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Cat Language

Asking the cats if they wanted their dinner led to a discussion about how many words they know. Not that I asked them how many words they know, the discussion was with my husband. So what words do they know other than their names?

Fishy-fish-fish – Even if said very quietly will result in an inundation of cats wanting food.
Biccy (bic-bic) – Second favorite cat word.
Hairband – Sends Biggles into hunt mode.
Fetch – If you ever want to see the hairband again
Ping Pong – Results in CousCous finding you a an orange ping pong ball.
Straw – Biggles loves this word as he will get a straw sculpture to play with.
Mousie Mouse – It’s white small and furry.
Tenty-tent – Every cat in this house loves their pillow tent.
Beddy Bye Bye – Cat word for bedtime.
Toiley – Stinkers word used to toilet trained her
Scratchy Pole – Self explanatory.
Down – Vital cat word.
Back – How we manage to get into a house with 4 cats.
Huggy – Stinker loves this word.
Belly/Tummy – Results in Biggles rolling over.

Other words will be added as I think of them or the cats learn a new word.

August 2011

Six months since our cyclone and I have decided to try and get my life back together. I have decided to try and revitalise my blog with hopefully interesting comments and observations. This is a tall order so stay tuned for this flurry of activity to either be short term or actually work.

Ninja (cat) has watched this post and has given it the thumbs up for publishing.

I live

OK I am going to do something about my much ignored blog.  Actually I should say we are going to do something about our much ignored blogs.  I have information and I am going to attempt to fill in a lot of missing days in my life for the year before the year is over.  as you can imagine buying and moving into our magnificent house (hall) has consumed what used to be a lot of indulgent me time that allowed for the proper and loving maitenance of a blog.

So if you have an RSS feed (yeah I know how unlikely is that!) I do apologise now.

White good shopping

Well it had to happen we went shopping and replaced the items that had died.  I now have an upside down fridge, which is bigger and so much better.  Peter has a new washing machine which is also a lot bigger at 8kgs, maybe one day I will learn how to use it :) .

Nice to have cold food again.

The picture is of a plant for the garden that was bought in Bunnings.

Moving

Today all of the furniture, cats and us moved.  It was a pretty traumatic day for the cats.  Imagine one minute you are gathered up and placed in a small cramped bathroom, while in there you hear strange voices and lots of loud noises.  It seems liek hours, it actually is hours as your owners travel with the nice furniture removal men and place all the furniture in your new home.

Finally you are released from the bathroom and where the “…” is all the furniture?  The cats were not happy as they slunk around the walls and tried to hide under and behind anything they could find.

The next part of the trip was gaining the trust of the cats again and then bundling them up into their carry baskets and a couple of temporary cardboard carriers from the vets.  Those cardboard ones are great, the hole that Stinker chewed in hers on the car trip was actually large enough for her to get out, it was only fear that kept her inside the box.

So the moving day finished with exhausted owners and four forelorn cats refusing to exit from the safety of there cat boxes.

Moving home is not fun.

Washing Machine

You guessed it, it is not working.  Peter went to use it today and rang me at wokr to tell me it also had died.

Warm Fridge

Now it seems the fridge has decided to stop working.  We have tried a number of things but the fridge is dead and the freezer is working as a fridge!

Dead Ceiling Fan

Why does a fan that has never really been used decide to die?

Wildlife

Sometimes we just have too much wildlife at the new house.  Yes it is lovely to watch the multitudes of butterflies that are attracted to our house and of course all the lovely, if quite brazen birds, but there are things that are not nice such as …

  1. Bats in the ceiling and occasionally the dead bats on the floor.
  2. Frogs that make it inside but then can’t find their way out.
  3. A bird that ran into the house and did not survive.
  4. Cane borer weevils that are eating our palms.
  5. The large paper wasp nest overhanging the public footpath.
  6. White ants currently living and eating under our house

The pest man is due next Thursday, which can not come soon enough.

Two weeks to go

Yes only two weeks and we will be watching TV in our new home.

Today I had an RDO and we went and did more work on and around the house.  I sat in the rain moving river rocks today, we also planted two of our pot plants into the garden.  We actually have a number of plants that have lived with us for 10 years that may find themselves in the ground.  The weather is so lovely if a little windy at the moment because of the cyclone that is moving towards the coast, further south.  No fans needed in the new house and the floor is always cool to almost cold to walk on, it is lovely.

Some highlights for the week so far include the car getting a service on Tuesday in Cairns and the husband taking possession of a mobile phone, which is needed while he is organising house things.

Oh yes and before I forget – “hi mum” *waves* how are things? *looks over towards the phone*