Birthday Surprises (Taz's Today)

TBT:   Not too far back, I posted about not knowing Taz and Binq's birthdays and I decided to let them share mine.  Well, apparently early this year, I must have found some document from the Shelter with their actual birthdates on it.  Because at the beginning of this year, I wrote down all the regular milestone dates on the new cat calendar.

So, imagine my surprise when I turned it to September and saw I had written Taz's Birthday for today and Binq's for Sept 24th!  I must have been some document, because I wouldn't have just chosen those dates at random.  I'll have to correct the sidebar soon.

So Happy Birthday Taz!  I think it is his 4th.

No time to plan for a lot of visitors, and we are out of fancy foods anyway.  But Taz got real poached chicken.  He does love real meat.  When I am preparing any cooked meat, he stands next to me for bits and pieces (and he gets plenty).  Chicken, beef, pork, ham, bacon, shrimp; he loves them all.  He even loves bits of bread crust! 

And he got a chance to play with the "kibble egg" by himself,  (I had lured the other Mews outside).

And I tossed some toys around for him.  He wasn't too interested in the Nip I offerred (some cats just aren't).  I also gave him LOTS of scritchies.  So he at least had some birthday things to enjoy...

I'll do better next year, now that I know a real birth date.

And I have to smile.  Last week, I posted about Labor day too soon.  Now I have a better post on Labor Day.  LOL!

Dr Suess Day

Dear beloved Dr Suess, please forgive me:

"There once was a book

Of a greedy Once-ler 

And the path that he took.

That led him to there.

 

He only did want

To earn money, you see. 

And did not consider

The damage to be.

 

The things in the world

Were just things it could spare

For the Once-ler

It just seemed just like breathing the air.

 

Use it now he did say

I can gain from all that.

And I'll put all the money

Away in my hat.

(have you met my good friend, The Cat In The Hat)

 

So we use something up.

Well, what's wrong with that?

There is plenty of other stuff

To be used up!

 

Then the Lorax himself

The keeper of trees 

Asked what happens 

When are no more of these?

Said the Once-ler, well then

I'll just move along.

There are many nice things 

To be sold for a song.

 

And the people just love

All the things that I bring

The spongey-soft pillows

The sugary things.

 

He went on to explain about 

Marketing things.

And offerred the Lorax 

A share of the thing.

 

I'm the Lorax (said Lorax).

I care for the trees

But would you explain about 

Shares, and all that "pretty please"?

 

So 'Once-Lor, Inc' began as 

A company trust.  The Lorax

Was poor and had 

Children to feed.

 

As The Lorax did say

Sitting long in his years

Well, there are other trees

Around to this day...

And I don't mind that I offed the old 

Once-ler, he said

He chopped the last Truffula

Tree, glad he's dead.

 

His family looks back 

With family pride niche.

When the Old Lorax died

They all lived quite rich! "

9

CAR-tooned Thursday

TBT got the car back 2 nights ago,


They had WAY bigger tools than TBT does! Grounded the gas tank and used a Hydraulic something...   Anyway, he drove it home and brought us STEAKS.

Cool!  Of course we didn't get ALL the steak.  That was way more cow than even the 3 of us could eat.

But he shared a LOT!  Half mebbe.  So we were all good and plumped ...  Us and him...  Lets just say that when IZA is full we are ALL full.  She actually pushed a piece away.

The repair cost a LOT less than he feared.  So we celebrated.

Now we are curious.  How do we damage the car ourselfs next week?  We are saying "next week", cuz we don't want to miss out on the duck and turkey and  tuna the rest of THIS week.  But a real steak is better than the canned cow, ya know?

Marley had his fill and went to pass out  nap...  Iza came back for licks,

We were so stuffed we didn't bother TBT for First Breakfast.  Oh, OK, IZA did...

3,500th Post Party

Really, come one, come all.  We want to celebrate this.  We mean, it takes about a year and a half of daily posts to get a 500 so the 4000th is about February 2018 if we keep it up.  And who wants ta wait that long for that fer another round sort of number?

