Window Gazing with Julie

Julie: I am looking out of the window on the other side

of the house. 

There are a lot of trees and the land slopes away from the house.

There is a road  leading to a neighbours house 

and below that is a river.

The river feeds into the lake we see when we look

 out of the front  when we are on the porch or in the kitchen.

There is not as much to see out of this window.

Behind me is a window that looks out onto the porch.

Now that I have done all this great posing,

could I possibly have a treat?

A Week With Pilchard

Ugh. Mom and her flashy box. She had the "bright" idea to take a photo a day and show you how life is for me. She will tell me that in her "next life", whatever that is, she's coming back as a housecat.

A week ago Sunday, mom did laundry. She brings it upstairs and dumps it in the middle of the bed.

There's usually enough for both Mija and I to make nests for sleeping.

On Monday, we start a week of mom going to work. She gets up and wanders into the kitchen. I race ahead and hop up onto the footstool.

From here, I can see the kitchen and mom's attempts at breakfast. Plus, I can remind her not to leave the house without ear scratches and treats.

Mija and I go back to mom's bed where we spend the day while she's working. When she comes home, Mija hops down and goes to greet mom. I wait. Here's where I was on Tuesday.

I know she'll come back here to find me. This is my spot.

Wednesday morning, mom made frozen waffles and sat down to read and eat her waffles before getting dressed for work. I decided some supervision was in order.

Waffles are not as good as treats. Maple syrup makes my fur sticky. How do humans eat that stuff?

On Thursday evening, there was a nice breeze coming in through the window. We've had a lot of birds in the trees outside the window so I like to watch them.

Mom had to leave early in the morning on Friday. She said she spent a lot of time in the car. I don't like to go anywhere in the car so I don't know how she can spend all day with that thing. When she came home, she gave us extra treats because she was gone for a long time.

With the change of seasons, mom gets noisier on Saturdays. She will, sometimes, watch this stuff called "football" on TV. I can sit in her lap except she gets very excited when her team scores something called a "touchdown". Mom will cheer and try to jump up so lying in her lap is useless. I go to the back of the recliner.

She calls me her "Hawkeye cat". I don't know what that means but I do know this blanket is so soft and I like to lie on it. I just wish mom wasn't so noisy.

On Sunday, it was combing time.

I had a nasty hairball last week. It scared me so much that I stepped in it. That meant I had to get my feet washed which was most unpleasant. I got shut in the bathroom while we cleaned my toes. Then I ran under the bed while mom cleaned up the mess in the hall. I was so embarrassed. She combs me about once a week, but said that probably wasn't enough so I have been combed every 2-3 days. She keeps telling me how pretty I am and, actually, rubbing my chin on the comb does feel nice.

So, that's my week. What's your week like?

Love,

Pilchard

A Day In My Life

When momma gets up, this is where she usually finds me.

I'm on the bottom corner. It's my spot.

Sometimes, I have to walk up to her ear and meow, repeatedly, loudly, because there's this problem in the kitchen.

Isn't this horrible? Momma sometimes just scratches my ears and tells me "it will be okay. You won't starve. I'm tired", and then she rolls over and goes back to sleep. Oh the horror. But I endure and she gets up.

She heads for the shower (What is with humans who HAVE to stand in water!?) and I go into the living room to wait.

Her friend, Chris, sent her a bunch of things that came in nifty boxes. I have claimed this one. She'll mess around in the kitchen to make breakfast so I move from the box to the cat tree.

I just sit and wait because I know what comes next.

It doesn't matter if it's a week day, when momma goes off to work, or the weekend, when she decides what task to do after breakfast, it's always the same.

TREATS! Sometimes I jump down off the tree and take my treats on the bottom. Sometimes I take them on the shelf where I was sitting.

During the weekends, when momma is home, she does a lot of things in the living room. I like to supervise her tasks.

There is the added advantage of being right at ear scratching height, too. But all this attention can be annoying so I let momma know that I'm tired of ear scratching and she can supervise herself.

Eventually, I move back to the bed and get really comfortable.

The tail goes one way, with room to move, and my feet go another way, with room to stretch out.

On weekends, momma does laundry and that means I get to sleep in the clothes.

Momma's nice that she doesn't care about furs on clothes and she'll even tell me, when she dumps the clothes on the bed, "Here you go, Pilchard."

Sometimes, momma will clean and use the bed to sort things, like she did on Monday night.

She had all these really nice piles of paper on the bed. Mija and I simply could not resist.

After a day of naps, more naps, food, nap, and ear scratching, momma will sit down in her recliner. I get lap time. That's when we really have quality time, her and I.

She watches TV, I get everything scratched and I get another nap. Momma says this time is best. Sometimes, even she falls asleep.

So, that's my day. What's yours like?

Pilchard

I (Heart) You, So Long As It Comes With Treats

So mom got some fancy letters in the mail today and the postman stomped up the front steps and left a couple of boxes by the front door. Mom's happy and I've made peace with my sister.

Now, I knew something was up because she moved all her piles on the living room table into one big pile and started putting other stuff on the table. Then there was the camera. 

Mija and I know that sound. Mom gave us treats as she usually does when she comes home from work, but there were more treats; more and more treats. She kept tempting me to come closer and closer to her and twice tried to pick me up. Well, really. What's a lady to do? I went behind the recliner and peered out at her. 

Then, she sat down to read a magazine and the smell of treats just got to me. Up I hopped on the table and out came the camera. I was going to run ... but treats! 

Oh well. 

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. May your humans give you lots of treats, even if it means having your photo taken. 

See you next week.

Pilchard

(From Pilchard's mom, I truly admire Julie's mom and Crepes' mom. How you can get those beautiful photos of your felines without resorting to a dozen cat treats is beyond me.)

What's Your Favorite Treat?

As a rule, I will only eat Friskies Party Mix Beachside Crunch treats - it comes in a blue bag and we call it Blue Bag Only.  However, my Daddies tried to trick me recently and slipped some new Party Mix Morning Munch Crunch into my mix.  I ate it! So they gave me some of just the Morning Munch Crunch by itself, and I ate it!  Don't get me wrong, I still insist upon Blue Bag Only as my main fix.  But if Friskies wanted to send me a case of Morning Munch Crunch once in a while, I wouldn't say no.  A girl's gotta mix it up once in a while, am I right?
What are your favorite treats?
Meow for now,

Little Isis

Tempting

During Mardi Gras, when the parade goes buy all the humans scream "Beads! Beads lady! Beads!" and sometimes the people on the floats will throw them beads. As a cat, I do not have a whole lot of use for beads althought they can be fun to play with.

Instead I meow "Treats! Treats lady! Treats!"

Sometimes it even works!