Travelin' Thursday

Kimo: We know some of you cats gets a little nervous when yer beans leave da house to travel fer a few days . . . but not us!

Sabi: We likes it! We don't even need a babysitter when they is gone fer less than a week (besides, we is not babies - duh!).

Kimo: They is going to Bakersfield, which is in da middle of nowhere (according to Daddykitty), even though it's furry close to Oildale (4 miles) where Skeezix has fambly (and Skeez says Oildale is da center of civilization). I asked Mommakitty & Daddykitty if they was gonna make a pit stop at the famous Chuck Erreca Rest Stop - da one that Skeezix stopped at on his road trip last year. Mommakitty said yes . . . so I Googled "Chuck Erreca Rest Stop" . . . and look what image popped up - a photo of Mr. TF and Skeez taking a pit stop!

If you click on da image, you will be directed to
da whole story of Skeezix's road trip to Bakersfield.

Sabi: This (below) is pretty much what Bakersfield looks like until you git to Uncle Mark's house (Mommakitty's brother). Mommakitty's nephew Josh (our bean cousin) is graduating from High School!

(Josh 2005)

Kimo: Can you see da CRAZY fambly resemblence? He is not even in a band . . . and he doesn't own a boat! Mommakitty has obviously had her "CRAZY" influence on Josh. She says it is her professional obligation to mess up a few kids so other psycho-lady-therapists like her can continue to have work to do - a professional courtesy. Some call it job security. She has done a furry good job.

Sabi: This is cousin Josh wif his weener dog Rascal - Mommakitty knitted da Sherpa hat fer Rascal. There are 3 other weener dogs in their fambly, so Mommakitty and Daddykitty always come back home smelling like weeners!

(Josh & Rascal - 2005)

Kimo: Anyhoo, we will be taking a blogging vacation . . . but we may stop in and visit some of you to leave comments. See ya back on Monday!

Sabi: PAR-TAY! Who wants to come play in our Fun Tunnel?

Kimo: Sabi - Shhhhh! Wait 'till they're gone!

P.S. - Dear Burglars: don't even think about comin' to our house cuz we gots a state-of-da-art alarm system. If you try to break in, da police will be dispatched. Even worse, a really loud siren will sound and make us go psycho-crazy and we cannot be held responsible fer our eye-scratching, hoo-ha ripping actions. Plus, da neighbor lady is watching da house (but NOT babysitting).

Wild & Wacky Wednesday

Kimo: Wooooo Hooooo! We gots our surprise from Amazon.com (part of our gift from Skeezix fer winning an Acatemy Award).

Sabi: It's a FUN TUNNEL! And lookie at da wild fabric design!

Kimo: We can run all da way through it! It's a great place to play hide-n-seek too!

Sabi: Kimo likes to drop his Squiggle in it then fish it out! I like to drop my toys in da holes too!

Kimo: Here's da WACKY part . . . Mommakitty likes it too! Um, . . . too much!

Sabi: Hey Mommakitty, . . . that's MY ball! (Ewwww - bean slobber!)

Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski

Tuesday Newsday



Kimo: We met a new bloggin cat named Adan - from Taiwan!

Sabi: And Adan is a Tuxi cat!

Kimo: We can't read most of what Adan writes but we finks we understands what's going on.

Sabi: Go visit Adan's Everyday blog and welcome a new friend!

Memorial Monday


Kimo: While enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Grampakitty proudly served his country by teaching English as a second language to Army personnel in Puerto Rico.

Sabi: In the early 60's he worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as an educational consultant for all D.O.D. dependents schools in Japan and Korea.

Kenneth E. Barnes
6/17/29 - 12/26/05

Kimo: While Gramakitty did not serve in the armed forces, she did follow Grampakitty to his post during the Korean War, and she also taught English as a second language to medical students in Puerto Rico.

Patsy M. Barnes
11/2/28 - 8/31/04

Mommakitty: Grampakitty (my dad) did not lose his life during the war, but he certainly left us too soon, and so did Gramakitty (my mom).

>>Read their full memorials <<

Snuggly & Squiggly Sunday

Sabi: Lookie . . . we gots our Spring Snuggles blankie that DKM made! Boy, did it smell good - real nip - We luvs it!


Kimo: And lookie what else we gots . . . DKM sent us a couple of Squiggles! Thank you furry much DKM!


Kimo: I think since Sabi gotted that pillow that looked like him, that I would claim this Snuggles blankie fer me and Mr. Bun. Don't you think this is fair? Besides, Sabi always hogs da Gizzy quilt.


