Happy birthday, Pixie....and Goodbye, Gypsy Girl

Pixie boy is so happy that he's 5 today! We're going to have a small party with the Krew for him to celebrate as we're kinda subdued right now....

...because with good news, comes bad news -- we lost our sweet Gypsy Girl on Oct. 21st.  She was sick for about 6 weeks, and just didn't make it.  Gypsy was only 3 and almost reached her 2nd Gotchaversary this past Saturday...

...but Ziggy, who was adopted at the same time as Gypsy, quietly celebrated their joint 2nd Gotchaversary with the rest of the Krew on her behalf.

So after two losses this year, we're down to four kitties in the Krew now.  Really strange.

We're sorry to be so doom and gloom when we do manage to post.  So we'll circle back around and say:


HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY, PIXIE!!!!!!!!!!!


Purrs and hugs to all,
The Mommy and The Kitty Krew
Bugsy
Sassy
Pixie
Ziggy

Celebrations!

The last four months of the year bring a lot of events to celebrate here at The Kitty Krew, along with a few to mourn in remembering CAts who have LEft Before (our vSquillion, Caleb, was named in their collective honor). Since last year, however, we have an extra squishing of party time to do in a short time...so we convinced The Mommy to let us just party for an extended time!

We start off with an event today...yeah, this should have been posted earlier. It could be blamed on Blogger eating the post, but we all know who's to blame. Useless, that's you, Mommy. *sigh*

So, here's what we've got going on:

• October 22, 2005 - Roxy's Gotcha Day:  Yep, 5 years ago, Miss Baby Doll Roxy joined The Kitty Krew as a roughly 7 week old calico cutie pie! She's as adorable as they come, and loves lap time witih The Mommy....when she's out and about in the 'open', that is.  She hides a lot these days in cabinets and the couch due to the antics of the younger boys.
• October 29, 2009 - Gypsy's and Ziggy's Gotcha Day:  Hard to believe, but it's been almost a year since Girly Girl Gypsy and He-Puts-the-Punk-in-Punkin' Ziggy were adopted and added to the house. Gypsy mostly stays to herself, unless she hears any other cats getting into a spit-and-hiss fight, in which case she runs right over to join in.  Ziggy is the bane of Roxy's existence, as he quickly decided that she's his personal attack toy. Although the youngest, he's quickly become the Young Turk and often talks Pixie into joining his escapades.
• November 1, 2006 - Pixie's birthday (observed):  Darlin' Pixie is almost 4, and though he had a tendency to pick on Roxy and Sassy anyway, once Ziggy came along, it became a full-blown obsession in tandem with his new pal.  And with or without Ziggy, Pixie likes to cop a 'tude and walk up to another cat and cuff 'em....just because he can.   The Mommy isn't exempt, either.  This black beauty should have gotten October 31 as his observed birthday since he's a Halloween cat!

4 events...11 days...so we're partying through the end of October! (And yes, we said 4 events...Gypsy's and Ziggy's Gotcha Days get counted as a separate event each. LOL)

So come join us when you can, and come back often. The magic food fairy will keep us well-stocked.

Purrs and hugs,

Tuffboys Twofer Tuesday

Hi peoples! Well, we intended to do better about posting this month but it hasn't quite worked out, has it? We've said it before and we'll say it again....The Mommy is so useless. *sigh*

The Kitty Krew has a busy week coming up, though, and wanted to get things warmed up. We are the young and tough boys around here now that Bugsy's gettin' so old (more on that later this week!) and we have a lot of fun wrasslin' around together. We're quick, though, so The Mommy can rarely get photos of us in action. You'll just have to mostly take our word for it. Here are a couple of actions shots she managed to get, though.

First, Ziggy tries to get at Pixie while he's playing in the trash can.

Next, we have a good old-fashioned paw fight on the chair fort, while Gypsy huddles underneath.

(In case you're wondering, naw, we didn't knock the chair over. The Mommy was cleaning underneath and was nice enough to let us play for awhile! )

Gotta go, we feel another wrasslin' session coming on...


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Thursday Things

Bugsy here, to tell you some Things on Thursday. As you saw yesterday, Gypsy and I had to carefully snoopervise the handyman guy on Saturday while he was installing the window aycee unit in the bedroom. We were the only two brave enough to come out and watch Mr. Bobby while he worked; the rest of the Krew were hiding under the bed, or even under the couch in another room altogether!

I'll admit that Gypsy was even braver than me, though; she got up pretty close to Mr. Bobby, while I stayed up on the bed with The Mommy. Look at Gypsy here, she even went over and checked out the inner guts of the aycee monster, while Mr. Bobby was putting the frame thingy in the window!

Later after Mr. Bobby was done with the window aycee in the bedroom, the rest of the chicken-cats came out of hiding and took a turn checking it out.