Aside from the usual entertainment of toy mousies,  rolley balls, and wands of magic, The Big Thing will walk among us juggling golf balls in the air, bouncing them off the cement basement floor in a juggling manner to the tunes of our favorite cat food commercials, and even OFF THE WALLS, while also tossing tasty kibbles and treats around for everycat to catch between juggling changes AND while wearing his Hobbit feet slippers and (this is still under negotiation) his craziest clothes later in the afternoon.  We tried ta convince him ta hold a sparkler between his teeth, but he wouldn't go fer THAT.  He said we were pushing it...  Can't win them all.

Still it will be a sight not to be missed.  The party will last all day, so don't be elsewhere.  Kitties who are not here THIS day will feel deprived their whole lives.

There will be Fresh Nip, Niptinis, Nip Smoothies, and Nip Cream.  There will be foods.  

Come early, come often, but DONT not come.  We wont have a 3,500th again...

UPDATE:  Well, apparently juggling is NOT like riding a bicycle.  Beins DO forget.  He blames "flawed golf balls", but WE can tell he has lost the art.

The balls were just all over the house.  Which was good fer chasing, but he can't juggle them without a week of practice.  Granted, he was getting much better real fast, but not in time fer the photos...Well, ya snooze, ya lose... 

He DID manage the crazy clothes and the hat trick, and we all got a laff from THAT!

 That hat trick IS pretty good though...

We gotta feel sorry fer him though.  Those feets will never get better...

 

Caturday Saturday

Remember when we announced a celebration earlier and had to apologize because The Big Thing couldnt count days?  Well it is happening tomorrow finally.  Dont miss it!

WE have been waiting...

Annoyed Monday

We are all upset with TBT!  He told us there would be something ta celebrate in a few days and HE WAS WRONG.  There are some things we trust him ta do well.  Like open cans of Stinky Goodness and clean litterboxes.  Another is COUNT!  We have trouble with that...

Well, apparently he does too sometimes.  So it seems that what we thought we were going ta celebrate in a few days is actually almost 2 months from now. 

So we are giving him the Backs Of Disrespect today...

Fortunately, we DO have Marley's Birfday and our Blogoversary coming up later this month, so that will be good...

And we will relent tomorrow. 

Box Day And Aylas 9th Birfday

IZA:  Oh we almost fergot it was Box Day today, and TBT dint have time ta take new pictures.  He really FAILED us on this day...

We are all a bit annoyed.  But, ta make the best of things, we decided ta search our pictures fer us in boxes.

We have a Special Box for Box Day.  TBT wrapped one all up in fancy paper fer us a few years ago.  I was 1st in, of course.  I AM sort of the Box Girl around here!  Marley an Ayla came running over ta see the new fancy box (and admire ME in it Im sure).

And another fave box of mine.  TBT cracks up laffn when he sees me in it.  He esplained it to me once but I ferget what he found so funny.

Another year, TBT put the box on its side.  We couldnt quite figure out what ta do with it that way.  Marley sniffed it fer "weerdness" an tried ta push it over, but he couldnt push far enough.  Even the cat rule didnt werk (Iffen ya push something hard enough, it WILL fall over).

But TBT COULD push hard enough, so Marley jumped inside.  Corollary ta the Cat rule is that "Beins can push things harder than cats can").

Now there is another matter of importance what happens to happen on the same day as Box Day this year.

[Edit, we thought Box Day was 17th, TBT is totally ta blame of course]

Ayla is 9 today!  A whole year fer every regular cat life!  Once again, she is the oldest of us 3.  We dont know how she keeps that up.

But ta celebrate her 9th birfday, we are throwin a pawty and EVERYONE is invited.  Even Beins and non-cat-type anipals...

Scratchers...

Climbin Ladders...

Boxes...

Bags...

Tunnels and Stuff...

Toys...

And Wand Toys!

Drinks...

Shrimps and Ham...

Veggies fer the non-carnivore guests (and all are safe here this day)...

And *I* am wearin my best outfit in honor of Aylas 9th!

So please come join us ta celebrate Aylas 9th Birfday Box Day Celebration!