Countdown

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans too)!

We are so excited, my Human and I. Well, I am, anyway. In just six weeks, she will be starting two months paid leave purr-rior to her retirement. That means she will be able to spend all day and every day with Moi, attending to my needs and pampering Me. How happy She must be!

Of course, she has a few plans of her own. She says she's going to learn a couple of fur-eign languages - like Italian and Welsh. And she's thinking of learning to play a musical instrument, maybe the clarinet. Well, that's fine with Me, as long as she doesn't forget her duties, such as feeding Me five times a day, petting Me and keeping Me amused. I've been feeling rather lonely since Pixie flew away to the Bridge, but now I will have company around the clock. Of course, I shall allow her some time off to purr-sue her own activities. I'm a very considerate employer and, after so many years of faithful service, she has earned a little time for herself, don't you agree, Kitties?

Six weeks - that's 42 days, Fellow Felines. I can hardly wait...

Shabbat Shalom to you all. Have a lovely weekend! 

PS. I almost forgot - see what a lovely picture Mummy took of me. And without waking me up with the flashy box either!

Pesach

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans too)!

My Human has been working very hard to make Our Home ready for Pesach. It makes life rather difficult for a kitty who only wants to relax and sleep, because everytime I settle down somewhere and make Myself comfortable, there She and her cleaning lady are, with mops and pails and brooms and Sucky Monsters.  However, we're more or less over the worst now and all She has left to do now (so She says) is to make the fruit salad and the charoseth.

The Bad News is that there'll be no bread in the house for a whole week - so, no chance of tasty little pieces of challah, topped with cottage cheese, which I love so much. Matza is no food for a Pussycat! Mummy gave me some cottage cheese on its own, directly into my bowl. But I like challah. Still, with the enormous Feast that the Humans will be having tonight, there's bound to be a substantial Kitty Bag for Moi, I should think...
 
Chag Sameach, everyone! 

Possum the MagnifiCat


PS. Mummy just reminded me that some of you celebrate Easter instead. So, enjoy your chocolate eggs (yummy!) and please save some for Me to eat after Pesach...Happy Holidays to all of you, whichever festival it is you are celebrating!

Remembering Pixie

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans as well)!

Tomorrow, Friday March 23rd, will mark exactly three months to the day Pixie flew away to the Bridge. Not a day goes by without Mummy and Me thinking about her. Mummy thought it would be a Good Idea to mark her three-month anniversary with a pictorial celebration of Pixie's Life. So we sat down together and chose the nicest photos we could find...


This is Pixie and Me when we were very little kitties, in our old apartment. Mummy scanned this old photo into her computer.

 

And here we are, all curled up in Mummy's bed in the new flat.








This is Pixie a couple of years ago, having a little cat-nap.

And this is the one Mummy has on her desktop, so that we think about Pixie every time we switch on the computer.

                                          And see here - Double Pixie!

Here's another one of Pixie at the old flat, when she was quite a young kitty.











And here she is again, full of curiosity about the flashy box.

Pixie enjoyed exercise...    

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...but, like Me, she enjoyed napping even more.      


Mummy has lots more pictures of Pixie and Me, but this is our favourite. This is Pixie and Me at the old apartment, the one we lived in when we first adopted Mummy. Mummy likes this one so much, she made a special frame for it and she uses it as the header for her own blog   



Mummy's eyes have gone all leaky now. And I, too, feel very sad and lonesome, remembering my little sister. I don't need photos to remember her, kitties. She's always here in my heart.....

The Cat in the Hat

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans too)!

Well, Purim has been and gone - I know my Human wrote about it on her blog. It's that festival when humans get dressed up in all sorts of fancy costumes. (Some of them even get dressed up as Pussycats.)  My Human thought it would be nice if I, too, were to don Fancy Dress. I made it very clear to her that this was not, in My Humble Opinion, a very Good Idea, especially as her notion of Fancy Dress for Moi was to deck me out in all sorts of extravagant hats borrowed from the members of her porcelain doll collection.

I have my dignity to maintain, Fellow Felines, and that is hard for a mancat to do when disguised as a ladycat - however elegant. However, Mummy insisted that the whole point of Purim costumes is to pretend to be what you are not. I remained unconvinced, Fellow Felines - but Mummy was too crafty and managed to get the better of Me this time. She waited until I was catnapping and then she sneaked up on Me with a silly hat and her flashy box and took pictures of Me.

