Friends on Friday - Part III of the Move

Before the Ts tell the rest of our move story we wanted to say hi to all the friends we've known from all the past years and new ones of cat blogging. As Beau Beau and Angie, it was a time for creativity and a place to make new friends. Since they have passed many life changes have happened. It's time to focus more on our newest furry friends, Tommy and Teaghan, time to renew friendships, and time to meet new ones here in blogger land.  And a special thanks for Ann at Zoolatry who helped to get us blogging again with a new header and answers to questions!

Tommy:  Where did we leave off? Oh yeah the ride from h#ll.  Teaghan sang the song of her people all the way, with a twist, singing "ma ooooh" "ma ooooh" all the way until our Meomy finally let her out of our purrison and held her on her lap. Then it was my turn on her lap except I still kept panting. 

We left in the dark and when we finally got out of the car it was dark again. We thought we were home until we got inside the new place.  It smelled like a herd of woofies and other kitties were in there.  We sniffed around and around. Where was our stuff? Where in da world were we? 

Mom and the Food Daddy told us were in a place called North Carolina. We were going to live in this condo until we went to another house. It was really warm here in Caroliney and we had a real porch to go out on so we could breathe fresh outside air and watch birdies all day!  

Teaghan:  Everything was ok once we sniffed the place out. And then we heard it. The scary noise from above. Someone was above us. Clomp clomp stomp stomp they went. Back and forth and back and forth. What kind of monster was up there? What was it? And is that the noise of a wolfie? clickity clickity clickity nails back and forth from room to room.  We ran from room to room thinking someone was going to come through the ceiling! Mom would get scared from the noise and jump up and say bad werds at the ceiling. Lots of bad werds. Werds we never heard before.

Teaghan looking up at the ceiling when the people above us were stomping around every time they went from the couch to the kitchen area.

Tommy watching the people go by from the screened in porch

Us in our bedroom so we could sleep near our humans

This was another room we played in sometimes. Usually just wanted to get our furs on it. Not too much stomping in here. Sometimes Daddy worked on his 'puter in here.

Teaghan found a nice chair to sit in and take a nap an the color matched our furs

There was a real comfortable couch here that Tommy liked. Mom and Food Daddy spent many hours sitting here reading.

Tommy kept an eye on things outside from here sometimes.

Keeping an ear and eye on the stompers above us.

The stompers (and probably the long ride) bothered Tommy so much he gotted sick. Mom and the Food Daddy had to bring him to the emergency v.e.t. cause we couldn't get in anywhere else and found out he had a UTI. He had to take medicine for a while and then he was back to his normal self, playing hide and seek with me.

Finally we settled in and just kept an ear on the clomping monsters and clicking doggies that came and went every few weeks. 

We can't tell time but Mom told us it was five and a half months we were in the condo when it was only supposed to be two months. The humans were not pleased. Then one day we had to go in the metal monster again! Oh no! Where were they taking us this time!?

To be continued for the final chapter...

 

Thankful Thursday

 

This is me, Tommy.  I am thankful for the nice view from the window. Mom set up the chair for me and Teaghan to look out of. I took the seat away from Teaghan cuz I am looking for the leezards outside. They run along the side of the house. Sometimes I see the lady next door come outside too. And lots of birds go in the bushes.  Lots to look at here. 

Part III of our move series is coming up tomorrow and you can see more of where we live now.

Wordless Wednesday - Long Kitty

Wordless Wednesday

Tabbies on Tuesday - Meet the ferals

 Our human neighbor behind our house came over to let us know about her cat.  She said she was a gray and white tabby who is 14 years old and a feral that sleeps under her deck. Her parents had fed it all these years and now she may be moving soon.  We hope the new people keep feeding her.  

Then the next day, Mom and the Food man were taking a walk and they ran into what they guessed is a feral community in the neighborhood. There were a few of the cutest cats just hanging out in the parking lot near some dumpsters. They seemed to be having a good ole time! As Mom got closer, they slowly got up and started walking away to different areas. She got this picture of them and one fits the description of the girl cat the neighbor was describing. And she is a Beau Beau lookalike too! After digging around for some more info, it is indeed a feral community that has a lot of people who feed these cats daily. They have been doing so for years and they are well taken care of. They get vet care, spayed/neutered, and fed. They all seem pretty mellow.  

