Bugs abound.

Yeuuuuch, bugs taste.... yuchy!

All clear!

Boy am I glad those little critters in baby carriages are gone! They're scary. I bet they would pull my tail and everything.

More critters under the hood!

Oh Nooo! Another stranger with a baby carriage! What's goin on here!! What are those citters under the hood? Let me back in so I can hide!

Squeaky Wheels are Scary!

C'mon Uncle Mike, it's really scary out here with this stranger and squeaky baby carriage!

Uh Oh!

Uh Oh, Uncle Mike! Somebody's coming, we better hightail it outta here!

Buffalo Pilgrimage

Dad had to go see the Buffalo about renewin some Visa thing so he wouldn't get sent to Gitmo. I got to hang with Uncle Mike again, Yaaaaayyy! He's teachin me all about the different birdies, there are so many different flavors!

Doppleganger

Hey, that's me! How'd I get in there?

Bed's of a Feather

Mattie has a bed just like mine, but her's is blue. Uncle Mike said his kayaking pal Jackie gave it to her. I heard Mattie and Uncle Mike down in the courtyard but no matter how hard I meowed Dad wouldn't take me out. Probably a good thing cause Mattie doesn't like cats and would proly kick my butt.

Dad's Home!

Dad came home yesterday, Yaaayyyyyyy! And I bugged him all evening while he was trying to prepare a talk on neutrinos ! Dad says the scattering of muon and tau neutrinos from electrons is mediated only by the neutral boson, whatever that means. Maybe when I grow up I can be a boson and mediate some neutrinos!


Anyway Dad says Uncle Mike was a slacker and let me fall way behind on my triggernometry and I would have to buckle down till he leaves again. He said I wuz spendin too much time on my blog, so I'm gonna have to cool my bloggin jets for a few days. I'll be back bloggin when Dad hits the road again.

See ya.

Worshiping the Porcelean God

This is me sulking in my favorite spot by Dad's toilet cause Uncle Mike wouldn't let me wait for Dad by the front door. Uncle Mike is such a meany!

Rebellion

This is me givin Uncle Mike a big raspberry because I wanna wait down here for my dad and he keeps tellin me to come upstairs. Phleeeebt! I'm a rebel now!

Waiting

This is me waitin for Dad at the front door! Uncle Mike said he's supposed to come home today if he doesn't get stuck in a mine shaft. I can't wait till Dad comes home, it's been like a bazillion days since I've seen him.

Trick or Treat!

This is me waitin for my neighbor to open their door and see me run like the wind. Now if I could only reach that doorbell.

Inner Sanctum

It's rainy, yucky outside, so Uncle Mike let me play inside on the stairs.

Mulberry Bush

This is me wrapping my leash around the lamp post just to aggravate Uncle Mike!

Makin Faces

This is me makin faces now that I'm back on the inside and feelin safe. I'm actually chewin my leash and teachin it a lesson in respect!. We're havin fun now!

Open Sesame

C'mon Uncle Mike, let me back in where it's safe! Today Uncle Mike showed me the front of the courtyard. I've been really nervous about going up there because there's lots of fast movin stuff out there on the horizon. Uncle Mike say's I'll be ok as long as I watch out for cars and trucks and dogs and Mattie. Whew, that's a lot to watch out for.

Serenity Now

Ok, I've calmed down. Uncle Mike says Dad's coming home tomorrow! That means his particle detector in the mines of Minnesooota is starting it's cooldown to, well, close to 0 Kelvin which is really, really cold. Colder than living in Canada, that's for sure. Maybe now he'll find those stupid WIMPS and he'll get a prize or sumethin. Wish I had an atomic clock to tell me when Dad's coming back. I can't wait. I bet Dad won't be droppin my leash like Uncle Mike did.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Don't tell Dad I freaked, Ok Uncle Mike? It was just for a second anyway. And besides, it's your fault because you weren't drivin with both hands on the leash! You and that stoopid camera.

It's all in the Defense Posture

This what I look like when I'm really scared. Uncle Mike dropped the leash handle and it chased me all the way to the door! I don't know how that thing just keeps followin me, I ran all over the place to get away from it! I thought it might be Mattie comin to wup me but it was just the darn leash handle. Sheesh! And I got my tail all puffed up over nuthin. Pretty good form, though, eh?

Stealth Mode

I bet you can't see me! I'm practisin my ambush skills. Don't step on my tail, ok?

Mattie Kicks Butt

This is Mattie, she lives with Uncle Mike. He said if she ever catches me out here she's gonna wup me good because she just hates other cats. He says she's lived on the streets and knows how to wup most other cats, even the big ones. Maybe when I get bigger she won't be so pushy! Why can't we just be friends?

Field of Doggie Poo

Uncle Mike says it's a minefield out there. Neighbors pooping their dogs right where I practice my outdoor skills! Sheesh.



Yup no doggie bag here! And Cleveland Heights ordinance requires dog owners to pick up their dog's poop. Cats are way cleaner. We do it in a litter box! Uncle Mike says I never miss.

Too big for my britches!

Uncle Mike says my harness is too small, espcially the distance between the neck loop and the chest loop. He wants to jury rigg it but he's gonna see what my dad says first, before doing surgery. On the harness, not me, dummy! Hey wait a minute, who needs a harness anyway?! How'my supposed to learn any responserbility if I'm locked up in a harness, anyway? Sheesh!

