Floofy and Frootbat Friday

Lookie, lookie... Brainball's washin my ears again! And I'm not gonna whap him this time. I love Brainball. He's such a superduper big bruther. He's not only fun to play with but he's also a great ear washur, and he's great to snooze with, too... he's like a big floofy pillow.




And here's Dorydoo as a Frootbat! Doesn't she make a cute Frootbat? (Ackshually she looks kinda like an owl in this pickshure, but deffinitely frootbatty, too.)




And guess what... it's Febrooary 29! That means it's Leap Day, a day that comes around only once efurry four years! Happy Leap Day, everybodies -- and cellybrate by makin a super-kool LEAP!

Silly Saturday... and an Award!

So me and Dorydoo are snoozin togethur onna recklinur. And yeah, that's still my Momma's fleecy shirt we Ballicai are sleepin on. She left it there fur us, and it's our sleepie shirt now, hehe.

Anyhows, I gotted in a really funny sleepin pozishun, and Dorydoo sez, MaoMao, you look silly.



So here's what I saided to Dorydoo... I gaved her the raspberry!



And guess what... Mickey the Black Cat awarded us Ballicai the Great Blog Awardie! Thankies so much, Mickey -- you and yur sisturs have got a great, inspiring bloggie, and we Ballicai are so honored to receive this awardie from you!



I'm givin this awardie to my sweetiepie Ariel, Dorydoo's givin it to her sweetiepie Earl Grey and alla the Furry Kids, and Brainball's givin it to his sweetiepie Patches Lady and the Calico Girls!

Storytime

Momma wroted a new short story, and it's got two kitties in it!

Here's an eckserpt:

Hucklesby and I are out for our twilight walk up the mountain. Will I see Moonlight this time?

Today isn’t a good day for me. It’s Valentine’s Day, a day which brings, unbidden, images of what my life might have been, if only I’d made better decisions as a younger woman.

Regret, however, is a bitter companion. I prefer cats.

Like Hucklesby. A gray cat the color of twilight on a misty day. Though I might have been accompanied by other cats on my road not taken, none of them would have been my Hucklesby. He lives with me in my cabin in the woods but comes along on my twilight walks and never runs astray.

Go here to read the rest: "Moonlight's Gift."

Enjoy!

Fleecy Friday

Four days ago, Momma putted her fleecy shirt inna reckliner. And we Ballicai quickly claimed it in the name of catdom! We love it. It's so fleecy and warm and cozycomfy!

Here I am, all snuggled up on it... oh, Momma... please don't efur move yur fleecy shirt off the reckliner! It's the bestest place to sleep!



Brainball agrees. Whenefur he sleeps on Momma's fleecy shirt, he snores so loud he sounds like he's sawin logs.



Dorydoo loves it, too! She's made it her new most favrit washing spot.





Brainball and Dorydoo love to sleep onna fleecy shirt togethur.





Momma doesn't want to move that shirt off the recklinur, cuz we Ballicai enjoy sleepin and hangin out on it so much. Have we got her well-trained, or what?

Just so you know, Momma, you're nefur gonna get to wear that shirt again cuz it belongs to us BALLICULES... it's gonna stay inna recklinur for a bazillion-sqwillion years, hehe!

Tuesday Twosome

Me and my sistur Dorydoo have become bettur and bettur furriends -- for a long time now, we've been chase buddies and rassle buddies, but lately, we've started snoozin and snugglin togethur, too! Here we are, in Daddy's chair.



I love that pickshure (so does Momma). The only thing I don't like is that the stooopid kamera angle makes Dorydoo look BIGGUR THAN ME! And that ain't right cuz I'm BIGGER THAN HER! (So there, Dorydoo! hehe, nyah nyah nyah)

Here's a kool kontest: Red Carpet Buzz! Me and Dorydoo and Brainball and Marilyn all putted on our fanciest duds and entered.

Check out the entries efurryone has posted so far! They're all beeyootiful, but I think my gorgeous sweetiepie Ariel's entry is the purrettiest of all!