So meet two of the feral tabbies!  Mom will get some more photos on her next walk and post next Tuesday.

Sunday Selfie - Tommy

 

It was a bit of a tussle but I managed to get a selfie with Mom. This is my famous one eyed stink eye view.  Part of her is not showing but it was not bad for my first selfie in a long time.  We didn't want to show too much of the house in this selfie cuz we are still working on the other parts of our moving from Connecticut to North Caroliney series of blog posts. 

Teaghan was sleeping in this Sunday so we didn't include her.  Maybe next Sunday she can put her own selfie in. 

Moving from Connecticut to North Carolina - Part II - the Goodbyes

Moving Part II - The Goodbyes to CT and the Ride

It was hard knowing we would be leaving a place with so many memories of our precious Angels, Beau Beau and Angie.

Beau Beau's (over the bridge) look when we told him we were moving from his house.  😂  

Angie's favorite place to sit was between our house and the neighbor's. She could hide and also keep one eye on the birds at the neighbor's bird bath. Before we left, Mom and the food man had a memorial and goodbye ceremony and spread their ashes in their favorite garden spots.  

The hot poker plants

These are some of Mom's favorite flowers that she'll miss the most.  

Beautiful hydrangea

Coneflowers and front yard

AND THEN we had a relaxing night and when we woke up in the morning someone came and took all our furniture!

When the noisy people left all our smells on all our stuff was gone! Where were our chairs? Where were our couch and tables? We ran from room to room looking for everything!

Somehow one of our beds was still there. We went to sleep and in the morning we went to the room with the noisy machine that brings us to the v.e.t.  And we got stuffed into our prison for the loooooonnnng ride.

We were on our way to Caroliney.  

Tommy's stink eye.

Tommy: "Hey get us out of here! There's not enough room for both of us!". 

Teaghan: "Get off me you big oaf!"  

Ha ha, there was plenty of room in there, except they wanted nothing more than to get out. Then, hiss hiss hiss from Teaghan at the people at the gas station when we stopped to get gas. And pant, pant, pant from Tommy every few minutes, the. entire. 15 hr. trip. 

Stay tooned for Part III to see where we landed temporarily.

Tommy & Teaghan

From Connecticut to North Carolina Part I

The BIG MOVE. Part I.

We are back to blogging, our blog has a new look thanks to Ann at Zoolatry, and we are here to tell you the story of the past year or so.

Life was good. Mom and the food man were home with us a lot more. Mom worked from home and then there was no more work for her. The food man stayed home a couple days a week to work then he went back to the office. We were all relaxed and happy in our nice big windowed house. We gots to see outside all the time, attack the windows trying to get to Mr. Squirrel, run up and down the stairs playing herd of elephants and protect the place on our nightly patrols from all other animal intruders. Then one day there was the smell of change in the air.

Teaghan on left, Tommy on right

Here is the back yard where we kept a look out for all kinds of birds and animals

Here is the front of our CT house. We only saw this view when we went to the v.e.t.

Little by little we started noticing a lot of things were going missing in the house! Our stuff was moved around. Our stuff was moved out of the house!  One day our condo was even "GASP" outside! 

The beans sold our KITTY CONDO! What in the heck!

Teaghan looking out

There were days I just hid in the boxes that were all over the place.

I'm telling you Tommy, something horrible is happening!

We tried to hide in our hidey spot but even the stuff in there had gone missing.  

And I protested when they tried to get rid of my favorite chair.  It had all my furs all over it at least a 1/2 inch thick in spots. No it couldn't go.

Then one day, horror of all horrors, we had to go in the loud metal machine in a different carrier than our usual v.e.t carrier.  Both Mom and the Food man brought us out and made us sit in it till we screamed our heads off.  Well, I made a few noises, but Tommy didn't make a peep. Brown noser.  I got to walk around. I looked for an escape plan.

Then we heard the words. The horrible words.  We were moving to North Carolina 👀 Where the heck is that??? 

Teaghan: "We're moving WHERE?"

Stay tooned for Part II.  In the mean time we will be catching up on visiting y'all.

Tommy & Teaghan

Get ready for something new!

