Mellow Fellows

Twozday!

Da Boyz don't care a fig if the roofing crew is making a racket, while throwing stuff around and clanging ladders.

As long as they have each other, life is grand!

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Brofurs

Twozday!

Manny and Chili Bruce are an amazing pair.

The Hubby and I melt into little pools of mush when we espy them snuggled up like this!

Therefore, we are often incapacitated with SQUEE!!!

Jigsaw Puzzle

120Twin Brofurs

Hot Weather Boyz

Twozday!

Watching out the window

Playing at the top of the stairs

A little space between

Jackknife!

Jigsaw Puzzle

Two-zday

The Hubby takes advantage!
Chili Bruce is belly up,
Manny with his arm out

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Two-zday, with gifts!

Da Boyz were jazzed with their gifts from Bionic Basil and The B Team Blog!

The gingerbreadman toy has such good stuff in it; they go bonkers!

Afterward, they napped on their new, soft, beddy, which fits inside their favorite double-wide scratcher:

CB left, Manny right
(Confirmed by The Hubby, but if I see their bellies, I know which is which...)

Thank mew, Basil's Blog, for the goodies!

I received a cat notepad, that is the bees-knees!

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Sending lots of hugs and purrs to Margs Animals Blog; Marg needs some positive energy!

Two-zday!

Da Boyz, sharing the double-wide scratcher

SQUEE!!!

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Adaptations

Relaxed Angel, last night

Was thinking of holding off on any updates with the 'Great Integration of Da Boyz' until there was a big change, until it dawned that things happen in little ways, and they almost happen without notice.

Such as Angel, seeming to prefer being upstairs in the apartment by herself.  This morning, we 'parked' Manny and Chili Bruce in their safe room, allowing Angel free reign to roam.  But she just wanted to stay in the apartment!  Speaking to The Hubby this afternoon, he said that he too gave her opportunity to get downstairs, but she protested and stayed where she was.

Perhaps, she's been trying to tell us all along what she wants, but we've been too busy concerning ourselves with making sure she doesn't feel cooped up to notice that she may really WANT to be cooped up!  Hmmm....

Twinsy Twosday

Manny in back,
Chili Bruce in front

Manny and Chili Bruce often sleep together, usually with legs entwined, or bodies overlapping.  Hard to tell where one cat starts, and the other ends!

Chili Bruce on the left,
Manny on the right

The double-wide scratcher beddy is a favorite napping spot.

Book Review: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Published August 10th 2010 by Delacorte Press (first published April 1st 2009)
ISBN 0385344171 (ISBN13: 9780385344173)
Edition Language: English
Hardcover, 287 pages

Actually finished a book!

I discovered this book at the public library, because...it's got a cat on the cover!  The story takes place in Germany, and the book begins with a most unusual and fantastic death in young Pia Kolvenbach life.  She grits out her school years as a pariah, trying to enjoy life with her English-born mother and German father. 

Then, Katharina Linden...and several other young girls...disappear!  In broad daylight, in the middle of a town festival, just like the girls that 'ran away' many years ago.  Coincidence, or the supernatural, as Pia and her kind-of friend Stefen believe?

Why the publisher put a cat on the cover?  Pluto, the black cat, makes a few appearances, and there is one spooky tall tale about Hans and the spooky cats that surround him one dark night.  But cats are only a sidebar to Helen Grant's novel, and it was still a great read.

This book is the first one that I've read since Manny and Chili Bruce joined the family.  The Hubby and I spend a lot of time playing with them, and snuggling with Angel and Da Boyz, and reading was put on hold.  Now that the dust is beginning to settle, I managed to read the book over the weekend while The Hubby watched football games, and the cats snoozed contentedly, albeit Angel in her beddy at one end of the table, and Manny and CB curled up together in the double-wide scratcher at the other end.

No cat may enter the center de-militarized zone without human approval!

Bummer...Bummer...YAY!

Patty and Sweetie, waiting for noms on the front porch

Bummer, so much for Progress!  Since I had just boasted about Patty and Sweetie venturing up The Stairway To Heaven, they have reverted to waiting for meals by hanging out on the front porch.  Does not do me any good to step out on the balcony in the backyard, when they are in the front yard!  What the hey?

And yesterday, I so proudly brought home a new bed scratcher, just like the one we'd received months ago from Cat Chat With Caren And Cody.  I set up the double-wide...and nothing.  Angel jumped up, looked around, and then jumped down again, and went off to lay in the front window.

Double-Wide!

I was crushed; what another Bummer!  I slunk off to take a hot bath, while gripped about how I should have just left things alone.  The Hubby shook his head, and told me I had no faith!  Soon, he was off to sleepyland, while I sat watching TV shows that I had recorded (DVR'd).  You know, stuff like "My Cat From Hell" on Animal Planet, and "Antiques Roadshow" on PBS.  It was pouring rain outside, which suited my mood.

Then...Angel jumped up, and made herself at home in her new double-wide scratcher!

Angel, getting the feel of it

"This will do, Mama!"

"Look at all of the room!"

I couldn't help but snap some photos, even though it was late.  She purred up a storm, and I petted and sweet-talked her until my eyelids drooped, and went off to my own human-sized beddy. YAY!

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Fear not; you think I'm going to give up on The 'O' Cats and The Stairway To Heaven?  Oh, no way! During the warm months, I'll keep coaxing and working on it.  Even if I have to convince The Hubby that we need to build human-sized stairs (like someone's old, not-needed spiral staircase that we can have for free...hint hint) so I can play Follow-The-Leader, with the cats trailing behind me.