Happy Birthday

This is the Dad bean taking over for today. Today is Mommy's Birthday! Mommy got a beauutifuull card from Beau Beau and Angie, although I must admit they need to work on their penmanship. They both told me it was tough to write on the card with the pen. Beau Beau wanted to chew the pen but I got it out of his mouth quick enough. Beau Beau and Angie besides wishing Mommy a Happy Birthday want to thank her for all she does for them, playing with their favorite toys, buying toys and treats, feeding them sometimes when Daddy can't (sorry Daddy for walking on you five times this morning but we wanted to say Happy Birthday to Mommy at 4:30 am). We love you and thanks for giving us our forever home!
Daddy Bean

Beau Beau: Oh Mom how could you do this to me? I'm only letting you put this on my head since it's your purrthday.

Angie: There's no way she was getting that fing on my head!

Beau Beau: Here's a snowflake me an Angie made for you. If you click on the link it will take you to the snowflake place.

Secret Paws are here!

They're here! Our Secret paws came in the mail! And guess who sent them? ABBY and the gang! Wow. Fanks so much Abby, Boo, Jinx, Ping, and Gracie. Look at all the stuff! We gots a wobbyl ball, an a fev-ver stick and you all know how much we love fev-vers! Plus we got some magnets for the refrigermator and some cat giftie tags and a card and a letter and a purple mousie that bounces! And we can't forget the TEM-TAY-SHUNS! In a SOOPER Sized bag! Ohhh we feel faint there is so much to play wif ! Excuse us while we haul our goods off and play. Hey Angie let me play wif that. You're hogging all the toys.
Leave me alone Beau Beau. These are MY Fev-vers.

Early presents

Mom got this nice Goebel present from her former boss for her help on a web project. It is dancing angels and very pretty. Thank you very much Laura because now I got the box and it is ALL MINE. Stay OUT Beau Beau. There is no room in here for you. I'm the only one around here who can fit in small boxes.
Purrs, Angie

Mean beta blogger

I put the bitey on beta blogger. That nasty beta blogger isn't letting us post to any beta blog. Just so you know. We tried and tried and it IS very trying to say the least. They must be doing it on purpose so that people will have to switch over or they won't be able to post. We didn't realize how attached we've become to everyone and it's furry frustrating to have communication cut off. Ok enuf of the morning rant. Everyone have a good day and hopefully things will be better later. To all those we couldn't post to, you're all in our thoughts and prayers. Be well.

Tuesday's Tail

No one can see me under here. I just know it. Beau Beau will nefur know I'm here. Wait till he walks by an I pounce on him. Hee hee.

Cookies?

Holy cookie baking day Batman! Did you efur see so many cookies at once? Mom are you gonna eat all dem cookies? I am on a food restriction plan but you gets to eat all dem?! Dat's not fair! Angie! Help me put the bitey on somefin.


These kind are Toll House cookies wif M&M's in dem.

These are Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
Dis is Mom's friend, Karen. She and Mom made all dem cookies. Looks like they were doing more than just baking cookies.

These are peanut butter blossoms that Karen makes.

Friday Fir Tree

Yep, I finks this tree will do. It's not too tall and the star will fit on the top. We think the tree is a Douglas Fir. The beans were looking for a Balsam tree but ended up wif this one. That's what the get for walking in the Christmas tree field right afore sundown so they had to pick one quick.
I tasted it too. Yep. Tastes like a Fir tree. It's official. Yes, it is ok to put the stuff on now.
~Beau Beau

Christmas Wreef

We gots a nice wreef fur a Christmas decoration. Beau Beau immediately jumped in the middle of it and posed. Whatcha' lookin at Beau Beau? Santa's not here yet. Yur so silly. Phbtttttth.

Wide Body Wednesday & Secret Paws

BB: Urmmmmppphh. I'm jus lookin. Dat's all. Sniff, sniff, sniff. Are you sure efurrything is in here Mom? Our Secret Paws is gonna be really happy. Let me just make sure again. Sniff, sniff, ahhhhh. You sure you want to give that nip Mom? I could play wif it fur a while. It's awfully strong for a little guy. That's who our secret paws is right? He's not too old. Maybe he doesn't want the nip.

Mom: Yes, Beau, he does want the nip. He loves nip too just like you.