 

First off, we are over FIVE and a half years old now! Where does the time go? And we have not been blogging a whole nother year! What's up with that? Also we MOVED to someplace that gets really hot in the summer! What were the humans thinking? We have double coats of fur that are supposed to keep us cool as well as warm but this is something to get used to fur sure. So, stay tooned for a new look on our header (Ann from Zoolatry is making us something really cool) and finally some blogging activity. Happy to be back ya'll!

The Ts - Tommy and Teaghan

The Ts are FOUR today

Wow how time flies!  Tommy (Tomas) and Teaghan are 4 years old today!  I'm going to just show a bunch of photos of them from the past year since I managed to go a whole year without posting anything! Ugh!  Well, it was a crazy year with Covid19 and I blame that instead :-).  I certainly had plenty of time on my hands to write a few posts since we haven't been going many places.  It was the first year we didn't go on any of our usual beachy vacations so I'm sure that made the Ts very happy.  

Ah, to have the zen life of a cat, not bothered by horrible news (real or fake), just going about their happy cat lives, playing, eating, sleeping, pooping.  Could it be that we could all just do the basics and live and love life in its simplicity just as the fur kids do?

Here's some of the photos of what the Ts have been up to lately:

We are FOUR today!

See?  Four toesies makes four.

Tommy - See how it looks like he got kissed on his cheek?

Teaghan showing off her classic profile

Teaghan waiting in her favorite warm spot.

The Ts still using their kitty condo they've had from the first day they came home to live with us.  Their Auntie Charlotte bought it for them.  I'm surprised they still fit in it!  Teaghan is on top.  That usually doesn't happen.  That's Tommy's spot to sit on while I'm working on the 'puter.

Tommy's sweet face.

I'll see to it that we post more often.  Maybe now I can get moving with a new blog just for the Ts.  

Cheers,

Tommy, and Teaghan and Mom Brenda (and food man Daddy :-)

Tomas and Teaghan are Three today

Tomas (Tommy) and Teaghan are three years old today!   They are growing bigger and bigger but at a good weight for Norwegian Forest cats.  Tommy is 7.5 kgs and Teaghan is 6.4 kgs.  She is a little heavier than I’d like to see her but a lot of the weight is in their huge leg muscles.  Their hind legs are solid muscle and I could see them easily climbing a tree if they had the opportunity.  That’s not going to happen though since they are indoor cats but I still have an idea of bringing in a real tree that they could climb for exercise.  😁. Here are some recent photos of them and what they’ve been up to lately.  They talk a lot, especially Tommy when he carries his fake feathered birds around and now the little mousies.  Teaghan just watches everything her brother does. 

Tommy

Tommy has to have his paw on me while I’m on the ‘puter

Teaghan

Watching an online bird show for cats

Teaghan 

Classic Norwegian Forest cat profile on Teaghan.  Straight nose from forehead down.

They often walk together as a pair - reminds me of fish turning in sync 😁

It took a long time for Teaghan to relax like this all stretched out next to me.  

Boxes and more boxes

I like dis sized box da best 😻. What do you think?

- Miss Teaghan

Squirrel Patrol and a Sad for Binga

It's been a long time since we posted as you can see from the last one with the snow on the ground! So we have to give you a new picture of us in the Summer weather.  We love the early Summer nice weather because Mom leaves the slider door open for us with the screen door locked.  That's cuz we learned how to open the screen door... "snickers".  Still, we can smell dem squirrels when they come right to the door to see us. We love this weather and our morning squirrel and birdie patrol.

And we had a sad news for you all. Our special cat friend, Binga, has moved on. She was 19 years old!  It was time and as heartbroken as we are we know she lived the best life any cat could ever have. Her human told the best stories of her and her life with Sparkle and now with Summer. Sparklecat.com has always been such a great inspiration for us and I bet they have left a comment on just about every post we've ever made. We love you Binga and you played your life role purrfectly and left a loving and special mark on the lives of so many! ❤️😻

Head butts and purrs,
Tommy and Teaghan and Mom Brenda

Sunday Funday

Chillin our on a Sunday afternoon with some remaining wintry weather. The clocks turned ahead today so Spring is just around the corner!

Hope you all have fun today with your furriends and family on this Sunday funday!

Tommy and Teaghan