Catching Up: Memes and Awardies, and Purring for Maobert and Annie!

We Ballicai have got some catchin up to do! Let's see, first of all, my great furriends Stormie and the kitties at Artsy Catsy awarded me the You Make My Day Awardie. I'm furry, furry honored on both kounts! Stormie is a wunnerful kitty gurl, super-brave and currageous. Her bloggie makes our day, and she's an inspirashun to efurrykitty! And the Artsy Catsy kitties make our day, too -- they are kreative and so much funsies -- and such a wunnerful and beeyootiful kitty fambly!


The You Make My Day Awardie is presented to bloggers whose blog brings you happiness and inspiration and makes you feel happy about Blogland. The rules are to pass the award along to up to 10 people (kitties!). So I pick:

My sweetiepie Ariel
My great furriend, sistur and fluffcuz Gretchen
Caesar and Prinnie
The Furry Kids (Titus, Tazo, and Earl Grey)
Jeter Harris
The Piney Woods Gurls (four of 'em!)

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And yay, I gotted anothur awardie, this one frum my new Snowshoe Meezer great buddy, Java! Kool Beanies! It's the Thinking Blogger Awardie.



Here are the rules fur the Thinking Blogger Awardie:

1. You must write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.

2. Acknowledge this post.

3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote.

4. Go tell your humans to fork over the treats!

hehe, Momma! FORK OFUR THE TEMPTAYSHUNS!

I'm gonna fudge the rules and pass the Thinkin Bloggur Awardie to alla the kitty bloggies onna Kitty Bloggiesphere, cuz efurryone's bloggies make me think, and make us Ballicai happy!

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And now, Tesla, Java, and Chen & Ollie taggied me -- and Sparky Fuzzypants tagged my sistur Dorydoo -- for the Sevun Weird Things Meme! I'll do my meme, then Dorydoo will do hers.



Here's my (MaoMao's) answurs:

1. Efun though I have a loud MAO MAO MAO MAO, I purr quietly. You've gotta get real close to me to hear me purr, and there's hardly any rumble to my purr at all. It's real smooth, real soft. Momma hears it when she kisses me.



2. I dig real real real real fast inna littur boxie. It's as if I'm tryin to win a speed-diggin kontest.

3. I love playin in and sleepin in boxies. It's so much fun! Alla us Ballicai love boxies, but I think I love 'em most of all.



4. Of all the Ballicai, I'm the most likely to want hooman food, but I can't eat it much 'cause I've got a touchy dijestive system (poos and fartsies if I eat stuff that don't agree with me). DAGNABBIT!!!!

5. My newest favrit place to hang out is up on toppa the fridgerator! It's nice and high up, and it's warm up there, too. Here's what Momma calls my Regal Manly Meezer Pose.



6. When we Ballicai eat our stinky goodness, I let Marilyn or Dorydoo move in on mine if they really, really want it ('course then I move in on Brainball's stinky goodness, and usually, he lets me!).

7. I love love love Super Skratchurs. Not only do I love skratchin on 'em, but I love sleepin on 'em (and them toothie marks aren't mine -- Brainball likes to chew onna Super Skratchurs!)!




And here are Dorydoo's answers:

1. I'm crazy about purr pads. Purr pads are the BEST! They are so comfy -- I especially love the purr pad on the bedroom dresser.



2. Though I am the smallest of the Ballicai, I have the loudest purr. Brainball's purr is the rumbliest (he sounds like a lion), but my purr is the loudest!

3. Being a House Panther, I am a Stealth Kitty. I delight in being hard to find. I am the only Ballicus who doesn't necessarily come when called. And I love playing peek-a-boo!



4. I am very, very, very smart. All us Ballicai are smart; however, Mom says I am the smartest kitty she's ever met. I can figure out how to do pretty much anything for which I don't need opposable thumbs, and I'm trying to figure out how to grow those. Look out, world!

