BHU BOO!

PATTY:  Thanks to the lovely and talented Ann of Zoolatry, we have a fantastic Halloween graphic!  Not a scary boy, Bhu is more into the color and grace of the season and I think she has captured that quite expertly.  I hope effurryone visits Zoolatry this month.  Ann has created so many wonderful Halloween portraits of our fafurrite furrends, I am so excited to visit there every day to see who is next!

BHU:  She knows me oh so well!  I'm particularly smitten with the button kittens!  And, mom, I wish you would help me find mai other three thimbles!

PATTY:  They are probably in the same place that MY thimble is hiding!  Those things have a way of sneaking off into the dark recesses of our sewing boxes!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!  It's Homecoming here, so there is lots of noise and traffic, but the sun is shining and it is just a wonderful day!  xxoo

Sweet Sixteen

PATTY:  Hard to believe Bhu was once this tiny!  Born in the Twentieth Century!  Look at the fur in his ears!  He was such a cutie pie, so much fun to play with and cuddle.  He is sixteen years old today.  Happy birthday, Bhu!  xxoo

Fall Falling

 PATTY:  This gent was on the basil the other day and I just knew it would be no time at all before he was a little taken aback and set to shivering under a branch somewhere because it is, after all, OCTOBER!  The time when Fall Falls right on top of you like a ton of cold bricks.  And whaddya know?

BHU:  It fell.  Yes it did.  There was a blizzard.  And as if that was not enough, there was also a hurricane.  What a lovely day!  I'm so glad I don't hafta go outside.  I can lay here all day on this pile of quilts and just pretend nothing ever changes.

PATTY:  You are very, very good at that Mr. Bhu!  If you were a superhero, you would be the Unchanger.  Speaking of superheros, Sabryin asked me to make this shirt for him and he picked out this fabric and I am going to start working on it this weekend.  It's a good day to sew and iron and bake and add quilts to the beds and wear sweatshirts and just cuddle up.  First frost is not far away!

xxoo

Autumnal Equinox Collage

BHU:  Hey mom, look what I see!

PATTY:  I see it, too, Bhu!  It's a morning glory growing among the coleus!  It's so pretty!  How would you like an ear scritch?

BHU:  Yes, right there, mom!  Thanks!

Here's to a Happy Autumn for Effuryone!  xxoo

Mr Potato Head

 PATTY:  Today we harvested our potato crop.  What Sabryin is holding is a $4 potato.  Granted, it IS an organically grown potato.  The problem was that three times in the last six weeks critters have eaten the tops off the potato plants.  We got less than three pounds (see photo below).  

We have lots more tomatoes and okra and haven't harvested the sweet potatoes yet, but that's all the taters we are gonna get.  Disappointing, to say the least; but not discouraging.  We'll be doing it again next year, but we will definitely be fencing and bunting the area. 

BHU:  Wake me up when you start harvesting the tuna. 

PATTY:  Have a great weekend efurryone!  xxoo

Saucypants!

PATTY:  Tomato saucing instead of blogging.  Here we are at the very start of the process with onions, basil, oregano, garlic and tomatoes.  The fragrance is amazing!  I was obsessing about how to remove the seeds from my homemade sauce when I found an article claiming the seeds are the best (most nutritious and flavorful) part of the tomato.  Besides, we all know what happens to the seeds . . . they sort of remove themselves . . .

We finally got some rain this morning.  Bhu is snoozing in the window, grateful that I am using the flashy box for something other than capturing his efurry move.

Have a great Sunday!  xxoo

Gifts from the Garden

BHU:  Mai mom is so weird.  She likes to grow yellow tomatoes.  She grows yellow "green beans."  And she put flags up in the garden to keep the critters away.  It looks like a party, doesn't it?

PATTY:  You forgot to mention the okra.

BHU:  That's because it is so weird.  What a weird, weird vegetable!

Hope your garden grows well this summer!  xxoo

Say Hey!

