Tuesday Tummy

Bet yoo were expecting a tummy shot right?  Well it's about owr tummies alright.    Da door wuz open so we could come an go and it wuz time to eat and where were owr hyoomans?  Not where we wanted dem in da kitch-hen dats fur shure.   We can tell what time it is.  Why can't dey?  Hey beans!  Get in here an feed us!  Geez.

Mancat Monday

I'm goin pink for da cause.   I lost mine collar an da lady gotted me a PINK tag to replace it.  I finks she might haf color ish-shoes though.   Altho dis would probably look reely good on Skeezix I finks it clashes wif da blue collar.  Don't ya fink so?

~Beau Beau

Mancat Monday

Oh where oh where ha-asssss Beau Beau been oh where oh where... Oh here I am!  I know I been gone a long time, efur since da lost mousie incident.  So I wanted to show yoo where i has been.  Yoo can hardlee see me in dis little picshure but I haf been owtside a lot!  See me sittin on da piknik table?  And see dat tree to da left of me?  Well dat's where da squirrels howse is.  I has dis little game I play where I watch dem so I can POUNCE on dem!  I loves to chase da squirrels.  We has lots of fun.  It is kinda funny cuz once I chase dem back up to da tree, den dey chatters an yells at me ofur an ofur.  Dey make little piggie noises.  It am so funny!  Akshully, no one seems to fink it am too funny, cept me!  Hee heeeee!

But anyway, back to da lost mousie story.   Mom could not find owr Magic Mousie, da one dat makes da 'puter fing move, anywhere.   Well, I kinda knew where it wuz (snickers...) but since hyoomans cannot unnerstand us all dat much, I could not tell her where it wuz.  So, after she wented an bought anofur mousie, guess what happened?  One night she brought da 'puter in da bedroom so she could werk in her sleep I guess, an what do yoo fink happened?  Alla sudden da 'puter showed dat it wuz connecting to da mousie!  Now dare wuz no mousie anywhere on da bed or on da bed table or on da floor all da time she had been looking for it.   So she looked unner da bed one more time cuz she knew it wuz in da room somewhere, and lo and behold, dare it wuz, at da foot of da bed all hidden away unner da covers an all da huge dust bunnies dat are bigger den me.  (um, werd to da lady, a little cleanin here might be a good fing once in a while, ahem.)   If she had only brought da puter in da room a little sooner she would haf found it.  Or if she used her head and just walked around wif da puter it would haf found da mousie sooner too.  Now she knows da next time I push da 'puter mousie around some where she knows how to find it.  Kinda takes da fun owt of it ya know?

~Purrs to all,
Beau Beau

Mine Mousie Trubble on Thursday

Mine Magic Mouse is missing.  Yoo see it here in dis pikshure rite?  Well he must have runned away cuz me can't find him anywhere.  Me looked unner mine food dish, on da island, on da desk, in my stinky goodness bowl, behind da sofa, unner mine bed, me looked efurrywhere.  Him is gone.  Mine mousie has runned away.  If any of yoos see him can yoo tell him to come home please?  Owr bloggin lady duz not like to use da 'puter wifout him.  It's some weird human fing.  But she's da one wif da thumbs so if me wants to blog I need her help.  Fank yoo.

I sneer at da little imposter

What?  Yoo finks dis is funny?  Please.  I don't look dat bad do I?

Yur not even real!  Yoo smell like nuffin!

Let's see how yoo like going for a ride, hah!

See ya, little Beau Beau imposter.

Smiley Boy

I gotted to be outside while da lady wuz takin pictures of my human cousins.  Dat's why I gots dis big smile on mine face.  Plus I wuz OUTSIDE!  I gets to go out wif snoopervision of course.  I keeps da beans furry bizzy runnin all around da yard after me.  First I start by sniffin all on da back side of da house (see da picshure below).

Looking frew mine windows is not da same as going outside.  I can't catch any real mousies from inside ya know.   Dis is also da big house dat da beans been werking on since we mooved here last year.  Dat's why we don't blog so much anymore.  Mine beans are work-a-haulics.  Dey always haulin somefin around like trees an wood an pieces of da howse an dirt an old stuff.  We jus watch an snicker a lot.  Da lady is also werkin on a new blog to talk about mid century modern houses like ours.  Bet she duzn't haf time for dat blog either!  

