Home Again

Yay! The mommy is back…oh, and the man-bean too.

They went to Missouri for a week to visit the Gramma Bean. Mommy said it was a nice relaxing visit and she thought the Woofie named Henry was very funny and cute. But she also said that she was very very happy to be home.

They came in and gave us much needed scritches (In fact, the mommy said she started stretching her fingers when they were still half a mile from the house so she wouldn’t get a dreaded finger cramp from Mega Scritching without warming up first), brought the luggage in and then went out to eat with their friends! What was that about! They were gone for a week so an hour of pettins wasn’t going to go far! But when they came back, the mommy put on her jammies and let me sit on her lap.

Autumn Savannah wasn’t having it though. She came over and sat on me while I was sitting on the mommy, even though I growled at her. Finally, I just gave up and decided to wait until mommy was in bed and give her kisses. I let AS have the lap, and then she started getting mean about it! Every time another poodin would get near the mommy Autumn Savannah would smack them on the top of the head!! I told her, “Autumn Savannah, that isn’t nice.” And she said to me, “I don’t have to be nice, it is MY lap!” and then the mommy picked her up and put her on the floor and went upstairs to read. I was going to stick my tongue out at AS but I didn’t think that would be very lady-like (okay, so I did it anyway, but just a little).

When mommy went to bed I waited until the light was out then I sneaked down and gave the mommy a big, drooly, purry kiss. After I finished slobbering all over the mommy I went and slept with the man bean since he doesn’t move around much. For once, all 4 of us were on the bed and we didn’t even fight. I don’t see this lasting long though…I am feelin’ all smacky

New Stuff!!

The mommy bean has a new website.

She has been working on it for a while which is why she neglected me so scandalously - or so she says. I think it has to do with all the stuff happening around the house. You know, the decision to implement the M-word and then the decision to not M-word. Looking for a job has kept her busy and then she is trying to get in all the trips that she wasnt able to take last year because her company was busy trying to work her to death.

Now that things have settled down a little she is able to be on here more often so now I get to be on the Tappy Box too. That is until tomorrow...when the beans go to visit the Gramma Bean and her Woofie for a week. Autumn Savannah is worried that with all this travelling that the beans will forget to come home but I reminded her about the Kitty Sitter. We get our own person to come to our house and feed us 2X a day! And the best part is that they leave after a while so we get the house to ourselves again. I telled her, "Just think AS, no one kissing our noses, or trying to give us scritches while we are trying to take our 47th nap for the day!" Well, by this time AS had run off to chase a Nothing (I swear she is so A.D.D.) so I was left talking to myself. Cheese was looking at me funny so I had to tell him that I started out by talking to AS and he rolled his eyes and said, "Suuuuuure."

Pfft...I dont know why I bother someti...OOOOOoooo...a piece of lint!!!

OMG!!!!

Oh My Goodness!!

Look at what is happening in China! Isnt there something we, as fellow Poodins, can do to help them????

For Girls Only

Well it is about time some one recognized how special (no, not that way) us girls are. Now we have our own website...and I must admit: if I wasn't so confident of my greatness, I would feel a bit intimidated by all of the beauty on this site.

Something for me!

Wow, it has been soooo long since I was able to get on here that I forgetted how to use the tappy thing!

First things first….we has a nanny! The mommy hired someone to come in and feed us and play with us, and scoop our boxes every day! She says he is a Domestic Advisor and that he will be with us full time but I don’t care what we call him…he is here just for us! He also cleans house, makes the lunch for the mommy bean, cooks supper and breakfast, takes care of the gardens, and just makes the bean’s lives easier…but I know they got him just for me. It is working out so well that the mommy says everyone should have a ‘Barry’. I disagree. I think if everyone had a Barry, then there would be none left for me!

Barry says that I am his favorite. Problem is, he also says that about Cheese, Bumpers, and Autumn Savannah. Hmmmm…I don’t know if I like that. I took my time getting to know him. He has been here almost 2 months and I finally let him pet me without squashing myself flat on the floor to get away. I figure it is my gift to him. The other poodins liked him right away (and don’t tell him, so did I) because he plied them with treats, but I was more discriminating. I made him wait. That way it looked like I was gracing him with my affection. Now that he knows I like him it is just a matter of time until I let him experience my kisses full of drool-y goodness.

