This is Maggie, sitting under a butterfly bush waiting for one to fly past. She watches every single one.
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I love pensive kitties in the grass!
Picnic kitty !!
Her eyes match the color of the grass!
Crikey its the elusive butterfly hunter, never seen before on camera…..take a look at her ears, these sensitive tools help her hunt the almost silent domestic butterfly……
way to much time on my hands huh?
Shay’s a beauuuty, that shay-lah is!
*does the phonetic spelling work?*
LOL!
Stalking fuzzzzzzzzz!
Woo Hoo!!
I think Steve would be proud of you Brandi Lee
Very cute and I am afraid I can’t top that so I won’t even try.
Adorable kitty with eyes that match the grass. I am looking for a backpack..looks around HM is not here yet is she?
Have a great week-end everyone
Usually I came back late at night to read all your fun comments.
I am here - and I already put that beautiful torti rage in MY backpack. LOL
Please hand me the backpack!
This looks like my Brownie when she was a baby!!!!!!!!!! I love Torties the best!!!!!!!!! What a beautiful baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she is quick with backpack gotta get one
I like it!
Another Rocketeer fan? I love that movie, and its mere mention is enough to keep the score playing in my head for days–never get tired of it!
I love it! You definitely have been watching the Steve Irwin shows. Very creative on your part! I am gigling at my desk..thankfully no one is in yet. TGIF!
What a beauty!
I agree! She is gorgeous. I used to have two torties, and although my two had ginger noses, she does remind me so much of them; they never hunted butterflies, as we did not really get them in the part of London where I (and they) lived, but my two torties were most effective at keeping down the moth population!
“Maggie I wish I’d never seen your face…” to see you, knowing I’ll never own you!
You and my barn cat Callie would be bookends! You look just alike!
catch-her in the rye FUZZ
(I crack myself up sometimes)
Is that “Jaded Salinger”?
now THATS even funnier!!
touche
lololol….stop with the puns!!! I can’t stop giggling here at work!
You are on a roll today!
What a beautiful photo! I also have a butterfly bush in my yard that entertains my cats all summer long.
Gina
Is a butterfly bush a specific type of plant, or just any random shrubbery that attracts the butterflies? Not that I think I’ll see so many butterflies in an urban neighborhood, but still… I am as curious as the kitties. Also, does anybody here know how to say “the cats” or “the kitties” in German?
In German: the cats = Die Katzen, the kitties = Die Katzchen (there is an umlaut or double dot on top of the a).
Camouflage FUZZ!
Wake up Maggie I think I’ve got something to say to you…
how beautiful.
Oh that fur and those beautiful eyes! That semi-wild look. Maggie is absolutely beautiful. My next project to save up for is to make my backyard catproof. I want my cats to be able to go outside.
We installed a tall dog kennel against the house and roofed it with terra cotta looking synthetic . We put a cat door in the side of the house and a tall set of steps leading to the ground. My psychedelic furs sit out there all day and watch the squirrels. Their fur is icy when they come in! Total cost was under $300.
Thanks Sharon. What a great idea. My Annie will sit in an open window until I practically have to chip her from the windowsill with an icepick. I take a really hot bath so the 27 degree wind coming in my bedroom will feel good then let her sit there for a couple of hours. I’m amazed she doesn’t get sick. She had apparently lived her first 2 years exclusively outdoors. I feel so cruel knowing how much she wants to be out but I don’t hve any safe way to let her out. I tried a harness and leash. She went berserk. I guess she didn’t want to be held back (grin). My other cats don’t seem to mind although occassionally Romeo will show an interest in going out.
Kittypaw–I’ve seen this at one of my favorite sites–plan on getting one someday myself. There are other products like this at the site, but this was my fav–no assembly required!
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=13509&Ntt=cat%20cages&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Np=1&N=2002&Nty=1
What a great idea! thanks Dee. If I only had a backyard or patio. I unfortunately live in an apartment where do not have any sort of outdoor access (balcony, patio or backyard). I am hoping my next place will have something.
