Friday’s Foto Finish Fiesta, 2009.11.13

I know you’ve all seen Celene many, many, many times but I just had to post one more picture of her! It makes me so happy when the photograph actually shows the true blue color of her eyes.

1. In your Phriday personal post, include a phavorite photograph (like how I did that?) and a brief description of why it is your phave. Anything at all works for me … one picture, more pictures, a video … even if you participate it another blogger’s Friday event you can double up as long as you link back to me within your post.

2. My advice is that you jump on board now bephore everyone in the nation gets involved and there are no mega-giga-y2k-bytes lepht phor you!

3. As always, if you have any questions or just want to chat about cats or kids or what I am going to do with the ten spare hours I now have every Phriday, you can contact me at candidcarrie at gmail dot com!

5. Try to remember to link back to me, if you don’t know how or would like some help, I’ll gladly assist you!

Let the Phestivities begin!

Halloween Greeting From My Cat

Kevin’s Halloween
To-Do List:

* Hiss
* Produce hairball on davenport
* Arch my back
* Find warm sunny place to pee
* Cross people’s path
* Scratch piano top on way to forbidden shelf
* Distribute litter through out house

Dear Roger, Do Not Judge Me

Dear Roger,
Do not judge me
With your pale green eyes
And your too large head.

I’ve packed and unpacked
These clothes for the past
Three summers.

Dear Roger,
Do not judge me
With your non-speaking stare
And your pointy ears sprouting silver tufts.

Allow me to dream the dream of thinner summers
And well toned arms and a body
Worthy of bare midriff attire.

Dear Roger,
Do not judge me
With your unblinking gaze
While I pluck your white hair
From my black tank tops
And black linen skirts and
Black shorts and black belts and purses and
Everything else I have that is
Black, the most slenderizing color
Of all the colors that didn’t make it in to the rainbow.

Friday Foto Finish Fiesta, 2009.10.09

Isn’t that the most perfect picture in the history of all unstaged Halloween pictures? Seriously, Kevin just parked himself next to that fake foam pumpkin this afternoon.

Have you met Kevin?

Three years ago this week I hauled a cat in from our woods. Kevin is a black domestic short hair cat with Halloween green eyes and the shiniest of shiny black hair. He started out as a scrawny shabby sneaky thing living in our woods and it took about six weeks before he got brave enough to come to our porch. I caught him with sardines and a Have-A-Heart trap on my daughter’s twelfth birthday, thinking I would clean him up and find his owner. I gave him a bath and blew him dry, pulling out thirty some fleas and six deer ticks along the way.

A trip to the vet two days later showed no micro-chip, the blood panel and physical exam indicated he was quite healthy, still in-tact, and by the tarter on his teeth he was maybe just a year old.

I called all the vet clinics and shelters in our county to see if anyone reported this guy as MIA. No one had seen/heard/wanted this guy. Two weeks later, it was off with his nuts and in with the micro-chip and we now had our first pet cat.

I carefully choose all my pets’ names because I have to use those names for a very long time, therefore I want names that I am comfortable saying. While searching for the perfect cat name I was trying to think of another sleek black male who was very entertaining. Our black domestic short hair cat is now named Kevin, like Kevin Eubanks from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show band.

Our Kevin even has his own theme song, sung to the tune of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie …

Oh Kevin
When you meow like that
You make me wish I was a cat
Oh Kevin
Oh Kevin

Kevin was seven cats ago. Donna, Roger, Celene, Dennis the Minus, Mango, and T.L., and Brian. I’ve done my very best to save the world one cat’s butt at a time.

I need to stop rescuing cats, it is someone else can take my place. In the mean time, tell me what you’ve got going on at your blog!

1. In your Phriday personal post, include a phavorite photograph (like how I did that?) and a brief description of why it is your phave. Anything at all works for me … one picture, more pictures, a video … even if you participate it another blogger’s Friday event you can double up as long as you link back to me within your post.

2. My advice is that you jump on board now bephore everyone in the nation gets involved and there are no mega-giga-y2k-bytes lepht phor you!

3. Mr. Linky and I have finalized our divorce. Leave a link to your blog within your comment, we’ll find you and visit your place. I pinkie promise.

4. As always, if you have any questions or just want to chat about cats or kids or what I am going to do with the ten spare hours I now have every Phriday, you can contact me at candidcarrie at gmail dot com!

5. Try to remember to link back to me, if you don’t know how or would like some help, I’ll gladly assist you!

Let the Phestivities begin!

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Friday Foto Finish Fiesta, 2009.07.31

Who doesn’t love phreshly laundered sheets?

No one loves clean sheets more than my cats. As soon as they hear me coming up the basement stairs they start pouring in from all directions, pouncing on the mattress, just hoping to get sealed in under the fitted sheet.

I wasn’t able to get a decent picture of them scurrying around under the sheets but here is a picture of them in anticipation of the clean linens being delivered for their pheline pleasure!

Dennis is the Sealpoint Siamese, Celene is the Lynxpoint Siamese, that is Roger the Silver Persian on the chair, and Kevin is the black domestic short hair gazing out the window acting as though he could really care less about the clean sheets. Truth is Kevin invented this game and the others are lucky to be join along in the fun.

You know who else thinks clean sheets and cute cats are entertaining?

Are you ready for some entertainment? Join us! We are low-maintenance, non-shedding, and more fun than whatever it is you are supposed to be doing!

1. In your Phriday personal post, include a phavorite photograph (like how I did that?) and a brief description of why it is your phave. Anything at all works for me … one picture, more pictures, a video … even if you participate it another blogger’s Friday event you can double up as long as you link back to me within your post.

2. My advice is that you jump on board now bephore everyone in the nation gets involved and there are no mega-giga-y2k-bytes lepht phor you!

3. Mr. Linky and I have finalized our divorce. Leave a link to your blog within your comment, we’ll find you and visit your place. I pinkie promise.

4. As always, if you have any questions or just want to chat about cats or kids or what I am going to do with the ten spare hours I now have every Phriday, you can contact me at candidcarrie at gmail dot com!

5. Try to remember to link back to me, if you don’t know how or would like some help, I’ll gladly assist you!

Let the Phestivities begin!