Cheese already sleeps with our Barry. As soon as he figured out that Barry = food Cheese was attached to his hip. In fact, when Barry was a little late with the stinky goodness one morning, Cheese licked his toe. Cheese said it was just to wake the Barry up, but I think he was checking to see if a Barry was a good thing to eat in an emergency.

Sleepy Sunday

YAWN!!!!!

SPRINGSRPINGSPRINGSPRING!!!!

It has been so long since the beans turned the tappy thing on that I was confused at first about the big glowing box in here. I know what the big glowing box on the wall in the living room is for (yelling at during Jeopardy), but it took me a minute to a'member what to do with this one.

WOW!! A Poodin would think the mommy had never seen spring before. She has been opening the house and letting us sniff the outside... and one night the Beans actually slept with the windows open! And she actually went outside and took pictures of all the salad I am not allowed to eat. She says this stuff is Sedum but since I am not blind everything is Seed-um..."Did you see the Daffodils?"..."Yup, I Seedum". The whole Happy-About-Spring thing doesn't last long though. After a few minutes of being outside she starts making lists about what the gardner needs to do this year and how quickly he can get it done. Well, the next few pictures prove that he has a lot of work to do because there are a lot of empty spaces still this year.

Last Year:

This Year:

Last Year:
This Year:

Though, Bumpers says that all we have to do is wait another 400 naps and the Hostas will be back again and things wont look bare any more.

The Mommy also has been talking about Spring Cleaning lately. She has been making sure the cleaning lady has been doing a good job and is talking to her about something called an EVENT CLEANING. Well, when the cleaning lady comes it is an event anyway, I don't know how this is going to be any different. The Beans seem to think that since they are having a big party that the house needs to be clean. But get this...the party isn't at the house! It is going to be held at someplace called VENUE. The beans have been talking about it a lot lately..."is the VENUE big enough? Will the VENUE have a bar? Will the VENUE have easy access for the Caterers? Can the Bakery people get into the VENUE early to set the cake up?" I gotta say...I looked at Mapquest and I didn't see VENUE anywhere near us. At this point I have to think the Beans have lost their minds. Something else that makes me think this is that when they check the mail they get all excited about little white cards that tell them who is coming to the party. Ummmm...people...Isn't that what scratching a tree is for? To let you know when and where the party is and who is expected to attend?

We all had to go to the Stabby place and get injected with biohazardous chemicals. The Stabby Dood said it would keep us from getting sick, but every time I go I have to get an EXTRA shot to keep the stuff that is supposed to protect me from making me sick...from making me sick!! Heh, figure that one out...I think it is just torture because we get to stay home and nap all day and the beans have to go out to hunt in order to feed us. I keep telling them that if they would just let me outside a bird might fly into my mouth and it would be one less meal they would have to prepare for me. Though, I don't know how I am going to get a cow to fly into my mouth...I do love the beef Stinky Goodness (even though it makes me barf all over the house).

Bumpers had to go to the stabby place a week earlier than we did. The beans had to have his pee checked out because he peed in the wrong place. He peed in the Mommy's study on her pretty curtains. Well, I think he was just giving his opinion, but the beans thought he needed to go to the V-E-T because he has poor taste in window dressings. Well, you can be sure I am not going to say a word about the color of the guest bathroom!! Turns out his pee is fine...the nice Stabby lady said that it was behavioral and suggested a few things the beans could do to help. Unfortunately, the beans are doing almost everything the stabby lady suggested (with the exception of the Kitty Prozac). The beans have closed the door to that study and the mommy has been using the Man Bean's study instead but she doesn't like it as much...she says it is too Mask-u-line.

Well, I am going to go bug the beans for some crunchies...all this tapping has made me weak with hunger.

Pix of Autumn

KC requested more photos of Autumn Savannah so here they are. I adore showing off my Tough A*s Tortie so here are some of her best stuff.

She loves her bear. She shows it love by beating the tar out of it every day.

Here she is helping build the kitty condo.

She is definately a bag kitty...

Poor Cheese

The mommy said that Cheese is a Basket case. She was laughing but I don't think it is anything to make fun of. Cheese seems pretty normal (relatively) so I don't know what the mommy thinks he is so upset about. He doesn't seem particularly bothered by anything so I don't know how she thinks he is a basket case. But looking at this picture I have to say...he has some pretty impressive muzzle puffs.

Finally!!

Wow, I didn't think Mommy would ever turn this on again. She has been sooooo busy!! I didn't think she could get any busier once she started her new 'job' thing-y, but boy was I wrong!