Sweet little huntress in the bushes. What a cute little baby she is!
I can almost hear her purring as she sits there watching the butterflies. Lovely kitty.
The torties get me EVERY time.
Hide and seek fuzz!
She looks like one of my dad’s cats. I do love torties (and calicos and meezers and ginger kitties …)
I’ve seen the term a couple of times - but what is a meezer?
A meezer is a Siamese I think. I think it’s an American word as I’d not heard it before, but then I don’t have a siamese!
Yup. That’s what a meezer is. It took me a while to figure it out myself though. I’m not sure why they got there own special nickname, but they did.
I have a 15yr old siameze, but have never heard of the term. This link shows the play on words.
http://www.meezer.com/meez1.html
Yep, a Meezer is a Siamese. They get their own nickname because they are EXTRA special. At least they think that they are. I agree, but that may be special in the short bus riding kind of way.
:0! You are slandering your loved ones! Did they break one flower pot too many?
I’ve never lived with Siamese but a friend of mine has. I’ve met her kitties and they are just like Siamese are supposed to be: very loud, very active, very intelligent and very charming.
She reminds me of Artie Johnson on Laugh In - Very interesting but cute.
What’s worse–you dating yourself by bringing up Arte Johnson’s “German spy” shtick or me dating myself by commenting on it?
Sock it to me!
I know the feeling. You know you are getting old when you can correct someone’s misconception of history because you lived during the time. At lunch recently a co-worker made some comment about the war in Viet Nam began in 1968. Do they teach history in school anymore?
Oh, I have one better. When I was in College a fellow student thought that Vietnam happened in the early ’80’s.
I told her that she needed to go back to her high school and give back her diploma
I teach–the problem is two-fold. One is the lack of interest on the part of either the students or the parents. In one class last year, almost every student was failing when progress reports went out. Do you know how many
calls from parents I got? ZERO!
The other problem is that the revisionists have taken over academia. Those that make policy have absolutely no grasp on reality–either in the classroom or in the outside world. They hamstring us, bog us in paperwork, tell us that what happened actually didn’t, then wonder why our graduates don’t have the good sense God gave kitty litter. If I had my way, I would require academic professors and legislators to spend one year of every five in a for-real classroom and let THEM get an education!
I’ll get off my soapbox now.
Points very well taken, Ginny. I admire what you do and wish you patience! Hang in there. Some child IS listening to what you teach. Stay strong for them. Good Luck.
Thanks, Lynn. Good to palaver with you again. Spring training is almost here–do you keep up with the Phillies? I used to watch them play in Clearwater at the old Jack Russell stadium. The new one opened just before I left FL, but I didn’t get to visit.
I know what you mean Ginny, my mom taught English and History (she also did Debate as well as US Government).
Trust me, I learned quite a bit of stuff that they just refuse to teach in history classes these days.
When I made a reference to D-Day one time, I had a fellow classmate ask me what I was talking about.
I guess I should clarify something. I went to college later in life - I was 34 as a freshman.
I was a 38 year old freshman. My teachers say that us “non-traditional” students always work harder and get better grades.
I was a 33 year old college freshman….back in 1988…I took a special course on Vietnam in college. The history instructor offered the course because at the time, the typical high school history book offered about 1 or 2 paragraphs on the Vietnam war.
I don’t keep up with the Phillies like I used to when I was younger. I am more of an Eagles fan these days. I keep track of how they are doing and highlights of games, but I don’t really sit down and watch them play on TV. Would love to be in Clearwater now! Way too cold for me here!!
When I was a freshman in high school in ‘63 I had taken an elective course on Southeast Asia. We only had a few soft covered books no more than 20 pages for each country. Our main teaching tool was each days newspaper. A friend of mine who’s husband was in Siagon not in 59 and 60 as an advisor but in 1957 just another lie we were told back then.
You are absolutely right! And the policy makers are far more interested that no one gets offended rather than actually teaching.
