Location: Madison, Alabama USA
This is Bela (named for Bela Lugosi) at approximately four weeks. He’s doing the Christmas Happy Dance because Santa’s coming soon!
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What a cute kitty for my B-day - he even has a bow!
Is today your birthday? I hope it is a very happy day for you. Sorry we cannot give you Bela.
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy your day, Joan!
May all your birthday wishes come true!
Many happy and healthy returns to you! You deserve a kitty all dressed up with a bow, I am sure!!!
And Tinafish snatched your present–twice!
Good one, Ginny! It’s ok, though; I’ll just gaze adoringly at Bela’s cutie-pie pic.
Happy B-Day!
Oops - forgot to mention it’s Shaddo’s B-day too. My little grey fuzzbut is 16.
Be sure to give Shaddo some extra hugs and head scratches from us. Also, a special kitty treat for his birthday.
Happy Birthday Joan!
Happy, happy birthday, Joan!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Joan! Hope you have a purr-fect one!
Great that Bela & Boris have each other too!
my my how adorible
its so cute i love cats and kittens
hey you cant have bella!……because….I WANT THE KITTY
Look at those bright eyes and sweet little belly. He needs a good snoodle.
I agree…widdle pink feet, just made for nosing and kissing! TUmmy for a gentle poke to watch him curl around my hand like a little woolly bear caterpillar…
Bela
What a fella.
With a bow
Santa’s a go.
With his pink pads and style
He’d make any elf smile.
Bela is bellamisimo (sp). This is one beautiful kitten love her pose.
Beautiful Bella, I love the bow! I have a picture of my Angela when she was a Christmas kitten with a bow like that. I just want to rub that tummy. Where is my backpack when I need it? Oh well, another one for Huddy Mama I suppose.
Awfully scary name for an awfully cute lil guy!
“Plan 9 (lives) From Outer Space” FUZZ!
OH! OH! That is soooo bad, Ginny! (so bad it was good)
Quick, grab the backpack. Scoop up sweet not scary Bela and gently place him in the backpack, careful not to knock off the bow! He is soooooo cute! Happy Thursday, I got him in the backpack first! Huddy’s Mama, please don’t poke me with the pitchfork, I just couldn’t resist.
Tinafish that’s not very nice. I wanted Bela but was still reading yesterday’s Chester comments - lol. The pitchfork is in for repairs, but I’ll be bringing it back next week.
Early Bird gets the kitten! I’ll return him in a bit, sharing is caring…..lol
Ivory Bill, thanks for the daily kitty ditty
HM, did you see what I wrote you about the free Maine Coon?
Yes I did. Where is he and I wonder if my other babies would like him? Don’t tempt me, ma-an.
I saw the ad at my vet’s office–It’s Marek Vet Clinic in Bellville. The web site is http://www.mvctexas.com/
The ad isn’t on the site, but the contact info is and whoever answers the phone could tell you about the kitty. I remember that the cat is 3, weight about 16 lbs., is spayed, and current on shots. I seem to recall that she is not declawed, but am not absolutely certain on that. There was a photo too of an adorable, large, black-and-white fuzzbutt. Let me know if you persue her!
Aw man, I can’t take a ’she’.
Maine coon love coonies. I plan to get one in a year or 2. depends on if I am stilling living at home. What a kitty soooo bad!
If I had know the pitchfork was out of commission, I would have packed up lil’ bela fela myself. See what happens when we all have pitchfork fears!
Oh, no, I wanted Bela in my purse - sure he’d fit. Bob’s at home today, so I need my kitten fix!!! Hm, maybe I’ll go get him in my lunch break?????
Bela says “I want to suck your blood” best said in a Transylvanian accent.
Blood sucking? Too cute to be a blood sucker! But, looks have been know to be decieving. LOL
I like how he sort of matches the carpet!
Bela the handsome Fella
Now this is just cool
** Dazzling new images reveal the ‘impossible’ on the Sun**
http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11432&feedId=online-news_rss20
Beautiful! Love shots like that! Cathi in NC—you’ll like these…
WOW! just WOW!
You know, I sure do love these shots! So interesting too. Thanks Instinct!
Bela is adorable! I love the bow on his head…
Wow, way cool!! I loved my astronomy class, I had the best teacher. This information is so cool and that video was increadable. I watched for the longest time trying to see the magnetic field fall in. Wow again!!
Isn’t it amazing what they can view and learn now. Oops, I’m showing my age again.
cool!
Check out this video from one of the solar observatory satellites of the moon in transit across the face of the sun. Way cool
!
Oops! Forgot the URL!
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12mar_stereoeclipse.htm?list154031
JOKE OF THE DAY
Holy Shot
One Sunday morning, a priest wakes up and decides to go golfing. He calls his boss and says that he feels very sick, and won’t be able to go to work.
Way up in heaven, Saint Peter sees all this and asks God, ”Are you really going to let him get away with this?”
”No, I guess not,” says God.
The priest drives about five to six hours away, so he doesn’t bump into anyone he knows. The golf course is empty when he gets there. So he takes his first swing, drives the ball 495 yards away and gets a hole in one.
