Saturday 6 March 2010

Of Grass and Birds and Blue Heat


Yesterday, Mom loaded us into the car - for the first time in 2 months - and brought us to our house with the garden (we've been in our city home since early January) and we were all excited because we were feeling the Spring bug and have sooo been looking forward to eating some fresh grass in the garden...and we did...YESTERDAY. But, during the night, while we were sleeping, some horrible giant came along and put a HUGE white blanket all over everything and when we woke up this morning, the first thing Mom said was that she HAD to go outside right away and feed the birds...NOT US...THE BIRDS!! There we were, starving after not eating all night and she has the nerve to feed the birds FIRST!

Just look at them...they are sooooo spoiled...couldn't they have waited for us to get fed first? I mean SO WHAT if it is below freezing out there...WE ARE HUNGRY!!

Once we FINALLY got our breakfast we were happy, because we like being in the country house. Only here can we sleep on top of the big blue warm table/couch thing...we LOVE it!! I know it doesn't look soft and cushy, but it is so warm...kinda the same as laying on a cold tile floor in the hot summer but this is a hot tile surface in the winter...we just stretch out and take in all the heat!! (Note from Mom: that big blue thing Lautrec is talking about is what the French call a 'fourneau en faience' or in Czech a 'kachlova kamna'...a wood burning stove, if you want, surrounded by a large construction of porcelain tiles that hold the heat from the fire, keeping the house warm with a lovely, soft heat...which makes it very attractive to the cats!!)


10 comments:

Tama-Chan, Benny, Vidock, Violette, Ollie, Heloise, Momo, Ryu said...

The photos of you two on the stove are great, especially the tone of Tint/. Talk about looking blissed out!

My Mind's Eye said...

Hi Tiny and Lautrec.
that is one fine looking blue heat 'thingy'. Mom loves the color. Too bad you left the city to look for green and what do you find white. Good job mom on feeding the birds first!!! Kitties you have to remember you two are inside and warm and maybe a tad hungry,the birdies are outside cold and hungry.
Everyone have a good weekend.
Madi and Mom

Brian's Home Blog said...

I love the pics, they were all good!

Cat with a Garden said...

Even we had a bit of snowfall over night. Go away Winter!
The tile stove looks heavenly. It really does!

Jacqueline said...

How cool to have a country house with that awesome wood burning stove to lounge around on=you guys look very cozy!...We love the bird pictures, but hope the white stuff melts soon!...xo...Calle, Halle, Sukki

SASS....Sammy Andy Shelly Sierra said...

What a wonderful place to stay warm....we can see why you love your country home.

GonetoTheSnowDogs said...

Oh that bird watching looked liked so much fun!

Woo Woooo
Shiloh, Shelby, and their Mom!
http://GonetotheSnowdogs.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

WOW! You guys can lay ON your woodstove?!? We'd burn our feets if we did that! Our's is castiron. Mom wants to know, the birds at the feeder, the one on the left...is that som sort of cardinal? Really kewl looking!

Cheyenne -Millie said...

That big blue table is sure purrty! We thinks you look real nice on it!

Anonymous said...

We'd love to get our claws on those birdies! You're so lucky to get to see so many of them:)