Another Lazy Day

I have been feeling quite lazy today so I have just stayed round about my garden and listened to all the birdies. My DH made me a new toy with feathers and we all play with this and I just love it. I jump on it, and attack it and carry it around with me and my humans like playing with it too.

There was a lot of noise on my little island today because this is one of the days when the boat brings lots of cargo and things for the houses and the farms, so there were some tractors going to the pier. I watch them too, but I know not to go near them, 'cos they are very big and I do not want to be run over!

My MH was out for a wee while today and my DH had to go away in the boat so I was left on my own for one whole hour, but the door was open so I played outside for a wee while and then came inside until my MH came back and made a fuss of me. Then we had a good afternoon just ourselves and I lay on her knee and got my tummy scratched which is just the magicest thing in the world!

I am also learning about all the different boats that I can see passing my living room window and sometimes I wave to all the people on them and I am sure they will wave back sometime. Now I am resting because I think I might go out hunting later on when it is a wee bit darker, although it never gets dark now for very long and I like to be out playing. I have even been out in the rain and I am getting to like that too.

So now I need to sleep so bye bye for a wee while.

I Have Discovered.....

.....pancakes! Oh, my dear feline friends, I am in pussy cat heaven! I didn't know that my MH made a mean pancake until today and I hope she makes them every day.

I asked her what she was doing and she told me that I could watch, but I couldn't help 'cos it wasn't good for puss cats to be playing with flour and stuff, so I sat and watched for a wee while but it wasn't very exciting so I went out to play, but I stayed in my garden just in case I missed anything.

And boy, am I glad I did! For very soon the most delicious smell came wafting towards my little nose and dragged me into the house, and it was there that I saw them, and smelled them. Pancakes!!

My MH told me all about them and said that she had to leave them on the shelf to cool and I was not to touch them, and I agreed. Now. At this point I really meant it, and I didn't even have my wee claws crossed behind my back 'cos I am normally a good puss, but the phone went and my human had to answer it, and it was then that it all got too much for me and I HAD to have one.

So. Since MH had her back turned talking to the phone, before you could say 'Squeak is adorable' I had nipped up on to the shelf, grabbed a pancake and was just escaping out the door when she saw me. Oh my, my, was she annoyed, but oh my, my, was it ever worth it!!

I didn't go home for a wee while---just in case, but later on I nipped back in the window and when she was sitting on my couch, I sat on her knee, looked up at her with my sweetest smile and gave her my bestest purr with the squeak in it --that's where I got my name--and she was gone. Melted, and smiling and not angry any more.

BUT! She has moved the pancakes!

Action Picture

This is me in action! I am stalking a huge seagull. I know I have no chance of catching it, and he knows I have no chance, but it is good fun anyway. I have more success with the daisies 'cos they can't run away!

I stayed out really late last night and I liked it lots. My MH went out for a while and I went out to play when she went away and stayed out until she came back and she told me it was nearly a whole two hours, so that was a long time for a baby puss.

I was a wee bit tired when I came in and after my MH had her shower, she put on her big furry dressing gown and I snuggled up on her knee and went fast asleep. I like sitting on her knee 'cos she tickles my ears and I really like that, and my wee engine purrs really loud and my humans like that so we are all happy.

Life is good.

A Good Day

I have been out playing ALL day and it is super. It is nice and warm and it is not raining so I am happy. I have been helping my DH to fix up the honeysuckle bush which was getting a wee bit 'weedy', so we have cleaned it all up now.

I have been lying in the long grass just listening to all the birds calling to me, and then I chased the daisies and pounced on them when I needed some exercise. My humans just leave the door open for me so I can nip in for something to eat and a wee drink whenever I feel like it, and it lets me check that the humans are OK without me. So it is a good day today and the picture shows me at the edge of my jungle just about to spring into attack mode, although what I am attacking hasn't been decided yet!

Here is the next chapter of my adventure story.

Chapter 6

The following day was warm and sunny, so Sammy, Squeak and Henry met at their special place and Squeak told them that she had invited Diggory as well. Sammy and Henry weren't sure that this was the right thing to do, but decided to give Diggory a chance.

Two or three minutes later they saw Diggory bounding through the long grass towards them and for a second all three felt a bit nervous, but as soon as Diggory said

"Good afternoon, my friends" in his very polite voice, they all relaxed.

"Hello, Diggory" they chorused "how are you today?"

"I am exceedingly well and so delighted at your kind invitation to join you for the afternoon. I do thank you."

"What are we going to do to-day?" asked Sammy and Squeak said that she would like to do something different and go somewhere she hadn't been before.

"Well" said Diggory. "I often go the quarry after work for a swim. Perhaps you would like to go there?"

"Awesome!" said Squeak.

