Cats don’t like water normally. Usually they will do anything they can to avoid it. Some cats will splash in really shallow water (like ours), but they sure as heck don’t like being submerged. I give you the bathtub kitty.

We didn’t know this would be the first wedding we’d be attending this year until about a month ago.  We could not be happier that Rob’s grandma found Dean after his Grandpa Bill passed away.  Dean is a warm an wonderful man and they are really happy together. Look how giddy Rob’s grandma looks in the pictures. And of course I got some cute pics of the little girls in the family- 2 month old Elizabeth and 27 month old Emma.

We went for dinner at a buffet afterwards and Emma got down to business with the ice cream. Kathie just loves being grandma and Lizzie stares at her intently. Rob got to feed her and she held his finger with quite a bit of strength. Then Auntie K got to hold Lizzie and burp her. On the way out of the Sirloin Stockade, we found the best crane game prize ever.  Just what every kid wants- Harry Truman! They also had a janky Itchy and Scratchy toy and buried in the corner was another president- Ulysses S Grant. Then we got home and Nico was sleeping on the pueblo. 

Just playing around with my new lens that I got for my birthday from my wonderful hubby!

Nico Originally uploaded by girlieleep

So, Rob and I were bringing the trash cans back down to the house from the top of our circle where they pick it up. For some reason I felt compelled to look in the trees and see if I could spot the owl’s nest. Well, much to my surprise, the owl himself was staring back at me.

He’s a barred owl. I know he’s been around here for awhile. I do wish he would catch some more mice though so they stop coming in my house. Although, it’d be nice if the kitties would earn their keep and catch the mouse they keep looking for in the kitchen.Later today… So we must have a new mailman, because the last mail person I remember was a woman. A very ditzy woman who would misdeliver mail ALL the time. Anyway, the mailman rang the doorbell today and he said, “I have your mail here. I wanted to ask you about a couple names that I haven’t seen before. They’re here on these magazines.”I looked down and saw two issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly. It’s a magazine that Rob gets for free somehow and he has a fake name as the delivery name in case they sell the list. I explained to the mailman that Rob sometimes fake names these free magazine subscriptions, but not to worry about it if they’re tech magazines or video games or music stuff. Then I pointed to the Phil McKrackin and said it to him. He started cracking up! I think we both got a good laugh out of that one.

Lastly, here are some pictures of the kitties with the new camera. I still need to get used to it, but it is an awesome camera! As usual, click the little pics to see them bigger!

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So first, I want to give a big congrats to Charlene and Chris in Maine who recently got engaged! I am so happy for them! Marriage is a beautiful thing. I’d do it again.

So, it’s almost the end of the semester. I will be totally relieved at the end of this week. I have a big group project we’re presenting on Friday, so once we’re done with that, I will be a happy woman! Seriously, you don’t even know.

I decided to write a blog post mainly because I am sitting here waiting to see if Nico is going to use the litter box anytime soon. See, I have to go downtown this afternoon to get some copies of our marriage license and to pick up some film I had developed (film? I’ll explain after I pick it up). The vet is also downtown. In fact it’s called The Downtown Veterinarian. I took her to the vet last week for some shots and apparently I was supposed to bring a stool sample with, and I didn’t so now I need to get one. The catch is, I need to take it in within about 6 hours of her producing it, and that has just not worked out schedule-wise so far. So I’ve been hoping that she would just poop so I could be on my way and drop it off while I was running all of my other downtown errands, but I don’t think that is going to happen before I need to leave. If anyone would have ever told me 10 years ago that I’d be waiting for a cat to poop so I could collect it, I would have laughed in their face! Who would have guessed these little furballs would become my babies?

Speaking of our cats- look how cute and pretty they are! (Click to see them larger) Nico is still a little grumpasaurus, and she likes to sleep. Beans gets distracted by anything shiny. If he sees a reflection of any kind on the ceiling, he’ll stare at it with his eyes wide open and follow it (see pics 2 and 5 below). They are both just so different and have such distinct personalities. They both love curling up on different levels of the Kitty Pueblo and taking afternoon naps now that the sun shines directly in without the leaves to block it.

So, Rob finished up his jury duty today and I went and picked him up, as we only have one car right now.  Then we went to Mary’s to eat leftover cookout food and show off some wedding proofs.

Anyway, we get home and I switched some laundry and I came in the kitchen and Rob said, “Do you hear that squeaking?”  I walked in the dining room and I didn’t hear anything.  Then I heard the squeaking and at first I thought a bird was outside the sliding door dying or injured after flying into our windows or something like that (we had been talking about birds flying into windows earlier).  Then I saw Beans run from over by the sliding glass doors where the squeaking was and as he ran by I noticed he had something in his mouth.

Sure enough, it was a mouse!  It wasn’t dead.  He took it into his kitty condo and it was kind of walking around and he was playing with it.  I got Rob a plastic bag and a towel and he captured the mouse and took it outside to release it.

But we had just been talking about mice with Mary and we hadn’t had one in the house for awhile, and sure enough we came home to a treat. We live in the woods so mice are kind of inevitable round these parts.

The cats are all wired now hoping to find another one. We gave them treats for being such good little hunters.

Bud is such a cute kitty. He always makes me smile

Well, unfortunately we are passing on a bit of bad news. Rob’s oldest cat, Slinky, has passed away. She was about 12 years old and he rescued her from a vet’s office in Kokomo where she was supposed to be be put down after her first owner died six years ago. She was moody, like Rob can be and she would hiss at me a lot, although she did start warming up to me. We will miss Slinky and we hope Bud, Rob’s other cat, will be OK. She was being cared for at her vet’s office and she seemed to have died of natural causes. I used to always sing the Shari Lewis and Lambchop “Skinnamarinky Dinky Dink” song as “Slink a marinky dinky dink, slinkamarinky doo, I love you.”