Did you know that cats can walk on water...

....if it's frozen? That's exactly what the feral kitties AKA Kahlan's family, have been doing. The lower pond is always the first one to freeze up and becomes a path for them to walk on. These photos were taken last month...I've just been too swamped to post.

Please notice the kitties to the left. This is the spot that they choose for drinking their water. It is also where they dig out leaves for us. These guys were sitting there for about 8 minutes or so, fishing out leaves. Adam loved it because there were that many less leaves for him to dig out later.

Christmas Morning

Once again, it's time to catch up on a few blog posts. I suppose I should attempt to blog at least once a week as a New Year's Resolution.....again.

Normally we have 3 trees up in our house for Christmas, however, this year, the red one was the only one that got finished. The blue tree was up sans decorations. For some reason I couldn't get into the spirit of decorating until a couple of days before Christmas. We'll make up for it next year. =)

Here is our tree Christmas morning. You will notice that there are only a few bows on some of the gifts. Chewie has taken a liking to the bows. He is constantly licking them. Have you ever heard the sound of a bow being licked? ANNOYING! It. Doesn't. Stop. I seriously wanted to throttle him a few times. Grrrrrr

Kahlan had fun that morning. She kept going up on her hind legs so that she could peer over presents to see what was going on.

These fleece pants were in my stocking. I had to change into them before I opened gifts. I love me my fleece PJ pants and squishy socks! One of my gifts was the Wii Fit to go with the Wii that we got last Christmas.

Every year we get a gift for the cats. This year we got this little toy that didn't work properly. It has a fan that is supposed to blow the "butterflies" around inside the globe and then they fly out the hole. Static was the enemy. We had to keep thwacking the globe so that they would unstick. Kahlan still had fun.

This was my favorite shot of her playing. She was like a little kid reaching past the object to try to get to the inside.

A few of Adam's gifts. Now he has his own small camera to take with him when he goes out of town.

A few things from my brother's family. Love the gift card for my Nook. I've already used my gift card to buy 3 books so far. Wahoooo!

So Adam already opened this gift before Christmas. This little video camera rocks! We've been using it ever since Black Friday....of course, we had to wrap the box for the tree. =)

YES! I love Deadliest Catch! This one has the extra disc with the extra Captain Phil footage.

Personalized Tins for our theatre room. I suppose we should get a mini popcorn machine next...

I finally have a nifty little light to attach to my Nook!

A snazzy new shirt and tie.

We had a few more gifts but I figured you would be bored looking at those pictures. One of my gifts, my netbook, will be in another blog post. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

8/19/2010 Garden Update

These are the watermelons that we picked today. Kahlan decided to sit amongst the yumminess. The longer one is called an Orangelo. I CAN NOT wait to cut that one open next week. I want to see exactly how orange a watermelon can get. =) The other stripey one is a Crimson Sweet and the other is a Missouri Yellow. We like to wait for a few days before we cut them. I'm not sure if it's true, but.....in my mind they seem to get a little sweeter when we do that.
Here I am trying to sneak under the netting that we put up.

Adam cutting open the 32.2 pound Missouri Yellow.
NOM!!!!

8/13/2010 Garden Update

We picked 3 more watermelons today. Adam carried the bigger ones. =) These ones are the Heirloom Missouri Yellow Flesh Watermelons. Hopefully they are as yummy as "the Bean".
This is the main section of our melons that are left to harvest. To the right was where the Golden ones were and to the right of those are the Ali Babas and the Orangelos. These are the Crimson Sweets and the Missouri Yellows.
This was the biggest of the day! The other ones were 22.2 lbs and 15.8 lbs. As per usual, as kitty must be in the picture. This time Chewie wanted camera time.
Kahlan having fun on her new toys.
This was the cutting of "the Bean" AKA the Jelly Belly Melon from a few days ago. It was yummy!!!!

8/9/2010 Garden Update

This update will be all about the watermelons. =) We picked all of the Royal Golden Watermelons. They look pretty cool when you slice them open because the rinds are nice and golden yellow while the flesh is red. We are trying to avoid the crows attacking them, as usual, hence the newspaper in the background of the picture. We wrapped them for a few days since I didn't have time to buy the bird netting. It actually worked! I forgot to wrap our one cantaloupe and it was attacked....the watermelons were unscathed.
We picked a total of 5 Royal Goldens. The largest one was 20.4 pounds.
We also picked an Ali Baba Watermelon AKA my Jelly Belly Watermelon. We are waiting to cut this baby up...we need to finish the one we cut up yesterday. TeeHee
Jelly Belly was a whopping 28.6 pounds. Every single one of the pictures that we have taken, while weighing a watermelon, comes complete with Kahlan.
I finally had a chance to go to Home Depot to pick up the bird netting. Adam had to pound the metal poles in with the back of an axe. Wahoooo. We tied the netting to the poles and are hoping that this will be enough to keep the crows out.

We found a cute bunny amongst the melons today. Unfortunately he is eating the plants. Grrrrrr. Shotgun anyone???

St. Patrick's Day Kitty

I haven't posted in about 2 months so now it's time to play catch-up. =) Here's a little kitty torture for you. =)

Chewie and the Squirrel

Yes, it's time for a few more pictures of Chewie and his antics. Every year there is a squirrel that likes to tease Chewie. He gets right next to the window and looks him in the eye. The little stinker knows that Chewie is stuck indoors and takes full advantage of that little fact.

This year the squirrel has been sitting in my pots and attacking the birdseed bags on our deck. There are also a couple of chipmunks that have joined in the fun this year. Oh yay. It IS pretty funny because the squirrels keep ganging up on the chipmunks. They are constantly chasing each other off. I followed one of the chipmunks the other day to try and figure out how far he is traveling to our deck. I followed him around to the front of our house, up the driveway, across the street and up the hill of our neighbor's house. His cheeks were packed pretty full when I saw him last. I'll need to take a few pics of those guys next.



