All is fine, thank heaven!

All seems to be fine after these guys' confrontation with the neighborhood "big boy" named Henry Jack. After I saw all those white and orange tufts of fur outside, I was concerned, and I've kept running my hands over both Audace and Ruse to make sure there are no injuries that I couldn't find right away.

No problems, though - no lumps or bumps or weird behavior indicating illness or infection. All is fine!



All these photos were taken by Parker - maybe we have a budding photo-grapher in our midst!

Wordless Wednesday 6

Uh-oh!

When I left today to go to church, I left the window of the office (computer room) open. We had icky, sticky, stormy weather yesterday and last night, so I thought Grace & Company would like to sniff the clean outdoor air. They love it when that window is open.

Well, I forgot to close it before I left ... which I've done before, but there haven't been any mishaps. Today, however, when I got home, the window was still open about 10 inches, and the screen was off. My heart was pounding! So I ran indoors and started counting cats; then I ran into the office and shut the window. All three are here, with no extra neighborhood cats in the house! All three seem fine, except that they're now sticking to me like glue! Anne says I need catcams to know what they do in here whenever I'm gone.

The photos below show the screen before I put it back on, plus several pix of the tufts of fur that are out there. Now to go and inspect cats for any possible injuries -- I think it'll be Audace, if anyone.

UPDATE: I've run my hands over all three, and there don't seem to be any injuries -- but then I know they don't always show up right away. I'll keep checking. I think, though, that they were more mentally shaken than anything -- they're so spoiled with this whole house (and no outdoors) to romp around in!

Lazy days

Here are a couple of photos showing what Grace and Audace like to do on lazy afternoons -- almost nothing! Ruse, however, can't keep still. As soon as I approach with a camera -- zip! -- he's off and running!
Notice Audace's tongue? He must be thinking of food!
Grace is such a joy -- loving and graceful. Deb did such a great job naming her!

Another new toy!

Midge sent us a "Thing in a Bag," and Grace and her boys didn't quite know what to make of it at first. Now they do, though. Enjoy the photos and little movies, too.

Ahhhhh, some sun!

Grace has the right idea on the few days we've had sun around here lately! She LOVES snoozin' in the sun through the back door!

C-O-L-D weather

In cold weather, it's very common for Audace and Ruse to cuddle up when they sleep, and when it's REALLY cold, Grace will often join them. Today, however, even though it's cold outside and hard to keep the house warm, they were near each other, but not cuddled up. In fact, Audace was practicing his favorite full-monty position!

An award! An award!!

Grace, Audace, and Ruse physically outgrew a couple of their climbing toys, and we offered them to anyone interested. Castor and Pollux were the first to respond, so we sent off one toy last week. They got it and apparently they love it! We're so happy -- we loved it, too, until we got too big! We're looking forward to photos on the Meezer Brothers' blog!

Castor and Pollux also gave us this award! How fun!!

Ruse and the toys!

Ruse was having a wonderful time last evening, getting into the mess Audace had made!

Grace: I was tagged!

I was tagged by Missy for 7 Weird Things about myself, so here they are:

1. I am completely unappreciated by two of my sons who live in the same house with me! Both of those boys can be very rude and rough-and-tumble. I like to play chase, but I don't like to wrestle – do they listen? No! Not even when I scream at them!

2. I stick to my bean like glue whenever she’s home. I know, I know. All the photos people see are of me on the couch or in other places, but – truth be told – I’m really within five feet of her almost all day … unless she leaves the house for whatever she does out there. =(

3. I love to eat. It doesn’t seem like it, especially in the photos on our blog, but I’ve become quite chubby – and I don’t care. I can still run fast and climb up the carpeted toy. That’s what matters!

4. I was the last one to learn to use the new pet door. I didn’t think it lent anything to my dignity, so I refused to go through it at first. I could see the boys having lots of fun once they finally figured it all out and could play and romp in the garage, so I decided to give it a try. It’s OK, but I really like being in the house best of all!