As for the status of the regular main aycee, the aycee repair peoples are supposed to be out here this morning to fix it. However, we're also supposed to be getting big thunder boomers this morning. So we're not sure if we'll be seeing the aycee repair people or not, since they have to do a lot of the work outside. At least it cools things down a little, and we still have the window aycee units in the meantime!

Purrs,

Mancat Monday

We're just chillin' out in the bedroom after our big Blogoversary Bash this weekened. We sure do appreciate everyone coming by, we had a great time and hope you all did too!

Ummm...but we have to apologize if things seemed a little warm and stuffy over here. Our air conditioning has been out since last Tuesday, and here in Texas in summer, that means it gets mighty hot mighty fast inside. Some of you might have noticed the A/C repair guy poking around on Friday afternoon during the Blogoversary Bash, and he had the bad news that it wasn't a quick fix (boo!). So you may have also noticed the handyman guy who came over on Saturday morning after The Mommy's urgent call for help, and he installed a couple of window A/C units to get us through the weekend (when 100 degree temps and 105 degree heat index temps were expected, though we don't think it really got *quite* that hot) and the next few days until the main unit gets fixed.

It was quite pleasant in the bedroom by mid-day Saturday, that's why we urged everyone to head that direction later in the day. Took a little longer for the kitchen/den/living area to cool off, but overall the window units are working pretty darn good...especially compared to how miserable we all were for most of last week.

We're keeping our paws crossed for getting the A/C properly fixed early this week...


and and

Wordless Wednesday

Mancat Monday & Belated ML Birthday Wishes

Yeah, I guess I really should have paid more attention to what Sassy said last week about the cage and the moving vehicle thingy and going to see Dr. Vet. And Roxy the week before that. You guessed it -- it was my turn this past Saturday. *sigh* And I didn't like it one bit, I told The Mommy all about it on the way there, too.

Heh - I showed Dr. Vet too...when he gave me the second deworm-y pill, I spit both it *and* the first one that he thought I'd swallowed already back up on the table! MOL Of course he just shoved 'em back down again and made me swallow 'em, but I showed him who was boss the first time, by golly.

Now let me out of this cage!!!

PS -- A belated but heartfelt happiest of birthdays to ML, mom of the Sherwood Bunch and Queen Bean Extraordinaire of the Cat Blogosphere!! We're sorry we missed it yesterday...The Mommy is so useless. *sigh* We hope you had a super day and thanks bunches for all you do for all of us in the CB!!!

Mancat Monday

A flashback to Mancat Training before Ziggy became a mancat...


Pixie: This is how you drink out of the kitchen faucet, Ziggy:

Ziggy: But what if I'd rather just lick the sink?

Pixie: *sigh* This is going to take some work....


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It's a Jungle Out There

In the jungle, the mighty jungle...
The panther stalks his prey...

Because, well, you never know when a vishuss evil milk jug ring will go all rogue and attack!

It just looks all innocent and unable to cause mischief lying there like that...I know better though.

The Acatemy Awards - Our Movie

Our friend Fin, who comes up with some of the most fun games and themes for the cat blogosphere to enjoy, is holding The Acatemy Awards this week. We're just squeaking in with an entry. Unfortunately, The Mommy was pretty useless at coming up with something creative, so what we have is this lame-o 'movie' entry.

Oh, the video is cute enough...just not necessarily Oscar-worthy. The Mommy keeps mumbling something about 'running out of time' and 'getting ready for vacation' (what IS that v-word she keeps talking about?) and 'too much work to do' but we think she's just lazy! This isn't going to look good on your Purrfurmance Review this year, missy.

So anyway, without further ado, we present to you: Pixie and Ziggy starring in...Fight Night.






Breaking news flash! After seeing some Acatemy Award entries out there in the bloggie-o-sphere earlier in the week, we were able to be a little more creative and memorialize some past acting efforts in movie posters never before seen!

First up, we have Bugsy, from his starring role in X-Men: Origins, back in the day before he lost an eye. It was an important role for such a young mancat!

Then, we have Ziggy with role in Quantum of Solace. Watch out, Ziggy, that fire is hot and dangerous!

Next, we have Roxy as a young girlkittencat in Tomb Raider. Even as a youngster, she was quite adventurous.

And finally, Ziggy dreams of the Oscar statute and being on stage to accept his Best Actor award.

We hope you enjoyed our movie and movie posters!

Mancat Monday

Despite our hopes in yesterday's post of Spring springing, we actually had a chilly rainy dreary day all yesterday, with a similar forecast for today. The Mommy had to go into the yucky work thing yesterday for a few hours too, so we didn't even get to cuddle with her much. And of course she's back there today. We also have heard some nasty rumors about The Mommy abandoning us sometime soon, and the luggage box thing came out yesterday after she got home, which is never a good sign...

Between the nasty weather and the nasty rumors of The Mommy abandoning us soon, we're just gonna lay around and be depressed on this Mancat Monday.