Mother's Day

We want to wish all the moms out there, including our own, a very Happy Mother's Day!

Our azalea bush bloomed just in time to help us celebrate!





















While mom was outside admiring the azalea bush she disturbed a humming bird. She did not see it, but heard it buzzing away, so they have returned for another season. She has their feeders up now because she knows they come looking for them.

Moe:
I am checking out some very bright quilt blocks mom made. She says she may make two small quilts out of them and is thinking of sending them to some small beans that survived an earthquake in Italy. I already have one of my own.



Bono:
Tall Son give us some excellent scritchies. Even Mike has learned that Tall Son isn't scary at all, he's just big and tall.



Mindy:

I am certainly wishing mombean a happy Mother's Day. She is my favoritist bean in the whole world.

Photo Hunt - Memorial

The Photo Hunters Scavenger Hunt was started by tnchick, and anyone can play along.

For our 'memorial' photo this week, we want to show you this one, taken by our mombean a couple of weeks ago:

This sculpture was carved as a memorial to the courage of the fishermen living in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. It took William deGarthe, the artist and sculptor who lived in the cove, ten years to complete. This memorial covers a 30-meter granite outcrop. Depicted are St. Michael, guardian angle of fishermen; several fishermen, their wives and children. The information is quoted from this site:
Destination Nova Scotia.





Mindy: That is a lot of work but the results are worth it. Mom says he even carved his pet seagull "Joe", into the sculpture, how nice.





Moe: I am glad I did not have to pose like "Joe the seagull", did. Ten years is a long time to complete the sculpture.





Bono:
Here I am posing with my foster brofur "Mike". Mom says he is very loud and talks back at her. He's a good snooze buddy though.

Life is Grand Award

We received the Life Is Grand Award from Tiger Lily and Cliff and Olivia
Thank you very much!




First: we must link to the kitties that gave us the award, which we have done. Next, we must give five reasons why life is grand.

1. We have beans that love us and take care of us. They spoil us with stinky goodness, ham, chicken and those bags of Temptations.

2. we all have our very own napping spots, most of them near a window.

3. Sometimes dadbean gets up in the middle of the night and he will give us a snack, usually because we insist on it and he is good enough to give in. Sure makes life grand.

4. We gots our own blog, even if it takes our beans a while to help us with the posts!

5. We think it is grand to be part of the blogging community and meet lots of friends.


Now we will pass this award on to five of those friends:

Our furcousin,Mickey, who needs some extra thoughts and prayers. He was back to the vet on Wednesday and his liver levels are still up. Now his vet wants him to have an ultrasound in order to pinpoint the reasons for this. He is not crazy about taking antybioticks, but he is getting them. Please get well soon.

Our good friends Roxy and Lucky. They need our thoughts and support. Their mom and Plus One were on their way to karate and got hit by a car that didn't stop after hitting them! They are okay, thank goodness.

Poppy Q, in far off New Zealand, we love reading about her adventures.

Jasmim is a fairly new blogger we have gotten to know. She is so darn cute, and we love reading about her day, but first we translate from Portuguese. Not hard to do.

One of our regular visitors is The Creek Cats. They are a group of rescued kitties and one dog that have a great blog and have lots of fun.

Hope everyone is having a great Friday!



Moe: I sure am, 'cause I found where mom hid the Temptations!

Wordless Wednesday

Moe: Do I look cozy on a rainy, damp Wednesday?


Mindy: I am taking it easy


Mindy again: watching the birdies


Bono (aka Bon Bon): Meet my snooze buddy, Mike. He's the one that has the brown and white furs. Our beans are fostering him.


This is a picture of a serious brush fire, taken at the end of our road last week. It got out of control and destroyed eight homes and damaged another ten. People and their pets had to flee from it and go to the community center or stay with friends and family. We are safe, but are sorry for those who lost their homes.

Photo Hunt - Walking

The Photo Hunters Scavenger Hunt was started by tnchick, and anyone can play along.

These people are walking over the enormous rocks and enjoying one of the first warm and sunny days of this spring. About 20,000 years ago, this area was covered by glaciers. These eventually melted and shifted, and in doing so, they scraped away huge amounts of rock, vegetation and topsoil. What you see here is granite bedrock, scarred and scraped. The marks, which are still very much in evidence today, were left behind by the melting ice fields.



