Mommy Caved...

...and bought a second chair.

Not that there's any available seats...MOL!

There are seven felines in the photo, can you find us all?

Happy Friday!

XX  The Baby, Salem, Sweet Pea, Sylvester, Johnson, Felix, and Scouty  XX

Chair Wars, Continued

Kitties!

The Baby here.

After long observation (five days), and careful consideration I decided it was time for me to occupy the POANG chair.

The new blanket (that just arrived from Finland [N]*) was a huge inducement, too.

The woven texture is quite pleasing beneath my paw pads!

*knead knead knead knead*

*sucky dance*

*turn several times*

*settle in*

And yes, the chair itself is very comfortable.

The verdict:  this is MY chair now.  At least until Mommy turfs me out...

Happy Friday!

XX  The Baby  XX

*a HUGE thank you to King Punapippuri...our new Kitty Kat blanket is ACE and we will get a photo of all of us on it soon**

**soon = when hell freezes over

MY New Chair

Kitties!

Felix here.

After eons of living in the cultural wasteland that is Las Vegas an IKEA finally opened.  On Thursday Mommy went with a friend for a Swedish meatball lunch (yummy--ed.) and a nose around to check things out...and Mommy bought me a new chair!

It's a POANG chair, in nice cozy brown leather.  Mommy and Daddy put it together without too much cussing fuss and I showed my appreciation by settling in on it immediately.

Later in the day Mommy whinged and moaned endlessly about not being able to use my the new chair--so we compromised.

Anything for a little peace and quiet...

Happy Friday!

XX  Felix  XX

Catio Improvements

Kitties!

Mommy moved the small carpet that was in her bedroom out onto the Catio when Daddy mopped the floors last Thursday, where it has remained, continuously occupied, ever since.

We're here to tell you that a rug sure beats the dickens outta lounging on the bare hard concrete*--as you can see in our header we've had carpet on the Catio before but this one is lightweight and will dry quickly if if gets wet from the rain (or barfed on, a virtual certainty)--so Mommy relented said we can keep it out here.

She also moved our cat trees around (inside and out) and reconfigured all our beddies (freshly washed!) and shelves and sleeping boxes** so we have some new/old things to explore and occupy our tiny minds.

So, even though our Mommy is a heinously sarcastic woman, we're gonna let her slide just this once and admit we love her and all that she does for us.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Salem, TJ, CC, and Rupert  XX

*because there is absolutely nowhere else to lounge in comfort.

**perhaps one should ignore the preceding footnote...

Caturday!

Kitties!

Grayce here.

Check out our my spruced-up bedroom!

Mommy painted, bought new curtains, and hung up the gorgeous quilt created by the uber-talented fiber artist Stacy Hurt.

The room is in three shade of pink--OK truthfully, it will be in three shades, right now there's only two...there's a reason I'm only showing this angle and that's because Mommy is a lazy wench walking addict and she ended up wandering around the neighborhood hiking for two hours on her day off instead of buckling down and finishing the job.

What a slacker.

Oh, and she didn't buy a new bed spread yet for me to fur up, either.  

Loathsome wench!

Did you notice the curtains don't reach the floor?  That's so all of us kitties can see in/out and nobody gets ambushed going through the Cat flap.  Plus we I have a water fountain, kibble tower, and toilet facilities in here.  It's the purrfect kitty spa...

...too bad I have to share...

Happy Caturday!

XX  Grayce  XX

Alert! ALERT!!!!

Kitties!

Felix here, interrupting our regularly scheduled broadcast (Lizard Slaughter) with Breaking News: 

The peeps came home with a new sofa!

Mommy's been trolling Craiglist (again).

It required our Intense Scrutiny.  For hours.

Provided we don't receive another piece of furniture to investigate, the Lizard's Fatal Adventure will continue tomorrow.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Felix, Ace Reporter  XX

The New Stuff

Kitties!

This is what Felix was exploring in yesterday's post:

A ginormous hutch/buffet/dresser/cabinet thingy!

And that's not all...

There's a matching table with two leafs, table pads, and six swiveling chairs!  All solid maple.

Mommy:  I've been scouring Craigslist (an online sell-your-stuff website) since September, looking for something to store extra kitchen stuff, and last week I found just the thing.  Originally I was looking for something either a) so badly beaten up it needed paint (a fun project) or b) something mid-century modern with a blonde finish.  As you can see, I got neither of those things and couldn't be happier, especially since it only cost--get this--$200!  I spotted it last Tuesday, called Scott to ask him what he thought, and when I got home from work it was here; Scott and his buddy Tee went and got it for me as a surprise.  It needed some cleaning, and there's a few nicks and scratches to dab some finish on, but we both love it.

Salem supervised me putting dishes out--Spitty-the-Kitty, can you guess whose tail is doing the photobombing?

Salem:  Can you believe this?  I wake up from my post-mid-afternoonish nap to see my swain (Tee) and Daddy hauling this thing in the house!

You would think she'd never seen furniture before, Mommy was that excited.

In reality, it's just a kitty jungle gym and climbing frame.

It took Sweet Pea took about two seconds to suss out how to leap to the top of the dresser!  Daddy had to set up a ladder to get her down involuntarily and Mommy blocked access to any further vertically-oriented athletic endeavors.

The table is still fair game though...

...as are the chairs...there's a soft blanket on all of them, including the two in Daddy's office!

Mommy, we approve of your new purchase.  It can stay.

Happy Tuesday!

XX  Salem  XX

pee ess:  Sorry about the grainy photos...Mommy was screwing around again.  *sigh*

Tuna and Tittle-Tattle

Kitties!

Mommy whistled and put out some tuna for us.

We all came running!

Of course it was merely a lame ruse to get some photos of us.

*sigh*

But the joke was on her...she had the camera on the wrong setting so the pictures came out a little wonky.  Plus, she had to flash us.  With the light, thank Cod. 

Rupert photobombed in a gallant attempt to thwart her.

Did you know his tail has stripes?

Now for the Tittle-Tattle! 

The Whizz Wars have wound down.  Daddy took off the baseboards and opened up some of the corners where we kept peeing, and he discovered way worse whizz damage than we Cats could have done.  Apparently the dogs who lived here before us had some house-soiling issues, and when we went to war those three areas were irresistible to mark.  Mommy cleaned the spots with various potions and unguents, then Daddy filled them with expanding foam chit.  (ed-I okayed that word.)  They are debating putting baseboard up again after the drywall is fixed, or just painting down to the tile and caulking in the seam.  Any suggestions?

The other bit of gossip is that our faux-leather furniture is gone!  The two chairs and the ottoman are now living on the Catio, and the be-tinkled sofa was curb-picked by some poor unsuspecting  lucky soul.  We now have patio furniture in our living room as a replacement.  It's metal (easy cleaning) and too high for us to want to lift our tails...it kind of looks weird but it's comfortable, and Daddy loves how easy it is to clean the floor.  He is such a hausfrau.  Hausherr.  Whatever.

The faux-leather chairs are a huge hit on the Catio for us felines and the peeps.  They weren't too badly offended against (good enough for a well-ventilated spot) and we love sleeping on 'em out there.  Because there was nowhere else to snooze, otherwise.  heh.  And the peeps sit out there a lot more too, now that there's some really comfy seating.  Which means more petting for us.

So it's all good, kitties.  Tuna, new furniture, and luvvins.

Happy Thursday!

XX  The Lounge Kats  XX