Stolen Kicky!

So as I was preparing a few sets of toys to send out, I had a few pieces I didn't need on the couch next to me. I was sorting and making sure I had good colorful combinations when I realized that I was not alone...

What tipped me off, besides getting clawed in the bum, was the intense purring! I looked and there was Star, rolling around, using me to get leverage, wrasslin' with a kicky.. She stole it! And let me tell you, it was already drool-ful...

Well, there was no way I could give this one to someone else now! I mean, a tiny kick, a quick bitey, that's just a little love from one kitty to another. But a completely drooled on, chewed on, kicked on kicky... No. It had to be hers now. Which was probably her plan all along, the little brat!

I tossed it over onto the floor, mostly to get the claws out of my uh.. tender parts. She dived after it and showed it what for!

Ah kicky, at last you're mine!

 

 

 

I will lick you and kick you and call you George..

 

*slurp slurp* Pardon my drool...

 

 

 

I rubs you on my face, purrrrrrrrrr

 

 

 

Why must you take so many pictures of me and my love, George?

 

 

 

You get the back of disrespect, George gets the kick of love!

 

 

 

I love you George! *drool*

And they call it.. kicky looove....

Lazy Leo Cuddly Star

Leo, the lazy player

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Star getting belly and nose rubs from her daddy

 

 

 

 

Easy Sunday

Leo

 

 

Star 

More Chair!

We got that new (to us) chair from my uncle not all that long ago, and the kitties love it. Greg too, because it's more comfortable than The Chair that he usually sits on that matches the couch. We got another call this week that my uncle had another chair for us! How awesome! So Greg picked it up this week and we waited to see how the kitties would react, since they had been enthralled with the last one.

They acted like... nothing. It must have had the same familiar scent as the last one, so no biggie. It's the same-ish color, so no biggie. I think they thought it was the same! They ignored it! Ok, Star gave it one cursory sniff as she passed.. They never do what you expect, do they?

Yesterday Greg was walking through the room, he stopped, came back and stole the camera. He stared taking pictures of the newest (to us) chair. Someone must be sleeping in it, I thought! Then I saw, and awwwwwww!

Closer up! Star is such a sweet sleeper!

 

 

Later, Greg stole the camera again and took this! Now we're getting silly!

And this one happened today! More of that claws stuck in something as she sleeps, arm outstretched.

Leo sleeps like a great big ol' goofball, Star is a silly sleeper. I love my babies!

Oh yeah, Greg likes the new chair too, it's bigger and better for snoozing in, which he's doing at this moment in fact. Star is sleeping in the other one. They're both snoring.
Leo is looking for critters out the door.

Hope you all have a good nappin' weekend!



Psst. you can still get toys from the FUNdraiser!

Door Sharing

Maybe it doesn't seem like that big of a deal to you readers when I share pictures of Leo and Star sharing space. But it's a huge deal to me. They do NOT share space. So when they do, I get all excited and snap pictures and share it. So it must seem as if it happens a lot. I wish it did..

But when the peacefully share space, I can't NOT share, so here's what happened just the other day.

It was nice enough out that we had the door open. Just the door, not the windows. So there was only one place to look out. Usually that means one at a time will get door whiffies. But something good was out there.. good enough that they didn't mind or notice each other as they intently watched whatever it was!

The sun was pretty bright, so the kitties being on the inside showed up dark.. I lightened as much as I could without making them look washed out.

Not long after these pictures I heard a bird take off, sounded like big wings flapping. I wish I had seen it... no idea what it was. But it sure had Star and Leo's attention!

Star's Square

When I was cutting out kickies, I had just a little of this black material with embroidered butterflies left. I used as much of it as I could and then I had one butterfly left but not enough to get another kicky, so I made as big a square as I could with the butterfly on one side and gave it to Star. She loved it!

But being a brat, she played with it with her back to me so I couldn't get a good shot... These are the only two I had that you could tell what she was playing with.

Ooo Nip-tastic!

 

 

I'm gonna dead this but good!

 

 

When I was stuffing more kickies and toys the other day, I picked up her square and rolled it around in the spilled nip to see if I could entice her to play with it close enough for a good shot! hee hee hee! I got her!

Oo Extra nippy!

 

 

Must kick it to death...

 

 

Ack! You see my curly tummy!

 

 

I should run off now so you stop taking pictures of me..

 

 

But I love my square too much! sigh..

Patience, and extra nip! It worked. This time....

LIVESTRONG

We've gone Yellow for LIVESTRONG day!

 

 

Last year on LIVESTRONG day, I said that my dad had a soft tissue sarcoma in his leg and that the chemo might be working. Well, the chemo and radiation didn't do a lot really. The sarcoma did not shrink. But the radiation did toughen up the edges of the thing and the arteries and nerves it was wrapped around so when the doctor went in to cut it out, she was able to strip everything off the arteries and nerves. That means he did not need any transplanted arteries from his other leg, and he did not lose any feeling by losing a nerve. AND they got the whole freaking thing!

That's right, as of today, my dad is cancer free! Sir Moose-a-lot Roadkill Goodyear Thunderbottom's nap buddy is doing great! And we are all so thankful!



Another person I honored last year was my friend Vickie who had seemed to have won her battle.

 A few months ago she had a goiter that kept getting larger. They took a biopsy not long ago and found cancer. Devastating news to be sure. But when she went in to see when her surgery would be, they told her that the biopsy had been a large one, 30% of the goiter, and they found clean margins, they got all the cancer! She will still have the rest of the goiter removed, but she doesn't even need chemo!



I wish all stories of the nasty C would end like these.. but as we've seen even recently on the Blogosphere, it does not. We are so sad for the loss of Poppy Vic and so many of our kitty friends. Our thoughts and hugs go out to those affected by this horrible disease.

 

 

Hugs and purrs, lets keep fighting this awful thing!