 BHU:  Okay, it's been a long, long time since mai mom has had time to let efurryone know we are still alive and well at the Skypants B&B!  We've been having great weather, which means mai job as house security offisser is more demanding, too.  Here I am on the job watching fer introoders.   Our garden is doing better than last year, but you can see these nasty fellas have done a job on mai mom's dill plant.  Holy cow, where did they all COME from?

 PATTY:  Hope you can see these doods!  There's nothing left but a couple of dill sticks.  Once the dill was gone, they disappeared.  I was hoping they would turn into butterflies.   And here's another one of our regular "visitors" to the garden.  This one was sitting on the porch for quite a while last evening.  Not at all afraid of me.  I suppose I'm happy about that in a way.

I spent a good deal of time this month sewing buntings to put up in the garden because something has been eating the tops off the tomatoes and sweet potatoes -- even the regular potato plants, which I thought were poisonous!  Sabryin calls the garden "The Squirrel Carnival" now and I admit it is very colorful.

Hope you are all doing well and having a happy summer.  It will be over soon, so enjoy the days in the sun!  xxoo

Sleepy Saturday

BHU:  It's Saturday and it's sunny and cool, so I'm gonna camp out here and probly nap fur the resta the day.  Since I know yer not real good at taking "hints," mom, this means leave.

PATTY:  Sure, no problem!  It's a nice day, so I'll do something fun instead of worrying why you suddenly don't like your food.  It's probably because I bought a whole case of it, right?

BHU:  I'm not sayin'.

Hope you all have a happy weekend!

Pee Ess:  Click on the Sew Sew Patty tab to see what mai mom is up to today!

The Bhude Abides

BHU:  Oh hai, effurybody!  It's been a long time since I was able to visit.  Mai mom is a slacker, what can I say?  Look at her silly head!  She's sleeping instead of blogging!  Why the noive! 

PATTY:  Yeah, well, I've been busy, see.  If there are any accountants out there they will know what I've been through if I use the words "end of the fiscal year."   Then I decided to take some IT classes and that cuts into the time available for blogging.  And then there's the garden!  We get to this point in the year and I always wonder why I even bother.  Rain stops, critters arrive, and did I mention the bugs? 

May I introduce to you Mr. Tomato Hornworm, a charming guy but voracious!  I removed him and placed him in another part of the garden.  The photo is not very sharp and I'm afraid his horn is cut off at the top there, but he is about 2-1/2" long.  Apparently, he's been nibbling on my tomatoes out back for about a week now.  Sabryin says he will just find his way back to the tomato patch, but I will keep my eye out for him this time. 

BHU:  Tell effurybody that I am doing well, mom! 

PATTY:  Yes, it's true!  Bhu is doing great, except for excessive matting on his belleh.  He still won't let us groom him; it's catch as catch can.  But during the recovery we went through a flurry of foods and he has finally settled on Sheba Salmon Pate.  He is just an amazing dude with amazing resiliency!

P.S.  Please visit Ginger Jasper and his family to send a huggy purr their way!  Love to all!  xxoo

"Neurologically Appropriate"

BHU:  According to mai Patient Discharge Instructions, the vet said I "seemed neurologically appropriate."  Don't know what that means, but he also said that my mouth is healing well from the dental procedure, so THAT sounds good, huh?  However, he adds "No further physical exam was performed due to his aggressiveness."  Hey, I was just purrotectin' mai territory, if ya know what I means!

PATTY:  They are just trying to help you and I wish you would coopurrate.  If you had not been so mean, we wouldn't have to take you back in a couple of weeks. 

BHU:  Well, I'm not goin' back.

PATTY:  Sorry, Mister, but you are!  They even sold us a bottle of Feli-way spray to put inside your carrier before we take you there.  Apparently, that will make you more docile.

BHU:  Pffffst!  Doubtful!

