Sleepy Sunday

It is sleepy Sunday around here. Usually I sleep, the people sleep and drink that rancid stuff that drips on top of the stove, and they put their faces in front of those crinkly things with lots of words on them. That's pretty much the score today as the weather is grey and sprinkly.

But here's a picture to bring some color into the day. It's ME, ME, ME and a painting of this lady artist called Freda Kahlo. The painter is from San Francisco. Sometimes I sit on the couch in front of the picture so people can admire ME, just like the painting! Why admire a painting when you can engage in cat adoration????

I have been tagged by the House of Mostly Black Cats. http://catsnmom.blogspot.com/ The Hotties have just had some very bad news about some good friends, so be sure to stop by and send them some love.

I have to tell you seven strange things about me.

1. My NOMS special friend is Garden Snake. Garden Snake lives in the garden every summer. He is very exciting. I like to watch him slither around the plants. Sometimes I bring him inside to play, but the people always put him back outside.

2. I am a scaredy cat. You'd think I'd be all scary myself with this name, but it works sort of the opposite with me. Loud noises, yelling, trucks, you name it, I'm scared of it.

3. I pretty much hate cat toys.

4. I am a barfola cat. Pretty much several times a week. The people are annoyed by that.

5. I like to watch reruns of Perry Mason with my people. They have the same job as Perry Mason and won't shut up about it, except when the tv is on. It is the only relief I get from their constant people yapping!

6. I am only interested in whapping pen tops. I have never learned how to whap all the stuff the rest of you cats whap. Do I need professional help?

7. I like to Food Dude's used socks.

I tag Mickey in the wilds of Canada: http://mickeytheblackcat.blogspot.com/.

What Would You Do If You Could Get Away With It?

I've been tagged by my pal Mr. Hendrix, who is named for a very important cultural icon. You can find Mr. Hendrix here: http://mrhendrixthekitty.blogspot.com/

Mr. Hendrix's meme is this: What 3 things would you do that you've never done before that you would do if you knew you wouldn't get caught or suffer the consequences?

The first thing I would do is chase the coyote who lives up the block a little bit farther away! Here is a picture of him taken by a neighbor a few months ago. It is winter now and I think he would like a nice, cute geezer cat for breakfast or maybe a snack.

Another thing I would do if there were no consequences is give a big cat kiss to Lady, my cousin. She belongs to Auntie Estelle, the most wonderful animal lover (even if it is dogs!) in the world. Auntie Estelle saved Lady from being euthanized, after 2 other families took Lady back to the pound because she was too much for them. Auntie Estelle worked her special magic on Lady and she is sort of well behaved now. Lady would have hundreds of ideas about how to respond to this post! As you see, Lady has a great big smile now because she ended up with the best person in the universe.

One other thing I would do if I wouldn't get caught is put a bunch of anti pit bull medicine in my back yard - where it is raining now - to make sure the Pink People's new dog doesn't come over and eat me up!

Go on over to http://www.petspics.blogspot.com/ and see their site, as Mr. Hendrix ordained.

I tag the Zoo Crew http://mkandthecrew.blogspot.com/

and Tripper the Psycho Stray Cat http://tabbytrip.blogspot.com/

and also Lady the Dog.

MuffinMindi Gave Me An Award!

http://fatcatmuffin.blogspot.com/ Here is the place on Mindi's blog where she gave me the award. It is called the "You Make My Day Award". The Food Lady is still working with very rudimentary tech skills, so she has to learn how to make the linkie thing say Muffinmindi and direct people to her site. We got some good tips in the last comments from the blogging cats, but we wanted to get this post up before too much time passed.

The award is given to cats whose blogs bring happiness and inspiration to others, and make you happy about blogland. Thank you so much, Muffinmindi! I was feeling sad and alone last week. You and the other cats have made me feel much better and have given good tips to the tech dunce who runs this thing for me!

I have to give the award to up to ten other cats. I give this award to Caesar and Prinnie's Happy Place, http://thecornishkitties.blogspot.com/. It is a very hard time for them because Caesar has gone to the Bridge. But Caesar and Prinnie's blog shows the best of the catblogosphere right now. There are lots of very kind and compassionate cats and people on the blogosphere.

I also give the award to Maddie, whose blog is called "I Crap in a Box" - http://caterwauling.com/cat/. Maddie's blog is one of the funniest cat blogs on the net. If you haven't read it, stop by and have a read. Maddie has lots of good ideas for activities for indoor cats!

If you've read my post about the Pink People who live next door, I have an update. Some new people came to live there for a while. They have a pit bull now. That is what has made me worried about going outside. The last time they had pit bulls they attacked the neighbor's gardener, and the dogs had to be put to sleep. I think I will be staying inside until the dog leaves.

Thanks again to everyone who stopped by to offer encouragement and give tips. We'll be by to say hi to you all some more too.

Thursday Thirteen - Thirteen Things About My Life Today

Here is a picture taken of me today. I am sitting in my favorite spot - on the Food Dude's legs while he is stretched out on the couch. Since I am a sixteen year old geezer cat, I thought I'd tell you what life is like for me everyday.

1. I am formerly feral and I used to go outside all the time. These days, I only go out for a short time. But a few days ago, I ran outside like a kitten, tore through the garden, and ran up the big cedar tree in the back yard. This is just to show all the neighbor cats, raccoons, the coyote, and other animals that I am still fast and that they should fear me!

2. I usually sleep with the people. I've been doing that since I was a kitten. They fixed up a bed for me under the picture box in their bedroom that has a heater in it. Sometimes I sleep there now.