Ginny–You used the word ‘palaver’
I love you for that.
Thanks, MeezerMama! The rest of the Lang. Arts dep’t here calls me “Mrs. Dictionary.” You should have seen their faces when I threw “pusillanimous” (in jest) at them (and the principal) the other day!
As an English major in college and one who appeciates the beauty of the English language…. I applaud your use of such words as palaver and pusillanimous (although, I admit I had to look up the latter). Where I used to work, the other writers and I would come up with a word of the week and use it in conversation. It was great fun (yes, I’m a “word nerd”) and we learned something, too!
I know a student that thought President Jackson was black.
When I was in High School in the late 80s I was great on writing but not so good on math. I could add subtract multiply divide but anything more complicated escaped me. So they put me in a remedial math course.
I kid you not, half the class sat in the back and played bored games while the teacher chanted “math is fun!” to the few that would listen.
And that was in the 80s, god knows what it’s like now!
They aren’t doing too well with geography either. Back in the 80s I was working at well known electronics company and we used to ship out these HUGE laser printers.
The girl who did the shipping actually addressed a label as Seattle, Washington DC
I read about a guy who took a package to the post office and asked what the zip code was for Santa Fe, New Mexico the postal carrier said New Mexico didn’t have one only the United States had zip codes! I also met someone who insisted that there 52 states I think one of the extra ones is where he lived the state of confusion.
Never mind the fact that the state of New Mexico has to put USA on its license plates because of the rampant idiocy on BOTH sides of the border!
I have a friend from Shrilanka. When he wants a day off he says he’s going home to visit. And you would be suprised how many people believe him!
My wife works next to a woman that didn’t know that New Mexico was a state (I’m from NM).
I told her we became a state a few months ago “It was in all the papers and on the news. Didn’t you see it?”
I then told her she probably missed it because the ceremony was on at the same time as American Idol
This is the same person thought that California was right next to Texas and didn’t realized that there was a desert in the United States.
Palaver *snicker* good word.
Born and raised in NM and I went to college at NMSU. One of the professors there had his credit card application denied. The letter stated that they did not grant credit cards to people living outside of the United States. I’ve laughed at that one for years! ;-D
My favorite is one is this:
When I joined the Navy back in ‘84 we had guys from all over in my company. I became friends with another guy from NM and a guy from Texas.
We were sitting around one day talking about home when on of the member of our company from New Jersey asked us, very seriously, if we still had to deal with indian attacks.
We told him that we just circled the mobile homes at night to keep them away
That was when i knew being from New Mexico was going to present some interesting situations - and I haven’t been disapointed yet
My favorite teacher when I was in high school told of his privileged upbringing in the Tidewater area of Virginia. When he told one of his poor-little-rich-girl friends in 1970 that he had taken a teaching job in Georgia, she replied (in all seriousness), “do they wear SHOES there?”
He was teaching in a town with a major university.
Hey Instinct,
Replying to your first comment about the woman who didn’t know about the desert or where CA is, I don’t think I’d ask her for directions?! lol
That sounds like some of the nitwits I went to school with.
You guys are hilarious! I love your answers to the ignorant people. I went to college in Santa Fe, NM and people use to ask me if I went to school in Mexico. I had to tell them that it was a state between Oklahoma and Texas.
In grade school (70’s) we focused on China and the Revolution and then on the Great Depression. In high school we studied the World Wars. I was lucky to have teachers who not only were excellent teachers but who like some of you on here cared about what we were learning and stood up the Administrators when they would tell them what to teach. We also had Arts and Physical Education included. I hear that nowadays they are making cuts in those areas due to lack of federal funding. There are two areas that the government needs to give more money for and they are education and health insurance.
The best teacher was in high school junior history. He said read the text book yourself lets talk about the why’s and where for’s of history. It was open discussion he made it come alive and we all particpated.