Sabi: Whatever!

Kimo: AND . . . we gots our surprise that Mommakitty ordered from Amazon! But we will wait 'till Wednesday to show it to you cuz it's wild and wacky!

Photo Hunter Day

Today's Theme is
COLORFUL

Kimo: Our Scratch-O-Rama Nip mat is colorful.


Sabi: Our Gizzy quilt is colorful.


Kimo: This dude is REALLY colorful!

If you're quiet, you're not living.
You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

P.S. If you want to see some colorful stuff...go visit Mommakitty's blog entry from 4/25/07...all da colors she sees!

Meme of Favorites

We almost fergot...we got tagged a few times fer this meme...so here goes:

Time of Day -
Kimo: I like bedtime. I git to make biscuits on Daddykitty's chest.
Sabi: I like dawn. I sneak behind da mini-blinds to watch da birdies eating.

Day of Week -
Kimo: Saturday. We all sleep in.
Sabi: I like Saturday too, but I do not like to sleep in.

Season of the Year -
Kimo: Summer. I like to nap in da warm sun.
Sabi: Winter. I like to nap in front of da fire god.

Holiday -
Kimo: Christmas - duh!
Sabi: Ditto duh!

Beaches -
Sabi: Huh?
Sabi: I hate that movie.

Song -
Kimo: Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat.
Sabi: Um,...I like da song that gits played at da hockey games...you know...da one that goes: da da da da da HEY, da-da da-da da-da.

Flower -
Kimo: California Poppies!
Sabi: Roses (if you recall my rose incident)

Talk Show -
Kimo: David Letterman (especially when he says, "here kitty, kitty, kitty")
Sabi: Craig Ferguson (especially when he cracks da whip and says "take that my frisky little kitten")

Movie -
Kimo: Shrek (I like da Puss in Boots dude)
Sabi: Any movie wif stuff that blows up.

Soaps -
Kimo: Are you insinuating I'm dirty?
Sabi: We don't need no stinkin' soaps!

Beverage -
Kimo: Bottled Water.
Sabi: Whatever is left in Mommakitty's glass.

Fruit -
Kimo: Avocados (bet you didn't know they was a fruit).
Sabi: Nanners.

Snack -
Kimo: Vanilla yogurt or pumpkin puree.
Sabi: Liverwurst!

Food -
Kimo: By Nature
Sabi: By Nature

Restaurant -
Kimo: What is an aurant? And why does is need to rest?
Sabi: Ditto.

Day Off

Kimo: Well, we know you all expect us to keep up wif our blogging, but Mommakitty was a slacker last night.

Sabi: She didn't get home 'till midnight cuz she had to go to something called "Foster & Kinship Care Advocacy Forum" in another county. Then she said she HAD to go to dinner to rub elbows wif da panelists after da forum (especially since her boss was on da panel).

Kimo: So when she gotted home, she said she was too tired to help us blog. Pffft!

Sabi: Anyhoo, everybody knows if you want to get in good wif someone, you don't rub their elbows . . . what was she thinkin' ? A good 'ol butt skootch or chin skritch would git her farther! Pfffft!

Kimo: She just wanted an excuse to not help us blog - whatever!

Sabi: Mommakitty better git some rest, cuz she's gonna haf to make up fer this on da weekend, that's fer sure!

TT #16

Thirteen Things On Our "To Do" List Today

1) Git Mommakitty to fill up our food dish (all da way to da top momma!)
2) Visit da other kitty blogs (try to meet at least one new kitty).
3) Watch some birdies in da front yard (bluejays and crows mostly).
4) Watch some birdies in da backyard (da quail fambly)
5) Nap (this is actually done several times).
6) Check between da couch cushions fer some coins.
7) Develop some items to sell on da internets.
8) Snoopervise Daddykitty and report back any goofing off to Mommakitty.
9) Git Daddykitty to play fev-ver toy wif us.
10) Wrastle (we also do this several times).
11) Run up and down da hall a squillion times (we learned from Skeezix that building muscles is important to impress da gurlz).
12) Sunbathe.
13) Sharpen our claws.

Whiner Wednesday

Kimo: M O M M A K I T T Y ! ! !

Mommakitty: What Kimo?

Kimo: What . . . is . . . THIS?!

Mommakitty: Well, it's what we call a pillow.