We am also so sorry to hear about da loss of two of our favrite an most handsome man cat furriends, Fat Eric and Luxor.  It truly is a sad time for all of us, but a happy one for all our furriends from before because now dey get to play wif dem over da Rainbow Bridge.  We'll never forget you dear friends.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday's Story - Our new fur Cousins have a Fur-ever Home

We hafs a story to tell yoo about owr new fur cuzins, Shadow and Indy.  Way back in March when Mom had a hurty back dat hurt like H#LL she went to a Chiropractor Doctor to get better.   One day when was at there, she saw dis ad:

“Due to relocation across the country, we are seeking a home for our 2 indoor cats.  They are brother (orange/white) and sister (tortie) and need to stay together.  They are neutered and spayed and litterbox trained. Both are very friendly once they get to know you although they are more skittish with little ones.  They like to play but are not aggressive and don’t bite.  They have claws but don’t use them on people.  If provided a good outlet to scratch – post or rug, furniture is safe.  They have never been outside and don’t want to be.  Window watching is perfect.  “

Da picture of dem two kitteh's wuz so cute Mom could not stop finking bout dem.  We wuz gonna put da word owt so schmaybe someone on da Blogosphere might take dem but Mom had no extra energy after working cuz of da pain in her back (and her head probably).  But, all fings are for a reason so…  owr human Grammy and her man friend, Big Dan (almost Grampy) came over to bisit one day and lo and behold, dey said dey were looking for not one but TWO CATS!  Well, Mom almost peed her pants wif acitement, cuz she had been thinking about dose Brofur an Sister cats back at da Chiro place.  

Next fing yoo know, Mom got in touch wif da two cat's Mommy, Jill, and 

put her in touch wif Big Dan an Grammy.  Grammy an Big Dan got all acited too (we finks dey peed dare pants wif acitement also, -- must be a fambly fing) an wanted to meet Jill’s cats, Shadow an Indy.  Grammy went to meet dem an fell in love!   It took a couple of weeks an they finally brought Shadow an Indy to dare new furever home.

 

Da first nite dey both hid under da bed.  Dey are smart cats cuz dey opened all da doors inside da howse while Grammy an Big Dan were sleeping trying to sleep.  Shadow, our new Tortie Cuzin, warmed up to dem first.  Den after about a whole week, Indy, da new Ginger on da block, finally came owt from under da bed. 

When dey got used to da place, dey prolly peed dare own pants wif acitement when dey saw all da new fings to play wif, an places to see an fings to do.  Dey also got to celebrate dare 4^th birfday together on July 23^.  

Mommy went to meet Shadow an Indy just a couple days ago an dey were furry nice to her and let her take all kinds of pictures of dem.   Dey has lots of toys, Indy gets to chase around da red dot jus like me, an dey eats lots of stinky goodness and dry food (mom says dey am gonna get fat if dey keep dat up).   Plus dey has a HUGE kitty condo and another kitty place where Shadow sleeps, and lots of hidey places and best of all, a door to look out where da squirrels come right up and stare at dem frew da glass!  WOW! 

We loves it when kittehs gets a furever home and we are so happy dat it worked owt for all.   It seems like all dat pain Mom went frew was all for a good purpose in da end. 

Here are some happy pictures of da new fambly (check owt dese two pawsome kittehs):

Shadow in her nice sleepy place

Indy playin wif da lite -- Look at his handsome ginger color!

Indy playin wiff his fevver mousie or fishy

Shadow  has her own kitteh condo - see da little door she gets to go in?  She wuz used to having a wood fire box fing in her last howse so she will be right at home come winter here in Connecticat.

Grammy wif Shadow on da couch.  She  is so happy Shadow is so lovey-dovey.

Um, owr new cuzins haf a big kitty condo (Mooommmmmm we need one of dem!).  Looks like it is big enuf for us if we want to bisit.

If yoo stuck around long enuf to read all dis, THANK YOU!  

It's interesting how things happen and makes you wonder even more about the Universe.  Angels were listening to make this happen.  

We will show how fings are going wif dem from time to time.  

Keep the faith, trust, and be happy!

Purrs,

~Beau Beau & Angie

Silly Saturday

Hey!  Who turned up da heat in Connecticat?  Mom says it feels like Nawlins here today.  An from what she says dat is reeeeely humid an hot.  It is so humid mine furs are wet.   I found a nice spot to lay here in dis one flower pot dat has no flowers in it.  Dare is some dirt tho an I likes to get dat all ofur me.  Time to turn in an get a few zzzzzzz's till suppertime.

