Thursday thoughts...

Normally, since it is Thursday, we would be chatting about our garden (see Jonesie and SOFG crew - here - for more on that subject!), but would you believe that despite ALL the work we did in the garden yesterday, Mom didn't take one single picture? What did we do? Well, we cut the grass, raked leaves (yes, believe it or not, we already have a ton of leaves!), pruned various bushes and plants and hung several sunflowers upside down so that the seeds will dry and we can feed them later to the birds. Yum! (Ok, some of  you might be thinking that 'yum' had to do with my thoughts about birds, but as Mom would never forgive me for that kind of a thought, that 'yum' - officially - was what I imagine the birds will say when they eat the sunflower seeds that we grew for them! So, as you just read, we did lots in the garden, but just can't prove it...dang!

On another note, the other day Mom and Dad packed up ALL OF US in the car and we went to stay a night in our city home (we hardly ever go there anymore now that we have the dawgs)...Tiny and I have a nice, cozy spot in a cage in the car, but the two dawgs just lie there on the back seat (harnessed of course). Take a look at this picture...yep, that is yours truly there on the left giving the eye through our cage...lucky for those dawgs I was in that cage or I would have given them some nice tiger stripes on their noses. hehehe! Never underestimate the power of The Lolo!!

P.S. Ok, they may LOOK cute, but don't trust them..they are evil creatures!!

Gardening Thursday - The Bities

Hello Gardening Buddies! Today we went to check on the squash garden and look what Mom found just laying on one of the big squash leaves...Whaaaa?

 Look closer...we are still trying to figure out WHO did this...

who has teeth like that??

Whoever it was likes the baby squashes.

 There are tons of babies so we don't care.

We also have these squash that are starting to look big...

I think they are called Winter Squash.

 

I just couldn't resist showing you this spider web...even though Mom FREAKS OUT when a spider is near, she did get close enough to admire the spider's work. Me,  I could really care less. {yawn}

And well, there wasn't only that mystery little beastie getting the bities on the squash, there was me, giving the grass the bities! Grrr!

 And me posing with my diamond studded collar that Attie gave me last Christmas...Mom said I really should wear it more often since it compliments my blue eyes...but you can't really see that here.

 And, well, back to the house because I'm still kinda tuckered out from being sick so I wanna go sleep now.

 But wait! I smell an introoder!! 

That DANG introoder pee'd on our bead curtain...

AGAIN!! 

Blast him!! Ick!!!

 And FINALLY, inside in the warm house and curled up next to (and actually touching - OMG!!!) Tiny. I'm feeling better for the most part, but I'm still tired and I don't feel much like drinking water - which makes Mom ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!! Any suggestions on getting me to drink? I even turned down chicken broth (no salt and no fat in it = no flavour)...Mom said I'm making her pre-maturely gray, but I really don't know how I can do that!

Gardening Thursday

Well, we don't have much to SHOW you of our garden for today's gardening post, but we can say that we did have a nice, big, funny squash (that weighs about 3kgs /6lbs) - that Mom picked and when she did, she thought immediately about...

a SNAKE!!

Would you believe that we already have a TON of dry leaves on the ground in our garden....Fall is here and we are sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad, SAD!! But our snakey makes us smile so at least when we are inside we are not sad!! Have a great day everyone! Your buddies, Lolo and Tiny, members of SOFG (see here for more info!)

Gardening Thursday - SOFG

We feline AND canine gardeners (Jonesie the Master Gardener does have Grete, right?) and members of SOFG consider ourselves to be equally responsible for the garden in one way or another...the canines fertilise it (no pictures necessary!)...

...and occastionally do some cleaning (e.g. flower pots)...

...and we felines keep the grass trim...

...and give a certain calming beauty to the whole ensemble.

We all watch over it and admire it and enjoy frolicking and rolling in the deep grass out behind the barn where the squashes are growing...

(check out these wild, giant snake-looking squash that we have)

... just as we enjoy listening to the purring sounds of the bumble bees as they lazily fly from one Japanese Anemone to another and another (we have hundreds of them) or as they crawl around on the dinner plate sized center of the giant sunflowers or as they try to find the secret place to step on to open the snapdragon's mouth or the sweetpea's heart. Gardens are great. Here we are doing our best to help and appreciate ours on these very last days of summer (and oh what a short and rotten summer it was here....grrr.)

You see, even Ellwood is praying that we have just a few more days of warm weather...bless him!

(Cripes...Blogger is playing games with our minds...it won't let us center certain bits of text!! GrrrHiss!)

Gardening Thursday - Big leaves, tiny squash

Hi there gardening buddies!!

I don't know about you, but I like to go sit under the big pumpkin/squash leaves.

The sweet perfume of the compost pile is delicious...mmmm!

