almost the end of the Year!

i don't know where the year went, do you? all of a sudden it's almost 2010. my Mom had a fun day today. she had lunch with a friend, then they went to a new store in our city, Berkley. It's called Hope's Chest. a friend of the Dad and my Mom owns it and she sells akcessories that are not expensive. but they're really nice. very hip and tasteful my Mom says. we all hope the store does well. plus my Mom went to lunch at a new restaurant called "Hogger's". yup, it's a lot of pork stuff, but other stuff too, like burgers and chicken. my Mom wasn't very hungry so she ordered a side of macaroni and cheese and collard greens. she said it was very good.
it's cold. only 24 degrees today, but the sun is out, so it makes the snow shine. we don't have very much, just enough so i don't want to walk in the yard. makes my toes too cold.
did anybody see the thing on HBO about the annieversery of the rock and roll hall of fame? we watched it on our DVR and it's really, really good. if you haven't seen it but get HBO watch for it to play again. it's worth seeing. my Mom and me were dancing in our seat last night when we watched it. 'specially the Bruce Springsteen parts.
we have no 'citement to report. my Mom is still gettin' poizon in her veins. the doctor said things are lookin' good, the scans show things are a tiny bit smaller, not bigger, so that's real good news. the Dad's van has some broken stuff on it that will take lots of green papers to fix, so it'll be a little while before the fixin' gets done. i'm 'sposed to go to the vet dr. and get my pee checked, I hope my Mom puts that off 'cause of green papers.
ooh, ooh, ooh, i got a joke for you!
Sylvester Stallone, Tony Danza and Arnold Schwartzenegger are sittin' around one night in a bar, havin' a beer and talkin'. they decide they want to do a musical together. they each take home a few scripts and decide to meet in a few days for lunch.
they meet for lunch and find out that they all liked the same script. it's about some famous musical composers.
Stallone says "I'll be Beethoven", Danza says "I'll be Motzart" and Schwartzenegger says "I'll be Bach."
well. i'm gonna go help my Mom in the kitchen. hope you liked my joke, let me know. if I don't talk to you before, you have a happy and safe New Year's Eve.
Hugs,
Edsel the Pooch

Happy Fall!!!

it's officially Fall. it wasn't much of a summer anyway, but now the calendar says it's 'ficially fall. it's been pretty cool at night (good cuddle with my Mom weather!) my Mom is feelin' pretty good. she gets poizen every other week, but she hasn't had any throwin' up or stuff. just feelin' real tired. so we're real happy. her doctor says it's 'cause she's so healthy and strong.
my Mom has been cookin' really creepy food. last sunday she made turkey meatball soup. why i ask you, would ANYONE make, let alone EAT, turkey meatball soup????? the Dad likes it, but he's a really easy guy to feed.
i almost caught a chip last night. i was THIS close it nabbin' it. but then i wouldn't have known what to do with it. they're too cute to hurt (my stupid sister Casey is laughin at me, she catches 'em so she can eat them RAW. makes me sick to think 'bout that.)
my Mom mentioned that Christmas is comin' pretty soon. that makes my head hurt, but she's right, it'll be here before we know it.
the Dad is showin' his new work, jewelry and Judaica, at an art show on October 6th. he and my Mom have been really busy makin' stuff to sell at the show and at some galleries close by. his new stuff is really nice. i'll try to post a couple of pictures.
i hope everybody is doin' good. i haven't been able to read many blogs 'cause my Mom says "no time, no time....." but i'm gonna try to MAKE her let me. i miss you guys......

boy time flies

it's hot here, over 90 degrees. i know to some of you, 90 is nothing, but here in the Mitten state that's pretty hot. yesterday was Dream Cruise day, when all the people who have old, rickety cars take them out on this street called Woodward ......what?.....oh, my Mom says the cars arent' rickety, they're just old and that the people who own them take really good care of them 'cause most of 'em are worth lotsa money and they're cool......whatever..... anyway, they take all these cars to this street that's pretty close to our house and drive back and forth and all kindsa people stand and sit on the side of the road and scream at them, I don't know why. but it's really LOUD 'cause a lota the cars have really big engines and souped up parts, I don't know the teknikal names for them, but I'm really glad it's over, it was TOO LOUD.

