A Week of gardening, part 3

While the garden is being done, I have to snoopervise to make sure the men are doing the job properly. It's exhausting work.

Here I am checking that the string lines are even:
Checking the one over near where the bench seat will go:
Looking at some of the tools to make sure they are good enough:
As you can see, getting the garden done is very hard work!

A Week of gardening, part 2

This is what my back yard looked like after the first day the men were here. Notice that there is nothing green left in the garden except the bin?
This is the side where all the weeds used to be. Now it's just dirt. I don't know if that's better or worse, really.
Wait a minute. Have you noticed if something is missing from this picture?

A Week of gardening, part 1

I think I mentioned last week sometime that there are going to be some men coming to my house to work on my garden this week. I thought it would be a good idea to show you the tragic state of my garden before they started.
Can you see how high the weeds are? I'm nearly lost out there!
Mum says sorry the photos are a bit dark, she only remembered to get them the night before the men started work. At least you get a vague idea of how awful it really is.

I DID IT!

Pups and kitties, I did it. I got a photo of dad in his cookie monster slippers. I had to pretend to pose with him, like this:
But then I was so embarrassed by the Cookie Monster slippers that I started to run away before another photo could be taken.
I hope every pup and kitty appreciates the hard work this took!

Tagged

My lovely friend Millie tagged me to play the sixth photo game last week. Since I just played this recently, I am going to cheat a bit for this version.

The rules are:
Open your photos folder and select the 6th folder. Then select the 6th photo in that folder and post that photo along with the story behind the photo on your blog. Then tag 5 friends.

Normally I would look in the Finder and go to the sixth folder and then get the sixth photo, but this time I used the iPhoto collections and used the sixth photo in the sixth collection there.

So this is what I came up with. It's a photo mum took a few months ago of a walnut farm in north east Victoria. She says it was very cold but nice and sunny.
I suppose it's a nice enough photo but since it's not of me I don't think it's that interesting. If any other kitty or pup would like to play this game, please go ahead.

Friday facts

Remember that pup Laska who was lost? Good news: he came home! His new mum searched for him for days and days and eventually found him out in the forest and she bribed him with treats to come home. She might have gotten him home faster if she offered ham, just sayin'. Anyway he is very happy in his new home and that is good news.

My paw has recovered very nicely from where the heater bit me last week. It didn't really affect my busy schedule of sleeping so that was good. Mum keeps shooing me away from the heater now but really I think it's learnt its lesson and won't bite me again.

There have been men here all week doing things to my back yard. I hope they are looking after my parsley pot.

My parsley pot

This is me out in the garden one night last week about to get in my parsley pot. If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see some little green weed thing growing in my pot! Now there are lots of weeds in my garden but in my parsley pot? This is getting too much!

Wordless Wednesday

A cat by any other name...

Today I thought I'd share with you my long list of nicknames. I'm sure most of you know that my real name is Stella. Dad named me that when he first adopted me. After a bit, mum figured out that I huffed a lot, and she had been watching a Harry Potter movie, so she called me Hufflepuff after the house in Harry Potter.

Then dad realised I was a very adventurous cat who liked to explorer things, so I got called Huffle Mawson, Explorer Cat, after the antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson. Huffle is the name I answer to.

My other nicknames include:

• Huffy Puff
• Huffle Pawson, because I have four paws
  
• Toasty Pawson, as I love to be toasty
  
• Snoopy Pawson, as I am a very good snoopervisor
• Huffle Dum Dum, because mum says underneath my black furs I am very blonde (she's blonde so that means we must be related, yes?)
• Little Black Cat (that one's obvious)
• Telly Show Cat, because I love to watch TV, especially the cricket (the sport, not the bugs)
• Pawson Mawson (mum and dad are weird sometimes)
• Sticky Nose, because I have to know what's going on at all times
• Huffelina (don't ask me where dad comes up with these)
• Psycho Huffle (just because I'll bite you if you touch my belly does not mean I am psycho)
  

So that's my list of nick names, and there are probably more I've forgotten. Care to share yours?

A friend in need

I would like to introduce you to a new friend of mine, Domi. She's a beautiful 12 year old Border Collie, and she is also a therapy dog. Isn't she a pretty girl?

Domi is not very well at the moment, and could use some good vibes from us all. She has some tumours on her neck. I know the power of the paw can help her! We managed to get Laska to come home so I know you can all help. Please go over and say hello.

Lazy Sunday

Yesterday, mum and dad spent all day cleaning out the garage in preparation for the garden man who is coming on Tuesday morning. That's so the garden man can get to the back garden through the garage. It looks a lot better now but it was very tiring so I am very sleepy today.
I will be sitting on mum's toasty couch blanket next to my heater, like this. I wasn't happy with the flashy beast capturing me like this last night so I poked my tongue out at it.

I am still working on getting a photo of dad's Cookie Monster slippers. Don't worry, I will get it!

Sneaky

Since so many of you asked about it yesterday, I am trying to get a photo of dad in his Cookie Monster slippers. So far, he is being very elusive.

But I will not be thwarted. I'm prepared to use bribery if necessary. He can have my last fishy snack!

Happy Independence Day to all my American friends.

Finally Friday!

This is me sitting next to dad's computer. We have named it Zim after my best friend because it goes zoom zoom. You can't really tell from this photo but it has blue disco lights inside that flash when the computer is running.

What you can't see that mum chopped out of the photo is dad sitting next to me in his Cookie Monster slippers! He didn't want me to tell you that. Oops.

Shiny Furs

Last week my friends Tipper and Misty asked me about how I keep my furs so nice and shiny. It's a complicated process so you might want to write it down, or maybe print out this page so you can refer to it later.

• First, it's very important to have a lot of baths. I have at least six per day. But not the kind that involve water.
  
• Second, you must sit in the sun a lot.
• Third, sitting by the heater as much as you can helps a lot.
• Fourth, if you can sleep under the doona (duvet) you will keep your furs shiny.
• Fifth, you must take a LOT of naps.
• Finally, convincing your mum or dad to give you ham or roast chicken helps most of all.

I hope this helps all the kitties and pups out there.