we're bad when we go on our blurpy sister's toys??? Well, watch this lady! We're BOTH on the kitchen counter! Who's laughing now???

Ollie wants to be the baby still

There's nothing like a drop-in visit from your brother to start the day right!! Seriously, if mommy didn't stop this when she did (after she laughed on the inside and took a couple of quick shots with the flashy box) Ollie would have climbed right in there with Sophia.

Playing Catch Up

We have SOOOOO much catching up to do! Mommy and Daddy just returned from a long weekend vacation with our blurpy sister. They went to stay at a B&B called At Melissa's in Rehoboth, DE. They said it was wonderful and anyone looking for a fantastic relaxing place to stay a block and a half from the beach should stay there. Unfortunately, while it was "kid friendly" it apparently was not "cat friendly" enough for them to take us along. We didn't even know they were going and so we have not been able to get on the computer and finish looking at everyone's entries for Karl's I Dare You All #4, Part 2. We will try to catch up on that this week!! If we didn't visit yours yet, sorry for not coming around to see all the entries sooner. Beans, they can really ruin our plans, can't they???

Happy and Sad

Guess that is life for you but we are so saddened to learn of sweet naner lovin Pixie going to the Rainbow Bridge. We've been, um, well, a bit behind since the weekend and mommy keeps saying the werk and having to make green papers are causing her to not share the computer but still... important things happen and we're out of the loop. Daisy, we are so very sorry for the loss of your sweet sister, Pixie. We're sending you and your mommy big hugs and all our love. Even though Pixie had a weak heart and has been so brave for so long, we know how hard this must be on you right now. We are very very sad.

We were happy (until we learned about Pixie) because Ariel gave us the I Love Your Blog awardie and we were so touched! Thank you Sweet Ariel!! You are too kind! We feel very very honored. We love so many bloggies out there and there are so many of you we would give this awardie too. (Many of you already have it anyway.)

Here are the rules for the I Love Your Bloggie Awardie:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours, and
5. Leave a message on the blogs that you've nominated


We would like to give this award to:
Monty
Kimo and Sabi
Adan and Lego
Daisy
Jeter Harris
Mickey
The Ballicai

and everyone in the Cat Blogosphere family really - we love you all!

Finally, we thought we'd end on a happy note to introduce two friends of ours. Now, they are woofies so don't be too nervous but they are very nice. The big one is Floyd and we've know him for a while. But, Floyd got a new little sister named Edie this weekend. Isn't she cute??? They are getting along great and love each other already. You will read more about both Floyd and Edie soon, we promise!

Dare to Care

Do you accept the dare? Karl of the Cat Realm dared us all to "Get Involved" and come up with a dare. Mommy, Daddy, Ollie, Sophie, and Mr. Chen all accepted Karl's challenge. And amazingly, Mr. Chen's dare won the contest!!

Mr. Chen dared you all to come up with one creative, fun, useful way to save the environment and put a picture of yourself doing it on your blog!

So, here is Mr. Chen doing his own dare!! Now, we DARE YOU!

I, Mr. Chen, always use reusable cloth sacks when getting my groceries. Don't use the plastic baggies or even the brown paper bags. They BOTH use up resources that are bad for the environment. Instead, buy a sack at your local farmers market or natural foods store or anywhere really. Use that sack when doing your shopping or just for carrying stuff around.

See what's in my groceries?? Don't forget the butter!

Shoot, I thought I bought two bags of delicious temptayshuns but I guess I only got one. Oh well!



Then, after you put your groceries away, you can play in your reusable sack!!



Mommy, Daddy, Ollie and our blurpy, Sophie, will also be posting their fun, creative ways to save the environment throughout the week, too. We look forward to seeing yours - if you DARE!!

For a list of other ways you can save the environment and halt the climate change crisis, check out The Inconvenient Truth Take Action page.

Thanks again Karl for a wonderful dare!!

