cat fights on an otherwise quiet day

first, a beautiful picture of me:

aren’t my eyes beautiful?

daddy had a vet appointment today so i had the house to myself with my siblings. (mommy was at work.) when daddy got home, he wanted to relax and read the newspapers so i kept him company along with my brother cullen.

mommy gave me a cuddle when she got home. she was very tired and was joking about taking me to work with her because she needed a stressball. i would be a good stressball to pet. i would also be happy to sleep under her desk or behind her computer.

unfortunately, my sister freya did not want me up in the study with her and mommy and attacked me before chasing me out. mommy scolded her for it. freya can be territorial sometimes. she even tries to kick my brother finian out of the chair next to mommy’s chair if he’s in it. (it used to be his chair before mommy and daddy adopted us because he was mommy’s office assistant. freya took it over a few years ago.)

huffle’s mommy and daddy are going on a holiday to my part of the world and huffle is not happy about it. i’m not happy either because they might leave huffle with someone who doesn’t know how to transcribe her mewing and this means no huffle posts for four weeks. what is this black cat to do?!?!?!?

i’m thankful that mommy and daddy always leave me with a babysitter that i like. they are going away for the weekend at the end of the month and my babysitter drew is going to come to play with me. mommy said that drew is excited to be able to come over and play with me and pet me and i’m excited to have drew time. it almost makes up for mommy and daddy leaving me.

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napping on sunday

first, a picture from the edda archives:

this fits into our theme for today: napping!

i’m a cat so of course i am an expert on napping. i do like to play (and mommy will agree that i play quite ferciously) but i also like to sleep and i’ve put together a list of my favorite sleepy spots.

[+] the bed: no explanation needed here. it’s even better if mommy and daddy forget to make it in the morning and i can get the sheets all furry. they have soft pima cotton flannel sheets so an unmade bed is a soft sleeping spot.

[+] the back of the couch: this works if my brother finian isn’t there already. i like it because the place where the couch meets the wall has a little bit of space and forms a little trough for me to lie down in. if mommy or daddy are sitting or lying on the couch, it also creates a place for them to adore me.

[+] the recliner: this is where daddy likes to sit and he has some stuffed foxes by there. i like kneading on the foxes and curling up in the recliner afterwards. it’s even better if cullen is there because he lets me take naps with him. daddy also won’t move me if i’m there and will instead find another place to sit.

[+] a kitchen chair: this spot works well because i am relatively high in the air and can survey what is happening on the floor. it also hides me from humans who might be walking through the house. my sister freya likes to sleep here as well and mommy calls it the “panther/jaguar in a tree” spot.

[+] the floor: it’s not my first choice but you can’t beat the floor. it’s a nice flat surface and frequently i can find a sunbeam to warm me up. best of all, i can sprawl out and if mommy sees me, she’ll pick me up and love me and put me in a much more comfortable sleepy spot, especially if she wants to take a nap.

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my good big brother

huffle is having some issues because her readers feel sorry for salvador even though salvador beats her up and is mean. i can understand huffle. my brother finian beats me up a lot because he’s jealous. he was mommy’s kitty before they adopted me and i kind of took over some of that territory.

my other brother cullen is wonderful though. here’s an archived picture of the two of us:

he’s letting me take a nap with him. he’s the best cat to nap with because he doesn’t mind me cuddling up to him. he also gives me baths if he’s around. don’t let the picture fool you — he’s a bigger cat than i am. mommy refers to him as her “hip-displacing tabby” because he torques her hips when he sleeps on her (which is almost every night).

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lunacat sillies before the first full moon

first, the pre-requisite archival picture:

mommy has said that we’re running low on pictures and she might have to start taking new ones soon. quick! huffle! send her some of you. maybe she won’t know the difference!

nice try, princess but no dice! i can tell the two of you apart. love, mommy

oh well.

mommy crashed on the couch to watch tv early last night because she was very tired from her day. i decided that it would be a great time to have my evening crazies so i was doing laps around the living room and jumping off of furniture. i was almost off the couch when mommy reached a hand up and pounced me down just before i jumped. mommy! that wasn’t nice! she then proceeded to razz me and play with me. i figured she was probably tired (as i was too at that point) so i settled down to keep her and daddy company. my sister freya was also being silly (except she’s silly all the time — ask mommy!) and she kept jumping up on the back of the chair where daddy was sitting. daddy was complimenting her on her leaping skills. whatever! i leapt onto more furniture than she did!

