Time flies

Has it been already one year since we've been at Camp Shorewood?! We've sure had a lot of fun and learned lots of new things!

• Washie got to know the Humans at the Emergency Vet Hospital shortly after we got here. He didn't like that too much, but thought getting his belly shaved was pretty cool!

• Deer likes to bring the Big Scary Yellow Monster that lives in the front closet out at least once a week for a walk around Camp. We don't like the Monster and we hide in the closet 'til it goes back home.

• When it snows ALOT! Macks and Deer get to stay home and we can sleep on them. We like snow days...we think they do, too!

• Maddie likes it when Deer plays with her pretty string.

• We learned that we both have very famous Japanese cousins.

• We developed a new Olympic sport, Synchronized Cat Napping. Watch for it in London in 2012.

• Washie has been been unsuccessfully trying to launch an attack against that Seattle Beastie. He is still determined and will not give up.

• We got to spend a lot of time with Deer in April-June. She seemed sad to be home all the time...but we were very happy! She went back mousing in July and she seems a lot happier. We miss her very much during the day, though!

• Macks and Deer go out on long mousing trips on their bikes when it is warm out. They must eat their mice on a picnic or something, 'cause they haven't brought any back for us!

So much in one year! We like it here. And we love Macks and Deer and they love us. Is it ok if we stay?

We miss you lots and lots and hope that you will come visit us soon (WITHOUT THE SEATTLE BEASTIE, please...hmm, on second thought maybe bring him with you. That would save Washie lots of energy!) Like good places to nap, that's the nice thing about love...you can never run out of it and there's always plenty more.

We'll love you endlessly for giving us a warm, safe home when we needed it the most.

We'll love you endlessly for giving us this warm, safe home until we need it no longer.

From the bottom of our little feline hearts,

Washington and Madison

A Day In The Life Of

From Washington -

Between wrestling with my sister, napping, using the litter box, napping, wrestling some more, napping, sneaking in the bathroom and sneaking peeks, playing, napping, my days are pretty action packed! I thought I'd share with you a few vignettes.

If I can, I especially like starting the day with a good tummy scratch by Deer!

I'm an equal opportunity tummy scratchee, so I make sure all sides get fair treatment.

Then, I usually like to get silly for a while. Extreme close up of my nose!

Then, it's time for my post-breakfast nap and I like to make myself a little Cat Cave:

Is that Tony or are you just happy to see me?

Nope, it's Tony!

Maddie thinks she's above all these high jinx, but we all know better! But, even I have to admit, she does look pretty ok in this photo...for a sister, anyway:

Hugs and kisses,

Tony

Tomato, To-mah-to...

Being siblings, we don't always agree on everything (except on good napping locations here at Camp Shorewood) and, nightly on occasion, we've been known to host WrestleMania 2008:

Sometimes you just gotta agree to disagree. Tomato, tomahto, potato, potahto...









However, there is one other thing we agree on.

If you can't beat 'em

From Maddie:

These silly humanz finally understood what you are supposed to do a fine, autumnal day. That is, find yourself a nice comfy spot in the sun and have a NAP!

Well, leave it to my dumb brother to hog all of the good spots:


















That's the nice thing about laps, I say: there's always room for one more:

All I want to do...

from Washie:

All I want to do is have some fun!

Here I am early this morning doing what I do best...playing! Because, if I'm nothing else, I'm a Kat who just know how to be silly, have a good cuddle, then get silly all over again!

Here I am, moving so fast that I'm just a blur!













Peek-a-boo!














Whoa, like dude, check out this trippy picture of me. It's like the camera is totally whacked out on catnip or something. Totally psychedelic, man. Welcome to my world.

Old School

With the first day of autumn tomorrow (Deer's very favorite season!) and the scent of new pencils and books in the air, we thought September's family portrait theme was aptly entitled Old School!

We - and our Japanese cousins - took decidedly different takes on the theme!

Chococat, aka Tony's cuz, went the traditional route:
















Tony, being the very silly cat he is, tried to steal Deer's spectacles to complete his very brainy look.















Maddie's Japanese relation, Hello Kitty, took Old School to mean something slightly different:
















Groovy Hello Kitty seems to be channeling Janis Joplin or somebody! Maddie didn't need a single prop...she's naturally tie-dyed! 1967, here she comes!

What we did on Labor Day

You humans have the wackiest holidays - you put trees in your house in December, carve up pumpkins, have super scary fireworks and celebrate, of all things, LABOR! People, get your priorities straight, will you?

This is how we chose to celebrate Labor.

Washie sunned his pretty pawz:














We practiced a new Synchronized Cat Napping routine:














That was kinda strenuous, so Maddie decided to go cuddle on Deer's feets. She loves to cuddle her feets!














Deer and Macks went on some crazy long bike ride this morning - over 40 miles, we heard them say. That's ok, we guess, since they seem to enjoy it but it meant that we didn't get our breakfast 'til 8:43 a.m. Maddie almost starved to death (she is, after all, just skin and bones) and Washie was this close to going mad, mad, mad! We figure that if they decide to pull that stunt again, they should at least make arrangements to have our breakfast catered. Again, people, priorities!