BB: But am you sure? Do you haf the right colors in there?

Mom: He likes Blue and Green too just like you.

BB: He's gonna be really happy then acoz there am blue and green fings in dere.

Mom: Yes, we hope he'll like his secret paws gifts.

BB: Hurry and send it Mom will ya?

Mom: OK Beau. We'll be sending as soon as we get to the P.O.

BB: Yayyyy! Are you sure you want to send him the nip.....

Tummy Tuesday

Tuesday should be sunny tummy Tuesday. And no, I didn't haf any nip afore this picshur.
Fanks efurryone fur all your Gotcha Day wishes to me. The temptations have been eaten all up. We will be hosting some more treats and snacks on Dec. 16th for a Christmas Party. More info to come.

~Angie

Angie's Gotcha Day!

Today, December 4, is Angie's Gotcha day. One night last year I had a dream about a furry white cat. After that I couldn't get it out of my mind to adopt a cat. I started the process by looking on line and was subconciously looking for her. It was like an obsession with me to find a cat. My fiance and I went to the Meriden Humane Society which is a town over from us. Then we found Beau first. I thought he was the one even though he wasn't furry. Then I still had this burning obsession to go find another cat. Online I went again searching through tons of photos of cats. I ended up going back again to the shelter myself this time in December. I remember standing in the middle of the cat room with about a hundred cats around me. I kept looking around and then I felt paws on my leg. I looked down and there she was. She was stretching her arms up to me crying to be picked up. I reached down to pick her up and she clung to me for dear life. She kept schooching up on me till she was practically wrapped around my neck. I new then that she was the one I had been looking for.

Angelica is the most precious girl and she is such a little lady. She has the softest fur you could ever imagine and it unbelievably never gets tangled. I can't imagine how she ended up at the shelter in the first place. Maybe whoever had her had passed away because she is such a well behaved beautiful girl. We both needed each other to love and I thank God that she came into our lives and really believe that an Angel sent me to find her. Happy Gotcha Day beautiful Angie!
~Angie's Mom, Brenda

We've left a variety of Temptations out as a treat for the day for efurryone to snack on. So come on by and help yourself.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness

The mystery is solved. Scooby, Shaggy, & Scout almost guessed it. They thought we were getting new carpet and we might have if the carpet didn't come clean.

We KNEW there was somefin up espeshully when we had to go in the basement and Mommy closed the door! But our food dishes we there and they had crunchies in dem. At least we didn't haf to starve. But then we kep hearing these noises, errrrr, eerrrrr, rrrrrrr and a big metal monster was outside. We culd see it from the winder. It was making noises too. Finally it gotted real quiet and the door opened. We went to run up the stairs and they were wet! And all our smells were gone! Now where do you fink our smells went?
Mom says she was mighty em-bare-assed acoz as you can see in the picshur the carpet was really dirty. The carpet man said our metal monster wif the hose wasn't doing the job in getting all our hairs out of the carpet. Plus it was dirty and making the carpet efun dirtier. Mom didn't want to em-bare-ass herself further an tell da man she hardly efur bacuums anyway. Now our job is to put our smells back where they belong.

Now what's up?

Now what the heck is going on??? Why are all our sleeping spots, sittting spots, and hiding under fings now in the kitchen? Somefin is going on. And our food! Where did our food dishes go? You were giving us puny enuf amounts already and now our dishes are GONE!
I don't know but I'm staying right here until fings go back to normal.
That's it. I'm puttin the bitey on somefin.

Where's my food?

ACK! What the??? Is that all the food yur giving me? Where's the rest of it? I'm gonna starve with those puny portions. Look at me. I'm shrinking already! I think I'm going to be protesting loudly just when you least expect it. Yeah. Some surprise packages might be a good idea too. And where's my Tem-tay-shuns? I'm not liking this at all. I might have to put the bitey on somefing.

~Biffed Beau Beau

Tummy Tuesday

Hah! I'm in charge now Beau Beau. Do as I say or I'll poke yur tummy!

~Angie

v.e.t. visit

Today we went to the v.e.t. fur our annual checkup. Here we are afore we wented to see the v.e.t. lady. Angie said that box am too big for her. Plus I guess she can't read acoz that's my box and it has my last name on it.