(mommy was wondering if there was a full moon last night. there wasn’t. i was just feeling silly.)

this morning, i decided to be mommy’s alarm cat. i stepped on her abdomen and touched my cold nose to hers. that woke her up. unfortunately, she always has to get up and go to the litterbox when i wake her up like that! (note from mommy: that’s because your hind paws are on my bladder, sweetheart!) she came back and i snuggled her a little but not too long because she had gotten up and left me. she had to get up after about 15 minutes anyway to go take her shower.

i made up for all of this by following her around until she left for work and then after she got home today. i would purr when she picked me up and she was joking that i was being her black lab puppy. oh well… at least she forgave me.

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nocturnal state and icky weather

as fall seems to be coming quickly here, i thought i would post a picture of one of my favorite activities:

From Blogger Pictures

this is me helping mommy carve pumpkins for halloween. mommy and daddy joke that i am their year-round halloween decoration and that they need to keep me in the window that night. i am a black cat! halloween is my special day!!! i will not stay in the window and be a decoration, especially when mini humans are walking around in costumes!

i was a panther of the night while mommy was trying to sleep last night. i got into a bag from wal-mart that had new socks for her in it; and when she sealed the bag and tied it shut, i continued to rustle it and claw it open, making her get out of bed and put the socks out of reach. i guess i will have to find other socks with which to play “sock gnomes” with my brothers. i also howled at mommy for 10 minutes last night when i managed to find a catnip mouse. she wasn’t paying attention because my brother cullen was on top of her purring. when cullen needed to take a food break, mommy came over and told me what a good panther i am. *cat sigh* as it’s cullen (who is nice to me unlike my brother finian who doesn’t like me and picks fights with me), i’ll allow mommy to be distracted from me.

we have had rain go through today and it seems like black clouds keep passing over. mommy and daddy love the rain. i don’t like it. all the birds and bunnies go hide when it rains and i have nothing to watch except for the trains that i stalk out of mommy’s study window. hmph. what is a black cat to do?!?!?!?!?!?

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sauna time and strange people in the house

here is a picture from the vault:

From Blogger Pictures

i’m on the bed looking at mommy sideways.

after mommy put the flashy thing away, i came back up to have sauna time. this time, i slept on mommy’s feet and made them all toasty warm. after she finished on the computer, she picked me up and carried me downstairs and we had snuggle time on the couch while she and daddy watched tv.

mommy didn’t want to get up this morning and i had to give her a five minute wake-up snuggle to entice her to get up. she was gone until late today and before she got home, daddy let some strange men into the house. i’ve seen them before when they’ve come to fix the water and the furnace but i couldn’t remember who they were exactly. thankfully, they stayed in the conference room and office where they met with daddy about church things. we cats aren’t allowed in there and the strange humans don’t usually come into the living quarters of the house.

when mommy came home, her fur was different — shorter i think and it smelled weird. why do humans do things with their fur? (a note from edda’s mommy jen: i cut an inch or so off my hair. edda noticed because it smells like the shampoo they use where i got it cut.)

mommy is really tired tonight so i am going to go downstairs to snuggle her and help her fall asleep.

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another cold cold wet day

here is the daily archive picture:

it was taken when we were moving from minnesota to montana three years ago. i am on top of the mattress supervising mommy and daddy packing up the bedroom.

it is still raining here in montana. the power went out this morning so i had to stay with mommy to make sure she woke up on time. (i later found out that her alarm clock was turned off anyway.) my brother finian and i kept her company in bed while cullen and freya helped daddy make sure the water was ok and other things were going well. (we have a weird water system because we live out in the country and daddy had to play with it this morning so we could have water until the power came back on. i don’t care about this but i guess it is important for mommy and daddy.) mommy got up just as the power came back on.

mommy’s study has been the warmest place in the house because she has her space heater on. the warm air goes under her desk so i go under there to hang out because it creates a panther sauna. i stayed under there for awhile last night and i was under there this afternoon when mommy snapped my picture.

i was not amused and skulked off to go where she wouldn’t use the flashy thing on me.

my sister freya wanted to find a cat cave to take a nap. unfortunately, she forgot that she needed to completely camouflage herself if she wanted to hide from mommy’s flashy thing…

no wonder mommy refers to her as “not one of nature’s best camouflage jobs”!

mommy and daddy don’t have work today so i will have to have extra love time with both of them as i know they will be gone a lot this week!

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