It's Party Time!

 This a special birthday for me. I am 4 years old this weekend. The vet only gave me 3 years to live if that.  Every year I live after three is a miracle.  So mum is throwing me a party all weekend to celebrate. Let's get this party started.  But before you do you must look like a proper Brit, so:

                                    Please take a party Bowler,

and a Brolly, and start to party,

take some nip,

some clotted cream,

or a scone with clotted cream,

 

some fish and chips,

 

some bubble and squeak,

and my favorite sandwich the butty,

and I haven't forgotten the ham,

or the prawns, so stuff yourself silly,

then eat some dessert,

have some of my Bowler party cake,

 or my favorite kitty cupcakes.

and for the adult cats have  a little wine.

Then if your game let's play some cricket,

or soccer,

or grab a hammock and take a nap,

We have all weekend!

Enjoy yourself..

Remember we are partying all weekend! So please visit the other birthday kitties and then come back for more...

                     Cheerio, hip hip hooray and all that stuff!

Harry Spotter's 4th Birthday Party Weekend Bash!

Harry Spotter will be celebrating his 4th birthday on May 1st. We have a lot to celebrate. His heart specialist said that he would not probably live past 3 years old and here he is today the Proper British Mancat celebrating his 4th Birthday. So, please celebrate with us. His party starts this Friday and runs into the wee hours of Sunday morning.  We have plenty of party Bowlers, Brolly's, butty's , ham, cake, and nip for everyone.

He is feeling out of sorts with everything upside down right now and a new 4 legged sister  who he hears  does not like cats, along with Fiona who gives him a run for his money.  He could use some cheering up. So please stop by and wish Harry Spotter a very Happy 4th Birthday!

Fiona's weekend round-up!

Hi everyone,

We apologize for not being on the computer much and visiting all our fur friends. It's been chaos here.  Comcast was here for 3.5 hours last Saturday. We think the problem is fixed. It runs slow and pages pick up slow but at least it's not disconnecting every two seconds.

 It's been a very busy week for Mom and dad They are getting ready for Spot's 4th birthday on May 1st. They are planning a party for him and hope everyone comes over. I see festive Bowlers and Brollys or all guests, and I know that mom is making Butty sanwiches and clotted cream desserts too for everyone that comes over to celebrate with us. Should be a great party with lots of British food. I can't wait..those Butty sandwiches are really good. Yum!  More info to come on the party later.

 Mom and dad are also trying to get the house ready for my new two legged sister-the one that does not like cats. Mom and dad have not been giving Spot and me much attention lately they say they are much too busy. They are in the process of moving the office/computers from upstairs to the new office downstairs. They have the router/Comcast modem set-up for the wireless computers but not the desktop/printer, desk, etc. They need to make room for my new sis so the house is upside down right now. They have been buying clothes , bed, mattress, sheets, girly things, etc. I can't believe how much stuff one little girl needs: girly purses, socks, t-shirts, head bands, etc. I only have one girly sweater and she is not even here and she has a bags of stuff already. So not fair! I was here first. I should not feel this way after all the CB did for me. I am very grateful for the CB, and I know that mom and dad are too.

Without the CB helping pay for all my vet visits, care, dental work, meds, and Spot too the adoption would have stopped.  It helped mom and dad so much that they were able to rebuild their travel fund after they spent it all taking me  to the vet when they first got me and taking Spot too after I gave him a virus and cough. You see, all your help had a positive domino effect on our family and for my new sis in China.  You fur friends are the best in the world.

Spot is not handeling all the change very well. He is being such a grouch with all the activity in the house, even with all the party planning that I have started calling him Oscar-the grouch! He walks around crabbing, hissing, growling, at me. What have I done to him? So I sleep in his mancave, eat most of the food, want to sleep next to him, and chase him all over the house, but I don't think that it is cause to get mad at me. What a crab! or GROUCH!!!!

I hope everyone at the CB comes to Spot's party so he can be happy again. I know that seeing all his friends would bring out the dapper English gent in Spot again. So please everyone come by on May1st to wish Harry Spotter a very Happy 4th Birthday!

See you at the party!

Mancave problems!

