Weekend Café – A Mothers Day Special

Callie has one for each colour on her coat!

So that’s where Dorry meandered off to!

Don’t believe anything that Dorry says about moi! Actually he sees me more as a “connfidante” than as a Meowmy. Goes better with our respective purrsonalities! He probably enjoyed making cards though – some which might be PG-rated! 😉

Last pic takes caption from song by rapper “Drake” – gets a bit unfluffy wordwise (explicit) so vid will not be posted! Now I love gangsta – so no probs! 😎

In case warm weather creeps up on us I’ve started the closet turnover. All my light polos and T’s are getting freshened up in laundry. Much folding to do after, but I enjoy this!

Got some help at Knitting Circle with latest summer sweater endeavour. And yarn company purrson also emailed me some pointers. More complicated than I’m used to and I had to do over some rows several times. Note to self: do not attempt this project at 2 am *sigh*. Think/hope that I am up to the challenge!

What a fun Mother’s Day, MS – love your umbrella shower!

Leela likes to tell her story of finding her mama. Her earliest memory is being cold and wet and alone till a boy found her. Then she was warm and dry but felt very sick. A lady helped her to feel better, but then she found herself in a safe place but the other cats there were just as frightened as she. Then a lady came and took her away. Though she was still frightened, the lady let her explore a comfortable new place. She learned about a place called “home” and the lady called “mama.”
They lived happily ever after!

Happy Birthday to Mama Cat (Mother’s Day) and Berta, Star, Huey and Dewey (May 13)!

LOL at Airy’s shenanagins! ….. I’m still finding Lady Valkyrie’s tinsel bits in my card box …. I have over a decade of TDK cards in there, can’t seem to throw them out! …. let’s just stay it’s overflowing!

Got a sweet card from Dau and SIL, and a text from Jersulem (Son) …. the fam is coming over soon …. I’m not cooking (they’re all bringing something) … I just have the place where we can all gather ….. Caddy has kneaded me extra this moring, and Abby’s gift was a non-yakk day (so far) …. life is good …. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY ALL! HOOMAN AND FURRY!

A Happy Mother’s Day to all my TDK friends and their fluffy kits!!

I have so many birfday stories with my kits and each one a different one…none of my kitties are related so they all have a separate story of birth and rescue. All were born on the farm though, and whether their mothers abandoned them, or I saved them from certain death by racoon, they have all been rescued from just a few days old. I think of each one of them as a furry little child with a unique personality. They all get along well even though every now and then they get into a tiff, usually started by one of the boys who oversteps himself. The girls really do act like little girls and the boys like little boys–a house full of rambunctious toddlers is what it’s like here most days. Then add a 3-1/2 year old hoomin toddler to the mix and sometimes it’s chaos!

Mr. KZ is in the final stretches of planting soy beans. It has been calling for rain for 2 days but we haven’t seen any. I know he is hoping to be done by tomorrow, but is tractor weary. Oldest dau brings me fresh eggs so I made egg salad. Later this evening we will have that and some tea and put our feet up and relax. I have been trying to work in my flowerbeds, but have to take frequent breaks from the bending. Got part of my vegetable garden planted, but I’m not in any hurry it’s still early for what I’m putting in. The garden centers are too busy on this weekend anyway.

Off to plant a pink hydrangea that youngest dau brought to me and clean my fish pond and talk to my fish!

Good afternoon from Monday. It’s been a damp grey day so far but now the sun is coming out. Yay.
AV, I too have a pile of TDK cards that I can’t bear to dispose of.
Woohoo, I hope the non yak day continues for you. That is a wonderful present from Abby and extra kneading from Caddy.
Lil’Bit you rip snorter, LOL.I am sure the girls will get over the fright.
Poor Mr KZ, he must have ‘tractor seat bottom’ by now. 😯 Ohhhh vege gardening, what have you been planting in the vege patch and the flower garden? My vege garden is now fully planted so it’s just maintenance and weeding left for me.We are still getting late Summer temps here and this year my Winter vegetables are growing so well and I still have zucchini flowering and fruiting. Pink hydrangea are pretty.
Lovely story about Dorry’s beginnings as Chi with brother Tai and Mama Venus.
Whitefoots was our first kitten as a wed couple and she and her sister Wild were kittens living under a feed shed on the sheep farm we were working on. Mr MS and I caught two of the kittens and they came to live on the hill overlooking the shearing shed with us. Sadly they both got cat flu and Wild didn’t survive but Whitefoots did and thrived. She had kittens of her own who also lived with us, Monty and Nicky. The three of them hunted for rabbits and grew up with our dog pack and stock horses. They loved to sit on the fence posts are the shepherds drove huge flocks of sheep past and sometimes would lean down and swipe at a sheep. All three moved house with us along with Smudge a dumped cat who adopted us. When we moved back to the city Whitefoots(the boys and Smudge had died through accidents) retired to my parents place and lived out her years until she was 18 years old being spoiled by Mum and Dad. She was our first couples kit and we have wonderful memories of her.

Wonderful stories – someone should write a book! Not moi at least not tonite – as the org that I have opted to vol for needed translations tonite! I did them, but politely let guy know that I need more of a head’s up. Not a big deal.
Nothing quite like a 3 am concert. Now I can basically rip my alarm out as Dorry feels that 6 am-ish is purrfect wake-up time, as he’s “famished”. And yes, I get up, feed him and then go back to bed.
I didn’t know that zucchinis flowered. Although my grandmother used to grow windowsill plants from potato ends or something like that. When it comes to fruits/veg I’m such a citified, supermarket grrl!
Don’t they have seat pads for tractors – like the ones I have for spin bike saddle? If not, they should.
I have used some of my TDK cards as pics in my home office unit. Others I’ve place in “Lucite” standing pic frames which I use as bookends.
Got a bit further in this nigh on impossible knitting project (think I’ve started the diff section – which is the start of majority of sweater at least 8 times!) and am holding myself back ere I end up pulling an all-nighter.
And on way home from gym saw an interesting white IKEA-style unit with adjustable shelves. Actually 2 there. If I take one I will replace something in my bdrm, I’m trying to subtract, not add. Anyway by tomorrow they might both be gone.
Stressed as can’t take action yet re srsly looking for new place, although those whose opinions I value strongly suggest that no matter outcome with this place, it is time for a change. Plus my guts were at odds with me earlier and I think that bed is the best plan.

Happy Belated Purrday to Mama Cat and your special indoor/outdoor trio Joan!

Kudos to you for caring for your caboodle of furry/purries!
Jean & Kits!