Sunday Miscellany

Hi All, I have a few items of business to take care of today:

On Friday a package from Sparkle arrived.  I won the Furminator giveaway that was offered during her book launch, I also received a fun-fact bookmark and autographed book plate with  pawprint.  It looks great in the front of her book!

Goodies from Sparkle :-)

A little while ago I bought this beautiful necklace from Cats of the Wildcat Woods Vintage Treasures site.  This blog has gently used, hand made and vintage jewelry, clothing, books, and home decor for sale and all proceeds go to care for the rescued feral cats of Wildcat Woods.

Great jewelery for a great cause

Finally, Casper helped me to pack up the Paw it Forward boxes.  Then acting as postmaster, he gave them his final seal of approval before they were mailed out yesterday.

Casper does the packing-up

then inspects the boxes

Mancat Monday

So here are my lazy mancats on the bed that they never leave these days.  I can't make the bed because I don't want to disturb them.

snoozing mancats...the coast is clear

I did some shopping for Paw it Forward yesterday so I figured with the boys sleeping it would be perfect time to do a little organizing.

Don't look too closely if you are playing!

After I began laying things out on the dining room table I heard a thump from upstairs and young Master Archie made an appearance.  He looked so pathetic sniffing the empty shopping bag that I had to give him a little something...I had a spare mouse :-)

sad Archie needs something this second to play with

A few moments later another thud from upstairs and Sir Benjamin appears "but mum we don't have any toys to play with" he said with an equally pathetic look on his face.

sadder Ben has such a hard toyless life

After he came downstairs and joined me on the dining room table I had to quickly pack up my work and stash it all in the closet for safe keeping.

Hide the loot

Oh well, I guess there is always tomorrow.  At least I now know what I have still to buy, so something was accomplished after all!

Ben lied

and by the way, just in case you were inclined to believe Ben's nonsense, here is just one of the toy baskets we have around the house!

and the players are...

UPDATE:  Thank goodness Blogger Dashboard is back to normal :-)  No more gigantic pictures and missing scroll bars...seems a lot if us were having the same problems.

Hi all,

Well I had exactly three people who said they wanted to participate in the Paw if Forward which is great because that's how many you need to play and this way I didn't have to choose!  So I will be contacting all of you below in the next little while to gather your addresses. Then I'll be off shopping 'til I'm dropping to find some neat kitty stuff and try to live up to the high standard that Amy set for me.  Once your parcels have been received, it's up to you guys to pick three new bloggers and keep it going  Paw it Forward :-)

and the players are:

The Island cats - Ernie, Wally and Zoey
Manx Mews - Abby, Boo, Jinx, Ping and Gracie
Adventures of Scarlett and Melly - Scarlett and Melly

I could not seem to find an email address on the Manx Mews blog, so if you wouldn't mind emailing me (my contact info is in the "meow to us" tab) I would really appreciate it!

It's Thanksgiving here in Canada (Monday off - yay) and among the many things that I have to be thankful for are wonderful friends from the Cat Blogosphere.  Enjoy the weekend everyone!

PS - did anyone else's reading window in Blogger Dashboard change overnight? Yikes!

Paw it Forward

What can this be?

Oh my goodness, such excitement in the house today!  A knock at the door and a box delivered for the cats.

With little regard for his personal safety, Archie jumps head first into the box to investigate

 Ben steps up to see what it's all about..."look you fools there's a card".

"It's from Amy and the House Of Cats...yippee it's our Paw it Forward package"!  I helped the boys open their package (it must be such a drag not having opposable thumbs) and the loot just kept on coming, it was like the Fantasia of cat toys.

There were two bags of cat treats, and a silky pouch of nip, one foamy ball, four poms, three balls with bells, one large crazy unbalanced ball that moved on it’s own, catnip bubbles (which I will get on video when we open them), two yarn tubes with rattling stuff inside.

There were two three turquoise mice, one mauve mouse and a shiny pink pillow which were all nip-filled and made the cats crazy.  There was also a cat dancer which was a gigantic hit and a refillable catnip cupcake.  All of this was packed in a funky canvas kitty shopping bag. 

Holy cow Amy, did I forget anything?  Every cat played with every toy and nothing was left untouched :-)

It was really the most fantastic selection of goodies.  My boys would like to thank Amy, Kirzon, Lola, Virgil, Barney, Gus & Stella for their overwhelming generosity!

Now, who else would like to play?  Just leave a comment on today’s post and I'll choose the first three kitties who say they want to Paw it Forward.  It doesn’t matter where you live, let’s just keep the fun going!