Mancat Monday

Happy New Year!  The mancats are all doing well and enjoying life to the fullest!

Harrison is becoming a snuggle bug lately.  He comes and asks for back scratches more often and chooses to sit near you on the couch.  

Rusty loved the tree skirt upstairs.  It was a warm soft blanket.  He is doing great after his dental visit and asking to play more often these days.

Pumpkin was wild and crazy one day, so I put her in the playpen so she could safely run around.  Charles joined her and was surprised when she chased him!

Flynn is doing well on his fluoxetine.  No more spritzing pee inappropriately.  No more chasing and bullying Lenny.  It has made a huge difference in him.  He is still his happy goofy self though.

Pumpkin is a mess and a happy girl.  She loves her grasshoppers, and has now eaten a few roaches too.  It's been close to a year since she's eaten any of those, so I am super happy!

Group shot of the panthers in Aunties room.  Charles is in the back on the pillow.  Then its Harrison (left) and Flynn (right) and Rusty in the front.

Charles still loves to dangle his arms!

Charles and Cousin Teddy love the grasshoppers as well.  They both love when one escapes the tank when I'm feeding Pumpkin.  

Well, there you have it...I long overdue update from the Four Crazy Cats!  Thanks for stopping by and visiting with us today.

 

Mancat Monday

 We are still alive and doing well!  These photos are in no particular order!!

Rusty helping decorate the new tree upstairs.  We broke down and bought another one this year because we have too many ornaments!

Rusty had a dental cleaning and needed 4 teeth pulled.  He was a bit drunk that first night at home and could not keep his tongue in his mouth!

This past Saturday, the Canipe's had their family Christmas party.  Here is me (red shirt), Auntie, with our Dad (grey) and Uncle.

Charles, Teddy and Pumpkin all helped wrap a few presents.

Trying out the portrait mode on my phone with Charles.  So handsome!

Harrison enjoying the soft blanket under the tree upstairs

Rusty helping me with the Christmas cards...

Our family ornament...

Flynn got a vacuum cleaner since he enjoys being vacuumed!

Charles has a black cat in a yellow sweater.  His color is yellow and that can be challenging for Christmas.  Pumpkin tried watermelon for the first time this year, so she has an ornament to remember that event.

The tree in the living room

The tree in the breakfast nook

Black tree in the dining room

Tree in the study.  If you are keeping count, that makes 5 trees!

The panthers have been wiped out from all the decorating...front to back is Harrison, Flynn and Charles

Pumpkin trying out a warm hat and scarf

Rusty helping us decorate...he found a soft tree skirt and decided to rest for a while

Charles loves Pumpkin's grasshoppers.  He has eaten a few as well!

Pumpkin checking out the tree...

We have a waterfowl rescue in the state and they put out this ornament.  I had to buy it to remember my Smokey, who was known as Goose.

At Thanksgiving, Auntie, mom, dad, and I picked up pecans in yard.  Mom and Dad have 4 pecan trees and they produced pretty well this year.  I think we collected about 15 gallons that afternoon.

Well, there you have it.  We are doing well and having many adventures.  Thanks for stopping by to visit!

Tuesday Trials

 Well it has been an interesting few weeks...all will be well eventually!  We are still blessed.

The grasshoppers got a new mesh tank to live in...they are messy fellas and poop like mad!

Charles is doing well, and living his best life :)

Pumpkin is loving this season, and went outside for a quick photo shoot last weekend.  Here she is dressed as a cricket.  It should be a grasshopper because you are what you eat!

Just sitting on the wreath for the door...she looks so festive.

I had to have a colonoscopy and endoscopy last Thursday.  It was not bad at all.  Propofol is my friend :)  The worst part was the taste of the liquid you had to drink.  I wasn't sure I could get it down, but a pep talk to myself in the mirror worked.  The following day, I had an ultrasound where they determined I have a hernia with some bowel loops protruding.  I guess another surgery will be in my future.  I hope it is this year while I have met my out-of-pocket spending limit on insurance already!!

