Happy New Year wishes and purrs to you all.
--
Shirley
see my cats at

I posted a few hours ago about the two lovely kitties I'm taking care
of in my petsitting job. Last night when I went to their house to
feed them, I hung out for about an hour with them, while they found
different spots on my body to curl up on and purr. I felt really

Life is never dull …
… with Waffles around. This morning saw a visitor arrive at Chateau Simmons.
It was the man who is going to strip out my old kitchen and install my new one
when it arrives. He came to give a quote for the work and indeed, the quote he

Evelyn,
Did you by any chance do a Google search on cat musician figurines?
I found this site:
http://www.marco2.com/porfig.html

I've decided to teach Rufous to ride on my shoulder. Basho and Issa do
it, and Fez has shown some interest as well. This might prove to be a
bad idea if Rufous turns into an orange giant like I think he will. Can
you imagine carrying with you around the house an extra 15 or 20 ...

http://www.ucomics.com/closetohome/index.phtml
Stacey ;)

Today, during her outdoor adventure, Rosie climbed a tree and onto the
neighbor's roof.  (I was inside reading newsgroups, bad Mowmie).
Jim and I managed to get her down and into her carry case, but she was so
scared and she somehow opened the zipper and squeezed out and ran away ...

I joined the group that got sick over the holiday week and have just
returned to the land of awake. I have just been exhausted from this bug
and want to sleep all the time. But I am feeling better and have tried
to catch up on sending purrs, etc. Helen a candle was lit for Daisy ...

I'm up now, with nothing more than a lung infection to overcome.  While
I was in bed, I got the chance to do some cat observation between fever
dreams.  I noticed a lot about the art of the stalk as practiced by
various members of the Feline Mafia.

We have an old wooden chair near the bedroom hallway, which faces the
bed.
The chair has a twine seat. On this chair, we have an old bathmat, to
prevent "waffle butt" - the pattern you get on your thighs and butt

Buster was out on another of his extended, day-long forays, during
which I watched for him periodically. He didn't show up to be let back
in all day.
However, sometime in the evening, while I was on the computer, I hear

The mighty huntress, Waffles, the one-eyed dark avenger, destroyer of rodents,
has the festive spirit upon her.
She's just brought in a freshly hunted shrew. She has walked into the office
with said shrew clamped in her jaws, along with an ivy leaf and a bit of

Last night I was setting my alarm clock whilst Moogie played on the night
stand with the lamp shade, lamp cord, my hands, the tissue box, etc. When I
had finished setting the time, I hit the sleep button to ensure that the
volume had not been changed when the alarm clock had ...

It was not 1000 messages, it was 4000 (is that possible?). My ISP
deletes messages after a while, so I missed a bunch. It might be a while
before I catch up.
I hope everybody had a great time while I was gone, I sure did. I took

Sneakers was adopted in November (as some of you may remember). You can see
pictures of him at: http://users.adelphia.net/~kayt5/cats-main.html  Click on
his picture, and it will take you to his very own web page. Feel free to
browse those of our other cats, present and past.