Mary Catherine Davis and Beau - Tribute

Mommy was just able to sit down and help me post this. She just couldn't bring herself to until now.

Beau and mom Cathy were early visitors to our blog and stuck with us even when we weren't posting much.

Reading Beau's blog was fun and often made us laugh. Their Sunday sermon somehow always seemed relevant to where we were in our lives.

Mary Catherine Davis
4/14/1962 – 9/01/2011

We will miss dear Cathy so much and also the updates on how Beau is doing. We hope her sister pops in to let us know how he is.

Happy Labor Day

la•bor
noun \ˈlā-bər\

1 a: expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or
compulsory b (1): human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy
(2): the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those
rendered by entrepreneurs for profits

2: an act or process requiring labor : TASK

3: a product of labor

4: a. an economic group comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
b (1): workers employed in an establishment (2): workers available for
employment c: the organizations or officials representing groups of workers

5: usually Labour: the Labour party of the United Kingdom or of another part of the
Commonwealth of Nations




Hope you're all taking it easy this Labor Day. I even hope your beans get to relax a bit, after they take care of all your needs and wants of course...


rest
noun \ˈrest\

1: repose, sleep; specifically: a bodily state characterized by minimal functional and metabolic activities
2 a: freedom from activity or labor b: a state of motionlessness or inactivity

Fotography on Friday

Hi! Mommy realized that she hasn't been taking many pictures of just me me me lately. So, out the flashy box came. Rats. At least I look good.









I'm feeling lots better. The antibiotic helped a lot and I'm not snarfing anymore. I'm back to asking politely (mommy calls it demanding but I disagree) for my stinky goodness and using my litterbox without problems.

Thanks for the concern and happy thoughts!

Snake on Sunday

I love the rubber snake that stinky boy got for his birthday. I love it so much mommy made him give it to me. It is the only toy I let him play with me. It wiggles and wiggles and is so soft to chomp on.



Make no mistake, it was his, now it is MINE! Mine!

Freaking on Friday

Crud. I was sneezing and not eating much this week so I had to go to the stoopid VET.


lemme out lemme out lemme out!


Gonna tray chewing thru these bars

It was even worse because I had to go with the stinky boy. Jeez. It threw me off so bad that I only got to scratch one VET tech. I didn't even get the good gas. sigh.


See, he my be two but he is totally evil...

What? on Wednesday

What makes you think I was in the bathroom???



I don't care about your silly painting project...



Seriously...

Fun with Friends on Friday

One of the happyish (I say "ish" cause I wasn't invited) things that kept my beans busy was going to the Atlanta area to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins. While they were there, mommy got to meet the human members of the Purrageous Pirate family!



You may not know that thru a magazine called Victorian Decorating and Lifestyle, mommy and the furry Purrageous Pirate kitties mommy "met" and became pen pals. That was twelve whole years ago and this was the first time they met in person!

They got to go to tour the historic Oakland Cemetery and had a nommy lunch together. Mommy said now she knows why the area is nicknamed "Hotlanta." Wow it was hot! The sweet tea made it all worthwhile she said...that and the wonderful company.



She was so very happy meeting her dear friend Catherine in person. She still smiles and tears up every time she sees the pictures and thinks about it.

I laugh cause even tho my stinky boy is two years old, he was shorter than the Cabin Boy who is 4+ months younger! ha ha ha The Cabin Boy sure looks nice and cute. I wonder if he gives his kitties a break or if they take turns. Like tag team wrestlers.



Mommy said being at Oakland Cemetery with the 20 Union soldiers and the 2500 Confederate soldiers buried there was even more moving and emotional because they went over 4th of July weekend. We are very glad we are still one country that can celebrate freedom together (especially with grilled chicken...and salmon)!!!



Mommy will never forget meeting the human Purrageous Pirates or the fun she had in Hotlanta...and the tea...

Wow on Wednesday

Wow, it has been almost a month since I posted. That sux big time. Things have been totally crazy busy around here. I won't go into it, but needless to say if things don't slow down you might be reading about a wine shortage in the Ohio region...

On a happyish note, the stinky boy Joel turned two years old on Sunday the 10th.

I'd like to say that is a good thing, but the older (and more mobile) he gets the more annoying he gets to me. I know I'm the "bees knees" but jeez. How about a moment's peace???



He doesn't get that a hiss means "back off bub!" He thinks it is funny. Then when I pop him (closed paw of course) he cries and says "Joel sad" and then I feel like crap. Mommy and daddy have been very understanding and walled off the dining room with "baby gates" that have a pet door for me to squeeze thru. But, I don't want to spend all my time off by myself just to get a nap!

So, happy birthday you hairless monkey boy. Now let me sleep.

What?

What makes you think I want to trip you???







If I wanted to trip you I'd do it on the stairs...

Sleepin on Saturday

The bed looks totally fine to me as is. I'll hang here and you can finish making the bed later. *waves paw* Leave me now.



Things have been very interesting around here.

The gates are back up around the dining room because Joel has been harassing me so much. I get that he thinks I'm in the bees knees (I am after all) but sometimes I need a break. It used to be that I wouldn't go in a gated off room because I felt apart from things and didn't want to be "given" my territory. Now I am perfectly content to hang there until the boy settles down or goes for a nap. I'm still getting plenty of attention so it is OK.

My beans tiled and painted the kitchen and painted a bathroom and they are happy with those projects being done. All the patio tiles daddy put in 2 years ago were all screwy so he is redoing those with grout. I'm glad I'm just in the A/C while they sweat it out doing yard work.

Then my mommy has been having eye trouble for a couple months now. She thought it was allergies or dry eye or something like that. Turns out it was a bad reaction to the gas perm contacts she has worn for 25 years. She has little abrasions and a lot of irritation. She can't wear contacts for 3 weeks (then switch to soft lenses) and has to squirt steroids in her eyes.

Do you think she'll become a good baseball player now?

Now she has poison ivy all over her arms, legs and even her face! ha ha ha snort Um, I mean, it is really terrible. That is what she gets for taking a perfectly good "Joel Free" day (when he goes to a grandbean's house for an entire day) and wasting it outside doing yard work instead of hanging out in the A/C with me, petting me, giving me treats and generally putting me at the center of the universe...

I'm kinds sick of her whining so I hope it clears up soon.

Anyway, the weather here has gone from March to August so we're all sweating it out like crazy. I hope all of you are doing well and staying safe.