It is a fine thing indeed when  fine British gent like myself  can't even leave his mancave. Fiona seems to think my mancave is hers. She has her own lass cave but refuses to use it. When I tell her to "sling your hook", she ignores me.  What is a diamond geezer supposed to do!  Fiona is all fur coat and no knickers, know what I mean? She lingers  around until I  leave to eat my butty or spend a penny and then she takes up residence and will not leave. I won't even start on how she only leaves me the crumbs on the plate to eat. That's a whole other dilemma. I give her a good rollicking but mum and dad get shirty with me. I wish I could summon the rozzer to have her collar felt for a nice long porridge.

I'm up quite the gum tree, advice from my fellow mancat solicitors would be appreciated.

Fiona's Weekend Roundup!

Where do I start? Lot's of news this week. We are still having problems with the modem shutting down. Comcast was here and said that a squirrel must have chewed through the wires. He was supposed to replace both wires but only replaced one. He checked the connection, it worked and he left. If he would have waited longer than a minute he would have seen the connection disconnect. I have to call Comcast again and send another guy out to fix the other wire. Very Frustrating!

 I want to try and explain our Wordless Wednesday photos. Mom was trying to set the table for Easter dinner, however Spot and I had other ideas. Spot was under the table trying to tag me, and I was outside the table trying to tag him. We had such a good time playing. Although, mom was not all that pleased. She had to re position the table cloth at least 5x until she gave up and let us play until dinner time. Then we were sent off to the bedroom and locked inside so they the family could eat in peace. How Rude!

I went to the vet for my dental checkup on Tuesday. Dad took me and forgot to dress me in my favorite pink girly sweater. How could he take me out and not dress me appropriately? Anyway, the vet said that the right side of my gums looks good, the antibiotic treatment worked. The other side is better but still red. They still want to give it more time to heal before they start pulling teeth. No antibiotics, just treating my water, the mouth rinse, and brush my teeth. Then I have to go back in a few months to see if it is any better. I was shaking so much from the cold room that they had a hard time checking for the heart murmur. She thinks I am ok.. If I had my pretty sweater on I wou ld not have been cold and shaking and the vet might have gotten a better picture of my heart.

Mom and dad are so grateful that they have the money from the auction to pay my vet bill this week and take Spot in for his heart ultra sound. We don't know what we would have done without all your contributions.

Mom and dad also heard that they are getting their travel approval soon for the adoption. They have been waiting forever to get my two legged sis and now it is finally  happening. I hear she does not like cats. Oh....no!

We have so much to be thankful for.  We don't get many awards and when we do we feel so honored and special. We received an award from Missy Blue Eyes. We love Missy Blue Eyes and her mommy. They have been great fur friends, we don't now what we would have done without them.

Awards as you know come with special rules, so here we go:

STEP #1

Each recipient must share four things about themselves that represent the four colors of the mood ring: Pink, Blue, Orange and Green.

STEP #2

Each recipient must choose four COLORFUL friends to give the award to. Don't forget to say who they are and give a link to their blog. If you'd like, add in a little something about why you've chosen them.

STEP #3

Be sure to post the MOOD RING AWARD badge in your blog post and a link back to your friend that gave you the award. Of course you should thank the person who gave it to you. And thank Katie for coming up with such a fun idea.

Blue: Spot says this is an easy one for him. He is all about the Blue. He says he has three blue spots, a blue tail, and a blue toupee under his Bowler. Without the Blue he would not look like the dapper British Mancat that he is.

Pink: This was a no brainer for Fiona. She says she is all about the Pinl. She says her belly is pink,, her nose, and that she loves her frilly very girly pink sweater. She is a girly girl at heart. She wishes that her mom and dad would buy her some pretty pink sun dresses for summer.

Orange: Spot says he likes to eat orange peels.

Green: Fiona says that when she thinks of green, or see's green grass, she thinks of the green fields of Iowa where she came from.

This is very hard for us, we have so many wonderful fur friends from all over the world. Picking 4 is so difficult for us. I will try to pick 4 that do not have this award.

Orange: When we think of orange we think of Gotchi. He is one handsome orange mancat. http://gotchiogato.blogspot.com/

Blue: This is easy-Pierro. He has an amazing blue blog. I think of him, he reminds me of me.  He is quite the Mancat always loving, thinks of others. He has ears like me too. http://thecornishkitties.blogspot.com/  

Pink: Puddin..What screams pink more than Puddin's Blog. We love Puddin and their adventures. http://mykittyadventures.blogspot.com/

Green:  Beyond the Garden Gate. I think of all their wonderful spring , flower and garden pictures. It's such a pretty blog. http://beyondthegardengate-beth.blogspot.com/

These are the 4 blogs I am passing this beautiful award to. It was hard we have so many wondeful friends that I want to give it to. I am not good at linking things back. So nothing is linked in this post. Sorry!

