RI
@GingerPeach wrote:
Dear Friend Ralphie
Your mom @Drythe mentioned she would like an update on some of those visits you and I have to make to those places where the people dress in white a lot. Although sometimes they wear things with little animals on them to try to fool us.
I will be going to get my teeth sparkly at the end of February. I don't know what February is, but maybe it will mean something to your mom.
In the meantime, my mom is rubbing some stuff on my teeth a few nights a week (when she remembers) that I think tastes pretty good. It's called PetSmile, from the SuperSmile people. My mom said it's not really scrubbing toothpaste, but is supposed to help dissolve the stuff on my teeth without too much rubbing. I hope it helps since I mostly just lick it before she can put it on too many teeth.
My mom just "rescued" some of the older plants from the "boys with chain saws" by talking nice to not only the workers but to a lady called the president of the aach oh aa. I think it looks like this: HOA. The bigger plants help the birds hide out from hawks. The president means well but mostly thinks landscaping changes are just like rearranging furniture.
My mom also convinced the man responsible for tree pruning to prune the pine tree that needed it before the end of this month so that the bark beetles won't yet be active. She even sent them something from the biggest school here (she says it's called University of California) to back her up. They kept saying it was OK to prune before "winter" was over, but these days it's pretty clear winter is not as long as it used to be. Even I don't need my sweaters so much. I can tell it's winter when I shiver and I haven't been doing that so much these days, at least in the daytime. Finally, they believed her! She is feeling happier today after their meeting yesterday. It's easier for me since I don't have to work so hard to make her laugh, even though for me it's no trouble at all.
She appreciates your offer to BITE someone since I am pretty sure you are an expert, not to mention it's probably because you like it!
She used to want to bite them, too, but she learned to copy my example and be nice to them and that way, she wins them over (mostly). She is a lot less stressed, even though she is always thinking about how to protect the birds. She refuses to lick them, though. I never understand why.
Of course, spending so much of the budget on landscaping isn't the greatest idea when more reserves might be better off saved in case of bad things like earthquake recovery (you know, just in case). (My mom helped me with those big words.)
I hope you are doing well, Ralphie, and getting chances to play with your friend Fleur.
Love, Kiku
p.s. Tonight I got to have some Kiku-sized bites of pot roast for supper. It was hard to wait all afternoon while it was cooking away. Do you have trouble waiting for delicious smells until they show up in your supper dish?
This is me Phineaus (Finn)
Hello Kiku and @GingerPeach
I send you both best wishes! Mommers let me write because she says you are both very nice and smart, and I wanted to write too, because I think I should get to meet you too!
Kiku, I have a big yellow Robbie, and I really love him lots, I had a big black, Lola too, but she had to leave us last November. Anyway, I really love doggies, Robbin is nice and warm, I love to snuggle him and get some of his warm. Do you make warm too?
I have had that teeth scraping thingy, no big deal, I’m a guy and we have to act tough, you know, you will be very glad, but act all sad and aloof when you get home. It will get you lots more treats like that Pot Roast thingy you mentioned. I don’t get anything like that here, because my folks only eat veggies. Not much joy there for a cat, but Robbie munches them up! I do have food just for us cats from a tiny little can. Sometimes Mommers cooks us all (Robbie & Dad too) eggies, I snarf those up, you could ask your Mom to make you some after your teeth are done as a special treat.
Mom says your Mom is a ‘He Row’ for saving those trees. I like trees! I like to run up them and then hop off from way up (about 10 feet), bunches of fun. I do get to go out a bit, bit I must check in @ once an hour because that is what Mom calls ‘Kurt is see’, it means if I don’t my yard time is revoked! I think she told you that we had a huge old Oak tree come down close to what is called our ‘drive away.’ Well last week a bunch of men and some big equipment came and they and my Dad cut it up and they TOOK it. I had to watch from the dining room window. I never get to dine in there. Anyway Mom had them cut her some slices to keep. She tried counting the rings, but stopped and marked her spot when she got to 100. You are right, you’re Mom is right, those don’t come back in a hurry. I’m glad she is not so stressed. Oh, we don’t have an 'ach oh aa’ here, just trees and a stream, and all kinds of birds and wildlife. I don’t think our earth quakes much either, at least I’ve never noticed it, hope it stays still.
Anyway, about me and Ralphie... well you know when he came he was upset and tried to fight with all of us. But then he stopped fighting with Fleur, and ReeRee, and Robbie. But NOW ReeRee
is attacking him, and she is big! She is a ‘Sigh a meese’ / Main Coon mix! And, to tell the truth Ralphie, he never really stopped hitting me, and well...now I’m afraid of him. I don’t come ask for love or treats anymore and spend lots of time outside. Mommers is sad and worries about me. I never lived anywhere people or cats had fights, and I don’t like it one bit!
I hope we get to talk some more, but Mom says we have to take turns. Take care, and if you have time, don’t forget the Puppy Bowl next Sunday! The Grand Paw is coming over to watch it at my house, I’m glad!
Oh, Mom doesn’t like me to try to lick the birds. I never mess with them, but I like to watch them, they are very pretty.
Love to you and your Mom!
Finn
"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras
Blogs & Forums
