Gardening Thursday - Watch This Space!

WHAT IS THIS HODGEPODGE OF STICKS AND DIRT?

OK, I agree, this doesn't look like much right now,

but I tell you: WATCH THIS SPACE!!

As members of the Society of Feline Gardeners - SOFG (see here) we just planted several kinds of squashes and even cucumbers in our 'aged' compost pile. It had a year to work itself up into a good bit of soil so we finally turned it (well, I had a lesser being do it for me...no sense me getting my gorgeous self dirty! Heaven forbid!!) and now we have 'officially' planted the seedlings. Why do I say 'officially'? Well, because normally we just throw a pumpkin into the compost in early Spring and wait to see what grows which, in the past, has been masses of pumpkins and miles of pumpkin vines. This year though, Mom decided that we needed to be more civilised - even if the location is not so civilised - about it and grow a more interesting variety of squashes in the compost so she ordered a few kinds of seeds and now all we can do is wait and see what kind of show/exhibit they are going to put on for the whole world to see.

To be honest, I'm not really SURE what exactly you are looking at behind me...

...but I do believe these two guys are supposed to be

a nice marbley green-skinned pumpkin.

I guess we will all have to be patient and just wait to see what comes up....

...but I have to say that I've already got an appetite just thinking about what MIGHT grow.

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And while we are in the garden (field) I would like to give this daisy to my pretty AttieCattie and hope that she forgives me for our long blogging absence*.

A flower for my Sweet. (Please visit her blog and also visit the rescue blog she refers to in her post of June 7...please!!)

Honestly, you have to admit that I look pretty darn manly strutting around in that patch of daisies. Tell me you can resist my charm....try!!

(*Note: we were not bloggin due to a forced time-out as a result of some incompetent person at the telephone company accidentally turning our internet off!! Hisss!)

CHRISTMASSSSSSSSS!!!!

Christmas is here!! Christmas is here!!!

It finally came!!! And today we got to open our presents!!! YAAAAYYY!!

First of all, we got a pretty package in the mail from my love, ATTIECATTIE.

We opened those first...I opened the RED one and Tiny opened the WHITE one...

...then we stopped breathing!!!

OMC!!!!!!!

OUR FIRST BLINGEE COLLARS!!

We are really classy now!!!

Just LOOK at me!!!

Here is a close-up of the charm on my collar...isn't it SOOO ME???

And here is Tiny...a.k.a. 'Princess'!! Attie knows Tiny very well!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Attie and Audrey for the beautiful collars!! We will where them with pride and with our heads high...we love them!!!

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And from our Secret Paws friend who we learned was Punapippuri - we got some really cool TOYS!! Please see all the details at the Secret Paws blog. If you didn't pawticipate in Secret Paws this year, you might want to next year...it is so much fun and SO EXCITING!!

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And finally, we got a really sweet card from our good friends Jim and Chataigne who live in Nice, France,(they don't have a kitty blog, but their Mom does have two great blogs that you should visit - Benches on My Way and Chronicles from the Shore) and the presents were more for Mom than for us, but we like them too (Mom loves them!)

Look!! A book of recipes from the south of France AND a pretty dish towel with a wonderful thought on it. Oh, so, so true!!!

And with those beautiful words, we would like to wish EFURRYONE a WONDERFUL, HAPPY AND SAFE CHRISTMAS and that you all have a loving 2011 full of happiness, warmth and kindness. Please think of all the animals around the world who are in need of love and warmth and purr that they may find what they need.

BIRTHDAY PAWWWWWWTYYYY!!!! WOOHOOOOO!!!

LOOK WHO HAS A BIRTHDAY!!

HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY LAUTREC!!!

Happy Birthday to yooouuuu, happy birthday to yooouuuu, happy birthday dear Lautrec, happy birthday to yoooouuuuu!! WE LOVE YOU LAUTREC!!