Today, I was doing just that when Tiny came along and found me!

Together, we found Mom!

As you can see, the leaves are HUGE.....BUT the actual 'fruit' is really small. Mom read that if the fruit is small it is often the result of not enough sunshine and warm weather. BINGO! We have had a lot of rain lately, low temperatures and not much sunshine. Grrrr!!

Who do I have to beg to get more sunshine and warm weather?

(Tiny: I'll just sit here and look pretty and make goo-goo eyes...perhaps that carries some weight in the whole scheme of the universe. Hmm?)

IMPORTANT REQUEST: We learned that our gardening buddy/mentor Jonesie (Society of Feline Gardeners) was attacked in her own yard by a mean little dog...as a result, Jonesie is afraid to go back outside - in the garden. Evfurryone, please, please, please, go tell Jonesie that we are all purring for her to find her courage and come back out...we'll all be behind her emotionally (we would be there physically, too, if we could!!). Oh yeah, make sure to suggest to her to ask Grete to be her doggyguard....there's no way that dang little mean dawg will mess with Grete!!

Gardening Thursday

MAN-OH-MAN-OH-MAN! I AM HOPPING MAD!! MOM FORGOT TO PUSH THE 'PUBLISH POST' BUTTON!!

(She claims that she meant to, but needed to add a few things like a link to Jonesie's blog and all that, but didn't have time yesterday and now..nothing!! Now, in a last-ditch effort, we are posting 'as is'...sorry!!)

And here we are: Thursday which means - time to go back to visit our vegetable patch!! Look how everything has grown...or have I shrunk...again??!

Just to refresh your memory, I'm including a 'before' picture, too.

NOW

BEFORE

Look how those little flowers are growing!! Aren't they cute?

We have lots of tiny cucumbers already, but I'm still waiting for some of the squashes and pumpkins to get going...whenever that will be!! I'll, of course, keep you posted!!

Mom thinks that it is really important to let certain wild flowers grow so that all the birds and the butterflies are happy...they must be because there are sooo many butterflies and bees flying around (and also bumblebees!). I kinda stay away from them because bees REALLY don't like to be bothered...I learned that a long time ago and I'll never forget THAT lesson!! On the other paw, I would love to play with the butterflies, but mom strictly forbids that kind of fun....darn.

Gardening Thursday

Hello there fellow gardeners!!

No!! I have NOT shrunk! Remember a few weeks ago you saw me in this very same place with my (then much smaller) pumpkin plants. Haven't they grown? And finally, we are getting both rain and sunshine which is the perfect growing combination. I should really be showing you my sunflowers...they are over 2 meters (over 6 feet) tall!! Woo hoo...sorry, next time I'll TRY to show you, but in order to do so I will have to figure out some way of me figuring into the picture, which, at the moment, I don't know how I could.

Oh well, I guess I could show you another part of our garden...the part that we call THE JUNGLE!! Not surprisingly, this is the part of the garden where I like to go!! But it is not because the tiger (a.k.a. ME) is there, but because the place is so overgrown that it just looks like a jungle...SOMEONE (a.k.a. MOM) really needs to get in and do some weeding there, but if you take a look, there are still some nice things there including hostas and dianthus and lavender and poppies....and a bazillion weeds.

Would you check out this guy? Geez...what a lazy sack o' bones he is...what does he think? That if he lays in the sun HE is going to grow? Ha ha! Fat chance fella!! But if you want, I'll happily put some 'fertiliser' on ya.. (loud evil laugh silences the singing of the birds) to see if THAT might help you 'bloom'...heyheyhey!!!

For all you serious gardeners or even just wannabe gardeners, go over and pad around Jonesie's garden for some serious garden news. Jonesie is a A1 gardener!

Gardening Thursday - WHERE IS MOM???

Mom left us.

Nope...not to turn the compost

or to pick something up at the store.

She's left us to visit Paris.

Yeah...THE Paris.

What does Paris have that we don't?

The only thing that comforts us is that we KNOW she will be back soon.

Why? Because she can never be away from us for very long.

But still....this coming Mom-less week is going to feel very long!!

Until she returns, I guess we'll just have to stop and smell the roses...

and the poppies and peonies.

And my compost garden will just have to reach new heights without me being there to watch over it.

Sigh.

Climbing rose - Pierre de Ronsard

(the only one SOMEONE can remember the name of!)

Shrub rose

Tea rose - smells sooo good!!

Purple poppy

Red, white and lavender poppy

Peony

Oh Maaaaaaaahm...come home soon...we miss you.

PeeEss: Make sure to go see Jonesie and what he is up to in his garden HERE.

(I bet HIS mom doesn't leave him like our mom does...

so NOT fair....sniff...snifffff..)