When I was a mean 15 year old I was visitng my great aunt in MO daughters of a friend of hers asked if we ever saw Al Capone shoot anyone. That was when the Untouchables was on TV it cracked me up. I told her yes, but if you wear the special glasses I had on they couldn’t shoot you in the eyes their favorite target. The glasses were plain old sun glasses. This was in ‘65 not the ’20’s.
I am a history major in college right now, and I can tell you, they teach us a thing or two, but I have never yet covered the VietNam war. The only bit of teaching on that subject I got was in a US History course my junior year of high school by a wonderful teacher whose older brother was over there for it. My friend is teaching fourth graders right now (MerD, you might “appreciate this”) and because of the CSAP tests the have here in CO, there is little emphasis on any Liberal Arts. They teach social studies/history/geography in a rotation once a week (so, a history class once a month). Her students didn’t know the difference between a country and a state. This is what happens when Republicans try to make education reforms….
Oh what memories… LOL
Here come da judge ! Oh wait, that was Flip Wilson… about the same time though, I believe
No need to apologize, Debbie– the Devil made you do it!
Give it to Mikey! He hates everything! Hey Mikey he likes it!!
Life cereal
You bet your sweet bippy!
veerry intervesting, but schtupit! Remember Arte saying that with his pointed WWI German helmet on????
If you guys don’t stop, I will be forced to bring out the big guns: old commercial jingles! (Honeycomb’s big, yeah yeah yeah! It’s not small, no no no!….) haha!
Pop pop fizz fizz… oh what a relife it is !
These cards are marked………………They’re a mess……………a chocolate mess.
oh i wish i were an oscar mayer weinner……..or i’m an acne pimple as lonely as can be………………
Hot dogs, Armour hot dogs,
What kind of kids eat Armour hot dogs?
Big kids, little kids, kids who climb on rocks,
Tough kids, sissy kids,
Even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs,
Armour hot dogs,
The dogs kids love to bite!
(Anyone surprised that my Bachelor’s is in Advertising?)
*guy or gal with black eye* says “Tarytons — I’d rather fight than switch!”
You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent. Or the sexy one for Noxema shaving cream Take it off take it all off. I said a few days ago that my bro is older than dirt - I am only six years younger!
How about the M & M’s commercial;
The chocolate candy that melts in your mouth , not in your hand!
Depends on how hot it was that day and how hot your hands are! It would leave color markings on your hand.
Loved him in “Love at First Bite” as Renfield.
Course, I also loved Marty Feldman as Igor in “Young Frankenstein…
Yes, I am warped like a cheap piece of pine left in the rain
see no problem here
Did you know that the working title to “Love at First Bite” was “Dracula Sucks”? For real–I think it was George Hamilton who mentioned it in an interview ages ago.
My favorite scene was when Richard Benjamin whipped out the piece of silver and Dracula recoiled–only to see that it was a silver Mogen David instead of a cross!
Or the part where he shoots George Hamilton with silver bullets and is like “oh, right, that only works on werewolves” as he’s being dragged away
She does look as if she has been painted all over!
Sings…
“Don’t be concerned, it will not harm you.
It’s only me pursuing something I’m not sure of.
Across my dreams, with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love.”
Cute as a button. Spoil her for us…Daily!
Michael — perfect song!
Love this kitty with the spot over her eye! (Love all the references to things I remember, too! Yup, definitely old enough to remember Arte Johnson and Flip Wilson and all that!)
I’m glad she just watches the butterflies. My Geordie (girl marmie cat, named George before I caught on that she wasn’t a he) used to catch grasshoppers. She seemed to think they were a dietary delicacy. (We’re going back 30 years or more now, but in my mind’s eye I can still see her standing on her hind legs, doing her gopher imitation, waiting for an unsuspecting grasshopper to show up…)
I can just imagine your kitty up on it’s hind legs. Mind does that too when something catches his eye and he can’t make heads or tails as to what it is.
Many ferrel cats survive on grasshoppers, they are a great sorce of protien. Mine leave legs all over the house!
