Spring - On the Ground, and in the Air! (May, 2010)

Although we had a mild winter, spring never comes too early on the Island.  But recently the cats have noticed a great deal more greenery in the yard:

Very strange: Pat brought home this oval-shaped plastic thingy, which has its own matching lid. She seemed to assume we would know exactly what to do with it:

Inside the thingy, there is white sand:

Pat puts the lid on top every night to keep the sand dry.  She told us we should "use" the sand instead of going to the next door neighbors' flowerbeds. What in the world does she mean?

The white sand does feel good against our toes! And we are certain we can find some use for the lid . . .

Boris and Natasha think their black fur looks particularly beautiful next to this shade of red:

Bored with trying to figure out the purpose of the new red thingy, Tootsie takes to the treetops:

Natasha gets SO tired of hearing that Hershey and Tootsie are the VERY best tree climbers of them all! so she decides to do some showing off of her own:

oh-oh . . . getting down is not as easy as it looks!

Boris, Schooner, and Farah resolve to stay on solid ground: 

Tent City!

Soon after Boris and Natasha came to live with us, Pat bought them an orange and blue tent. It has been their favorite toy ever since!

But Boris -- who enjoys jumping on top of the tent to make it collapse -- has broken one of its rods. So, Pat bought a second tent, which is blue:


Now Boris and Natasha EACH have a tent!




Boris checks out the new tent:


How easy will it be to break this one?


A really fun game is "grab the toy and pull it into the tent":






Boris demonstrates how he jumps on top of the original tent to make it collapse:



But both tents remain standing - at least for now:

A Change of Plans - or - Now We Are Nine, Permanently (February 2009)

We, Boris and Natasha, have decided that we like it here. A few reasons:

THE PEN. Boris is still too small to go out there, but Natasha loves the pen:



While Natasha is in the pen, Boris can relax on the electric blanket in the family room, which is always left on for the cats:


EVERY cat loves to play stick-bag-on-the-landing. If only we could persuade Pat to play this game with us, 12 hours a day instead of the present limit of 4 hours a day:



(Note from Pat: As these pictures show, Boris is now almost as big as his mother! Soon we won't be able to tell them apart!)




The food is good. (And Pat says it is healthy, too.)


Pat says I wouldn't like oranges or apples. But shouldn't I be the judge of that?


We like the way Pat and Henry have furnished the house:


Summer Cat is the best friend a guy kitten could ever find:



Now that Boris has grown so much bigger, he fits perfectly into the upstairs perching tower:



If we stay here, we will always be together:





We have other reasons for liking it here. But the bottom line is, WE ARE STAYING!

Thank you -- Natasha and Boris