Rumor and Innuendo

Don't believe the rumors. They're 100% NOT untrue. Got it! I would never purr for TW. Not in a million years. She just thinks she heard purring while she was playing rockets with me on Pop's bed this week. HAH! As if. It was probably her indigestion that she heard.

Do I look like I'm purring?

Glogirly has been blogging about some sort of milk spill at the townhouse; which, of course, Waffles was in the middle of. Literally. At the condo, we've had our share of spills lately. TW has been spilling everything in an open container on the table. She's knocked over half full cups of tea twice and then spilled a ladle-full of tomato gravy all over the front of the stove, the floor and her jeans. The other day was the coup de grâce when she went to move the newspaper from one side of the table to the other and it hit and knocked over her cereal. The milk went all over the floor and the cereal sat in a lump on the paper. MOL! I wasn't even in the room so she couldn't blame me. If I HAD been in the room, you can bet I would've had the flashy box out to document everything. To TW's credit, there was no crying or HBO words. She's just sort of resigned to the fact that she can't do anything right. Pity.

Wednesday Word—Mackerel

Have my furrends noticed that TW has been taking better quality pictures of me lately? I've noticed it and that's what really counts. No, she hasn't gotten new glasses or anything like that. Of course you'll still see blurry out-of-focus fotos since we still use file footage occasionally. I'm going to share the secret why TW has been taking clearer pics.

• She went back to her older Olympus SP-320 camera. It's the first digital point and shoot she ever owned. She swears by Olympus cameras. She's had 2 digitals since then but that camera is still the best.
• She read Glogirly's hints for taking pictures of four-legged models such as myself. TW read them and took them to heart, making her own important adjustments.
• The mackerel setting became her friend.

Mackerel setting is circled.

Glogirly suggested getting as close to the subject as possible in bright natural light and shooting. That wouldn't work for us. The only time we have bright outdoor lighting in the condo is from sun rise until about 9 a.m. and both myself and TW are sleeping during those unGodly hours. TW needed to find something that worked to help her show my true stunningness in fotos. Then she started using the Mackerel setting, which is depicted as a stoopy flower symbol on most cameras. Don't ax me why they didn't use a symbol that looked like a fish. I suppose that would be too obvious. If you're rich or really into Photography, you have a swanky camera with a special mackerel lens. TW used to have one of those back in the Stone Age. You know BDC—Before Digital Cameras.

As for the fotos: judge for yourself.

Before

After

Pretty startling, isn't it. Cos, she still insists on cutting the tip of my ear off. FWIW, I still think these flashy things are going to blind me someday. What are some of your human's photography tricks?

Mr. Postman

♫ ♩ Mr. Postman look and see / if there's a package, a package for me ♪ ♪ is the song I was singing this week. You see, lately, I've been getting stiffed quite a bit. I'll win something but never see the prize. Christmas left a bad taste in this ghetto kitteh's mouth. First I never got my Secret Santa package—which I may add A Tonk's Tail more than made up for—but then TW won a raffle from the Santa Paws Drive. We waited and waited for that rug to show up. It never did. I contacted both Santa Paws' elves Dorian and Selina and they both contacted the person who was supposed to send it out and never got a response. Let me give a huge public raspberry to the folks at Kritter Kondo. HISSSSSSS!!!!

MINE!!!!!

Next, I won the Silly Saturday Photo Caption Contest over at The Teacher's Pets back in February. I sent her my address on February 25th and still haven't received my silly gifts. She was contacted and never replied. To her I send a huge public raspberry. HISSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

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A couple of weeks ago, I won a drawing over at The Cat On My Head. Imagine my surprise when Mr. Postman delivered a package from Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Lisbeth, Astrid and Calista Jo. What a great package: Temptations, 3 homemade nip pillows, and a the Cat's Meow, which is similar to the Undercover Mouse. Thanks, purrz and a wet kitty kiss to Janet and her Kitties Blue. MWAHHH!

This nip pillow is great and it's you can't have it!

My BFGF Savvy from Savannah Paw Tracks recently axed if I wanted a 3-way tunnel like hers. Who wouldn't? I nearly jumped outta my claws saying YES!! My tunnel only took a week to arrive. Many, many thanks, purrz and wet kitty kisses to Savvy and Mom Linda. MWAHHH!! (They also sent me the wonderful leopard tunnel in the foto.)