my Mom has been gettin' poizen in her veins every other Thursday and so far she hasn't had hardly any side effects so we're real happy 'bout that. her hair is fallin' out just a tiny bit, so that's good too. we don't know when she has a test to see how it's workin', she says she hopes to find out this week.

we have about a zillion chipmunks in our yard, so if anybody wants a couple, send me a little box with your address on it and....what?.......why not?.............you don't know that for sure........well, crap..... my Mom said to unregard what I just said. that we can't ship chips in boxes that there's rule 'bout shippin' live things. i think she's makin' it up, but she says it's all the way true and she'll take me to a website and show me if I want. I might make her do that 'cause I think she just doesn't wanna share.

we're havin' another crummy meal tonight. some kinda pork burger with garlic and fresh ginger and teriakey sauce. it smells just awful. she's puttin' 'em on the barbeque and that's good, keep as much of that smell out of the house as possible. and of course she can't be bothered to throw some fish on the grill. i'm tellin' you, I may need to move somewhere else. they don't take very good care of me here. oops. my Mom gave me a mean look. i take it back. they take REALLY GOOD care of me here. you all know that. and i appreciate it tons.

Calico Mom Toni loves her job at the shelter. my Mom is very jealous of that job, bein' able to help so many kitties. in fact she said she's gonna look around here to see if anybody would like her help to do somethin' like that. of course she'd need to get paid, so that might be a problem. but at least she can ask.

the birdies and squirrels are spending lots of time in our birdbaths, drinkin' water. it's very dry and they are so happy to be able to pull up to our little "ponds." I like watchin' them.

I guess thats' all the news for now. this here is a picture of me with some of the fresh catnip that's growin' in our yard. my Mom and the Dad were worried that it would attract other kitties but so far it hasn't. it's reallll good!

Middle of June already

Hi everybody! Time sure does go by fast. I'll try to do short updates of what's goin' on here. My Mom got poizun put in her veins on Tuesday. She only went to work for a few hours Wednesday and Thursday, then came home for a long weekend that involved lotsa sleepin'. she's very happy that she didn't get real sicky from it, just very, very, very tired. she even had trouble watchin' the hockey games 'cause she kept dozin' off. Wednesday night she was in the bathroom for a long time. i'm not sure what she was doin', i just know she wasn't happy. but since then, she's eatin' whatever she wants, her appetite came back. she still looks the same too. and Friday she changed doctors. she didn't like the new chemologist that she had. he didn't call in a pill she needed to the drug store and did not explain things good. her new doctor she said is very nice and explains everything real good. so she has to have poizun put in her every other week, three times. then she'll have a test to see if she needs more.

I had to go to the vet dr. this week too. i needed my pee checked to make sure i still needed to be on special food plus bloodworks. i lost a little more weight and Dr. Cindy wants to make sure everything is okay, so they took most of my blood out of me. Then Tabitha and Dr. Cindy combed and combed and combed me 'till they got all the old fur and little mats out. my Mom says i look "sleek and studly" now (I didn't before????) that picture up there is me after we got home, loungin' on the back porch and enjoying my mat free fur.

And, as some of you noticed and sent me nice wishes, it was my purrthday this week. I'm twelbe whole years old! my Mom said we'd try to celebrate this weekend, but today she asked if I minded if we waited another day or two when she has more enerjie. heck no, that's fine with me, just so we do it sometime. i don't want my Mom to get overtired.

this picture is of a pork roast my Mom made a couple weeks ago on the barbeque. everybody who's seen it has said it looks yummy, so i thought i'd show you all. personally, i'd rather see fish comin' off that barbeque. the butcher at the store she bought it from was really acited that she was actually put all kindsa stuff on it, not just bottled barbeque sauce.

