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The Cat Party Barn

Pierre: I’m so happy that the party barn is back! I haven’t had a nap this good since it was here this fall.

gray tabby cat looks sleepy

Cupcake: What’s a party barn, Pierre? Can I come in there with you?

Pierre: I need to be somewhere else for a little while.

Cupcake: This is a party barn? It’s pretty cool. I like these walls.

black and white tuxedo kitten paws at inner wall of barn

Cupcake: I can see you through the wall!

Pierre: It’s called a window, kid.

gray tabby cat looks into barn window at black and white tuxedo kitten

Cupcake: And my paw fits through it, too.

Pierre: Keep your paws and tail inside the party barn. Just like you do in the cat carrier. You have a lot to learn.

gray tabby cat swats black and white tuxedo kitten inside barn

Pierre: Will you let me know when you’re done with the party barn? I need to get back to my nap.

gray tabby cat looks into barn at black and white tuxedo kitten

Cupcake: Where are you going? Don’t you want to party in the barn with me?

black and white tuxedo kitten looks sideways out of barn

Shop ’til you Drop

On the weekends, after she goes to the coffee shop to see her friends, Cupcake often does a little shopping. Sometimes she lets me carry her, but more often, she likes to ride on top of her carrier.

black and white tuxedo kitten rides her sleepypod carrier in pet store

She asks to stop various places around the store so can can get a better look at things. She especially likes to test the floor model cat trees. This one even had a feather toy attached to it. Fancy!

black and white tuxedo kitten looks at feather toy in pet store

There’s a lot to see in the pet store. Some of it is really exciting, like the hamsters and birds.

black and white tuxedo kitten looks at birds in pet store

Some of it is exciting in a different way. While Cupcake is allowed out of her shopping basket whenever she wants, she isn’t allowed to visit the display of looose cat litter.

black and white tuxedo kitten looks at cat litter in the pet store

If the humans take too long shopping around inside the store, Cupcake even fits in a nap before the cash register. This is how you shop to you drop, isn’t it?

black and white tuxedo kitten sleeps atop her carrier in pet store

Cupcake: Are you done now? Can we go home?

black and white tuxedo kitten lays atop carrier

Helping Repair the Screens

Our window screens were in bad shape. Really bad shape.

Newton: I could fit through that hole, for sure.

orange tabby cat looks at hole in window screen

The holes didn’t get there on their own. The neighborhood sand hill cranes like to peck at the windows, and once they make a small hole in the screen, they grab it and pull it out to make the hole even bigger. This resulted in some uncomfortably hot days in our house after hurricane Irma.

sand hill cranes

I decided to learn to fix them. It has been so hot outside that it wasn’t feasible to work on them there, so I threw a sheet down on the floor to use as a work space. Somebody thought I was just trying to play with her.

Cupcake: Did you need this stretched out? Let me help!

black and white tuxedo kitten bites excess screen

Cupcake: I’ll hold it down. You apply the tape.

Cupcake: I said apply tape, not touch my tail!

black and white tuxedo kitten lays on screen

Cupcake: Who says this is scrap? This is the good stuff!

black and white tuxedo kitten plays with scrap screen material

Even with all of the help, I managed to finish all but one screen. Now we just need cooler weather to come along so we can open those windows more often and not just in an emergency.

Irma Brought us Furniture

As most of you know, we are Florida cats, and that means we are impacted by Hurricane Irma. We are in the middle of the state, and we will be fine, but there has been a long period of preparing and waiting. We have enough food and water for both humans and cats for weeks.

Thank you for the emails and notes from some of our readers checking on us! At the time I’m writing this Sunday morning, the rain has started, but the wind hasn’t. Please don’t worry if I don’t have a post-hurricane update available immediately here on the blog, but know that we will all be fine. Meanwhile, we’re just waiting.

One of the features of waiting that the cats are really enjoying is finding the outdoor furniture in their sunroom.

gray tabby cat on glider

Everyone except Ashton has taken a turn napping on this amazing, new object. Pierre was first.

gray tabby cat on glider

Newton tried to take a nap on the glider, but he had an audience.

black and white tuxedo kitten looks up at orange tabby cat

Cupcake found the combination of a new piece of furniture and Newton an irresistible combination. His nap there didn’t last long.

black and white tuxedo kitten paws at orange tabby cat

Cupcake took the night shift and seems to have slept there all night. She’ll be sad to see it go back outside after the storm passes.

black and white tuxedo kitten on glider

In fact, by the time you read this, the storm will probably already be past. Good wishes to all of our other friends in the path of the storm. We hope it gave you fun furniture to play on, too.

The Cat Party Barn

Shop ’til you Drop

Helping Repair the Screens

Irma Brought us Furniture

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