Check out the setup I got here. Welcome to the CK Transit Hub. Come visit me.
This wouldn't be so cramped if the peeps threw out their couch.

I also won a Kitty Cabana from Pet Tuff Products over at Ask Fisher which arrived a few weeks later. The guy at Pet Tuff actually felt bad that he didn't send it out quicker and included a super soft blankie in the package. Unfortunately, TW has yet to set up the Cabana using such excuses as our condo is too small for all my stuff. I've made the suggestion that they toss out the couch and buy a couple of folding chairs that they can put away when they're not using them. The peeps didn't appreciate my not-so-subtle suggestions. I'm sure they want me to apologize to Jobi and Fisher that it's still sitting in the box.

That should be ME in that cabana but the peeps won't assemble mine.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention @EdnaAtNutro, who made sure I got the Greenies' SmartBites I won at Daffy's fundraising pawty, Jenny at Floppycats.com who sent the Petstages Cat Toy Package which consisted of a Scratch Snuggle and Rest and a Kick & Scratch, and Sass for the pretty red Purrito Wrapper blankie she sent despite the horrible situation she's currently going through. Visit her shop Live Love Meow! and help her out. She's currently having a SALE. Edna's panfur Panky has his own blog Man Cat Musings so what are you lady cats waiting for? The PetStages toys will most likely go to A Call 4 Paws since I don't scratch on cardboard scratchers. Purrz and hugz all around from the World's Most Stunning Cat.

Am I Blue?

I'm once again taking part in the Saturday Photo Hunt. This one was easy. In fact, it was so easy, I had trouble deciding which way to take it. Blue is my best color after all. My stunning PetFinder pics were taken against a blue background that set off my gray furs perfectly. I love to lay on Pop's blue bamboo blankie and we have so many pics of me laying on it. Finally, Pop suggested a take on an old album cover. I present to you Cathy Keisha—Blue!

CK in Toyland

da Vine is divine.

Last summer we experienced The Attack of the Killer Moths in the condo. It was awful. The peeps killed them before I could eat them. This year I've only seen one and I've eaten the tasty little sucker. Last year, they feasted on the feathers and long furs on my toys. The peeps countered that attack by throwing out most of my toys. Of course, they didn't throw out anything of theirs! I could say something about that but I'm too polite. My furrends Pumpkinpuddy, A Tonk's Tail gang and Baby Patches, Chief Kit at NipandBones.com sent me very much appreciated care packages and I've won some other toys at Nipclub and on blogs. I thought I'd show you how my toy basket looks a year later. TW keeps toys in here that don't have feathers and ones I use most often. There's only one kicker with a feather in here and nothing better attack it except me!








TW holds my toys hostage keeps the toys I'm not currently using in this carrier thing sealed in a plastic bag to keep vermin out and the nip and vine smells in. She sez it's at capacity but, as you can plainly see, there's plenty of room. Her claim is that she likes to rotate my toys so I don't get tired of anything but she's just a toy gestapo who has to be in charge of everything.









Pop's bed is where I put my special toys. I have my heart from Buzzy, my iridescent smousy from Parker, Allie's snowman, 2 smousey toys from the Island Cats and the Packer's toy from Mario along with my peppermint stick which was the first toy Pop bought for me. It cost 1¢ and it's the best. You can see how flat it is cos I beat all the nip out of it. HAH!










Now that I've showed you my toys, I want to tell you about a special offer to add to your toy basket while helping one of our furrends aid a bunch of kitties. Andrea and the Celestial Kitties are holding a Winnie’s Wish Summer FUNdraiser. For a minimum donation of $15 ($18 for International furrends), you can get four kitty toys including a fish, smousy, bird and butterfly! You can request the toys be filled with nip, Silvervine or neither. I've requested the evil vine. The proceeds go to the Winnie’s Wish Rescue at Daily Dose of Dogs (aka Cats With Your Coffee). For complete details of the FUNdraiser, please visit the Celestial Kitties.

Check out these pretty toys (photo left). Bet you can't wait to kick, throw and maul them within an inch of their lives! I'm glad they come as a set cos I wouldn't be able to pick just one!



Can we play rockets, TW. I'm bored. I have nothing to play with.