Of course, that woke Me up - and then, She coaxed me into trying on another hat.
Which one do you think suits me best?

I know, I know - it's hard to decide, isn't it? I'm so handsome, whatever I wear, aren't I?

Have a lovely weekend, and Shabbat Shalom to you all.

Stormy Weather

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans)!

It's so cold you would never think that Spring is just around the corner. Yesterday, it snowed. It didn't really settle - not where we live anyway. My Human says that's because the ground was so wet from the rain (it rained for days before it snowed), but I could see huge white snowflakes swirling down. They were so very pretty. Pixie would have loved them. I wonder if they have snow at the Bridge. I don't suppose they do, I've heard it's always warm and sunny there.
I miss Pixie very much, kitties...

Anyway, as I said, there were lots and lots of big white snowflakes dancing past the window panes. I couldn't stay by the window long, though, because it was too cold, so I went and curled up on the d-i-g-i-t-a-l  c-o-n-v-e-r-t-e-r instead. But I had to jump down and go and hide because Mummy had a man come to fix the flood on the balcony. At my time of life, one doesn't like strangers coming into one's Home.

It's really a shame there wasn't more snow. Mummy and I could have built a Snowcat:-) .

                              
And if it were to snow enough, the roads would be blocked and Mummy wouldn't be able to get to work tomorrow and She could spend the whole day with me. But the Weatherman says it's going to be slightly warmer, so no chance of that :-(

Have a lovely weekend, Kitties (Woofies and Humans too)...

More Guard Duty

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e-s and Humans)!

Would you believe it? She went and left Me all alone two nights in succession this week, to sleep over at her Daddy's place because he's been feeling a bit poorly of late and my Stepgranny had to go and look after my little Human cousins while their Mummy and Daddy were away for a short break at the Dead Sea!!!
She said that She knew she could count on Me , because I am such an excellent Watch Kitty. Of course, that's perfectly true. She said there was no danger of any Intruders or Unauthorized Visitors daring to invade Our Home, because I am such a Fierce and Fearless Feline that the moment they saw Me, they would turn tail and run. 
It's great to be appreciated...


But it was even better to have Her home again.



See how happy I am that She's back:

                        

Duty Calls

Greetings, Fellow Felines (and C-a-n-i-n-e and Human Friends as well)!

I must say, we Felines have to work very hard during the week. Every time my Human goes out, she tells me to be a good Watch Kitty and to guard our home against intruders and tiggerize any unauthorised visitors to pieces. You would think that, knowing how bored I get being home all on my own, she would just let me curl up somewhere warm and sleep till she gets back, but no! First of all, she objects to me lying on something she calls a  d-i-g-i-t-a-l           c-o-n-v-e-r-t-e-r,  because she says my furs will get inside it and stop it working properly. How can I make her understand that it keeps my tummy nice and warm?

Look, here is a picture of me lying on it.

Then, just when I have got nice and comfortable, she kitnaps me and moves me somewhere else, like her bedroom. She tells me that if I'm cold, I can snuggle up under the duvet. But she's just told me to stay on guard and protect Our Home! How can I do that if I'm hiding under the duvet???

Okay, so to make her happy, I make like I'm on guard.

See. Here I am - on guard:

 

Of course, nobody could expect me to stay like that all day. A Feline (especially a Senior Feline, such as myself) needs his beauty sleep. I am always alert. The slightest hint of an alien presence in the house and I'm wide awake. Naturally, I am conscious of my Human's presence, so if she comes home and I fail to greet her at the door, it is only because I sense it is her and know that it's all right to go on snoozing. That's how She managed to sneak up on me with her flashy box and take this:

                  

          
 

Naturally, I opened my eyes after that, just to show her how on the ball I am and that no-one can put one over on Me. But she didn't make any remarks about Sleeping on the Job. She only said how impossibly handsome I am. So I let her take one more picture, because although I am completely impervious to Flattery, I knew it would give Her pleasure to post this picture and show the Whole World how lucky she is that such a handsome mancat as I, has chosen her to be my Mummy.

P.S. I'm pretty lucky too, to have Her. I don't tell her that nearly as often as I should - just as I didn't tell Pixie often enough how much I loved her. But Pixie is an angel now, so she knows. And in future, I'm going to tell my Human every day how much I love her and what a wonderful Mummy she is. I've learned my lesson. We need to tell our Loved Ones how much we care for them right now and Every Day. Because if we put it off, we may wake up one day and find it's too late.