We are NOT old we are just well seasoned. To Ginny’s comments above teachers should be able to teach - period let the beaurocrats deal with the other nonsense.
Teachers have a tough job. I have 2 good friends who teach, and my ex-husband just got pulled from the classroom (he teaches on a reservation) because he was doing too good of a job. Go figure. The wanted him to teach the teachers. Then they pulled him from that to put him in an HR position. Now that makes sense - NOT!
The story about Geordie’s name reminds me of my sister-in-law’s two black cats back in the ’80s: Willis and Arnold (another old TV tie-in). One day she and my brother-in-law noticed that Arnold was getting rather fat. Yep, they soon had a passel of kittens, courtesy of Arnette!
BTW: when I ran an afterschool program in the ’90s we made up a popular game: Nick at Nite TV Tag. If you were tagged, to get free you had to name a TV show that was older than you were.
Wow! Michael I second that perfect song
Flashbacks! What a cute little baby she is. Here in Ga we have huge humpback crickets my daughter calls Cave Crickets. Her little tuxedo would catch them and come inside with their legs protruding from all sides of her mouth they wer so large!
Oh Sharon Thank the Good Lord I havn’t seen those as yet. I nearly had a heart attack the first time I saw one of those little green lizzards. In my mind they were just mimi aligators. Hey I grew up in Chicago we didn’t have much livestock there birds and squrriels were all I ever saw.
Chameleons as mini alligators…now that is cute! Kid 31 was born in Chicago and kid #2 just moved there. Small world, huh?
Encourage your geckos to stay–they eat all kinds of mosquitos and the occasional fly.
A family of geckos kept a nest inside my mailbox in Honolulu. I wouldn’t have dreamed of making them feel unwelcome.
I’ll encourage anyone to stay who has a sexy Aussie accent!
Fair dinkum, Sharon.
If you ever get near Tech, will you get an allaway dog, a bag o’rags and a big FO at the Varsity for me? It’s been too many years since I had a “lube job”! Wait, ‘86′ the bag o’rags and get some rings instead! Thanks!
Susan…in my last apartment here in Chi, I had these GINORMOUS water-bugs–like 3 inches long by an inch wide–and my BadCat would catch and kill them for me. Of course, then he’d leave them for ME to clean up–often in the middle of the floor, in the middle of the night, right on the path to the bathroom. Eew, eew, eeeeeewww.
Maverick loves to catch the tree roaches (so big they could stand up and fornicate with a turkey) and drop them in my lap after he’s pulled their legs off. Yuck!
“so big they could stand up and fornicate with a turkey” — LOLROFL!!!!!!!!
We called them Mole Crickets in Florida. They are huge and will ruin your lawn in a flash!
Mole crickets? Hmmm. I will have to research that one. As for the giant roaches, in Florida we call them palmetto bugs because they like to live in the palmetto bushes. They would fly inside and coat the refrigerator-for warmth, I guess. When you went in for a glass of water during the night they would fly at you. Very startling!
Reminds me of the time I went to feed my dogs (I couldn’t have been more than 13 or 14) and put my hand with the scoop into the 55 gallon drum we kept the food in and one ran up my arm UNDER MY SLEEVE.
I was out in the garage doing the equivalent of the buckwheat zydeco and screaming so loud that my dad came running into the garage with his shot gun. LOL.
ewwwww! ewwwwww! It would take a shotgun! ewwwww….
The first month I lived in Augusta, GA one flew in the open door when the lady across the breezeway were talking. I thought it was a bird it was a Palmetto bug. I heard my neighbor upstaris still moving around I called her screaming about the monster bug she came down laughing with a gallon bug sprayer and got him for me. The worst I ever saw in Chicago was a thousand legger I called the one guy in my building to come kill it for me as I was standing on the side up the bathtub. I am an independant woman till it comes to bugs and if a man is around it is his job.
You should see the movie “Crossing Delancey”. Men and bugs..they’re worse than we are sometimes.