On Tuesday of that week, we had a sewage backup on the first floor!  This is the resulting damage and those fans were there for three days.  It was loud and windy downstairs and the cats did not appreciate that!

Sewer clean out closest to the house.  The problem was between this cleanout and the connection to the city line...

You can see that our pipe (the horizontal one) is cracked and not fully connected to the city pipe any longer.  The plumber came out Tuesday and got our situation fixed so we could use the toilets and such until the permanent pipe was installed.  He thought it would be Friday, but they called on Wednesday and came over!  Wednesday night was when I started my prep, so I was happy to have the toilets working :)  

The plumbers fixed the pipe and we should be good to go now...

Harrison was not sure about all the noise downstairs...he did not venture down, so we brought food upstairs for everyone.

We kept our nightly treat routine...here is Flynn

Charles, Rusty and Harrison on the stair ledge...

Before the plumbing fiasco, we had decided to finish replacing the floors upstairs.  We had our quote and placed our order, so we started ripping out the carpet in my room where the cats had been peeing, so we could paint those areas with Kilz.

Flynn

Flynn on the kitchen island on the new halloween scratcher.  The scratcher needed to be taped along the bottom so it would stay together when you picked it up to move it when you vacuumed.  Flynn thought this was a great vantage point.

Charles loved having the condos on the porch turned over.  We did this to make sure nothing fell when Hurricane Ian passed over.  Thankfully, he did not cause any damage.  We lost power for an hour and a half, but that was all.  Definitely could have been worse.

While the power was out, we ripped the carpet up in the guest room.  We only did the areas where inappropriateness had occurred.  We will let the flooring guys do the rest!

Pumpkin is not happy at the moment because she has been moved out of my room and into the craft room.  

We found out yesterday that the new floors upstairs will be installed on Thursday.  So by the end of the weekend, the upstairs should be put back together!

The floor company came this morning and measured the downstairs for new floors because everything has to be replaced from the sewage leak.

So there you have it...a crazy few weeks, but we are all healthy and making the best of life as it continues to throw lemons our way!

Mancat Monday

It's been too long once again, but everyone continues to do well.  We are blessed and thankful for each day!

Pumpkin went to and Adult Health Day Program to speak to the campers.  Everyone loved her and she didn't mind being petted.

We have been invited back so some of the campers that weren't there that day could see her.  We plan to go again, maybe in November.

Auntie and I took a much needed vacation to the beach for a week.  The boys stayed home and the pet sitter came over twice a day for an hour each time to feed, scoop, play and love on them.  The boys love to eat!

Pumpkin went with us, since the pet sitter wasn't sure about dealing with her bugs, and plus I figured she would enjoy the natural sunshine and warm sand.  This is her first view of the ocean from our room.

She loved the sand!  The temps were fantastic for us, and thankfully we didn't have any hurricanes to worry about.  That is always a risk when going in September, but the prices are so much better!

She had her own beach chair too, although she only sat here for a few photos.

She preferred her enclosed mesh tent, or sitting on my chest.

I covered her with sand one day, and she was not impressed!

She was a good sport wearing her shark costume and riding the boogie board.  She met a lot of nice people and many wanted to hold or at least touch her.  Some wanted their picture taken with her.

Although the boys had plenty of food, we discovered they had been stealing all week!  This is where they place their stolen goods...it's too funny!

Charles was ready for me to be home, and was snuggling and nursing within 15 minutes!

Pumpkin was happy to be back in her tank and showed off with some beard stretches.

The boys all got a new catnip toy and they were happy...here's Flynn and Cousin George.

Charles

Harrison

Rusty

Charles helped me change the sheets...taking a rest now.

A little nap curled up next to me was a great way to spend Sunday.

Well there you have it...another fun few weeks, and all is well.

Thanks for stopping by to visit!