This am Angie's box that I had to check out fur her. This box is too small for me. She has to go in this box coz she tries to claw her way out of the ofur one and makes her nails bleed.

Finally I got Angie outta the way and here I am waiting patiently. My box is just the right size. Mommy efun putted my favrit leezard in wif me to play wif on the way there. We already asked afore bout getting our vaccinations and thanks to you all Mommy said no to the v.e.t. lady when she was getting ready to gived us the FVRCP shot. The v.e.t. lady said that Mom must read the internet to know bout getting the rabies shot in our rear leg too. But I has to go on a mini diet cuz I weigh 13-1/2 lbs. Mommy doesn't want to worry bout die-abeet-ees eifur. Nasty cancer related vaccinations that makes yur leg get cutted off or worse are bad enuf! I guess that means no more eating half of Angie's food.

Then on the way back from the vet Daddy stopped to feed the metal monster we was riding in. I gotted to look out the window and I saw an efun bigger metal monster go by! Mom says it was a train. My first train. How aciting!

Morning Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Fur all those who asked here is the recipe for the Morning Pumpkin Coffee Cake from Vegetarian Times, October 1, 2006 or it's here on their website vegetariantimes.com.

Morning Pumpkin Coffee Cake 01-OCT-06 77
Serves 12 -- Ovo-Lacto

This streusel-topped treat tastes so rich, no one will guess it’s chock-full of good-for-you ingredients such as oats and whole-wheat pastry flour.


Coffee Cake
2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour or all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1 Tbs. baking powder
1 Tbs. ground cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 3/4 cups fresh or canned pumpkin purée-

Streusel Topping
1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour or all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
4 Tbs. butter, melted

Directions:
1. To make Coffee Cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Coat 10-inch square pan with nonstick spray.
2. Combine flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt in large bowl. Beat butter and sugar in separate bowl until fluffy. Mix eggs and pumpkin into butter mixture. Gradually stir flour mixture into pumpkin mixture. Spread in pan.
3. To make Streusel Topping: Mix all ingredients together until crumbly. Spread on coffee cake. Bake 1 hour, or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool at least 10 minutes, then slice into squares, and serve.
PER SERVING: 404 CAL; 7 G PROT; 15 G TOTAL FAT (8 SAT. FAT); 64 G CARB.; 86 MG CHOL; 306 MG SOD.; 5 G FIBER; 33 G SUGARS


Pooped out after Turkey Day. Mom brought home some turkey from Auntie Patty's and we got to have some.
Hope you all had lots of food, friendship, family, and fun on Fanksgiving!
~Filled-up Angie

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our cat blogger friends, human friends, and family and everyone! Hope you all enjoy this day and give thanks to everything you are thankful for. Today we are thankful to our humans for giving us our furever home and for finding such nice warm wonderful cat friends and humans here in blogger world. Thank you all for giving us something to smile and laugh about each and every day as well as advice, friendship, caring, and the realization that there are others in the world that we should be kind to and care about every day. We only hope that we have given something back to you all as well. God Bless you all.
Love, Beau Beau & Angie Since it's such a foody day here's Pumpkin Coffee Cake to get you drooling. Mom thought it was the first recipe she efur made that came out looking like the picshur! It was from Vegetarian Times and was very yummy. Enjoy all the good foods and things in life today!

Watched Pot Wednesday

A watched pot never boils. I managed to just fit my wide body up up onna shelf I found. I know I'm not apposed to be up here but I am. Mommy took me down after she found me. I was all quiet like and she didn't efun see me - hee hee. I scared her when she finally saw me. It am a nice place to lay though coz I can see where Angie is and she doesn't come up here.
~Beau Beau

Sleepy Girl

I don't do this often but I decided to take a little nappie on Daddy. Since he wouldn't feed me at the table I did the next best fing and found a place on his shoulder to sleep.
~Angie

Nipped out

Mine nip. Mine Mine. That's mine nip. Leave it alone. I'm gonna sleep on it.
After the zonking out I let Beau Beau haf some nip too. By then I didn't care. Purrs. ~Angie

Helping Daddy

Can you see how we am helping Daddy fix the island? He finally put the top on so it won't flip off. We had to check to make sure he was doing it right. Angie was talking to him while he was werking. I was paying close attenshun fur when I had to help him wif the next project.
~Beau Beau