PATTY:  So, everyone, just wanted to let you know Bhu is actually doing great after having ten extractions.  Afterward it was very painful for him, as you can imagine, and his fur was just a totally icky mess.  If you have ever had an extraction that required novacaine, you can sympathize.  Suddenly your lips don't work anymore and everything you're aiming at your mouth falls on your chest!  His muff really took a beating!  Anyway, thanks for sticking with us through this.  It was VERY expensive and we would not have done it except that the "Mewniversity" has board-certified anesthesiologists on staff.  That made us more confident that it would be safely and carefully done.  They did good!  Mai Bhu is running around the house like a kitten and his pain is gone! 

xxoo Happy Summer!

It is what it is

PATTY:  Just wanted to give you all an update on Bhu's condition.  We had a bit of a rough time with him this week and had to take him back to the vet because of swelling in his mouth that was preventing him from eating or drinking.  He wants to eat, but it hurts.  Right now he will eat people tuna with lots of tuna juice if I mash it up.  He will also eat a little bit of his Liver & Chicken feast.  Bhu doesn't want to have his photo taken today because his muff is just a matted mess and it is so hard for him to clean up.  You know that kittehs are ALL about the grooming and so he is a bit grumpy because of that.  So we are keeping fingers crossed that there will be steady progress with eating and drinking this weekend!

P.S.  He blames me for his misery. 

I has survived

BHU:  As you can see, mai furz are all sticky and smell weird but I can't make mai tongue work to clean them up!  Effurry once in a while, mai mom or poppy sticks a syringe in mai mouth and that just makes me feel MORE woozy.  I'm not sure what happened, but I'm thinking something's missing! 

PATTY:  This is what's missing . . . Bhu's bewtiful bottom fangs and eight more teeth that were in varying degrees of disease.  The vet said "Yer cat is gonna look like a stoner for a couple of days," and he couldn't be righter!  Bhu's expression resembles that of Sean Penn's in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."

I am hoping what we paid for this dental extravaganza is worth it for Bhu's quality of life, but it's too early to tell at this point.  We're just glad he made it through the surgery.   Thanks to you who shared information about your experiences with feline dental procedures!!  It enabled us to be a little braver throughout the day as we waited to hear the results.  Now to get through this day:  administering pain meds, worrying about whether he will eat or drink, hovering over the litter box, etc. 

xxoo

Wish me luck!

BHU:  Tomorrow morning I'm going back to the Mewniversity to have a "dental purroseejer," whateffur THAT is!  I'm not complaining because I have been feeling much better since the last time I went there.  So, I'm just gonna chill today and let mai mom and poppy feed me and fawn over me and coo in mai ears that I am the most handsome and purritiest boy, etcetera.

PATTY:  While Bhu "chills," I am hoping that the other moms and pops of kittehs who have had dental work will give us some advice or share information about their experiences so we won't be so scared.  Bhu is, after all, a "mature" kitteh and we are doing this not because we think he should have a bright, shiny, photo-opportunity smile.  We are doing it because we want him to have a less painful life.  He will probably have an extraction or two or more.  He's never had very good teeth; I've heard it's a breed thing. 

BHU:  Ahem, could you take this conversation elsewhere?  I'm trying to chill.

PATTY:  Okee dokee, mister.  You're the boss!  Wish us luck, okay!?  xxoo

Hey, you forgot Spring!

PATTY:  It's like this:  in the morning the heat goes on and then one day by noon you need the AC.  No in between.  And you never get used to it, either.  Every year we complain about the same thing, but our expectations never change:  we expect Spring sometime in April and May.  Mostly we get either winter or summer. 

BHU:  That expektashun thing gets you efurry time, mom.  When you gonna learn?

PATTY:  Ahem.  Yes, well here we have a few photos of the morning so far at the Skypants B&B.  Clockwise from Top Left is close-up of Buddha Belleh Furz because they are so EXQUISITE!  Right is one of the most faithful irises -- blooms every year, no matter what and it's a glorious color that looks more burgundy than purple (or do I need new glasses).  And then Bottom Left is another Belleh Furz shot of the boy as he does his famous twisty roll to the edge of the bed.  I swear, he's gonna fall off one day.

BHU:  Don't be scared, mom.  I won't fall! 

xxoo