Finding the cool spots!

Here's how Grace keeps cool on these hot days, even though our a/c is on 24/7. Where she's near me in the office (as in these shots) or in the TV room, she likes to be in the center of the floor where she can stretch out. And the best spots of all are always directly under a ceiling fan! Smart girl!!

Bath time!

For the first time the other evening, I saw Ruse giving Audace a bath!
Gotta get that neck clean, you know!

And behind the ears ... that's important, too!

Wordless Wednesday

Audace

Ruse

Beautiful new blankie!

Our Aunties - ML and Deb - asked Peggy to perform her magic and create a furry blankie for Grace & Company. This beautiful blankie came in the mail on Wednesday, and you can see all three of my jewels checking it out - and the toys that came with it! The blankie is absolutely gorgeous, and the jingly toys are great fun, too!

All three have to find out what was in that box.

Ruse is checking out one of the neat-o toys!

Ruse is snuggling in. =)

Grace gets it! How nice to snuggle and stretch and snooze on this yummy blankie!

Wordy Wednesday

Who's that lump under the sheet?

Oh, my goodness! It's Audace, pretending to be a lump under the sheet! Turns out, it's a good snoozin' spot!

Here's Audace in another of his fave spots for relaxing if he wants solitude. I think he's thinking about dinner!

Grace seems to be reading my mail. I wonder if she really can. Do you think she's read any of Shirley Rousseau Murphy's books? Is she a fan of Joe Grey? Hmmm!

Ruse has the cutest toes and curled-up tail. He had just finished stretching and rolling over and was just relaxing back into sleep!

Princess goes hunting!

Princess, one of my daughter's cats, will play with just about anything. She is truly the eternal kitten! Here she is "helping" with the ironing - and hunting lizards at the same time. She, of course, has no clue that she is inside the glass and the lizards are outside, but that doesn't stop her!

Grace & Company's 4th Gotcha Day!

Oh, how we love to celebrate this day!

On June 6, 2006, Deb and her daughters drove from Houston to my house and brought these little lovelies ~~> GOTCHA DAY PHOTOS. What a marvelous and exciting day that was - and we've had great fun with all three of these little jewels ever since!

So here they all are - separately and together - in no particular order!

Happy #5, Grace!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GRACE!

Go here --> MOMMA GRACE -- to find the link to the first photos I ever saw of Grace. She was less than a year old when she had her litter of four. (Somebody had robbed a cradle, huh?) Anyway, it's not hard to figure out why she caught my attention, right? =)

Here she is at age 5, trying to figure out if she wants to go into the "cave" created when this recliner's footrest was raised! She started in, but then backed out in a hurry. I have no idea what she thinks is in there!!

And here's Grace, guarding her favorite scratcher. That built-in ball and circle-track is fun. She likes the big rectangular scratchers, too, but the round scratcher is the best!

Here's to a super wonderful birthday for you, my lovely Grace! ♥

Tummy on Monday!

I couldn't resist taking these. Ruse is snuggling up to my purse and wallet. I guess he knows where his bread is buttered, right? LOL!


Such a nice, soft, fuzzy tummy!

Coming up!

Oh, my goodness! Grace's birthday (June 1) and Grace, Audace, and Ruse's Gotcha Day (June 6) are coming up. I need to get busy with the camera and see if I can get good photos of them ... NOT when they're sleeping (which seems to be 22 hours a day!).

Busy, busy...

Happy birthday to Auntie ML!

We are wishing Auntie ML a very happy birthday today. She and Auntie Deb are our saviors, and we love them both VERY MUCH!

Love and purrs to Auntie ML.
♥ ♥ ♥

Happy birthday, Auntie Deb

Happy, happy birthday to one of our two favorite people -- Auntie Deb. She and Auntie ML are our saviors!!

Love and purrs to Auntie Deb!
♥ ♥ ♥

Grace's fave activity!

... or non-activity! She does love to snooze!

Funny Grace!

Every night, Audace and sometimes Ruse want to play -- chasing twine, scrunching the tissue paper, rasslin' each other! I've tried and tried to get Grace to join in on the activity at night -- she needs it or she'll just get rounder and rounder!

Finally --

(Her eyes really are not blue; that's just the camera flash that made this happen!)

Huge thanks!

Thanks to everyone who helped to Keep the ROYALS with Rose. Sufficient green papers were collected to cover the v-e-t's visit coming up soon, plus some extra to help make sure our Royal furriends have enough to eat, etc.

And thanks to FURRIENDS OF THE CB (CatBlogosphere) who make it very easy to help others in need. That Paypal button is like magic!

What a wonderful cat-world to have friends such as all of you!

Happy Birthday to Grace's babies!

Happy 4th Birthday to Grace's babies!

Go HERE to see lots of very early photos of this little kitty-family!

Marigold

Brutus

Audace (aka Pete!)

Ruse (aka Foster!)

Marigold and Brutus went from Texas to New Jersey for their forever home.

Go to ROSE AND THE ROYALS for documentation of their current antics!

Audace and Ruse came with their Momma Grace to their forever home,

just in a different part of the Houston area.

Happy and healthy - all of them!!

Hooray!

Easy Sunday

Grace and Ruse were snoozing together after cleaning each other's ears and heads! Grace's babies are almost 4 years old, and she still cleaning them when she gets the chance!




And this is Princess, my grandbeans' most recent find. She is darling and very playful. Everyone loves her. Here she is, in the sock basket, "helping" Kira find socks! (Ha ha!)

Miscellaneous activities!

Audace likes to try to fit under things - very funny when he tries to get under something that's smaller than he is. (By the way, that's one of those EmeryCat scratchers he's under - and none of these three will have anything to do with them! What a waste of money!!)

Ruse and Audace, snoozing away an afternoon. What a life!

More snoozing? Or waking up?

Audace is playing a favorite game: chase the yarn.
It's almost as much fun as unraveling my yarn (<~~click here) when I'm trying to make something!

Grace =)

Grace is so beautiful!



Notice the little paw under her cheek!

March already!

Oh, my! We didn't post anything during the month of February, and here it is almost the end of March!! I'll have to get busy and take some new photos.

We've all been about the same -- although I've almost given up crocheting at home (see the next post below!). I've been taking yarn and other supplies to my grandbeans' house frequently, but it's much slower to work on little hats only when I'm there. Darned Audace, anyway!

Oh, well. Spring is finally here although it's hard to tell from the weather outside. We should be in the mid-70s for high temps during the days, but right now it's 42, and we're supposed to hit 35 tonight -- and it's windy, so it feels even colder. Brrrrrrrrrr! Nice to be inside, cuddling with kittehs!