(Tiny on her 1st birthday)

and LOOK WHO ELSE HAS A BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY TINY!!!!!

Tiny the Mighty; the Mighty Tiny...you are a beautiful, smart, strong, tough kitty-cat and we hope that this 16th year is a wonderful kitty year for you!! All your friends and family love you so much you beautiful girl!!

IT'S PAWWWWWTY TIME!!!!

In honor of this event, AttieCattie - Lautrec's lovely Ladycat - has teamed up with me, Tiny, to present the following mega-pawwwty. (And I, Ellwood, have sneaked my way into the blog to add my part, too!) Felines and Canines alike are welcome!!

In celebration of Lautrec's and Tiny's birthdays (sorry Tiny, you thought you were just making a birthday party for Lolo, but I snuck in and changed the post before midnight to add in YOUR birthday, too!!) we are going to have a big HISSSSGRRRRRBOOM!!

To start off the party each guest will be greeted at the door by our massage and pawdicure specialists who will see to it that you not only have been properly massaged (and scratched behind your ears) and psyched up to pawty, but you will have your paws and claws beautified...yes, you can have your claws painted or, if you would like, you can have little diamonds glued to them and your paw pads will be soft after a fabulous cream has been gently massaged into them!!

While you are having your massage and pawdicure, you can sip on a limitless number lovely cocktails (the drink, not the bird's tail!! Silly!) ...check out our house drinks:

+ mouseymarys

+ moonmilkmadnesses

+ groovygrassjuice

+ zippideedoodahjuice

and ehfurrybody's favourite:

niptinnis

When your pawdicure session is over, you will be escorted into...

THE FUN ROOMS!!

What are the Fun Rooms?

Well, the FIRST Fun Room is a BOUNCY HOUSE (sort of like the one shown below)!! BOUNCY, BOUNCY, FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

(Now you understand why it was important that everyone have a pawdicure!!) If you have never been in a bouncy house, you will have the TIME OF YOUR LIFE!! These are great!! You can bounce like crazy and slam dance and flip and do all sorts of cool, crazy things and NOT GET HURT!! This is THE COOLEST thing...ever!!

But don't wear yourself out just yet because there are still more FUN ROOMS!! Sorry, no pictures available as these are EXCLUSIVE Weezdabadcats/AttieCattie creations!!

For the Felines:

The CRAZY CARPET ROOM

We are talking about a room where all the walls and the ceiling are covered with carpet!!! Wooo hooo!! You will literally be able to run up and down the walls and maybe even across the ceiling..depending on your climbing talents! In the middle of this same room will be hundreds of catnip mice, miles of tunnels and climbing trees that you thought only exist in your imagination! AND, as a real treat there is a special feather pool which contains millions of feathers of all kinds for you to jump into and sniff and play with until your heart is totally and utterly content.

For the Canines:

The BAZILLION BALLS ROOM

The Bazillion Balls Room is a room filled with a bazillion balls!! Some of the balls have a special device in them that causes them to move around all the time all by themselves!! Also in this room will be several treat dispensers which will give treats to any an all who wish for a treat and you won't have to do any tricks for the treats..all you'll have to do it just LOOK at a treat dispenser and it will toss out a wonderful treat (each dispenser contains a different treat).

After you have had your fill of fun in the fun rooms, you can wander into the food hall....literally a hall of food...of EVERY kind...fresh fish (including, but not limited to salmon, tuna, trout and sandat - a wonderful fresh-water fish), boneless chicken, beef chunks, shrimp, crab, liver pate, cat milk, giant pots of fresh grass and caviar for those with rich taste!!

So, make sure you clear your day so that you can come and join us to wish both Lautrec and Tiny HAPPY BIRTHDAY and to give them lots of kisses, headbutts and good wishes for many more years of the good life.

We look forward to seeing ehfurryone!!

Purrs to all, Tiny and AttieCattie

(and Ellwood - heehee - I may be just a pup, but I'm already clever!)