Shortly after this 'job' started, the man bean's mommy came to visit. They had to put up a place for her to sleep in the man bean's study. That is where this computer is so I wasn't going to go in there and bother the grandma bean. She stayed for a week, and I had a great time with the grandmommy while she was here. I was all 'cited before she came out. Here I am checking out the quality of her bed. I am helping the beans put her room together acause you know they needed my help.

Shortly before they put the bed together the man bean came to ask my opinion of the bed. When I told him that it would do he gave me some head scritches. Shortly after the grandma bean left, the mommy was doing some work in her study and Autumn and I were helping, apparently, by keeping look-out. Mommy is an 'A-Count-Ant' and she brought home some papers from work so we had to make sure there was no corporate espionage stuff going on. At one point she looked up and this is what she saw. Heh Heh, I made the mommy jump a little. Finally, after mommy was done doing work at home, she went into her craft room to frame a wedding picture. She was using lace and tulle on the frame so Autumn and I had to inspect that too. Well, Autumn was in such a hurry that she didn't let me do a really thorough job. You can see that she is in the background trying to hurry me along. Well, as soon as I was done checking it out, Autumn was able to do her job. It passed 2 cat-scans so now mommy can use it on the frame.

FOR KC - Tough A*s Tortie Tuesday

Here is the infamous picture of Autumn Savannah when she was sick. Unlike KC, Autumn hadnt had her Ladygardenectomy yet. She was too sick and the V-E-T wanted to take care of the more important thing first. Autumn had an Abcess in her lung that was blocking the airway and it had to be removed. The V-E-T assured the mommy that after the recovery Autumn would be a completely normal poodin (right, like any of us are 'normal').
Well, the mommy worried, and worried, and worried some more and finally, after 3 days of being in the Poodin hospital, Autumn was allowed to come home. The beans had the spare room set up for Autumn and since she was still taking pain medication she just slept a lot. At night the mommy wrapped Autumn up so she wouldnt bother her staples and mommy said she looked like a Jedi Master - whatever that is. During the day mommy let Autumn run around nekkid and Autumn never bothered her staples...until 2 days before she was supposed to have them removed. Then she pulled one out, it popped her incision open and mommy caught her just as she was pulling on the stitches under her skin holding her muscle together. ICK!!!!!

The Beans rushed to the car and drove really fast to the poodin hospital (it was 11 at night) and they stuck another staple in her. 2 days later all the staples came out - on schedule, and things have been okay since. Though, as a result of all of the poodin drama when Autumn finally had her Ladygardenectomy the v-e-t called mommy and asked if the mommy could take Autumn home early since she was being very 'uncooperative'. When anyone walked past the cage Autumn would charge at them and try to bite them. As soon as the mommy got there Autumn was a little angel again and has been fine since.

Now that her fur has grown back from the bad haircut days no one would ever know how sick she was. I am sure KC is going to be the same way - as soon as she gets home and the Beans shower her with love and attention she is going to get better by leaps and bounds. Just wait and see.

Getting Annoyed

I have to say, this Mommy working business is getting on my last nerve. She is never home for me to give kisses to, or for me to sit on her lap, or for her to turn on the tappy box so I can update this thing. And I know that she gets grumpy without the kisses and the snugglies a'cause when she gets home she just looks at the house and goes 'ugh' and goes upstairs for the rest of the night.

When she is upstairs she is working on her kwilt and that makes her happier. She has set up a new table to put the hot thing on and, I swear, these prints were already here when I hopped up to investigate. I think Autumn Savannah did it. They are too big to be hers but she is usually the one in trouble so they must be hers.

When the mommy came in and saw me on the new table she said I was cute. I was still mad at her for letting some other poodin see the table before me so I decided to shun her. I figure if I cant see her then she must not be there. That is how it works right?

Ok, here is the deal... Now that the mommy is working and is all tired and stuff when she gets home, us poodins have decided to mess with her mind a little bit.

She isnt spending nearly enough time with us and every poodin knows that we should be supervised. So to reward (punish?) her for working we are going to shred something important of hers every few days. Monday it was the bank statement, last week it was the insurance policy...I am eyeing the phone bill for tomorrow.

Since everyone knows that poodins dont have opposable thumbs (or I would be out the front door like a lightning bolt) the missing paperwork cant possibly be blamed on us. Tee Hee.

