Getting Ready for Santa

 "I got this great photo of me.  The kind where you go for those fancy hooman sexy portraits."

"I think it shows I'm in the Christmas Spirit.

Did you see my trip with the other kitties?

Here's the link if you didn't.

https://downhomeinnc.blogspot.com/2025/12/happy-tuesday-double-date-with-my.html

"Lynn's been readin' me this here book.  It was written

by a cat fur a kitten.  I find it furry entertaining."

"Purrsonally,  I save evfurry day!"

"Merry Christmas,  Happy Holidays."

This Nativity is Willie's in the UK. We thought it was just lovely.

His Mother had this in Sicily 73 years ago.  And Willie puts it out

every year.

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Best Place to Wait for the Big Day

 "I'm gonna wait it out fur Santa's arrival right here under the tree."

"Lynn and the man who rubs my belly,

put up the tree in the corner this year."

"I like this arrangement. They left room

so I can circle around the box if I want to."

"And furom here I kin hear any noise

Rudolph the Red Nose may make on

our rooftop."

"And Lynn put in a thick blankie with a

soft towel on top.  Now, Lynn would you

mind droppin' the curtain so Santa won't

know I'm in here waiting."

"Now I'm in here to listen fur the

8 tiny reindeers to bring Santa to my 

roof and drop a bag full of yummy

treats and nippy toys.  (I'll never play

with the toys, mol.)  But a kitty girl

has to git lotsa stuff you know."

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Close Fit

 "I'm tryin' my best to fit in.  Not fit in with other cats or worse,

hoomans,  just fit in the scratcher bed."

"Ya know Lynn,  you shoulda checked fur size before you 

got this one.  It had to have been made fur a chipmunk."

Full disclosure: this found a new home in November.

Just wanted to share the last of the photos of the

infamous cat scratcher bed.

"Lynn went Etsy shoppin' fur herself agin.  The photos

do not show the true colors, though.  But these are her

Christmas gift to herself.  They fit purrfect.

Why don't y'all take a look

at  etsy.com/shop/cbwhiskersandpaws.  They have lots of fun things."

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Happy Day after the Turkey Dinner

 "Do all you have lots of extra turkey dinner left fur eatin' all weekend  long?"

"Hope yer not in a turkey coma.  I'm in a sun puddle coma."

BFF Jo Jo and me 

We hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend.

Domestic turkey inspecting my bike and me  in October.

With his harem of one hen a few Guinea Hens.

"No Mackerull,  I did not eat theeze burdz."

"Thank you fur the birthday wishes.  I'm 14 now.

Lynn still says I'm too young to drive!

And date!  But my beaus sent me cards!"

Rocky sent me punkin pie with my paw on it.
Brody sent me a full belly shot.

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Never know who's gonna come along

 "I'm glad Lynn put the bike away.  She just walks here now, so she's not gone as long."

"So I lay here on some nippy and under the orange tree

(not the kind you eat) and wait fur her to come home.

My catio is put away and I have no real interest outside.

I watch the leaves blow by,  but the moths and crickets are

all bedded down fur the winter."

I haven't been around the neighborhood for a long while.

But biking ended early October.  Now I have a few

different ways of walking at home.  They all take me down a 

steep hill just to have to come up the same one.  

I was glad to see this kitty at the same house as I have for 

a few years.  He was meowing quite a bit.

"Lynn,  I think it was acause Santa's Reindeer was behind you.

He must be scoping out the right trails to follow to our house.

You know,  to bring me gifts."

That might be right Precious.  And yes,  the kitty was looking

behind me while meowing.  I was not expecting to be 

followed by this buck.

A neighbor's dogwood tree. Love the color contrast with the bird bath.

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It came with instructions?

 "Honestly Lynn,  you could not leave the instructions attached?"

"I've nevfur evfur seen a scratcher bed before.  What's it fur?

Too hard to sleep on and I use my sisal rope scratchy post

fur keepin' my claws on the ready."

"I smell silvervine deep down where I 

can not git to 

to eat it or rub it."

Precious, my mistake.  I didn't think you needed

to see the label to figure this out.  But I see it was 

really a waste of money.  You only were interested

for as long as this short video.   

"duh, that's all folks"

(full disclosure: this bed found a better home)

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after the hatch

 "I thought I'd tell you all you'll evfur wanna know 'bout growing

Cat Pillars.  And then you'll just leave 'em be where you sees 'em."

"Sometimes we had so many at one time

Lynn had ta put in a shelf to separate them

furom crawlin' on each other."

"And you kin see furom the dirty towel in the 

bottom that they poop a lot and leave a stain."

"And she found so many Cat Pillars on her only

3 milkweed plants that she had to put them into

buckets with net tops to spread them thinner.

As you kin see in the top photos, she ended up

with TWO net cages.  The green one and the 

new blue.  She ordered a third one furom the stinkin'

Amazons who sent it FOUR WEEKS  after they took

da moneys.  Too late to use." 

"She hadda use a fishing tackle box with  lid to put the eggs in

and keep the tiny hatchlings separated. Ya know what, these

Cat Pillars will eat each other if some are tiny and the others 

are big.  They nevfur evfur stop chewing.  Now me,  I stop

fur drinks, catio and naps."

First Eggs June 26

Last Butterfly Flew Sept. 26

Catepillar count: 219

Butterfly count: 168

Parasited count: 51

"And Lynn accidently brought home

about 2 dozen pillars or eggs and had

to raise them too.  They are included in the

count. The milkweed kept

getting mowed down by the road keepers

so it got furry furustrating."

"I am the only cat she needs to feed.  But

she has one only, Blackswallow Tail Butterfly

chrysalis hibernating fur the winter."

"Lynn put the orange tree up in October.

But the orange glitter acorns don't show up 

in this photo.  Don't think the squirrels

will come in to eat them."

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