I want to thank Misty for giving us this unique and colorful award. We are honored and very thankful to have so many friends that have supported us. I want to thank Katie as well for creating the award. She is one talented kitty.

That is it for this week. I hope you made it through it all without going to sleep.

I'm pooped, Time for High Tea and a long kip!

 Have a great weekend!

Wordless Wednesday~

I'm Back! ..sort of.

Good morning my fellow lads and lassies,

How I have missed you all, you have no idea. I have been patiently  Waiting for mum to replace the router. Every week it was the same promise to replace it. Mum was supposed to buy it last Thursday, but what did she do instead, mum and dad went for a bike ride in the forest preserves bike trails on a warm but windy day. They fought the head winds the whole time, so they came back exhausted. Mum was mumbling somthing aobut having a heart attack, feeling like she was going to die, etc... Such DRAMA like you have never seen or heard.  So you can quess that they did not purchase the router that day. Too tired!

They finally bought the new router saturday, installed it, had to talk with a tech person to connect the wireless laptops and guess what, the computers are still disconnecting. So, after spending money on a new router  the problem might be the comcast modem. Looks like they have to replace that now. Here we are again, we thought we were good to go and now we are at a stop again.  Such problems...

Well, Mum and dad spent 30 minutes in line saturday morning at the Comcast Center so they could replace the modem. They got a new one, hooked it up and guess what? That's right the computers are still disconneting and reconnecting at random. They have no idea what to do now. How frustrating for us all. What am I supposed to do if I can't visit all my lads and lassie's? Mum called for help again at Linksy but they said it was not them, so mum called Comcast. Comcast is coming out Monday to check the lines to see if they are the problem. Last time they called Comcast dad had to stay home to wait for them and he got stood up. Hopefully they will find the problem if they come out.

You have no idea what I have had to deal with these past few weeks without being able to visit all my friends.  Between broken promises and Fiona being a nusiceance it was all I could do to keep my British cool. I see she called me a pratt.  Let me make this clear about who is the pratt, it is not I. Who admitted to chasing tiny ants, whapping them, and eating them? Who eats everything in site, including leaves, fuzz, dust balls, q-tips, paper, sofa pillows, chair legs, shirts, pants, etc. She finds great humor in biting me and running, and sleeping on top me.  I think you know who the real pratt is. I warned you she could be dodgy. She is not to be trusted.

I on the other hand spent my time in quiet contemplation and reflection-not aloofness and moping. My knickers were not in a twist. Instead, I spent my time wisely, not chasing tiny ants you can barely see. Such triviality. I spent my time this past weekend trying to visit all my friends to wish them a very Happy Easter. It took quite a while with our router/modem/Comcast problems, But it was worth it, I just had to take the time to stop by.

This is so frustrating, it has taken me so long to do this short post that now I need a very long kip.

 That's all for now, toodles, cheerio, hip hip horay and all that stuff.

Fiona's Happy Easter Weekend Roundup!

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How is everyone? I look really serious in this photo, I could use some bunny ears on this photo if mom only knew how to photoshop. Oh..well!

We have tried visiting our friends but Evertime we try and visit the router shuts down, we feel so left out and lonely. Mom promised that she would replace it this weekend because it's getting worse if that is even possible. Spot is still protesting by not wearing his Bowler. He would not even let mom take his Easter photo, all he does is pout and look out that back door. He won't look at anyone or even speak to anyone.  He is in a real funk.

Besides our router woes we ahve been battling small ants in the kitchen. Dad has sprayed the basement, the outside wall, and the baseboard, but they still keep coming. What seems to work is essential peppermint oil, dad washes the floor with water and peppermint oil, and then mom wipes the counter and sink with the peppermint oil diluted with some water, then they run the dishwasher with the oil and that gets rids of them for a few days. Then it wears off and they come back. I on the other hand quite like the little buggers, they are fun to chase, whap and then eat. However, they are not very filling.

Have to keep this short so I can get through this and post before we disconnect again.

Spot and I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter. We are getting a new router this weekend and will be back visiting and catching up with all our friends very soon. We miss everyone!

Have a a very Happy Easter weekend!

Spot and Fiona~