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My cat is driving me insane!

Many of you have seen my videos of Chewie and think he is the cutest thing. In fact, some of you have told me that you would love a cat like him. Well....after this week, you can have him! He is driving me insane.

Don't get me wrong, I love my cat. He is very sweet and cuddly. He snuggles and has this really cute snotty sounding purr when he is really happy.

I have been trying to monitor how much he eats because he is starting to get a little heavy and has a kitty belly. According to the new bag of food, he should be getting about 3/4 - 1 cup of food a day. SO....I am using a 1/4 measuring cup and feeding him 3 times a day. Well, that was the plan, he's getting fed about 4 times a day because he keeps whining. When I say whining, please translate that to mean - caterwauling, jumping on top of me, trying to get into his food in the kitchen, and doing things he knows he isn't supposed to do. I'm sure you know what I mean if you have children. He does that thing where they think any attention is good attention. Chewie's particular bag of tricks includes chewing on my shelves, chewing on the metal handle that opens my window, licking my pictures that are accessible to him when he squeezes his head in a drawer, etc.

He does this, like clockwork, at 5 AM in the morning.....every day. I am trying to not "reward" him when he is being a pain so I have to wait until he shuts up for at least 2 minutes before I feed him. At 5 AM, those minutes seem to last forever. Why can't he be good like his brother, Tigger?

Lizard Kitty Video

Yet another amusing moment with Chewie. I forgot to post this on my blog so...sorry for those of you who have already seen this. The silly sounding giggling is due to my lack of oxygen, because I was laughing so hard. You can't see me on the floor, literally, laughing at my stupid cat.

Chewie the Treadmill Kitty Video

Ah yes, once again Chewie has earned his keep. He does this by constantly amusing me in new and inventive ways. We just got a treadmill this week and this morning I decided to try it out.

I should preface this by telling you that Chewie normally gets in a little snuggle time in the morning, but didn't today. I think he just wanted me to give him attention, just like any kid.

Anyway, I turned on the treadmill to the lowest setting.(Eventually I changed out of the really warm and fuzzy PJs and turned it up.) I guess Chewie just wanted to see what Mom was doing and kept trying to walk over to me. Hopefully he will actually figure out how to use the treadmill and will start running on it.

Chewie and the skylight video

I thought I would post another Chewie video. I was stressing a little because I couldn't find my old cell phone that had the video on it. Adam finally found it. Yay.

This happened while Adam was on tour at around 3 AM. There I was, sleeping nice and peacefully, when all of a sudden...obnoxious scratching noises. Have you ever heard cat claws on painted concrete? NOT a pleasant sound. Apparently Chewie took it upon himself to jump on top of the laundry, to the top of the shower and...into the skylight. I am not quite sure what my crazy kitty was thinking. Thankfully, he survived. =)

Chewie gets a drink video

Here is yet another example of my cat's brilliance. LOL Ok, so, aside from looking like a ridiculous mini lion, Chewie decided he wanted to drink water from a cup on the ground. The paw in the water thing is normal. That's how he likes to drink...not with his tongue like a normal cat. watch until the end. Enjoy!!!

*snicker snicker*

Here's a picture of Chewie's new hair cut. They were supposed to cut a
little more off but alas, he has a mane. Normally we to both kitties
at the same time. This time we did Chewie by himself and will do
Tigger next month. There is a good reason for this.

Normally Chewie tries to kill Tigger for a good 2 weeks. You would
think he would recognize Tigger's scent. Nope. He's THAT dumb. Hehe.
We think it's a combination of all the stress of getting shaved
coupled with Tigger looking different. So, we decided to just let him
stress about the cut and not Tigger. So far there hasn't been any
major hissing or fighting.

Featured picture on Webshots!

I just found out that this picture that I took of Chewie playing in the snow, was a Picture of the Day in the Kitten section on Webshots.com! Very cool! Right now it is being featured on the Kitten Channel on their website.

Christmas kitty

Tigger loves sitting under our decorated trees. We have three this
year. This is the medium sized tree that is next to the front door.
The gifts under this tree are the ones that we give out. It's so much
easier having a separate tree so that there is no need to dig through
all of the presents.

Kitty Torture

Heheheeeeee. I HAD to buy the hat to torture my kitties. Chewie wasn't too thrilled with me. Gotta love Halloween costumes.

Kitty Capers

You have to love the crazy things that cats do. One of our cats, Chewie, loves to make a fool of himself. Like all of my cats that I have owned, he plays fetch, tosses his toys around in the air and chases them around. No big deal...regular cat behavior. However, I DO love the fact that he will slide across the wood floor and smack into a wall or chair as he chases things that you throw. Heh heh. He has his very own "toy box" that holds about 20 - 30 toys that he can access at all times. Yes, he does know where it is and does nose through the toys until he gets one that he wants. Now, if I could only teach him how to put the toys BACK.

I decided to sweep under one of our cabinets the other day. OK, so I haven't done that in about 8 months or so. It's in the formal dining room and we generally don't go in there. The cabinet is about 3' X 1.5'...not the hugest of areas. This is the collection of toys that I found under it: 7 balls, bumble bee toy, eeyore stuffed magnet, big furry mouse, small mouse, stuffed stocking toy, 2 mini boxes of nerds, 3 hair ties, 1 fake snake, 1 plastic pull top, a pen lid, and 9 q-tips. *sigh*

Chewie's favorite pastime? Climbing ladders. yes, climbing ladders. We found this out when we were painting the walls in our house. Ever since then, if you bring a ladder in the house, he will climb it. I got to prove this to the gentleman that installed all of our fire alarms. I don't know why people don't believe me when I tell them things.