Wide Body Wednesday

My picshur could have been on Tummy Tuesday but we opted for wide body Wednesday instead. This is mine comfortable sofa. All mine. I can be as wide body as I want on it. Mom says I'm eating way too much. Well she feeds me then she gives me more food. The ofur night we efun had a taste of some vishhus deer that the neighbor hunted and gave us. The humans ated so much of it that there was hardly any left fur us. It was really good though, efun better than stinky goodness.
~Bountiful Beau Beau

Tussleing Tuesday

Not sure Tusseling is a werd but its what we are doing here. See how she attacks me! Mom always thinks it's me attacking Angie but look! Look how I has to protect myself.
~Bruised Beau Beau

Flash back

We has something we want to ask you all about but first we have to tell you the story about about Mom's cat from before, Tiger. Tiger was a big boy as you can see. He was Mom's first and special puddin. Since he was with her from when she was first out on her own they went through a lot of growing up together and had a special bond. Tiger was like her baby and he only liked her (and that's the way she liked it coz he was her very own and she didn't have to SHARE him with anyone, 'cept the other man from before). He was pretty much scared of efurryone else. She doesn't mind sharing us though coz we are such nice puddins, hee hee.

Now comes the scary part and something we want to ask you all a question about. You see, Tiger ended up with a viscious vaccine-induced cancer called malignant lymphoma. The tumor started right at the injection site on the back of his neck where they used to give the vaccinations. Now they're supposed to give them further down from yur neck so in case you get this cancer they can chop yur leg off - real smart huh? (oh yeah stupid v.e.t. lose a leg instead of sticking the sticky thing up yur... oops, sorry Mom). Anyway, Tiger had a big growth that the v.e.t. thought was a cyst and then they surgically tried to remove it. It was too late because it was so big it had spread all around his neck. After the surgery in the next couple months all little cancer growths popped up all around his neck. It didn't take too long before he was gone. So, Mom is very nervous about going to the v.e.t. to get us our rabies shots because they will want to give us the other bad vaccination too. She doesn't want us to have anything other than what the stupid State requires by law which is even more stupid because we are not allowed to wander outside! The question is, have any of you told your v.e.t. you don't want the vaccine shot (FVRCP)? If so, did the v.e.t. give you a hassle about it? We don't want any sticky thing anywhere. We're scared.

Pumpkin mania

Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin coffee cake, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin martini. All these pumpkin things. Can you think of any more pumpkin recipes?

Pumpkin Update:

Pumpkin fritters, pumpkin custard, pumpkin bread, pumpkin donuts, pumpkin pancakes (Mom had those last weekend and didn't give us any), pumpkin seeds, pumpkin soup, pumpkin butternut soup, pumpkin mashed potatoes, pumpkin cookies, roasted pumpkin, pumpkin puddin, pumpkin mousse, pumpkin squash, and pumpkin ice cream, and finally, pumpkin jellow!.

Chimney Sweep

Well the door to the fire box was open. I just had to go in there to see what was in there. It's my job to check efurrything out. It's a dirty job but someone has to do it. Getting ash smudgies on me just adds to my charm.

Efurryone sing along:

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-oo!
Good luck will rub off when
I shake 'ands with you
Or blow me a kiss
And that's lucky too

Now as the ladder of life
'As been strung
You may think a sweep's
On the bottommost rung

Though I spends me time
In the ashes and soot
In this 'ole wide world
There's no 'appier bloke

Up where the smoke is
All billered and curled
'Tween pavement and stars
Is the chimney sweep world

When the's 'ardly no day
Nor 'ardly no night
There's things 'alf in shadow
And 'alf way in light
On the roof tops of London
Coo, what a sight!

I choose me bristles with pride
Yes, I do
A broom for the shaft
And a broom for the flume

Though I'm covered with soot
From me 'ead to me toes
A sweep knows 'e's welcome
Wherever 'e goes

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
When you're with a sweep
You're in glad company

No where is there
A more 'appier crew
Than them wot sings
"Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!"
On the chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee
Chim cher-oo!

Chim Chim Cheree
Performed by: Bert (Dick Van Dyke)Written by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

Mine bed

The last of the Indian Summer days are ending. The yukky cold weather is here.
This is mine spot in the human's bed. Stay out Beau Beau. I'm going to stay right here and snuggle up till Spring comes.