Toasty Tuesday

This weekend, the weather was cold but very sunny so I spent a bit of time out on my deck soaking up some rays.

Because it's nearly winter here, our deck only gets a bit of sun for part of the day so I have to take advantage of that. Mum and dad have unlocked my cat door again (it was locked when Cosi first got here so he couldn't run away) and I get to go outside when I want. It's much better that way.

The Monday Cosi Report

So as you know, Cosi has been staying with us. He's been here for nearly two weeks now, and things still aren't going that well. He has settled in pretty well, but I don't want to be his friend.

This is the closest we've been to each other. And this was the only time he came near me and I didn't hiss at him. I was coming down the stairs and he was going up.

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This is my new friend Whiska Pusskat. He's been blogging a little while and doesn't get many visitors so if you could please go over and say hello, I'd really like that. Also: he has just been diagnosed with Feline Leukemia and FIV and his person is understandably upset.

Sunday Awards

The gorgeous girls over at Casbah Kitten - Jane and Alice - shared this award with me this week. I am supposed to share it with four friends who remind me of the four colours of the mood ring.

Blue: my bestest friend Zimmie used to always wear a blue collar (like mine!) until his mum made him a new one. I want to share this with him and his brother and sisters.

Pink: the kitties over at Katnip Lounge are in the pink with their awesome catio and wonderful mum and dad who keep rescuing more kitties.

Orange: the fairly wonderful Ginger Jasper is a big orange boy who has to endure a lion cut every summer, thanks to his mum. You deserve an award for that, GJ.

Green: makes me think of my friend Oscar, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and who needs all the good thoughts we can send his way. And green is good, right?

Thanks again, Jane and Alice!

Paws

This is a photo of my paws. I know, exciting right?

But I wanted to point out to you that when I first arrived here four and a half years ago, I had perfectly pristine black paw pads. That's because I'd been in the cat shelter for more than three months and I never got to go outside very much.

And for a few months mum and dad didn't let me outside here because they didn't want me to run away. Eventually I was allowed out in the back yard and ever since then my paw pads are much tougher, and they've gone grey.

I hope you don't like my paws less because they're grey.

Friends on Friday

Today I would like you to meet my friends Spider and Smudge. They are kitties who live in Canberra, Australia, with their human mum.
Spider is all black like me and Smudge has some white patches. Please go and say hello, and tell them Huffle Mawson sent you!

Thursday on the balcony

I decided to sneak in a Thursday on the Balcony this week because the weather has been just a little bit warmer (I don't think that it will last too long) so I managed to spend a little bit of time out there.

I'm pretty sure the neighbours missed me.

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Trouble

For the past few nights, mum and dad have been putting the toasty couch blankets on the bed, because it's been cold (it is nearly winter, after all) and I don't think they had properly adjusted their body temperatures after coming home from Russia.

I love it because I had my very own toasty blanket on the bed - the one that Mrs Shelli made especially for me with my name on it - and dad put it right in the middle of the bed so I was extra toasty at night, tucked up between mum and dad.

But now... today mum put the other doona (duvet, comforter) on the bed, which is thicker than the other one, so she says we don't need the toasty couch blankets on the bed any more.

(see on the label it says wool filling - the other one is just cotton)

Where am I going to sleep now???

Houseguest

This is Cosi. I don't know if you remember a few months ago when his dad brought him around to my house for a visit, as our parents wanted to see if we would get along okay. I was not very nice to Cosi because, well, he reminded me a lot of poo-face Salvador and we all know how mean he was to me.

Anyway.

Cosi is now staying at our house for a month. His mum and dad have gone to Japan for a holiday (his mum is Japanese) and he is staying with me. So far I have hissed at him a few times and he looked at me funny once but mostly he sleeps under the bed in the spare bedroom and I sleep on mum and dad's bed.

I don't know if we're going to be friends yet.

Sunday Awards

My dear friends the Kitty Trio gave me this award last week! It's the Beautiful Blogger award and I am supposed to share seven things about myself.

I have been at this blogging game for a while now so I don't know that there are seven things you don't already know about me. But I'll give it a go, maybe this will be interesting for my newer friends...

1. Even though I am a black cat, I have two white hairs on my back.
2. Lots of people think I am a boy, mostly because of my blue collar. But I'm really a girl.
3. I have had exactly one prawn in my life, and it was the BEST snack ever.
4. I wake up dad by headbutting him - today it was a headbutt in his tummy.
5. If I have to choose between a lap with a toasty blanket and one without, the toasty blanket lap wins every single time.
6. I like to get in the shower after mum and dad. I queue up in the bathroom for my turn.
7. I have never eaten any flowers IN the house. Outside is another story.

This award has been around for a while, and I don't know who has it and who doesn't. If you don't have it already, please share it! And tell me seven things about you.

Saturday Shenanigans

I think that if you can't see me, that means I'm not eating the plants.

Seriously.

Finally Friday

The weather this week has been so cold that I have to find all the sunny spots inside to toast myself. I was minding my own business here but then I thought that maybe someone should move that chair for me so I have enough room to really stretch out.

I don't think that's too much to ask for.

Thursday action

Normally I do Thursday on the Balcony but it's getting colder here as we head for winter so I am not spending much time on the balcony these days. Instead, I find spots in the sun inside the house and hang out there.

And then I have to cover my face with my paw because the pupparazzi show up.

A cat never gets any peace.

**Update**

My friend Oscar had his first chemotherapy treatment yesterday. Please keep giving him and his people support through this tough time.

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