Saint Peter watches in disbelief and asks, ” Why did you let him do that?”
To this God says, ”Who’s he going to tell?”!
Okay….I don’t get it….
He can’t tell anyone about the miraculous hole in one, because he was suppose to be at work. So he has to keep this amazing thing to himself…. get it now?
Oooooh, now I get it…sorry, on occation I think I’m not going grey, just platinum blonde.
the guy is not long for this earth…..
How about this one?
Chores on the Farm
A young boy comes down to breakfast one morning. His mother asks, “Have you done your chores yet?”
“No,” replies the boy, “but could I have breakfast first?”
“You know the rules, go outside and clean the chicken coop, milk the cow and feed the pigs.”
The boy goes down to the chicken coop and lazily cleans it. When he is finished he he kicks a chicken. Next, we walks to the barn and takes out the old milking cow. After milking her thoroughly, he kicks her. Then the boy gets the food and feeds the pigs. Once he is done he kicks a pig.
Finally, the boy runs back to his house, very hungry. His mother gives him a plate with nothing on it but an apple. Disappointed, the boy says, “Where’s my eggs, my milk and my sausage?”
“Well,” says his mother, “I saw you kick a chicken, so now you don’t get eggs. I saw you kick the cow, so now you don’t get milk. I saw you kick the pig, so now you don’t get any sausage.”
Just then, the boy’s father walks in and kicks the cat. The boy says to his mother, “Should I tell him now, or do you want to?”
Got this one, what does that say about me?
Says you have a wicked sense of humor, like me (lol)
Rosie, You’ve got a god sense of humor! You’re cool!
I don’t always get every joke the first time either!
Loved this joke!! Still laughing and co-workers think I’m losing it. Thanks for the laugh!
ROFLMAO! That is too funny. Good thing I am sitting at my computer at home.
Hey, stop embarrassing Instinct! haha!
I’m just surprised you would tell a joke like that with a young kitten present.
*shakes head sadly*
I’m sorry, but am I the only one offended by this crude joke? NOT!
That’s one of my favorite jokes, but in my version, the priest makes a hole-in-one on every hole!
Rosie, the joke is that the priest makes this phenomenal shot (hitting a little white ball almost the length of five football fields–about 1/3 of a mile) into a little bitty cup. An achievement some avid golfers never make–and he can’t tell anyone because he’s not supposed to be golfing, he’s supposed to be saying Mass!
Squeeeeeee!!!!!! My goodness! What a cutie!!!! And in such a cute pose! And such an awesome name!
Cute overload! Green’s definitely his color.
Bela….. she lives up to her name! Beautiful!
I’d love to kiss her little belly and gently squish those tiny toes!
it is a boy not a girl!
What a sweet looking cuddlebugg. Too bad Tinafish already took him
I know. I wasn’t going to waste time with the backpack, I was going to put Bela onto my shoulder, do my best Robert Conrad snarl and say “Go on, knock it off. I dare you!”
Or does anyone remember battery commercials before the Energizer Bunny besides me?
I remember them. Mostly because I was wondering what James West was doing shilling batteries.
I loved him on Black Sheep Squadron!
Hehehehee… James West…. I loved that show… and those tight pants of his….
No kidding! Yowzah (smack, smack). Did you see how high his heels were, though? (titter) he was a short little dude.
I loved Miguelito Loveless.
He was my favorite villain next to Frank Gorshin as the Riddler on Batman.
How many of you remember him as “Pappy” Boyington.
Loved that show… had read the book a couple of years before it came on TV… and was just fascinated….
“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” was admittedly an odd choice for a 12-year-old girl’s favorite show, but it was. The reason was that, like the Black Sheep, my dad was a Marine in the Pacific Rim during WWII. He wasn’t a pilot, but he was an aircrew radar operator (when the existance of radar was still a military secret). Anyway, watching that show always got my dad telling war stories, and I have never in my life gotten tired of hearing them. I think my dad’s ability to tell a story is a lot of the reason that I love both history and literature so much!
Yea, I also loved that he was part of the Flying Tigers.
My dad was in Korea but he doesn’t talk about it at all except fo the fact that he was UDT and they use to shoot him out of torpedo tubes.
Instinct, here’s one of my favorite of Dad’s stories:
It begins with Dad’s arrival in Sydney after three weeks on a troop transport. It was blustery and cold, and Dad and his three buddies’ only concern was to get into a taxicab as fast as possible.
As the cab drove into town, the four new arrivals began to notice red, white, and blue bunting EVERYWHERE. Interspersed among the bunting were the Union Jack, the Australian flag, and the American flag, always displayed together. The four GI’s murmered among themselves trying to figure out why Sydney was so decked out, but no one could even figure out what day it was, because individual dates just didn’t matter while on a troop transport and all of them had lost track of the calendar.
Finally, one of the GI’s (Dad always implied it wasn’t him, but never directly denied it) got the courage to tap the driver on the shoulder and ask what the occasion was.
The cabbie almost wrecked the car laughing so hard at the four yanks who didn’t know their own Independence Day!