5. I have an "owl look." My "owl look" makes Mom say SQUEE every time. Check it out. Don't I look like an owl?



6. I am an athletic acroCAT -- I'm so good at jumping, it's as though I can fly. Mom and Dad call me an arboreal kitty. It's like I walk on air. And it means I can get absolutely anywhere I want to. Y-Y-YES!!!

7. I drink out of the bathroom sink. I sit on its edge and look at Mom, asking her to turn on the water for me. When she does, I get down in the sink and lap at the stream as it's coming out of the faucet, as though it were a water fountain. And oh, those squares on the side of the sink? Daddy put those there to help us Ballicai jump up, so we won't slip. Well, I never slip -- perish the thought!! -- but my siblings would, if it weren't for the strips *grin!*


For the Seven Random Things meme, we Ballicai tag anykitty who wants to play!

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MaoMao here again... Oh no, we just got wordies that Skeezix's big brothur Maobert has been missin since Wednesday.



We are purrin and purrayin with alla our might fur Mao's safe return ASAP, and our hearts go out to his fambly!

My heart goes out to Mao's whole fambly and espeshully to Skeezy, cuz I just kan't imagine how horrible it would be fur my big bruther, Brainball, to go missin. Big bros are just so preshus and so speshul!

GO HOME, MAO!!!! GO HOME, MAO!!!! GO HOME, MAO!!!!

UPDATE: MAO'S HOME!!!!!! We Ballicai are happy dancin' all ofur the housie!

Thankies to The Cat Realm fur the ecksellent graffick.

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A little later: We Ballicai just founded out that Annie, of the Krasota Castle Cats, is also missing!



We Ballicai are purrin with alla our mights fur Annie's return home, safe and sound, and we are sendin love and huggies to Annie's fambly.

GO HOME, ANNIE!!!! GO HOME, ANNIE!!!! GO HOME, ANNIE!!!!

Meezer Mancat Monday

Here's a video Momma tooked of me playin coffee stirrur with her. But then I knocked the konfounded thing undur the entertaynment system, and Momma kouldn't get it back out for me!



Drat drat drat. Gonna have to find anuthur coffee stirrur now.

Sassy Sister Sunday

Dang. All I was tryin to do was sniff Dorydoo's butt. And she tolded me off! See? Watch karefully at the first of the video. You'll see! And if Momma's kamera hadded sound, you'd hear Dorydoo say SQUEEK!



Me and Dorydoo are good furriends, but we're kinda rivals, too, cuz we're close to the same age. And though we like playin chase and rasslin togethur, Dorydoo likes to whap me and SQWEEK at me!

Guess she likes to think she's the boss of me just cuz she's a little bit oldur. Ha. Like that's gonna happun.

Sisturs!

Oh, if yur wonderin what them big plastic kontainurs are doin inna kitchen... Momma's doin a ginormous Housie De-klutterization Projeckt! And we Ballicai are snoopervising -- it's funsies!

Momma and Daddy recently made some more room in the basemunt to store stuffies in, so Momma's gettin more junk outta the house and, as she sez, "outta her face", hehe.

p.s. -- Daddy camed up with a funny new wurd for us Ballicai today: Ballicules. Rhymes with Molecules. Momma laffed her head off when he said it!

Furniture Friday

You know a housie-hold is run by cats when the comfiest furniture is used mostly by the cats! Here's Dorydoo and Brainball, claimin the reckliner in the name of Catdom.



And here I am, sleepin on the purr pad on the window perchie. Stricktly speakin, it isn't furniture, but I love it efun better than the reckliner.



I'm so comfy I don't efun notice that my ear is scrunchied undur my head, turned wrong-sided out. I was dreamin of my sweetie Ariel! I hope she is feelin closer and closer to 100% aftur her cold.

Alla us Ballicai are furry nice about sharin the furniture and our purr pads with one anuther. Well, most of the time. And sometimes we efun share the furniture with our beans!

It's Momma's Burfday today! But I don't know how old she is cuz I can't count that high. hehe!