Stalkin the Munk

Here you see me stalking the Spotted Chipmunk. Actually I haven't gotten close enough to see if they have spots. These chipmunks are wicked fast!

Peeping Tom

Here you see me learning how to be a peeping Tom. Pretty good form, eh?

North Face of the Eiger

This is me conquering the north face of the Eiger. I bet Dad would be really impressed!

Roundabout

This is me chasin a chipmunk round and round the stone pile. Sooner or later one of us is goin to get tuckered out!

Yucky weather

C'mon Uncle Mike, its yucky out here, let's go back inside! We can come back out in five or ten minutes when the sun comes out!

Stranger Ahoy!

Uh oh.. here comes a stranger. Wonder if I should run and hide or meet and greet?! What to do, what to do?! Gotta think fast!

In the Doghouse

Wow, Uncle Mike said Dad is coming home in a few days! And I haven't learned a lick of triggernometry. Boy am I going to be in the doghouse when he gets back.

Blarney Stone

Here you see me sitting on my perch. It was pretty cold and rainy outside today, so this was a good way to stay out of the puddles.

First Waffle

This is me running circles around Uncle Mike as he tries to figure out how to use Jackie's loaner camera. He says I'm faster than greased lightning!

Scratching Post

Here I'm showing off my giant scratching post. Uncle Mike said it's a wisteria vine.

Sounds of Springtime

Today I freaked when I heard these weird honking sounds. I was growling and everything. Uncle Mike said to be cool, it was just a flock of Canadian geese heading to the Great White North. He said it was music to his hears because the geese (whatever those are) heralded the onset of spring. I think I'm gonna like spring because it means I get to be outside a lot more.

And Uncle Mike said there would be robins all over the place. I've never seen a robin, put if they're anything like those putz sparrows they're gonna be a great snack, that's for sure.

Uncle Mike said someday Dad would take me to the Great White North and I would live in an quinzee, whatever that is.

Great Wall

Whoa, this is a big wall! Maybe this is part of the Great Wall of China Uncle Mike was telling me about.

Mercury in Retrograde??

Well, the good news is that Uncle Mike's kayaking buddy Jackie loaned him her Kodak digital camera till he figures out what he's going to do about his dead putz Nikon camera. So now he can take great pics of me again.

The bad news is now Picasa, his image viewing software, won't post any more pics to my blog cause the putz BloggerBot, whatever that is, hangs every time he tries to post a pic. Uncle Mike swears a lot, but he's been cussin up a storm lately and I'm picking up some great lingo! So hang in there while Uncle Mike figures this mess out, or Mercury comes out of Retrograde.

Uncle Mike says retrograde means of or relating to the brief, regularly occurring, apparently backward movement of a planetary body in its orbit as viewed against the fixed stars, caused by the differing orbital velocities of Earth and the body observed. In other words, ass backwards.

I'm learnin all kinds of stuff today. Uncle Mike said if I want to follow in Dad's foot steps I'm gonna have to step up to the plate and learn lots of stuff, like triggernometry, calculuzt and differential equestrians. I can't wait. Maybe someday I'll get to wear glasses and my friends will call me four eyes!

Putz Nikon 5700 Camera

Yesterday Uncle Mike said his camera was freaking out with a "Lens Error". Apparently this is a really common problem with Nikon's telescoping lense cameras, the gears just are fragile, they get chewed up and the lens freezes = dead camera. It's an engineering design flaw. One guy had his camera repaired 3 times for the same problem. Uncle Mike's camera is out of warranty so he's bummed. I wonder if all that green beer on St. Paddy's day had something to do with it ;) Uncle Mike says he's going to switch to Canon. So I guess you won't be seeing a lot more pics of me here but I'll still be posting comments about putz sparrows and such. Sigh! I was so photogenic, don't you think?

Squirrel Chatter

Ok I see you, you putz squirrel! Why don't ya come down here for a minute?!

King of the Hill

Whoa, I made it! I'm all the way up here, now where did all those putz sparrows go?

Scaling the wall

This is me trying to figure out how far I'm gonna fall if I miss this jump. How do you like my Irish spring St. Paddy's Day collar?

Check out my paw!

Hey, how about a knuckle sandwich? Just kidding ;)

Wish Dad was here.

Wish Dad was here, we could be havin so much fun together! I miss my dad.

Lurking

How come that string keeps following me around? This is getting pretty scary.

Pounce de Lion

I know there's a mousy out here somewhere, just gotta keep pouncing till I flush him!

Yumm, my leash tastes good!

Kitty Yoga

Uncle Mike is teaching me Yoga, but I pretend to keep falling over which drives him nuts.

Bored

Sheesh, I'm bored after all this walking around, back and forth, back and forth. Whaddaya say we go over to the park with all them birdies!

Shadow Play II

Shadow cat sucking spaghetti! We're havin fun now!

Pounce Panache

This is me showing the last thing a birdie sees as I pounce! Pretty good form, eh?

Airborne Lip Service

Oh yea? Why don't you come down here and say that to my face you little putz sparrow?!

Shadow Play

Dad told Uncle Mike it was ok to take me outside for walks so here I am making shadow figures, in this case a big cat! It was a sunny day and 40º so Uncle Mike bundled up and let me snoop around for a while. Of course being part Inuit, the cold didn't bother me at all, eh?