Some may think summer is the time for kicking back and relaxing… other creatures find back-to-school much more rejuvenating. How they still wedge themselves into the bed they shared as kittens, I don’t know. Sometimes the combined weight will cause the cat bed to careen off the edge of the Kitty Condo Tower, sending Meep’s [...]
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Little Bo Meep
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, seasons, tagged cats, cowboy, kittens, Little Bo Meep, Rubenesque on August 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
those Fabulous Bicker Boys
Posted in Motherhood, get along like cats and dogs, tagged Fabulous Bicker Boys, Fabulous Bicker Brothers, Nerf guns on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
It’s quiet around here… maybe a little too quiet. The cats have gradually come out of hiding, casting furtive glances around the room, listening carefully for the boys that had just recently been jumping out of the woodwork with Nerf “guns”. I was repeatedly assured that no one was aiming at the cats, however I [...]
icky putty
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, tagged silly putty on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thought of the Day: Do not let the cat sit on a ball of Silly Putty.
it’s a dog’s life
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, tagged dog on January 20, 2010 | 15 Comments »
It is the dog’s ‘birthday’. Since she was a rescue puppy, we don’t know the actual date of her birth. But, like most things in life, it works just as well if we just pick a day and stick with it. So this is the dog’s special day. Because every day isn’t a dog’s special [...]
peace on earth
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, tagged Christmas, Jane Koenen Bretl on December 30, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I can’t tell you how unlikely this scenario would have been three months ago. The dog and our dearly departed cat never had a fond relationship. It was more akin to predator and prey. Whatever undeciphered mixed breed of mutt we have, her DNA is hardwired to chase small furry animals. So the new kittens [...]
oh boy, tannenbaum
Posted in Photography, get along like cats and dogs, seasons, tagged cats, Christmas tree, Jane Koenen Bretl, kittens, tannenbaum on December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, Why is a cat on top of thee? * O Christmas tree, O Christmas Tree, why do the ornaments go * “wheeeeee!” * ??? * The top does sway, the star did fall, That’s why it’s tied right to the wall… * O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, A [...]
leap before looking
Posted in Writing, get along like cats and dogs, tagged cats, comfort zone, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
With advance apologies to the many excellent housekeepers I know, please disregard the state of my windows. Wait, um, I mean, those are not my windows… Ha! Silly me. Yeah this is definitely someone else’s house and that kitten just looks like my kitten Cowboy. But the point remains: I have hit the 30,000 word [...]
solving a happy problem
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, get along like cats and dogs, tagged BabyBjorn, kittens, NaNoWriMo, Writing on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have what I might consider the happiest problem I could dream up. One of the new kittens, Mia, is very supportive of my writing. In fact, nearly every time I sit down at the keyboard to write, she jumps up to my lap and tries to reward my writing efforts by purring hysterically from [...]
what a nincompoop
Posted in get along like cats and dogs, tagged kittens on October 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We are having a good time with our new kitten friends. They bounce around the house like ping pong balls now that they are feeling better. CowboyKitty has proven to have many virtuous qualities, pingponginess for example, but cleanliness is not one of them; his fur has looked a bit disheveled since the day we [...]
a tale of two kitties
Posted in Motherhood, get along like cats and dogs, tagged A Tale of Two Cities, Brett Favre, Charles Dickens, humane society, Jane Koenen Bretl, kittens on October 7, 2009 | 14 Comments »
How does the story go? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times? At risk of Dickensian metaphorical hyperbole, the last couple weeks have had some ups and downs. There was the loss of a beloved pet, but the adoption of two new ones. There were the three trips to the [...]
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