Kimo: WELL, . . . as my brudder Jeter would say, . . ."DUHR!" Why do we have a pillow that looks like SABI?!

Mommakitty: It's just a pillow of a cat - it could be any cat. It just happens to look like Sabi.

Kimo: And you just couldn't happen to find a pillow that looked like ME?!

Sabi: Hey, . . . what's this? Hmmm . . . pretty cool. Good lookin' cat too!

Kimo: What the . . . come here you . . .

Sabi: Yer such a whiner Kimo!

Kimo: Whiner? WHINER?! I show you who's a whiner - I got yer whiner right here pal! I'll put da Jeter wrastling smackdown on you!

Kimo: Showed him! Now, . . . where was I - I will just cover da cat pillow - hehehehe!

Sabi: (I'll get him, . . . just wait . . .)

Rivalry adds so much
to the charms of one's conquests.
Louisa May Alcott

Tuesday Toes-day


P.S. - Mommakitty said to tell you all that she did da Meezer Monday photo effect wif PhotoShop, using a tool called Posterization.

Meezer Monday

Feelin' Artsy

The object of art is not to reproduce reality,
but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti

Shapes

Shadows: Candlestick, Mr. Bun-Bun's Ears, Vase, Cat Statue

Kimo: I'm teaching Mr. Bun-bun about casting shadows from da sun coming through a window.

Friendly Frisky Friday

(click to biggify)

Kimo: Lookie! We gots our gifts from Siamese Cat Rescue Center - da ones we won fer Skeezix's Acatemy Awards Contest!

Sabi: These hearts were filled with nip...yep, you heard it, . . . NIP! They makes us feel frisky - we each gotted our own!

Kimo: We got lots of fun stuff in our box . . . including a kitty bookmark that we gave Mommakitty fer mother's day (she deserved a little something fer doing all da PhotoShop work on our contest entries).

Sabi: Then Mommakitty went on da internet and bought us something wif da Amazon gift certificate that I won. She wants it to be a surprise. Hmmm . . .

TT #15

Thirteen Things That REALLY Annoy Us

1) Da flashy box - duh! How many bloggies do da beans have to read to learn that ALL us blogging kitties hate da flashy box!
2) The doorbell (even on T.V.).
3) Crows on da roof. They gets nuts from da trees, then get on da room and hit da nut against da roof to try to crack it open - but to us it sounds like someone knocking.
4) Which reminds us of #4 - Someone knocking on da door.
5) Da beep-beep-beep sound of da big brown truck that drops stuff off at our house.
6) Any metal monsters (well, except fer Mommakitty or Daddykitty's metal monsters cuz they are furry quiet).
7) Da rug monster.
8) Nail clippers.
9) Loud clapping and yelling (ie: when Daddykitty's favorite sports team is winning...or losing).
10) Da smoothie machine (we swear if you dropped a shoe in there you'd get a shoe smoothie).
11) Da phone ringing at 5:00am (usually a telemarketer from da East Coast (they do not understand we is not awake yet)!
12) Da Sink munching monster - especially annoying when it tries to eat a spoon!
13) Running out of food (this would fall under da nightmare category)!

P.S. - Sorry da Mr. Linky Widget would not work fer us today. Please leave a comment so's others can visit yer TT's!

Wordless Wednesday
(except fer da quote)

Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday Tip Day

Good equipment is da trick to unwanted furs!

Our Mommakitty's Happy Day

Kimo: Here's our Mommakitty having a bright day (yesterday) hangin' out in some California poppies in our yard!

Sabi: We all let her sleep in, then Daddykitty took her to lunch, then she got a latte, then they went fer a walk in downtown Petaluma, and they saw some hounds!

Kimo: Mommakitty saw some "Hellhounds!"

Sabi: You might say she had a rockin' day!

Happy Mommakitty's Day

We hope all da Mommakitties
have a relaxin' day!

God could not be everywhere
and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb

Saturday Photo Hunt

Today's Photo Hunter theme is FIVE

Four feets and one tail equal five.

4 + 1 = 5

'Nuff said.

Friday Facts

Kimo: We was tagged by Marilyn MonROEW to present 7 random facts about us.

Sabi: Well, as you know, we likes to talk about ourselves! Here's our list -

1) We was both born on da 4th of July - so we is furry independant! Obviously, we are from different mudders!

2) We drinks bottled water only (like Dragonheart). If da regular tap water is not good enough fer da beans, why would we want to drink it?

3) Neither of us are ready to git married (plus we are "momma's boys").