~Lufs, Angie

Angie's Mousie Monday

Lookit my mousie I caught!  Him is smaller den my big paw!  Well, It's not akshully a mousie, but it shure looks, acts, moves, and smells like a mousie.  Me an Beau Beau been trackin dis little vermin fur lots of days now.  But I finally gots him.  I has to give Beau Beau a little credit cuz I finks he tired him out from chasing and pouncing on him da last couple of days.  Mom says him is prolly a mole.  I tossed him around a little an den I gots tired of playin wif him.  Den Mom figgured he was done fur but when she gotted closer him wuz still breathing.  We finks him wuz playing Possum.   So she picked him up an frew him back in da Packa-sandra.  Kinda like when yoo catches a fish an frow his back to catch him again later.  Hee heeee.   So I finks I haf a date wif a tired out moley-mousie today.

~Angie, da Mole Hunter.

Mancat Monday

See mine spot 13?  Dis is how cats say hello to each other, by turning around an sticking dare butts in da other cats face.   I got in da middle of mom's flashy picshures.  Plus I am goin to attack dis flower fing. I likes to pull all dose funny long fings out and drag dem around da howse. 

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Oops I got caught in da middle of da picture taking!  I finks I make a grrrreat model huh?

Beau Beau

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day and Fourth of July!  Look - I has freedom and independence from da house!  I broke away an gots to go owtside.  Dat's my freedom and I appreciate it as all of us who has freedom from tear-anny today.  Dat's what independence day is all about.  Freedom.  Appreciate efurry moment dat you has freedom.  Freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom who hoooo freedom! 

Freedom is wonderful no matter where you are or where you are from.  Enjoy every moment of life.  Happy Independence Day America!

Angie gets independence efurry day.  She gets to go owtside but dat's becuz she behaves herself.  I sniffs around an den I run off and it scares da beans.  So I gots to go back in da howse again.

See, I found da place where I yoosually look at from above.  I can smell all kinds of fings down here.  I was sniffin da trail of a mousie under da leaves.  I like mine independence.  I hope I gets to go owtside again today.

Furry Friday

Ok Mommie, will yoo please stop takin picshures of me when I'm tryin to sleep?  I has to get my sleepies in cuz wif all da bang bang noises dat will be going on dis weekend I gots to get it all in when I can.  Oh, and yes, I like to make a statement wif mine leggies and tail look.  Kyoot don't yoo finks?

Happy Fourth of July weekend!  It's FURRRRRRRRIIIIIDAYYYY!  PAAAARTY!  Oh wait.  No one parties around here.  It has become furry borrrrring in dis howse wif all da work goin on.  Well, all of yoo has fun dis weekend!  I will be nappin.  Well, at least for a couple hours.

Purrs, Beau Beau

Thursdays Tales

Gasp!  It has been HOW LONG since we been on owr bloggie?  Me an Angie been hissin an yowlin at owr Mom bean trying to get her to help us cuz yoo know we cats can't do dis by owrselves.   Lots of fings been going on.  Since Mom had a hurty back we finks she had a lazy hurty head too since she did not help us wif owr bloggie.  But finally, her hurty back/butt went from feelin like a vice grip was on her butt to feelin like a baggie clip was attached to it an sometimes some fuzzy tinglin in her foot comes an goes.  Sometimes da hurty back likes to give her a little jolt down her leg too jus to let her know dat Sigh-atticka is still dare. 
Den owr Daddy bean's Daddy went over da bridge just a couple weeks ago.  He was just shy a couple days from his 89th birfday.  Da family celebrated his long life, love of family, and his service to his country. 
Collij Girl came home for the summer until she goes back to collij dis time in Chicago at Northwestern Yoo.  She's a little scairt so effurybody send her some courage thots.  Fanks.
Mommy has been bizzy bizzy bizzy at werk and den a nice happy lady came to help at werk so werk is lots of fun now.
Plus Mom bean has been learnin lots more bout picshure takin and usin BIG flashy lights.  I likes to jump on da big white paper she gots up on da wall.  It makes big noises and I can put lots of dirty paw purrints on it.  We has picshures to post too.
Dat's da big stuff dat has been goin on since May.  We will be makin da rounds checkin on whats goin on wif efurryone. 
Purrs and kisses,
Beau Beau da repurrter

Table Paws

We swear dis was not us putting owr paws on da table! Ferst, we do not haf such nicely shaped paw purrints (altho dey am pretty close to bein dat purrfect, jus sayin). Reely, owr beans saw dis nice table in Bar Harbor, Maine at da Two Cats Cafe. What a great name for a place huh? Hey wait, dare am two of us cats here. How come we don't haf a food place named after us? Well since we don't haf a place like dat, we want a table wif owr paw purrints on it jus like dat. We finks we can do dat furry nicely if we get purrmisshun acourse. What yoo finks?