I think my Mom is callin' for pizza today. yuck. i bet they won't even consider a shrimp pizza!

we've been soooo bizzy

Hi! i'm sorry i don't post more often, but we have all been very, very bizzy. The Dad was in a show where he could sell the stuff he makes, so he was very busy makin' new jewelry and things that hold prayers in people's doorways. it was all really pretty and my Mom helped ahead of time and at the show. Lotsa people liked his stuff and took it home. This week my Mom was out of town for two days. i didn't like that. she had to make four speeches in one day. that was a lot. and she's got somethin', maybe, happenin' in her head. maybe. she had one test that showed she did - really, really tiny little spots. but there was a board of people at the hospital who insisted she have another test to see for sure what those spots are before they started doing more stuff to her head. so that's good. we'll know tuesday.

meanwhile, the Dad has been workin' in the yard, it looks real pretty. i took some pictures to show you. he's kinda mad at me 'cause they have a REALLY BIG hosta plant and it's the only one in the yard that i chew on. i chew right thru the stems and all the leaves fall off. i don't know why i chew on that one. it's just my favorite. Here's a picture of us, me and the hosta and one of the hosta by itself. i'm sorry if i hurt it.


a thing that my Mom is really, really happy 'bout is that the Chickadees came back to the little birdhouse in the front yard. every day she's been seein' 'em fly in and out of the house. one, we think the Dad, brings seeds to one inside, we think the Mom. my Mom puts safflower seed out special for the chickadees and the cardinals. the squirrels, who will eat anything that isn't glued down, don't like safflower, so she makes sure her favorite birds always have somehin' to eat.

here's one more picuture of the back yard. it shows some pretty purple flowers we have. i think my Mom calls 'em allyums or somethin', but they're real nice.

i have been forcin' my Mom to let me visit blogs, i'm tryin' to keep up. it's stupid being "too bizzy." if anybody has anything really acitin', if you post a little comment on my blog, i'll make sure to come over and check it out.

Hugs to everybody from me, edsel the pooch!

spring has sprung!!!

it has been a beautiful day today. warm and sunny. the yard is full of green things growin', it's so cool. my Mom and me walked around the yard today checkin' stuff out. she and the Dad are busy gettin' ready for a show where they think they'll sell lotsa the Dad's cool stuff, so nobody has time to work outside. but the show is on May 6th, so that will leave lotsa time after to get things spiffy.

and looky, looky, looky! i think i told everybody when the Dad's friend Keith brought over catnip plants that he dug up from his father's yard. they survived the winter!!! i'm so happy. when my Mom and i were walking round toay, we found that both clumps are growin'!!! oh yea! fresh catnip whenever i want. last year we didn't get a bunch of catnip thieves comin' in the yard tryin' to eat it all. i hope we don't this year either. it's so nice and tender and fresh right now. baby leaves and all. the Dad calls it "home grown." i don't know why he calls it that like it's somethin' special....... what? oh, he said the dry stuff you get in the store is dry and kinda icky and our home grown is so fresh and almost minty smellin'. that makes sense. home grown is much better. and it should smell minty, it's real name is Catmint.

well, my Mom is makin' leftovers from goin' out for dinner yesterday for dinner today. tomorrow she's gonna cook. she's been cookin' more than she has in a while, but it's mostly stuff i don't 'specially like. like chicken. she's makin' that tomorrow. i think she should make fish, but she says she wants leftovers and fish isn't always good left over. the Dad really likes left overs, and that way she can cook one meal and it's good for two or three days. that's good plannin' i guess.

i'm gonna go watch the hockey game. we're gonna beat those jacket men again, i just know it. YEA Wings, the Wings are KINGS!!!

this Sunday the signs have to be on TV

I'm sorry to lead you wrong last week. i just know the Dad's signs will be on tv THIS Sunday.