'Awesome' was her new word ever since she had heard it on the television and she had been standing in front of the mirror practicing how to say it: 'Awesome'; 'AWE-some'; 'awe-Some' Yes it was a good word she had decided.

So off they all went. Diggory out in front leading the way, Squeak following close by him and Sammy flying just above them, but they had only gone a few steps when Squeak suddenly stopped.

"Where's Henry?" she asked and when they turned round, they saw Henry standing watching them with a little tear running down his face.

"You go on without me" he said " as I only have little legs, I am very slow and I would never get there. See you later." And he turned to walk away.

"No way!" said Squeak "We don't go anywhere without our favourite pin cushion and if you can't go, we don't go. Isn't that right Sammy?" And Sammy Seagull quickly agreed.

"I may have a solution" offered Diggory. "If Sammy can lift Henry up on to my back, I can carry him and I promise I will be very, very careful."

Squeak and Sammy looked at Henry Hedgehog who was looking rather nervous, but he nodded his head and in a trice Sammy had very gently picked him up and put him on Diggory's back where he held on very, very tightly, but as Diggory trotted fairly slowly through the long grass, Henry began to relax and enjoy himself.

"Awesome" said Squeak as she ran beside them.

Soon they reached the quarry and Sammy again picked Henry up and put him gently on the ground where he began to sniff around for new things to eat. Suddenly there was a splash and when Squeak and Henry looked up, they saw Diggory swimming about in the water with Sammy Seagull splashing about beside him squawking with delight.

"Awesome" said Squeak. "What a shame cats don't swim or I would be in there too" Henry just nodded and said nothing!

So Squeak and Henry spent the time exploring this new wonderland and both were delighted to find things they had never seen before and Henry even found some new leaves to eat, so everybody was happy.

Soon it was time to go home and Henry was once again lifted up on to the back of a very wet Diggory and they all headed back to their jungle.

"That was the best day ever" said Henry. "Just magic!"

"Awesome" said Squeak, and they all laughed.

Scenery

Since I don't have too much exciting news for you today, I thought I would let you see what I can see from my house.

You know I live on a wee island, and wherever I look I can see the sea although in some places it is further away than others, but it is very near when I am outside my living room window, and that is where I am in today's picture.

The big boat you can see is the Hamnavoe and it travels every day from Stromness to Scrabster which, my MH told me, is at the very top of Scotland so it must travel very far indeed. I can see lots of other boats as well and one comes a few times a day to our wee island and it is called the MVGraemsay and that is the one I was on when I came here as a wee baby pussy cat long, long ago. There are lots of boats that carry the divers out to the deep water and they dive and look at the fishes and some of the old wrecks left from the wars so I have lots of things to watch when I want to.

I don't think I would like to be a diver 'cos cats don't really like the water and I don't know if I can swim yet. I will have to ask my humans if they can teach me.

The next chapter of my adventure story is ready for publishing tomorrow, so be sure to tune in again sometime.

Rained Off

It hasn't stopped raining all day, and I have stayed in my house for most of the day 'cos when I decided to go outside and see what it was like in the rain, my little paws got all wet and I didn't like it very much, so I had a wee sniff at the long, wet grass and then nipped in the window again, and I have spent most of the day resting.

I did some exercise though, and ran round and round my house for a wee while just to use up some of my boundless energy and then my MH played with me for a while until she was tired out too!

My DH is still working in his greenhouse, although I use the term 'working' very loosely, but if the rain goes off, I might go and see what he is doing and then I will see if the nice farmer man has left his shed open again for me to go and have an explore.

Today's picture is of yours truly trying to get a wee cat nap and have a wee think about what I can get up to next.

Watch this space!

Eerie!

I got a wee fright this morning when I wakened up. I looked out of my window and all the world wasn't there. It had all vanished and all I could see was the end of my garden and then lots of white. I went in and looked out of the living room window and it was just the same. I could see my fence, but everything else was gone---the fields, the lighthouse and the sea. Oh, dear feline friends, I can admit to you that I had a major panic 'cos I thought everyone and everything had gone away and left us behind

I then did what every brave, adorable puss cat would do and bounced on my MH to tell her the dreadful news, but she just smiled one of her 'silly puss' smiles and told me that it was just very misty and although we couldn't see it, everything was still there. Oh what a relief. So I have learned something new again and I will know all about it when it happens again 'cos according to the encyclopedia that is my MH, it happens quite a lot.

I went out to play again in the afternoon and you can see from the picture that I met one of the cows from next door who was out for a wee wander. She has a wee baby cow but it was sleeping so she came down to see what I was doing, and I told Esmeralda (that's what I called her) that she was very welcome to eat all the grass round about my house, but not to come into the garden 'cos that was all mine and I didn't want my little paws getting covered in cow poo. So she said 'OK Squeak.'

One has to be assertive.