Princess Cassie

I have scheduled this post to be published on the morning of my knee replacement surgery.  I will miss my kitty while I am in the hospital, and I am certain she will be lost without me since she is my buddy.

Cassie has taken to reclining on the decorative pillows from my bed.  The princess in her is coming out!

But don't tell HER she's a princess - she doesn't like it!

She also loves to sleep on the bed, and whenever someone comes in the room, she will roll over on her side, begging to have a good belly and head rub.

I can't wait to get home to (1) shower, which they won't let me do in the hospital, (2) get some much-needed sleep, and (3) to see my special kitty!

Hold Tight!

Do you think she's concerned someone might take her toy?

Cassie and Kelly

It is difficult for me to get pictures of our critters when they are awake.  But once in a while, they are obliging.

This is Kelly, our sweet 10-year old Black Lab/Chow Chow mix.  We are so curious about her parents.  Labs are sweet dogs, very obedient, smart, and friendly.  Chows, on the other hand, are aggressive, mean, and rather stupid.  We have been told several times while at the vet clinic that they dread seeing a Chow come through the door!  Kelly inherited the sweetness and gentleness of a Lab, but the stupidity of a Chow.  Obedience is optional in her mind.  And if you have a treat, she'll go through all her tricks, probably hoping that one of them will be the one you asked her to do!  Poor Kelly has severe allergies, and spends a lot of time on Prednisone every summer when they become so bad that all she can do is lick her paws and other body parts.  We have to watch her carefully year round for skin and ear infections. 

Cassie has been venturing down to the first floor of the house a lot more since our other kitty died.  She still will not stand up to the dog, but if Kelly chases her out of a room, Cassie will now come back to where we are.  She still loves to be wherever I am.

Cassie

Why is it that I only take pictures of Cassie when she is sleeping?  Maybe because she's cutest then.  She said I could share these with you.

Oh Joy Update

Little by little, I am putting stitches into Oh Joy.  The end is in sight.  All I have left is the snowman's heat on the bottom and a simple border. 

I was asked about my shoulder.  It is still bothering me, but I truly believe it's "just" fibromyalgia since the pain is not consistently in one area.  Some days it feels pretty good, but other days it really hurts.  When I stitch, I take lots of breaks and move my arm around.

This ornament needs to be finished, because I must start on a wedding gift.

Cassie says hello to all of you in blogland.

The Three Little Critters

Here are some recent pictures of our three pets.

See Cassie hiding?  Or is she in jail?

Nope!  Just waiting to jump up on the chair.  (She wasn't too happy about my chasing her with a camera.)

Caught in the Act!

I keep Cassie's dry food in a large tin that used to contain Danish Butter Cookies.  Here's what happened the last time I filled it up.

Cats - Enjoying Some R & R

 Cassie has discovered that the sun makes nice pools of warmth in which to roll around.

Klaus, who is somewhere around 16 years old, much prefers sleeping on top of her scratching mat.  I guess when you are that old, you can do what you want.

The Lazy Days of Summer

Don't you wish you could be this lazy?

More Cassie II!

More Cassie!

It's a sad fact of life that the more expensive the cat toy, the less likely the animal is to actually play with it.  Take Cassie, for example.  When we brought her home from the animal shelter, the staff had put quite a few toys in her box, but it turns out she plays with only 2.5 of them - a ball,  a pipe cleaner that was wrapped around a pencil to make it twisty, and sometimes a little crocheted mouse (the 1/2).  Her favorite toys, though, are a long old sweatshirt string and the blue pull tab from a gallon milk jug.  She loves to bring that milk ring, as we call it, up on the bed.  In the first three pictures you can see her hiding it under my body pillow, and if you look carefully at her mouth in the fourth picture, you can see the little blue ring.  The fifth picture speaks for itself.

Cassie

Here are some random shots of Cassie.

One night, she thought it would be fun to attack KB, my Koala Bear.

All that shenanigans made her sleepy!