Our Holidays...

Holidays this year were better than most.
I think the new drugs are doing their 'All is better thru Chemistry' thing !

We had presents to tear into...All sort of mysterious smells from lands far far away -well- Alabama if you must know !

Certain spoiled kitthehs claimed every-bit for herself.. Of course... Nothing like a whiff of avarice and greed around Christmas is there ?Kuchi had a most marvelous time...
Poor little Alice just sat forlornly by- watching avidly. Staring at me ever so often with her round innocent eyes... 'But Mama, is there nothing for ME ?'.She eventually got her turn to masticate the fluffy pink fevver-uh-feathers... And kill red mice.. And after all what is the greatest nirvana in a kitthehs life ?
Sitting in a box of course !Then Babylon had a whirl. She is a bit more hard to please. A bit more jaded in her appetite for chills and thrills from a mere mass of feathers and string and pink plastic wands.I give the girls catnip every now and then. And there are times I have the Temptations that smell of the cat-mint. These are Babbys favorite flavor of 'cookies' The pink boa smelt of this as the toy mice were stuffed with nip.Might I just comment that Babby had' a high old time' ?
Well I do turn a phrase don't I ?

There was ham and sprouts and mashed sweet potatoes and sparkly lights galore. With fried ham and eggs the next morning of course.
A very nice few days- with presents flying back and forth across the road with HH and her hubby 37.
I gave her a cozy flannel nightgown and a paisley pashmina in a nice steel gray blue and scarlet and gold..
37 got a jar of cashews, chocolate, a nice new cappuccino cup. And a pair of dove decoys.
?!?
Yes dove decoys. 37 doesn't go hunting, but he gets great joy out of feeding and watching the birds.
And has had doves, pigeons, and all sorts flocking to his feed stations.

So HH purchased a Dovecote' for him. It is a 36" tall thing. Across about 18"-20". And still has to be attached to a 12' tall post.
It has a darling copper shingled roof. It does look a bit bright, but will age very nicely soon.

So my thought was- just follow her lead. I knew he would open her gifts first so there was no worry of spoiling the surprise.
From the pic's she brought over- he was quite surprised and inspired !

So all in all, a very Happy Holiday for all of us ...
Hope yours was just as Joyous !
xoxo

Reservation for Four Phuleeze...

...This is just about what it looked like around here Thursday...
Turkey going in the oven, stuffing being put together with my assistants close at hand. Demanding... uh...Sweetly offering a paw every few minutes to taste test the butter, raw turkey, turkey juice, creme cheese, green olives, gravy and just whatever I happened to be trying to do at any given moment.

A golden brown turkey... can you ask for more ? Crispy skin, juicy, and weighing in at about 14 pounds... There might be enough to last thru the weekend...
Hey- having to wait for me to vacate the kitchen chair so the oven can be observed verrrry closely... Well, that burns up a LOT of calories...Not sure what the girls thought would happen tho...
The oven door would fall off...
The roasting bird would accidentally slide out onto the floor..
Alice and Kuchi working in tandem would give mouth to beak recusitation ?
Maybe... All I noticed was that certain girls al-most got singed whiskers !!

Alice... Observing... Closely....


Kuchi... Ready for Taste Testing....

MMMnnnn... Looks Almost good enough to eat !


Of course, Babylon REFUSED to have any thing
to do with our roast turkey... If it doesn't come in
a packet and is inundated with 'gravy'... Oh Well-
She turns up her delicate pink nose !!
And in the end- Only will eat the gravy !!

I make a mean Pie too !!
Practically a Master Pastry Chef' !

So this is Alice all sleepy from her keen observations...
and of course, her three course meal !!

... Only one large missing presence of course... My good boy Osgood...
Sigh...
Thanksgiving was one of his most favor-ite days in the year... Turkey forever and the end not in sight.

...He would have had a tasty time... He is thought of so often... And still so missed...
xoxo

~ He Was A Very Good Boy ~

Him was a very good boy...

October 1st 2006 ~ August 24th 2010

I really don't have any idea how old Osgood was...
Old tho... 10, maybe 15 years old ?
Maybe...

So I count his 'Gotcha Day' as October 1st 2006.

He had been fading for a time. Just the last month or so.
Got to where he couldn't eat.
And other things I can't bear to go into right now.

So I asked Aunty H.H. and Uncle 37 if they would help me by helping him.

He went to sleep easy... Knowing that he was loved... So very Much...

Osgood, my pale creamsicle boy.

Him is out in the front yard now... Resting under the Butterfly Bush....

He is at Peace now.. Fat & fluffy & a mouth full of teeth to eat whatever he wants...

Him Was A Very Good Boy...