Moe:
That's very impressive, but I prefer 'walking' to the kitchen. Far more exciting, to me anyway.


Mindy:
For once I agree with you, Moe. I sure do appreciate my comforts, and I'll leave walking on the rocks to those brave souls in the picture.


Bon Bon:
I am amazed that our 'beans actually went there to get that picture. Sure isn't my thing though, much too far from the food room.


Have a great weekend everyone!

Photo Hunt - Yellow

The Photo Hunters Scavenger Hunt was started by tnchick, and anyone can play along.

When we went looking in our photos for 'yellow' to join in this week's Photo Hunt, we wondered what there would be and expected a search. Quite quickly we came across these photos taken by mom last fall. They are, um, well, unusual. Close-ups of fungus, a kind of plant, or maybe an organism. Well, whatever they are, we think strange is the word.

Maybe they're 'shrooms!
Here's 'shroom #1 - very yellow.



















...and here's 'shroom #2 - not so yellow.



















We prefer catnip.

Award on Thursday

We want to thank Sunny for giving us the Kreativ Blogger Award.



Upon receiving this award, we are to list 6 things that make us happy, then we are to tag 6 other blogs. Here goes:







Moe:


1. Stinky goodness, especially the pouches with gravy

2. Crunchies. By the way, I don't understand why I can't have them at 4:30 am 'cause I'm powerful hungry then.

3. Hunting. I just love catching the mousies that sometimes get in my howse.

4. Sleeping, especially in a warm place and where I can see what's going on.

5. My beans, I always greet them at the front door when they come home.

6a. My spot on the window sill, where I can watch the birds and scare off the introoder cats.

6b. I love nip.

Mindy:


1. Mombean makes me happy. I look for lots and lots of scritchies.

2. My basket in the attic, it's so peaceful there.

3. I am happy when I tease Moe, he always reacts. Great fun.

4. Stinky goodness, yum.

5. Running up and down the stairs at top speed.

6. Sitting in the window and looking out at the world. I used to live outside, but now it's a scary place.

Bono:


1. I am very happy in my new home.

2. I realized I like being a lap cat

3. Getting scritchies from the beans

4. Happiest when I get stinky goodness

5. My cardboard box on top of the mini fridge by the window

6. A little spot of milk, mmmmmm, so tasty.

We will tag:

Jasmim

Tiger Lily

Roxy and Lucky

Cats of Wildcat Woods

JB's Big World

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Moe:


Mindy:


Bono:


We are wearing a little o' the green in honour of St. Patrick's Day! Hope everyone has a fun and lucky day.

Photo Hunt - Four

The Photo Hunters Scavenger Hunt was started by tnchick, and anyone can play along.


The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is 'four'. We have just the photo:



This is a photo of 'four' lily blossoms. They have been coming up in our garden for several years. It is a Stargazer lily. Of course, we are hoping it will appear again this year, because it is so beautiful.

We have another flower picture to show off. This is an amaryllis with at least four lovely blooms. We grow it in a pot indoors in the winter months because there is nothing blooming outside at this time of year. It's blooms are large and cheerful.



Mindy:
This is what I do during the winter months.


Rest, relax and keep warm.

Moe:
Me too, Mindy, that is a good plan.


Bono:


Me three. Just watching you two relaxin' and napping makes me sleepy. Besides, the bed is comfortable and I have a back scratcher.

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

5th Photo Meme

We were tagged by Sunny for the 5th Photo Meme.

This is what you do:
Open your file folders (pictures),
click on the fifth folder,
and then the fifth photo,
Post the photo to your blog and describe it.
Then tag 5 other bloggers.




Here is the fifth picture in the fifth folder in our photo files. This is Tall Son:



Ha, ha, he likes the camera about as much as we do! We have lots of fun with him. He tries to 'push our buttons' by sneaking up on us. We play the game even better...because we pretend to be afraid and run away and hide. When he gets tired of playing, we go looking for him.

We will tag:

Mickey, Georgie & Tillie

Tigmuthep

Parker,Puff, Powder,Rudy, and Diamond



Mindy:


Tall Son, are you lurking behind that door?

Moe:


Tall Son, are you by any chance headed towards the kitchen for a snack?

Bono:
No pictures right now please, I am cleaning my feet.


See!


Nice and clean.

We just realized, it's Friday the Thirteenth!