Did you miss me?

I didn't manage to post anything yesterday 'cos we were all so busy and the time just disappeared.

A friend of my humans came to visit and although she told them that she wanted to see them, the REAL reason she came was to see me, so I had to be on my best behaviour. Not that I am ever on anything else, of course!

The lady visitor thought I was adorable and I sat on her knee for a wee while and did my bestest purring which delighted her and of course, she was entranced by my nipping in and out of the window at regular intervals. So when she left she was a happy lady and I was a tired puss.

It was a lovely day and so the dreaded lawn mower came out and danced round the garden with my MH holding on to it. I have decided that while me and the lawn mower will never be bestest pals, I will NOT be frightened of it any more, so when my MH was running round after said mower, I just stayed out of paw's reach and stared at it in as menacing a way as an adorable six month old puss cat can!

I am not too sure what is going on in my house tonight but the word V-E-T keeps being whispered and my food dishes have been taken away, so I think it is something I might not like, but I shall let you know.

Be good, pussy cats, be good.

Gardening

I have green paws! No, I have not discovered the paint tin! I have been working in the garden with my humans and I have been meow-ing to all the little plants as I have been helping to water them and they like it 'cos they smile at me and that makes me happy.

My humans don't have a lot of garden with flowers 'cos we have a lot of garden with grass which I love rolling in and my MH says I can look after some of the little daisies that grow in the grass and I have been sniffing at them and they like that too. But we do have plant pots with some nice flowers in them and that is where I need to further my plant education 'cos I nearly got into trouble.

I did make a wee mistake as I got a bit over enthusiastic and wheeched out a few plants instead of weeds, but my humans were watching me and just plonked them back in again and told me that plants and weeds were different, so I am working hard to learn the difference and then I might be on the 'Beechgrove Garden For Cats'.

There is no end to my talents at all! I hope the gardening terms of 'wheeching' and 'plonking' are not too technical for you!

----and Oyster Catchers!

This WAS my own fault, I have to admit. It was a beautiful night and my MH took me out into the garden 'cos she wanted to take a photo of the big, beautiful full moon, so we were at the side of the house where the oyster catchers have their nest, and there were three baby oyster catcher birdies running about.

SO! And you all know what is coming, don't you? While herself was playing with her camera and the moon, I noticed one of the baby birdies and decided to say hello, and so that I wouldn't frighten it, I assumed the 'crouch' position and sidled up towards it.

Well!! The mummy bird saw what I was doing and to say that she wasn't best pleased is definitely the understatement of the year, and she flew at me squawking and screeching until my MH came to see what I was up to, and then SHE stared squawking and screeching too! What a racket, and all I wanted to do was say hello to a wee baby oyster catcher.

So, picture the scene. Me, on the ground on my little (adorable) tummy, the mummy oyster catcher flying just above my head and my MH coming to my rescue, then the mummy bird has a go at her too and she WAS being good! So the outcome was that my MH explained to the mummy bird that she was taking me inside my house and she would tell me not to disturb the baby birds, and the birdy cheeped 'OK' and flied away.

I think I have learned another lesson.

Cheeky Swallows

I have been dived bombed by a swallow today and I DO NOT LIKE IT!!! I had just nipped out of the window and I was sitting on the ledge just looking, and wondering what to do with my day, when this cheeky wee bird appeared and flew right over my head, squawking all the time at me. It then swooped in a circle and did the same thing again and again.

I was being a very good puss and I did not retaliate, but I just went into my house and waited until it had gone away. After a decent interval of about 3.63 minutes, I tried again to get out the window, and guess what? Yep, the birdie was there again and he did the very same thing. I have decided that he is a boy bird showing off to the girl birds, but I will have to teach him a lesson if he tries that again.

He eventually got fed up and went away somewhere else, so I managed to get out of the window and played in my pampas grass tent and I could hear him chirping away so I just kept well out of his way, but I am going to tell his mummy bird, because it is MY garden after all and if there is any terrorising to be done, it will be done by me!

Another Super Day

Summer is here and I am loving it! I am outside ALL day, just coming in for a wee bit of dinner and sometimes a wee sleep, although I have found a brilliant place to lie is in the huge pampas grass 'cos I can watch what is going on and no-body can see me except my MH who discovered me and took a photo, but that's OK.

I was lying there today minding my own business---honestly!--- and I got dive-bombed by a cheeky swallow and that's when my undercover training surfaced and I dropped onto my delightful little tummy and sidled into my secret hide away and hissed at him.

I have sent you a picture today of my little friend the baby cow and her mummy. The baby is the same colour as me and we have quite a wee laugh at that when we are having a chat at bedtime.

I am hoping to go outside with my MH tonight before we go to bed 'cos it is a lovely night and she takes me out to play with her when she is taking some pictures with her new camera. I like that lots 'cos I can listen to the sea and the birds and the cows and that is lovely and I can watch the sun going to bed too so I am a very happy little puss.

My Day

I have been left to my own devices today as my humans have been very busy, so I have been exploring lots of different places, but it has been good 'cos it has been nice and warm until the rain came on, and by that time, I was a wee bit tired anyway.

My MH goes swimming on a Thursday so away she went on the early boat and she doesn't come home again until nearly tea time. My DH was fixing the exhaust on her car 'cos it had a hole in it and the noise was giving me a headache, and even one of the neighbours was complaining, so it had to be fixed, and fix it he did, but oh my, did he get all dirty. He looked quite funny with his overalls and his dirty face and his wee woolly hat!

When she came home, my mummy human gave me some new wee biscuits and I just LOVED them. They were de-lic-ious! I hope I get some more soon. Then she played with me and told me all that she had been doing and I told her all about my day and I cuddled up on her knee and we both liked that. Then I went out to play and I am practicing to be a clothes-pole dancer now!

I am having a wee snooze soon and my humans told me that they know when I am having a good dream 'cos my tail wags. I think said tail might get me into a lot of trouble one day!

Thinking!

I have had rather an uneventful day and I have been doing a lot of thinking, but I haven't reached any conclusions yet as to what I am going to be when I grow up. I have decided to keep all my options open and take advice from other older and wiser puss cats. Meantime, I am going to enjoy every single minute!

The cows have moved into the field at the back of my house, so I can visit them whenever I like and sometimes I go with my humans when they put some water out for them, and I have a wee chat to the baby cows and I like that.

I have been in trouble today but only for a wee while 'cos I just have to look all soft and cuddly and my humans forget to be annoyed. Anyway, I told you before that my MH put down a big cover on the couch so that I wouldn't scratch the leather and that it was nice and warm to lie on. (That's me lying on it in the picture. I am trying to do some serious thinking and out comes the camera. And one tries to look one's best!)

ANYWAY! I have discovered an even better place to lie and that is ON the couch UNDER the cover, and for some reason my humans are not best pleased when I do that.

I decided to play a wee trick on them, and I climbed up on the couch and under the cover and hid, so that they couldn't see me, but I forgot about my tail ,and left it hanging down the front of the couch and my eagle-eyed MH saw me and tickled me so much that I laughed and fell off the couch.

In future I must remember to take my tail with me!