Month: May 2022

At least they did my nails while I was at Aunty Rosemary’s – which means I can sneak up on the Mummies again. It’s harder to do that when they can hear the pitter patter of my tiny little talons as I come up the hallway.
It is good to be home though it would be even better if it still wasn’t raining. That way I could go outside again (and no M Kaz not on the way to Aunty Rosemary’s or the Vets … you know you really are no fun sometimes!).
Since it is raining and because M Kaz is not yet fully recovered from the CoVid, we are spending a bit of time in the bedroom and M Sooz has made the best bed for me out of one of the new stackable washing baskets and her new big thick winter coat. It is so warm and cozy that I don’t have to be on the bed with them all the time. I do get a bit hot in it sometimes and I go and lie in my cubbyhole at the windows to cool down.

I haven’t seen Aunty M for a few days so hopefully she will come again soon. Hmmm, come to think about it, she was here last week but I was being all reclusive and didn’t come out of the bedroom to see her – so it’s my fault! I won’t make that mistake again! She gives the best head rubs!
The rains may have chased Lennie away. I haven’t seen them since I arrived back from Aunty Rosemary’s – and Kermie seems to be long gone which is odd because I would have thought he would have loved the wet. Hopefully he’s just hopped off somewhere and hasn’t made his own special contribution to the food chain.

We had two lots of visitors yesterday. First there was the neighbour from out the front – yes the one with the Labor placard on her front fence who put in hours and hours volunteering with the ALP to help them win last week’s Federal Election, and her granddaughter came too. I haven’t seen anyone that young in a very long time – not since I left Toowoomba three years ago to come to live with the Mummies and brighten their lives on a daily basis. And then Jayden came to check out why we have bugs again, especially as his company only did the bug treatment six months ago. He had good news and bad news (besides that his visit was covered by something called “warranty). Some “Tobacco Beetles” have decided to set up home in one of the cupboards in the kitchen – probably having hitched a ride in in one of the food packets. Jayden has put down some “stuff” but the Mummies are going to have to totally clean out the kitchen cupboards, Dettol the shelves and do a thorough wipe-down with a eucalyptus oil-based cleaner to be sure to get rid of the new cupboard friends. M Kaz will be happy because she’s going to have to get some more storage containers to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Just as well she’s feeling a bit better – and that she had been planning to reorganise the kitchen cupboards when they got back from their road trip anyway but had to put it off because she was unwell. That worked out well, didn’t it? Especially as she had already lined up Aunty Anja (who is a bit taller so that will come in handy) to help.

Okay how on earth am I supposed to be able to go and express my civil right and responsibility to vote (and get my democracy sausage) if I’m behind bars? Answer me that you Mothers! Yes … here I am locked in at Aunty Rosemary’s again while M Sooz and M Kaz are off and about doing whatever it is they’re doing this time. To be fair, I do know what it is, they are off seeing the family and while M Sooz suggested I could go with them, I know she didn’t really mean it! I think they would take me if they could but they’re not sure if I would be happy to spend time visiting Bronte (the very Great Dane) and Rudy (the very enthusiastic Dachshund who is eager to greet everyone like a long lost lover).

So here I am at Aunty Rosemary’s until they get back to spring me. I told them I would be happy to stay at home and have Aunty M to come and visit – or better yet stay – but she apparently has other “responsibilities” including making sure Mimi doesn’t wander off too far when she goes outside for her walks. Outside. Hmmmm. Wouldn’t that be lovely. I haven’t been outside since they came back and M Kaz (yes, the big lame sickie) took to her bed nearly a fortnight ago. And no, M Kaz, when you said yesterday that we would be going outside “tomorrow”, and you actually meant I would be in my cat transporter and not on my big hot horrible hairy harness – it isn’t the same thing at all!

If they aren’t a little more careful (and caring), I know one cat who isn’t going to be doing quite do much posing around here – yes, even while she’s been being the BLS, M Kaz still manages to take lots of photos of me – how could she not? I’m purposely looking my cutest to cheer them up!
Okay better go, I can hear the other inmates here at Aunty Rosemary’s getting a bit rowdy as it gets closer to meal time. Thank goodness the Mummies brought my stringey thing with me so I can drag it back and forth against the prison bars like the others. Let it be sausages … please let it be sausages!

Those Mummies are up and about at all times of the night and it sometimes makes it hard for me to get my beauty sleep.  There is an upside though, it means I get loads of snacks during the night so I can’t really complain!  Well, not while I’m eating anyway.
I’m still doing my best to stay close to them because M Kaz is still being a big lame sickie – not as much, but it’s still there.  She went out to breakfast with M Sooz and Aunty M today and when she came home she had a bit of a play on FaceBook and then had a THREE HOUR NAP.  Yes, three hours! 

But there have been moments of clarity over the last few days.  They bought me a new toy – a couple of them actually.  Yes, they pretend they’re going to use them as laundry baskets – stackable laundry baskets – but that won’t last long.  Oh oh and M Kaz also gave me a new drawer – she keeps socks and things in there – but if I move some stuff out of the way, I can fit in there quite nicely as well. Not that I’ve given up on my other boxes – I’m still sharing myself equally between all of them – and the stringey thing – it wanted to be up there with the best boxes so I let it be. 

Well there has been some activity – but not much as M Kaz continues to recuperate from being a big lame sickie. There’s only so much caring and compassion a Nigey can have. I am so ready for someone to get the stringey thing out and have a decent game with me. At least my stringey thing made it in from the car because when they picked me up from Aunty Rosemary’s they left it in Ravi and only brought it in the other day.

It was so hungry by then that I had to take it straight to the food bowl so it could grab some sustenance (yes, Mummies, see I do know some big words!). Stringey is much better now but I have left him near the food bowls so he can help himself whenever he wants to until he gets his full strength back. Maybe we should do that with M Kaz too … it couldn’t hurt!
I haven’t seen Lennie or Kermie since I got home but that’s probably because I have been so busy nursing the Mummy that I haven’t had a lot of time to be waiting at the front window for them. Hmmmm … they may think I’m not back from Aunty Rosemary’s yet because I haven’t even been out in the yard since we got home.
I know M Kaz must be feeling a bit better because she has been taking “does my bottom look big in this” pictures again! I really wish she wouldn’t.