3. The people have a new chair. They put the feather toy in it so it hangs off the side so I can play with it whenever I want to. But now the rule is that if someone sits in that chair, they have agreed to play feather toy with me.

4. The people also have a few other new pieces of furniture. I like to sharpen my claws on it! The Food Dude yells when I do that. I just wait til he leaves the house and do it a hundred more times.

5. The people have big pots out in front of the house. Sometimes these flowery things grow in them. It is nice of the people to put flowers in my outside cat boxes.

6. I think my blog sucks. Not many cats visit it. Maybe I need some new people to make it better.

7. I like reading all the other cat blogs. Since my Food Lady is my main person, I especially like the blogs that make her face leak. Then she pets me alot and gives me treats!

8. I have learned how to control my people. My Food Lady understands most of my remarks. I control them after dinner by telling them to go to the couch. They sit in their assigned spots and then I sit on them.

9. I also control them when I am hungry. The Food Lady now knows when I need a Temptations treat, or a snack from the people food, or stinky goodness. She understands cat speak.

10. I also control the people when I want to go to bed. Usually this is about 9:30 P.M. They say I am a border collie. I meow and whine and stand at the stairs and tell them it is snuggle time.

11. I run after the feather toy like I am a kitten. The people like this very much.

12. I still hate the VET.

13. Rocky the Gutter Cat is the mancat of my dreams.

Hope to see you all here soon.

This Is My Sister

Here are two pictures of my sister. She was my feral littermate. Our neighbors adopted her. We call her August - that is the month we showed up in the back yard. The neighbors call her Leila. My people take care of her sometimes. As you can see, she is much bigger than me. But she has xray eyes like me! They reflect in the floor! She likes nip, as you can see in the pics.

When we were kittens, we were very good pals. Even after August went to live with the neighbors, she would still come over and run through the house and get treats and pets. When my brother Onyx came to live with us, he wouldn't let her in anymore.

She is a very friendly cat, but I like having my people to myself. The food dude is sorta sick, so I am being a comfort cat.

Happy New Year to all.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here is a picture of me with my Christmas tree, and also one of my admiring my tree. It has ornaments hanging low so I can bat them around. It also has presents underneath. I got a big dose of nip!!! MMMMMMM.

It has been pretty cold in San Francisco, so I've mostly been staying inside, doing a lot of lap sitting, napping in big warm Irish wool blankets, and chasing pen tops when I get bored. The racoons visited a few nights ago. I laughed at them out on the deck. They wanted to come inside but the cat door was shut. I guess they were looking for Santa.

Also I have been watching the sad news about the tiger killed at the San Francisco zoo when it somehow escaped from its cage. I don't think I would like to be kept in a cage all the time. We are also sad for the people who were hurt and who died. This was a tragedy. So I am saying kitty prayers for them all.

Kitty prayers and good wishes for the New Year to the cats and the bloggers. Maybe one of you blogging cats could email my people and tell them how to make my eyes look right. I really don't have xray vision!

Thanksgiving

This is the turkey we had at our house on Thanksgiving. It was 25 pounds of free range turkey. I like turkey very much. This is a picture of me as I waited patiently for the turkey to be given to me - every single morsel of it!

There were many people here for Thanksgiving. I am not very social so I stayed in my bedroom for a long time. But I got lots of turkey and that made me very happy.

I am thankful for my people, for all my new kitty friends, and also for the medicine that makes me healthy. I hope the coyote had a very full Thanksgiving meal too, and maybe he will fall asleep for a long time like Rip Van Winkle.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi cats and kitties and all their people and friends. Today is the day when everyone is saying my name. Little scary people come to the door at night and my people give them treats so they go away and stop scaring me. I like this day because everyone is thinking of ME!

This is the picture I entered in the cat bloggers' Halloween costume contest. If my people tried to put clothes on me, I would not like it. Besides, since my name is Halloween I don't need much more than myself to celebrate this very important day. I am the spirit of Halloween every day. Plus, I think I am sexy with just the feather boa, don't you think? I am hoping to catch the eye of Rocky the Gutter Cat with my skimpy costume.

Have a good Halloween.

Our New Neighbor! Yikes!

Uh oh! This is one of the coyotes that lives on Bernal Hill, right where I live. But this picture was taken right up the block from my house - among the houses where lots of people and cats live. This guy is even scarier than vishus deer, I think. Doesn't his expression seem as though he's looking for tasty, juicy cats to eat? And very hungry too??? This was taken at 10:30 in the Morning!!! I think I'll be staying inside more for a while.

Hello Kitties, Cats and Everyone Else!

Once again my blog has been ignored by my people. Apologies to all. Here is a picture of what I have been doing in the meantime.

My birthday was in August. Now I am 15 years old. I do not act my age though. I have been busy batting around the feather and as many pen tops as I can find. Since the windows are open during the hot time, I like to fight with the strings attached to the window openers too. They fly around in the wind. They are a good game for a kitty.

The food lady has been taking care of my sister August for a few weeks. We were born together. August is called Lila by her people, who live a few doors up the street. When they go away, the food lady takes care of her. She tried to bring Lila down here to stay once, but I hissed so they took her back to her house. August/Lila was the favorite kitty of everyone when we showed up as strays. She can stay at her house with people who love her.

The raccoons have returned. There were 5 baby ones on the deck the other night. The food dude does not like them and yells at them. I think they want to come in and eat my food. No way!

I am going back to sleep. Hope you are all doing well.