Now that is funny, but I know how those guys feel
We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. Bah Bah Bah. I used to love that show.
Did you know that they got their name because a reporter asked them what their sqadron name was and one of them said “Boyington’s Bas***ds”.
The reporter knw that he couldn’t print that so he changed it to Boyington’s Black Sheep
Funny you should mention it, my boyfriend and I were talking about that old commercial for the battery last night!! No kidding!
What an adorable little Christmas present you have there! She looks like she is sucking her thumb…. TOO CUTE!
Yes, he does! How sweet!!
Oops - i meant he! haha!
Hi Little Man’s Mom! My kitties just accepted your kitties’ friend request on Catster and send purrs to your babies. Due to some computer or website glitch I haven’t been able to see photos on Catster for the past couple of days (darn it!) but I’ll be back to look at your kitties.
Thank you very much. Give belly rubs and kisses to all of your cuties too! You have some beautiful ones!
I mean he…….
:ANGEL:
Well, I almost spilled coffee all over myself when I first saw Bela! Look at those multi-colored PTP’s! They look like little Anasazi beans!
I need my paper bag again!!
Welcome back Dee, It has been too quite w/o you!
I do carry on, don’t I?!
Teehee! So stinkin’ cute! Kiss the tummy!
oh so cute!
Cool blog, barbie2be! I went and checked it out and you have some interesting points. Hope you are feeling better.
*spooky music here* The kitty of a thousand faces-dances-bows!! Mmuuuahahaha
kind of cute…
**From The Cat’s Perspective**
By: Alex Lieber
Dear Diary:
He’s at it again. The barking. That constant barking during my daily naps. I don’t know what I dislike most about that dog – the barking, the foreign scent everywhere, his freakish need for approval and attention … and the baffling desire to eat my food and play in my litter box.
Just what is he trying to prove?
Perhaps I should start at the beginning. I adopted a family recently. As I explored my new home I picked up an awfully un-catlike scent everywhere. Naturally, I set about changing the scent to my own to let would-be interlopers know this land has been claimed.
But every time I went on kitty patrol, I picked up that scent again. Well, after a few days, I discovered what the smell was. A dog! My family hid him like a dirty little secret, no doubt afraid of my reaction. I suppose they wanted to ease me by introducing the dog gradually.
I stumbled upon him by accident when the door was accidentally left open.
He came into my room and tried to greet me with that big snout of his, but I bravely batted him with my paw and ran away. The lumbering giant took after me, and I nimbly avoided him by climbing my tree.
He sat looking up at me, barking impotently, but I wasn’t about to climb down. After awhile, I realized I was frustrating him because there was just no way he could make it up the tree. I showed him my disdain by yawning nonchalantly. Unfortunately, my food bowl and litter box were left behind. He retaliated against me by eating my food and desecrating my box.
I don’t understand his behavior, Diary, or why my family puts up with him. He hardly sleeps a wink and always wants to play. Sure, I was like that as a kitten, but you have to grow up sometimes.
As the months passed, it became clear the dog just wasn’t learning the art of subtlety. He doesn’t understand there is a time and place for everything. When someone calls for me, why rush? What’s so important I have to run? And the incessant begging. Where’s his dignity? If you see something you want, just show a little more affection and purr a little louder to remind the family you’re there.
Well, I decided to make the dog my pet project. I try to set an example of how to hunt and chase, the proper times and places to take a nap and that he has his food and I have mine. I think I’m beginning to rub off on him. The other day, I caught the dog taking a midday nap. I was so proud I couldn’t resist joining him. Now, we have a routine. We take one nap a day together, eat, then he chases me until I get tired of the game and tease him by climbing out of his reach. I’ve even grown accustomed to his scent.
He still reverts to form on occasion, though. When he’s excited, the dog just can’t help jumping, running and, worst of all, that barking. Oh well, Diary. We’ll just take it one day at a time …
Loved it, Dee. Good story!
Bela is just the handsomest little one!
Awww.. thanks Dee! I loved this story!
[teams up with Huddy's Mama and rugby tackles Tinafish as she seeks to make her escape across the parking lot, liberates Bela from her clutches, and runs away across the fields yelling "SKWEEEEEEEEEEEE!"]
But then they fumble, Tinafish scrambles, she is short and wily, scoops up the bundle of fuzz and heads back to the birthplace of Elvis with Baby Bela, HA, Score! I still have him!
sneaks up on tinafish and offers the Kings favorite sandwich Peanutbutter/bannanna for a short snuggle with Bella……..
*Grabs her lasso and steals Bela away*
[piledrives Madre del Huddy into a stack of infant polar bears, clotheline TinaFish, seizes Bela and hail marys teh kitteh over to Teh-0 at Teh Overload for safekeeping - SCORE!]
sneaks over to cute overload and gently lifts bela into my backpack and wanders back to TDK with innocent look on face
I thought the King’s favorite sandwich was peanut butter, banana and bacon.
never heard of the bacon part interesting
That poor kitten. He must be terrified!
I’m going to red card all of you! I mean it!
Now let’s all be civilized and give me Bela
Instinct, will you please keep