I Dare You All, #4, Part 1

WOWIEEE KAZOWIEEE!!! Karl of The Cat Realm has informed me that I, Mr. Chen, have won the I Dare You All #4 contest with my dare entry. This is so wonderful... I'm so excited...I've never won anything before in my whole two and a half years of life (I will secretly admit to you that I was a little bit jealous of Ollie when he won the 2007 Full Monty contest but I tried really hard to not show it so I don't think anybody really noticed much). I am so happy and honored that my dare was the winner selected by the esteemed judges. Thank you, judges!! THANK YOU!!

And, here it is: my winning dare:

"Mr. Chen dares you all to come up with one creative, fun, useful way to save the environment and put a picture of yourself doing it on your blog!"

NOW I hope that everykitty, everywoofie, everybun, and everybean (since they're the ones that have messed up the environment so bad anyway) goes out and does this dare. It will be a lot of fun!

Ollie and I (and our beans) will post our photos soon and can't wait to see what everyone else comes up, too! Again, my sincere thanks to Karl for coming up with this dare and also to the judges for choosing my entry. I'm so honored!!!

Breeze Box Woes

Mommy and Daddy decided to have us try the new Breeze Box after reading about it on Millie's bloggie. It sounded really appealing to them and so one was ordered and set-up for us earlier this week. The instructions say to place it next to the old box and to put some (about 1-2 cups which is a lot given that they don't give you that many pellets to begin with) of the Breeze pellets in the old box and then to "stop maintaining" the old box. Well... this is not really working out for us. We tried the Breeze box (Ollie peed in it once) but keep going back to the old box. And, the old box got so bad that Ollie kept walking away from both of them. This is a little bit of an issue... One big green box with dumb pellets in it and one big messy box with sand. What's a kitty to do????

Wait a minute!!! Mommy just read Millie's bloggie entry again - we need more pellets!!! Off to the store she goes...

Fun Funky Friday

It's the first Friday in September and we hope everykitty has a fun, funky Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Mancat Monday

Happy Mancat Monday to all!

Relaxing Labor Day Weekend

We are all happy here to have a very relaxing Labor Day weekend to hang out and rest. Hope everyone has a safe and relaxing holiday weekend. We are sending strong purrs to everyone in New Orleans - be safe!!

Back to normal here

Things are sort of returning back to normal here... Ollie is back to blurpy-sitting. And, he's doing almost TOO good a job. Last night, in the middle of the night, Daddy woke Mommy up and said "Look in the Co-Sleeper"* and Mommy woke up out of a sound sleep and there was Ollie lying in the Co-Sleeper RIGHT NEXT TO SOPHIA. And, Ollie knows he is NOT SUPPOSED TO GO IN THE CO-SLEEPER. We get squirted and yelled at when we try to go in there. Ollie knows better but I guess he decided to break the rulz. Well, Mommy quick fast got the blurpy out and then yelled at Ollie and squirted him. And he did stop doing it - for a little while. But, then he kept trying to get back in there, Mommy kept yelling and kept squirting. Finally, everybody went back to sleep. But, then Mommy woke up and looked over and yep, there was Ollie, all curled up and sleeping hard in Sophia's co-sleeper. Do you believe it? He's really bold, isn't he??? According to Ollie, he was just helping blurpy-sit. I don't know, I think he was just being B-A-D. Mommy wishes she had the flashy box near the bed because she says she would have taken a picture of him sleeping in the co-sleeper right beside Sophie before she squirted him and yelled to get out even though he is not supposed to be in there.

*Pawnote: A Co-Sleeper, for those of you kitties with no blurpies around, is a little bed that attaches to the side of the bean bed so blurpies can be close by when they're sleeping. In Ollie's defense, I do have to say, it looks ALOT like a kitty bed. But, still...

Tails Tuesday

See how our tails curl up differently here? Mr. Chen's makes a round hook like shape and Ollie's has a little bend in it. We are still recovering from the sadness of last week. We are all holding each other a little tighter still and being a little extra loving. Hope everykitty is doing the same...