4) We worship da fire god (da beans call it a fireplace).

5) We eat crunchie food. Mommakitty says it's better fer our teeth cuz it make our gums and jaws strong and scrapes da tarter off our teefs. Da vet says we have furry good teefs.

6) When we do git special treats, we likes tuna, fishy flakes (sprinkled on anything), yogurt, liverwurst, and punkin puree (it's good fer hairballs too).

7) We both lost our hoo-haas. We have stopped looking.

Kimo: Whew! Playin' tag is furry exhausting!

Sabi: Time fer a nap!


We tag: Brandi, Katie, Diamond, Rincewind, and Willow!

Instructions fer da tagees: Write 7 random facts abour yerselves on yer bloggie, and then tag 7 other cats. Please let da other cats know we tagged you so they don't tag us again! Have fun!!!

TT #14


Kimo: Recently, several bloggin cats nominated us fer da Thinking Blogger Award.

Sabi: But we gots so much other stuff to think about, we fergots who nominated us and what we were supposed to do.

Kimo: But we do think. Here is a good photo of us "putting our heads together!" Mommakitty said we looked like Siamese twins - what?!


Sabi: NO! I am not even Siamese (duh)!

Thirteen Things We Think About

1) Why don't beans sleep all day and play all night?
2) How do we get up on da ceiling to get them spiders?
3) Should we git our own cell phone?
4) Why does David Letterman say, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty?"
5) Where did Mommakitty hide our snacks?
6) Why does Tom Jones want to know what's up wif da pussy cats?
7) Is it legal fer cats to play da lotto?
8) Does WWJD stand fer "What would Jeter do?"
9) How come Paris Hilton gits more blog hits than us?
10) Why do we have poochie bellies?
11) Can we git a dawg?
12) When do WE git to go on vacation?
13) What is a woodchuck, and why do we care how much he wood he chucks?

Kimo: Well, that's most of da stuff we thought about this week.

Sabi: Yep. That 'bout covers it.

There are some days I practice positive thinking,
and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.
John M. Eades

Wednesday Workday

Kimo: We is workin' on a new look fer our bloggie (see image below).

Sabi: What do you fink?

(click to biggify)

Kimo: We learned a lot about blogging from da dummy book - but make no mistake, we are not dummies!

Sabi: And we also learned a little from da O'Reilly book - but it is much more complicated. Daddykitty favors da O'Reilly books fer his computer work, and da O'Reilly company is only 20 minutes away. And there is cats on da front cover - gotta luv it!


Kimo: Of course, we gots to give some credit to da Cat Blog Help Center (which was invented by our buddy Skeezix) - even though we knows quite a bit already, we find it a good resource (especially when da books gets too geeky).
Sabi: We dream of making some money from da internets to help out our beans wif da expenses fer da family project. And we would also like to help some of da other pets and beans.

Kimo: AND, speaking of new bloggie stuff . . . Marilyn MonROEW (Chairman Mao's sister) and Mickey Mantle (Jeter Harris' brother) gots their own bloggies! Go visit them!

Tuesday Two-fer Tip Day

Sabi: Today I have two tips fer you;

Tip #1: If you do not want yer claws clipped, do not brag about it on da internets (fanks a lot Kimo).


Kimo: Yeah . . . about that. Sorry to all da kitties out there whose beans were reminded to clip their claws. When Mommakitty saw my Meezer Mancat post yesterday, she said, "Wowy Kazowy!" And then she proceeded to clip our claws.

Sabi: Duh!

Kimo: That does not make me any less of a Mancat Meezer though!

Sabi: Whatever! Anyhoo, . . . back to my tips fer Tuesday . . . Doh! Now I fergot what #2 was!

Kimo: Poop. #1 is tinkle and #2 is poop. Hahahaha!

Sabi: Arrrrgh! Get off my post Kimo! Oh yeah . . . now I remember;

Tip #2: Check out da pet foods by da company By Nature. They has no glutens and are really tasty. We eats da dry stuff, but they gots wet stuff too (fer cats & dawgs). It is a little pricy, but Mommakitty says it's worth it fer our health.


Sabi: Be healthy dudes and dudettes!

Kimo: Dudette is not a real word.

Sabi: Doh! You always have to have da last word!

Kimo: Yep!

Sabi: Stop it!

Kimo: Stop what?

Sabi: Mommakitty . . . !

Kimo: Exit, stage left!

In health there is freedom.
Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel