Time and Tide....

 They wait for no one, not even Torties.

This is me...Admiral 

This is my husband, Nik B.  

Lady Bianca, aka Admiral

This is my sisfur Katie Isabella

This is mommy.  

Carpet Digging! The Backstory in my Defense!

 Kitties!  Mom and I read in Brian's blog about the kittens, Macy and Maxwell digging up carpet to give to their Mom for Mother's Day.  That was wonderful of them to think of 'cause carpet is so expensive.  Mom started in right away about how *I* dug up OUR carpet too!  HA! 

Mommy worked a 12 hour rotating shift.  She got up at 0325 in the morning when she was on day shifts and 1525  (3:25 in the afternoon) when she was on midnight shifts.  So..when she came home at 0630 of fmids, she fed me..went straight to the 5 minute shower she took..& came out.  Logged onto the computer and helped me for about 10 minutes to make a blog.  Grabbed something to eat and...the barricade began just before she hit the sack about an hour after she came in the door.  

Barricade? Yes.  For the first weeks I came to live here, while Mom was on mids, Mom shut the hall door.  I couldn't bust into her room and wake her up and so on.  She had to be wary of light coming in there too, as she can't sleep with light.  Nap, yes but not the sleep one needs to work.  Well sir, it didn't take but a few times of blockading me out of the rest of the house that I took matters into my own paws. 

When she got up one afternoon to go in on mids, after she opened the door she saw that I had tried to dig my way under the door.  What in the world else wouldn't a reasonable cat do? I dug and dug and couldn't get under the door!  BUT she saw my hard work and decided to lay car mats in front of the threshold before closing the door.  That worked- but she felt badly.  

So.  She used the flat iron she uses to hold the door open, to fix it so the door was open one cat's width.  Then she progressed down the hall and closed the bathroom door. (light shining into mom's bedroom from the window in there across from the bedroom)   Then, the spare room door.  Again too much light...She left our bedroom door open one cat's width, and laid something heavy on the backside of the door so I couldn't open it farther.  

She lined the windows with aluminum foil so that it was black in the room.  I got to come in and sleep with her any time I wanted to..and we lived happily ever after!  It's so hard to put up and take down it stayed in place years until she no longer had to deal with shifts.  That was YEARS.  The brothers were invited to the great unveiling (taking down the aluminum foil) cleaning the windows, adding the only curtains in the whole house..and daylight in our bedroom!  WHOA NELLY.   

Mom said she had a ceiling fan installed and when the electrician went in to do it..power was turned off for his work...he was shocked to go into a totally blackened bedroom.  Mom explained why.  She also had to hold a flashlight the whole time.   So..when she told Brian *I* pulled up carpet, I had a darned good reason.  I was trying to sleep with my mom in our bed! 

I Have Come Out Again to See you.

 Kitties!  Angel Admiral at your service.  It's good to be back home again.  I am proprieter of a popular Cafe at the Bridge and needed a few days off from making BBQ and frying fish for all my customers.  

Mom was looking for some pictures and ran across some of me I hoped you woldn't mind seeing again.  I miss being with my mom a lot but one day, she and I will see one another again.  Oh and excuse me if my furs are fragrant with BBQ tastes.  When you are there taking care of the food for the cafe, it sorta shows..or smells!    I have a good staff of other angels now who help.  

Here I am...remember these?

What you feel like when you have been to my Cafe at the Bridge.

Me, and now Katie sure know how to lay on Mom's side. 

After I got my name...from MSN Live Spaces, Paul. 

UM UM Good! 

Hey! Look at ME!

 

I was playing with mommy one morning when she had yet to finish making the bed.  I know she had no way of finding me, so it was unfair of me.  I blend in so well...and she was unable to find me.  Someone somewhere smooched the mysterious lump and skittered away quickly.  I had a nap for an hour or so.

Miss Stacy, my best furriend Ms Stella O'Houlihan's mommy, made this for me!  I loved this blankie so much.  This is when I very first saw it and sniffed all the catnip she put in.  LOOK at my pantaloons and 

I went to the bridge wrapped sweetly in  this blankie and mommy has it carefully put by for ever and ever and ever.  Silly mom won't even look at it becuse it grieves her so badly.  I always have to whisper to her at night and tell her I am happy with all my furriends and SPITTY is with me every second.  

See you again sooner Kitties!  XOX

Time Passes so Quickly

 Furriends, it's me again.  Mom hasn't offered to help me lately what with thinking of other things.

This isn't an anniversary of anything, but Mom was going through some of my photos and found these two.  I know she could not look at them for a long long time,  but she is able to now because of the outpouring of love she (and I) got when I took wing and flew away to the Bridge to wait for mom and all my brothers. 

This one of me in Pepe's Golden Pram,  making my journey to the Rainbow Bridge.  It was a special concession, and I was allowed to have my husband, Nik with me...just so far only, and Mariodacat too along with Holly, a dearest friend. And you can see Pepe in his golden helmet too.  They were all, except Pepe and Holly who lived at the Bridge, dropped off just before I landed there with Pepe my escort.  It was a kindness to allow my best friends to come with me to keep me from being afraid. 

Here I am in Safe Harbor as the  writing on the anchor says.  Knowing love every inch of the way and even before I left.