5. I found another kitty’s napping place. This is the one good thing about going out into the garage! My bean tells me it’s where Indy used to snooze when she wanted to spend time in the garage, but I don’t know who Indy is. I just like the comfort of the robe and comforter on top of a box hidden by other boxes. Everyone pretty much leaves me alone if they can’t see me!

6. I love to be combed, but not brushed. At first, our bean got a couple of different kitty brushes, but I don’t like the feeling. Then she got smart and bought a comb – and I LOVE it! I roll over so she can comb my tummy and legs, too!

7. I don’t like to travel in the car – anyplace! The carrier is cramped and the motion of the car makes me nervous. However, I’m not like those cry-baby sons of mine who howl and yowl on every trip. Fortunately, there aren’t too many trips!

The official rules of this meme: (1) Link to the cat that tagged you and post the rules on your blog; (2) share seven weird facts about yourself; (3) tag seven random cats at the end of your post (include links to their blogs); and (4) let each cat know they were tagged by leaving notification on their blog.

Here are my seven random picks: Tower Hill Mob, Scooby, Maddie, Sassy, Marigold, Daphne, and Kimo&Sabi. Now I'll go and notify every cat that they've been tagged. (I hope my seven choices can participate - or haven't participated too recently!)

Wordless Wednesday 5

Toes-y and snooze-y Tuesday

All snooze-y and snuggled down on a rainy day. Note the toes in the first and second pix!

Audace and the toys

I had to break down and vacuum and clean in this room -- which means I had to pick up all the scattered toys and paper and feathers. Of course, Audace doesn't like that, so he proceeded to start the mess again!

We now have a pet door through the laundry room door into the garage. All three LOVE to play in the garage, so some of the litter boxes were moved out there, too. They adore the extra freedom. Now to get a movie of one of them going out or coming in!

I have a couple of movies on the new camera, but now I have to figure out how to get them off the tiny DVD and onto the computer! It can't be too hard, right?

Beautiful Grace

Here's my gorgeous girl, just watching all the trouble Audace and Ruse can get into! She's so smart, staying out of the way!!















PS - We have a new digital movie camera in the house now, and it's taking time to learn how to use it well. Next job will be to learn how to transfer movies to the computer so they can be uploaded and shared! Fun, fun, fun!

Fun package!

Thanks to Ruis and the kitties at Kattenpraat's Catwalk for the package of goodies. Audace was ALL OVER IT, and pretty soon Ruse had to come and check it out, too. Grace was watching from her usual high perch!

Fun with garland!

Ruse and Grace - and eventually Audace, too - really love to play with the extra Christmas garland. Be sure you watch the two little movies, too!

All snuggly!

Here's another of all three in one photo (lazer eyes and all!), but this time they were all snuggly, keeping warm together! They'll be doing a lot more of this as we get into winter!

Fambly pix

Our boybean Austen took a few photos of the three of us -- but he insists on turning off the flash! And while we admit that we don't end up with the laser-eye look, these photos always turn out fuzzy (because he moves slightly when he presses the button, we think). Oh, well. It's not every day anyone can get a photo of all three of us this close together. Enjoy!

Paper bites the dust!

Friday was the last day for this bunch of paper. Audace really shredded it by the end of the day! I'll add a link for a little video of all this below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIzFvkLQD0

Last night, he was really wild, and I realized it was because he missed his newly discovered toy - the paper! So I got some tissue paper out and crumbled three sheets into nice, crinkly "toys," and now he's happily playing with paper again. I don't know how much of this stuff we'll actually go through! Crinkly paper and peacock feathers - the toys of choice at this time!

More playing with paper

I received a box that included paper stuffing instead of styrofoam or plastic bubble-sheets. Oh, what joy that crinkly-noisy paper is!














Videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djPj3MojVaw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y02Bk5sxQw

Funny cats! Unfortunately, every time Audace was playing in the paper, he stopped whenever he heard the camera turn on! Little rat!!