A little privacy please

Excuuuuusssse us!  Can't yoo see we is in da middle of takin our baff?  Geez, some cats nefur gets a little privacy around here.  An don't disturb us while we is takin owr nap eeder.  Hrmph.  Da next fing, yoo know, yoo will be watchin us go to da baffroom too. 
 
  

Fun on Friday

OK where is dat birdie?  Here birdie birdie birdie.  Come an get some water in da bird baff.  I'll help yoo.  :snickers:

~Angie

Fabulous Friday

Today is a fabulous day cuz it is Furriday of course.  Note to da lady of da house.  Next time in da middle of da nite when i am sleepin an haffin a good dream an twitchin an stuff, do NOT move abruplee an almost scare da pee an poop outta me.  I fot I wuz gonna haf da big one.  Jus sayin.

~Beau Beau

Wordless Wednesday

~Angie

Toosdays Toes

It was time for mine man-a-cure.  Pay no attenshun to da lady's wine cork in da picshure!  Only focus on da tool of da trade, da nail cuttin fing.  I inspekted it ferst before I efun let her near me wif dat fing.  Good fing she drank da wine da nite before or no way she wuz comin near me wif dat.  We seen what she did to Daddie's hair one time when she drank wine and started cuttin. 
Oh nose.  So yoo can see how nice an trim mine paw is.  No nail stickin owt.   Now I finks I am going to find mine love, Powder.  Haf a happy Toosday!

Beau Beau

Feel the Fear

"Named must your fear be before banish it you can" ~ Yoda

 

I will let da food lady say a few werds today.  After all, she helps me cuz I only has paws to press da keys.

Thank you everyone for your nice comments on my photos.  Some of you were interested in where I take my online photography classes.  Most of them have been through Better Photo.com.  I save up my money and take a class now and then.  I like the format and the fact that they are online so I can spend my time taking photos and upload them directly to the class.  It also motivates me to take the photos!  I have no affiliation with better photo.com other than I have taken four classes with them.  There are plenty to choose from and I started in the discovery mode to find out what kind of photography I liked best besides taking pictures of my furry loves, Beau Beau an Angie. I highly recommend Tony Sweet's "Image Design, Revealing your Personal Vision" class.   When I first happened upon that class I got that Universal high that you only get when you feel you are on the right path to making something happen.  

So, thanks for your comments as it helps to lessen my fear about moving forward with my dream to be a professional photographer.  I always have the fear that my work is not good enough and I'm still fighting the fear of some day being a full time photographer.  Having this blog is what has helped me to take photo upon photo of the best subjects in the world, our wonderful furry friends.

Forget your fears and follow your dreams my friends!

Brenda 

XO

Wiggy Wednesday

Eye see yoo!  Hahahaha!  What da heck is dat?  I don't fink it's hyooman an it hafs no body.  It's somefin Mommie wuz takin picshures of for an online class she is takin.  It is so dats she can take efun more better picshures of me!  I see more flashy fings goin off in da future. 

Here is a link to her picshure gallery if yoo want to take a look at what she made from her photo classes. 

~Purrs, Beau Beau

Mancat Blogger

Now I hope yoo am all payin 'tenshun cuz I found da perfect position to blog in.  Yoo wait till da typist gets fings all set up jus rite (which lately works for me cuz she still has a hurty butt) wif da laptop on her lap.  Den I snuggles in wif juuuuuust enuf room for her to still type.  I can watch what her am doin and put owt a paw now an den to gif da ok when she gets it rite.  I find dis to be da bestest way to blog and to get snuggles at da same time.  Da benefit to dis also is da puter is warm so mine butt gets warmed up too.  It's da best.  Da lady likes to talk to me lots dis way too.  She says fings like "cmon Beau Beau can yoo move over a little", "cmon Beau Beau, I'm tryin to werk".  I know how much I'm helpin' her.  Dat's what a mancat is for rite?