BBBRRRRRRrrrrrr

Things are getting desperate here. I have to resort to sleeping on the printer in order to stay warm. My winter fur isnt in yet and I am
c-c-cold. I kep trying to jump up and smack the box that makes the house warm but nothing happens. When the daddy changes the box the mommy goes around a few minutes later and changes it back. In the summer this happens a lot a'cause the mommy likes it cold and the daddy doesnt like icicles on his lip fur.

still trying to grow the winter fur
...uuurrhhh...uuurrrhhh... nothing yet...I will keep you posted on my progress.

Here we go again.

Well, Poodins, it is that time of year again. It is time for us to start growing the winter fur and trying to locate the best sun spots in the house. Bumpers is practicing by...ummm...sleeping in a tight little ball.

The winter fur is important as a back up. It is something that seems like overkill until you really need it. Mommy has a habit of letting us run out of the house when it is super cold and there is snow on the ground. You would think we would be wary since she never lets us run out of the house any other time, but noooooooo...we fall for it every time. We get outside and run into the snow and stop dead in our tracks (not really dead). It is at this time that the extra fur comes in handy. And if for some reason the beans dont heat the house enough then it works well for smothering them. I have been practicing smothering the mommy. I wait until she is asleep and then I lay on her face. I think the reason it hasnt worked so far is a'cause I dont have winter fur yet. I am trying really hard to grow it but it doesnt seem to work on demand. I dont understand that since I can shed on demand. I mean, at the stabby place, I can shoot fur about a foot off my body. Heh Heh.

Just so ya know...

Ok, here is the deal - if you are sleeping, I am bored. Furthermore, I dont sleep as heavily as you so if you move I can get out of the way and not get squished. So when you stick your foot out of the covers in the middle of the night I am going to know about it. Consequently, your foot becomes my toy and it doesnt matter to me that you were sleeping.

Just so we are clear on this...

Uh Oh.

Well, I dont know what got into Autumn but suddenly she decided that she didnt like the filters for the humidifier. The mommy was cleaning out the hall closet and had put these aside a'cause we will need them soon and the next time she went into the bedroom she found this mess.





















At first she thought Cheese did it cause he was resting like he just did hard work (like trying to clean his back leg or something). In fact, Cheese was resting so hard that Autumn thought he was dead and tried to do Mouth to Mouth on him (I think she was gonna eat him but mommy was watching). But later, she was going back into the bedroom to clean up the mess and Autumn was following her around. As soon as Autumn saw the filter boxes again she went and attacked them. Mommy laughed so hard she had to sit down. I dont know why that is funny, when I kill something I get into trouble. Wait...I never really kill anything. I am still trying to figure out how they get the vishus deer in the can.

New Job

Well, I dont know what has been going on. The mommy leaves the house at 7:30 and doesnt come home until 6 at night. I have been waiting patiently but I have no clue what is happening. Mommy says she has a job now and that is where she goes every day.

The good thing is that we get fed at 7 in the morning instead of 10 so I am pretty happy about that. Mommy says she is a Bean Counter at a company and it is the END OF THE FISCAL YEAR so things are crazy at work. Well we had company last week and I liked them but not enough to go see them every day for all day. I wonder how long this is going to last. I may have to put my paw down...

My Bad

The other day the Mommy said that she was going to use the Man bean's study to lay out the quilt pieces. Well, silly us, we thought she said she was going to lay out the 'kill-t pieces'.



We thought mommy went hunting and was going to bring all the prey into the house. Needless to say, we got 27 kinds of excited and ran into the room. When we got there we only found these pieces on the floor. We sniffed and sniffed but didnt find any victims. We thought that maybe they were hiding under the stuff on the floor so we laid on the pieces to wait them out. One by one, the mommy would take a piece away but we didnt find anything worth eating. Finally all the pieces were gone AND THERE WERE NO KILL-T PIECES!!!

I dont think Mommy's hunting skills are all that great cause her victim got away. Maybe I will show her how to catch and eat a bird...wait...she would have to teach me. I assume she knows how a'cause the beans have dead bird all the time and I only get what they give me. All this hunting for kill-t pieces and the crushing disappointment has worn me out. I am going to see if I can find where I left my nap. I know it is laying around here somewhere...

Good thing I took that nap...cause now I have to help the mommy with the quilt pieces. It is really hard work inspecting each piece.

Cheese decided to help too. He did some inspecting, but not as much as I did.

And he didn't pace himself so he got tired real fast. After a little while he had to go rest.