Feisty on Friday

This is my special 'no nonsense' glare - directed at the mancats around here.

Sometimes they are too silly for words!

......love, Mindy

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

Mindy:  Here are some things I can see from my window ledge

I watch these birdies every day.  This one, the camera caught on the fly!

It is a purple finch - even though it looks red to me.

This colorful butterfly decided to take a rest, so we can admire it.

 These pretty columbines planted themselves in our garden.  We have quite a few of them.

One more photo - of me.  Can you guess I am not fond of that flashy box!

 Have a great midweek day everyone!

Two Special Birthdays

We don't sing very well, but we are tapping our paws and swishing our tails to wish Jan of Jans Funny Farm a big "Happy Birthday" today.

Hope you have the best birthday ever!


.........but wait, there's one more

This is KC, our hardworking reporter at the Cat Blogosphere, where we go for the latest news.  Happy Birthday KC, hope it's awesome!!     

Now is a good time to say  thanks to you for all you do to keep the rest of us informed at the blogosphere.

Best wishes to both of you from all of us.

Mindy

Moe

Cookie

Mike

and our 'bean, Nina

Rain on Saturday

Our rain held off until just a little while ago, so we were able to watch out of our windows and spy on the birds, the chipmunk and squirrel.  Our mombean seems to fill the feeders for them quite often.  


Cookie:     We keep reminding her that our dishes need a constant supply of yummy goodness.  She doesn't always pay enough attention.

Mike:    Every so often I have to wake from my snoozing and remind mombean that our dishes need refilling - I'm good for that job because I am a loudmouth!

Mindy:    Yes, Mike, you totally are!  That's makes you useful, which is good....I just wait until I hear you yeowling and when I hear success - I make my appearance when the snacks have been delivered.

Moe:   I don't know how any of us can get a decent nap around here.  There are big trucks going back and forth on our street.  They are only hauling dirt!  What possible use can that be? 

We are wondering why our beans took out the closet in the upstairs bedroom, they made a big mess, even bigger than we could ever make.

Now they will have to fix it, and we are NOT snoopervising that job!  They are on their own.

Instead of the above eyesore photo, here is a more appetizing, oops...., a more appealing photo for our visitors to appreciate.

This lovely dove, sitting on our deck.

....and how about these?  They live across the street from us.

On Thursday, mombean went out with Georgia & Tillie's mombean to visit the harbour.  They were riding on the ferry and saw these people fishing.  We wish we could have been there to inspect their catch! 

While our mombeans were leaving the ferry, they saw a mink scampering among the rocks at the shore.  The officer who works on the ferry said he had seen three or four of them lately! We don't think we would want to visit with those critters.

We hope everyone is having a grand weekend. 

Monday, Monday

Birdseed is not just for birds!  Chippy, is taking advantage of this special treat.  It comes every day, to our backyard, to eat seeds we put out for the pheasant.    Sometimes Chippy gets in a fight with the squirrel over the seeds........we wish we were allowed out there......in the yard.

Moe: back to wishing, hoping and dreaming of squirrels, birdies and that tasty looking, fat-cheeked chipmunk!

A Typical Sunday

You would think that there are no other comfortable spots for these two.   Mike has the edge because he has staked out ownership of the sofa for himself.

However, Moe feels that since he lived here long before Mike arrived,  all the comfortable spaces are his.

Mindy says:  ignore them -

come and see me as I am smarter and better looking!!

Easy Like Sunday

 

Moe: taking it easy

This bumblebee is NOT taking it easy!

Cinco de Mayo 2012

This is the fifth year that  KC has been celebrating and hosting a Cinco de Mayo Party.

We are joining in on the festivities and getting into the spirits...er spirit and celebrating as well.

See you at the party and if we don't see you there, have a wonderful Saturday!

Gardening Wednesday

Moe:  I don't go out to the garden, I watch from a comfortable spot.

I figure that is the safest thing, except for some advice like 'grow more catnip for us, please'.

Mindy:  I often  look out at our garden, but not today.  

I am catching up on some rest.  It is early in the gardening season, I am waiting for the hummingbirds to arrive for the season.  Mombean says 'any day now', she put out their feeder today.


Mike:  I am keeping a general eye on things.   It is hard to keep track of mombean, because she has been going in and out to the garden so much today.

I believe I am exhausted, watching the comings and goings!


Cookie:  I am the one that loves the garden the most.  I sometimes get to go outside into it in search of my favorite blades of fresh grass.

Today, while mom was fixing up one of the gardening beds, she saw this creature.

WARNING: Stop reading now if you are the 'ewwww' type and don't like things that are long, skinny and move fast.

Are you still reading?

OK, here it is:

Yes, it is a snake.  Specifically a Garter Snake.  Apparently it is called 'garter' because it's pattern resembles the same pattern that used to be found on men's sock garters.  We're much too young to remember that tradition!   Mombean saw it while she was working on one of the garden beds.  In our part of the world this is the most common snake and is not very large - less than three feet.  It is completely harmless - unless you are a bug, slug or some other small creature like that.

Mombean says that this one was an unusually brave snake.  This is because even though she is a giant compared in size to it, the snake tried to scare her off by its hissing.   She says it doesn't actually make a sound, but opened it's mouth to make itself look bigger.   She tried to get a photo of this.

She wan't fast enough and this was the best she could do.  At lease she tried!  She hopes the creature will help control the critters that like to eat our plants - you know, the valuable ones like our catnip.

What kinds of gardening adventures do you have?  

Sunny on Sunday

A sunny day means sun puddles!

Moe:  I've found mine!

Mindy:  I'm going to watch some Bird TV, the sunshine brings them on!

Cookie:  My eyesight isn't all that great, so I'm going to get a few chin scritchies, OR I going to scatter all of the papers on the 'bean's desk as payback for the the flea treatment I got yesterday!

Mike:  Yes, Cookie, I got that smelly flea treatment too.  Don't you think we both deserve at least a whole can of 'Stinky Goodness' for each of us? 

We hope everyone out there is having a great weekend!!  Our is good, except for those two snowflakes Mindy saw out of that window.  Anyone else see those snowflakies?