Purrs, Beau Beau

Furry Friday

It's finally Friday and it's a furry one.  It's about time da blog hogger Beau Beau let me on.  While he's bizzy haffin fun wif da sighko bunny dat is runnin around left ofur from Easter I'm haffin a groom fest.  It's not easy to keep up wif all dis furry fur.  So I's gettin reddy fur da weekend.  It's da WEEKEND!  Yayyyyy!  Da beans finally get to be home all alone wif us for two whole days.  Altho dey said dey would take time owt to bisit owr Uncle Dan's food place and get some Thai food.  Uncle Dan an Aunt Salika makes reeely good Thai and Lao food.  We can't eat dat tho cuz it is kinda hot.  Maybe dey will bring us some shrimpies anyway.
Haf a great weekend efurryone!

Mancat Monday

Get him off me!  Get him off meeeeeee!  Dat bunny herd I wuz gonna eat him an he's not too happy. Him is pretty strong for such a small bunny.  Heeeellllllppppp!  Mancats to da rescue!

Hoppy Easter

Hope efurryone has a Hoppy Easter!  I gots dis bunny rabbit in mine kitchen.  I don't know who let him in but he has eaten all da easter eggs an bunny grass we had growin. 
Whispers:  Shhhh.  I don't fink he knows we eats rabbits...:

From Mom Brenda:
On the more religious side, Happy Easter to all. 
"I am the resurrection, and the life:  he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live"
John 11:25

Easter service was very nice today.  We were reminded by the Reverend of promises fulfilled, and to "roll away the stones that lock us in tombs where we cling to wounds, bitterness, and unbelief."   Enjoy your Easter Sunday, live in the now and enjoy each and every precious moment today and everyday.

Tuesdays Tales

I been missin my 'puter for so long, dat I started kissin it when I finally saw it opened again.  Mom says I am sick! sick! sick! for lickin a puter.  Yoo didn't know, but I haf dis obsesshun wif lickin surfaces.  I lick wood.  I lick da granite counters.  I lick da chairs.  I lick da wood floor.  Mom says I am reeeeely weird. Hey if it makes yoo feel good den I say go fur it! 

~Beau Beau

Finally Friday

Finally Friday after a loooooong week.  Jus wanted to show yoo how I helped Mom wif her back.  I showed her she jus gots to lay ofur da chair an hang her arms down jus like dis an den she would feel better.  She tooked mine advice an did dat lots of times.  Don't know if any of yoo has had sigh-atticka a.k.a. sciatica but it is a hurty fing and not a pretty sight to see a human hangin' ofur da chair.  Hahahahaha!
So jus a warnin' to all yoo humans owt dare, do not sit in yur chair for all hours of da day wifout moovin.  Get up an stretch jus like us cats do.  If yoo will notice, yoo will see dat we stretch efurry time we when we get up to do somefin.  An although we lay around a lot we do not sit for hours on owr butts.  So people - get up an move!  Enjoy yur weekend and get some exercise ok?

Luvs, us

Missing Everyone

We been missin efurryone.  We hope yoo did not furget about us.  Mom bean has been home wif an owie in her back fur a long time it seems.  We luvs haffing her home 'cept she does not do much but lay down a lot.  We tried to be like a heatin' pad for her sometimes.  We tried to get on da  puter by owrselfs but dat is pretty hard to do so we had to wait till she gots better enuf to sit in da chair for more den a few minutes. 
In da mean time, Spring has sprung an we gots to go owt on owr deck to try to catch some birdies.  Plus all dem Sparrow birdies are nestin' in da roof an we get to see dem go in and out, in and out all day.  Dat is lots of fun. Have a good week efurryone!

Fun on Friday wif owr Ham-Micks!

We got new Ham-Micks from Forty Paws! Woooo Hoooooo! We lufs dem! We had so much fun opening da box (wif a little help acourse from da beans). Den we rubbed owr noses all ofur dem and gotted all worked up so we could take a little nap rite away on owr new Ham-Micks.

First we had to make sure efurrying wuz owt of da box.

Den we inspeckted da pretty fishes on da material dat we made owr bed owt of. Effuryting wuz in good order.
Ohhhh la laaaaaaa! Yes! We luf owr new Ham-Micks! And dey smell so good too! Hee heeee.

It took about one minute for me to jump on and den relax in my new Ham-mick. I finks I will be spending lots of time just sitting here and taking my little cat naps. It is so nice cuz I do not haf to sit on da floor. And, my Ham-Mick is just da rite size.

My Ham-mick wuz da rite size for me too. It looks a little small here but dats cuz I was in such a hurry to lay down on it.

When da food Daddie came home he laffed an laffed cuz he did not know what a Ham-Mick wuz. We asked him to buy dem for us but he did not know what dey would look like. He wuz happy wif owr purrchase.
Fanks Forty Paws!

Lufs,

Beau Beau and Angie