i know, took long enough...geezzz

lap cat

with bunny ears...



already found a catnip toy & lovin it!

...little flopping action

Tim is here..and my bro is 32!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY A!

many many years ago, i got pepper.

yesterday, we meet J at the airport with no problems. their flight got in 30 minutes early so we had a little more time to hang out before going back.

we got to our place & out tim came. a flight attendant on the plane was a cat lover & upgraded J to first class, since there was room. how cool! after meeting tim & hearing the story about his life & new house, she gave J a bottle of wine to give us. merlot from washington no less. she lives down here in santa ana. i've never been in first class other than walking through to find my row.

we made sandwiches to take down to the beach. i took J down to the pier while N stayed home with the cats. it was nice, sunny & not to windy. she got a chance to go in the water and see some surfers.

after having a couple of N's homemade chocolate cookies we were back to the airport. her connection in seattle got in early & the flight to portland made it just fine. tim slept on the bed with us, weezie was pouting underneath & hooka was on the bench in the bedroom. weezie just likes to hiss a bit, but she's all talk. tim is so easygoing - total lap cat! he ignores weezie. i'll post more later this week with pictures!

thank you again J!! we love him.

a weezie, a hooka, little B... oh my!

N picked up the glass table from a friend at work. the "runner" on it are these cool cat napkins i got from C a while ago. i was trying to catch hooka in her jabba pose.

just lookin...to the side

she is queen of all her table.

i just love me a weezie paw.

reading our very important las vegas coasters. if you wedge her between the table & couch it's easier to watch her....i kid!

even a baby can't escape bunny ears.

she's gonna be a drummer!

so excited to shake her pink cup...N with a little leverage help on the back end.

time for a change...

the colors may also change for the next little while. i'd had the other template since the blog began so it was long overdue. it may have been triggered because our VCR decided it was on the "old" daylight savings time [aka pre-bush II's change to save electricity]. as i learned after buying it off ebay...the clock has a mind of it's own & refuses to be set..or stay set to the proper time. it likes to speed up. but this week it was an hour ahead of us to set back. i had to cover it with a post-it; it was driving me nuts having to re-think the correct time every time i saw it.

we're ready for tim to come down. next saturday-halloween. i hope, hope everything goes smooth on the flight down & back. i know how frustrating travel can be.

little B will be down in a bit to hang with us for a couple hours. that will be nice since it's been a little while & she's growing so fast!

tim is coming....

Strayer's brother is donating his flying miles for her and Tim to fly down on Halloween. she will drop him off, have a couple hours to see our place & eat then fly back up to OR-- all in the same day! what a trip for sure!!

here's the crazy thing...my first cat-Pepper (had him for 15 yrs until he had to be put to sleep because of his kidneys) we saw on Halloween! we were out trick or treating with my mom. she loves to talk to people so she started chatting with another family out since they had a cat & her kittens following them. the lady explained they had kittens but needed to find them homes. by some miracle my mom said i could have a cat (for my brother bday 11/1, we always each got 1 gift on the others bday). the catch was i had to go to these peoples house alone and get it. i was about 10 so not super young and the house was only a couple block from ours. unfortunately they had a dog..who barked..loudly. i was too scared to go in the yard and begged my brother to come with me. he did & in we went --i picked the runt. my pepper-man. (i miss him so much still...tearing up now even). i digress....it all comes around since we'll be getting our new man cat the same time but years later.

here's a couple pics of him at her place.

in other exciting addition news...little b will be a big sister next year! probably around june. i'm pushing for the 25th since she can schedule the c-sect. very exciting stuff...and the noisy neighbors will be leaving!