OOOO Canada!

 So on our ways to Canada we stops to sees some things, and we spends the night next to the big trucks.  Then we goes to sees the Nigara Falls waters, which seemed  terribly wet to me, but Mommy thought it was purrty.

Then we gets to the border, and after mommy gets all our paperworks ready, they not wants to sees anything but Mommy's little passyport book.  Like we isn't impurrtant!  Then the man in the little house asks Mommy when she was leaving, and when Mommy sais she not knows, the man sais they not wants her to stay furrever.  Then Mommy sais she not going to stay furrever acause our Daddy would miss us too much. So then the man sais we can go to Canada!

So right now we is hanging out in ourVan after having several days of spending late nights at Mommy's furrend frum works.  She is a very nice lady who gives us scritches! But now we hangs out with Mommy at our camp site in Canada. Mommy sais we is in Waterloo, but is not wet here like it was at the Niagra Falls.

We hopes all our furrends are having fun!
Love, TK

Power of the Purrs, and looking up!

Hello every kitty!  I wants to thanks you fur all of your purrs, advices and loves from across the innernets. I feels very Blessed to has such wonderfur furends!

So now fur the good news! 

I has been on Humulin for a long times, but suddenly it stops working for me. We has been increasing the the amounts over the last week, but still it not works.  So on Tuesday the great and wonderful Dr. Siegel puts me on ProZinc.  I starts to feel better almost instantly!

Yesserday, with the harmony of hundreds of purrs buzzing through me, we goes to the V.E.T. for the offishul test.  After they steals my blood, everyone in the room waits for the results.   Suddenly, the great and wonderful Dr. Siegel cheers and does her happy dance. My sugar is normal!   And my Mommy starts to cry AGAIN!  Can you believes it?

Next time Mommy tries to takes me to the V.E.T. I thinks I will has to refuse to go... on the grounds it always makes her cry.

Me at the V.E.T.s yesserday. I loves to hang out in the scale. Is very comfy. This test always makes Mommy happy acause I am doing very good on my weight loss.

I wants to thank you all again, it helped my Mommy lots to has your supports!

We is sorry, and Diabetes worry-worry

I knows we hasn't been posting in a very long time. Mommy has been very busy lately and not has had time to helps us.  We is very sorry to leaves you like that.  We has been bisiting our furends when we cans, but not like we should.  To catches you up:


The winner of the guesses in our last post oh-so-many months ago was Simba and Old Kitty and Charlie, acause our bisitor was DADDY, who comes down on the auto train to sees us. Daddy and Mommy bisited Kennedy and goes on nature drives all over. Then Daddy had to go back home.

Then we gotted to see the orbiter Discovery land at Kennedy.  We stays in Titusville for 3 weeks!

Then we goes down to south Florida to bisit Grandma and Pop-Pop for a weekend, but we kept staying for 3 weeks.  Then Grandma and Pop-Pop came home but we stayed for 3 more weeks.  We not wanted to leave Florida until it gots warm. (But now we is too hot!)

We gotted home from Florida on April 18th.

TK and Squashies relaxing in Florida

And now we was getting ready to goes to Canada to bisit Mommy's work. But then something not-so-good happens.

As you might knows, I has had diabetes since I comes to live with Mommy.  She gives me shots 2 times a day.  I was doing good with my shots for almost 3 years; until 2 weeks ago, when out of no where my insulin stops working.  We is trying a new insulin, but so far it is not working either.  I tries hard to studies for my blood tests and I has losted 3 whole pounds.  But it not works anyway...

I think Mommy is ascairt and she holds me and cries when we gets home from the V.E.T. yesterday.  I not wants my Mommy to has a sad, and I knows the power of the purrs.  So could you gives me some purrs?  I promises I does my part to gets better too.

Love, TK

Our SpaceShuttle adventure- days 6, and 7

Sorry we have not been keep up.  Things have been very busy.
When we last left our story  we had camped a wonderful view on Route 1 all day Wednesday, in a place where the Titusville police said we could stay the night.

As our story picks-up: a park ranger came in the evening to say we couldn't stay, and that there was a 'better' place 4 miles north of where we were. So we went from being 4 miles to 10 miles from pad 39A.  We were pretty sad. But did what we were told...

So we ended up near the entrance to the nature reserve. Actually all of Kennedy Space Center is a nature reserve. 220 square miles of it.  How cool is that?

This was our home for the night.  We dry-camped here, (that means we didn't have any hookups, so we lived on what we had in ourVan,) for the night until late the next day.

Notice the space in front of the campers?  That won't be there by launch time.

STS 133, Discovery Launch Day
When we woke up the next morning, the 1,000 or so RVs at the site had swollen to nearly 5,000 vehicles, as the day watchers came in cars. Every available space was used. It was one big launch party.  People were having fun, and generally being nice to one another.  It was awesome.

 

 

 Mommy went out at lunch, and was sad to see that her new spot was at least 10 miles north of the NASA industrial park.  But she could see both shuttle pads. So it wasn't so bad.

Then it was time to get some work done.  Mommy had orginally taken the day off, but an emergency had her in ourVan, coding a break-fix for a client. (Mommy writes computer code to pay for ourVan and our gushifud.)

As the count-down got to 60 minutes, mommy was still working. I could tell she was stressed that she was going to miss the launch.  30 minutes before the scheduled launch, she got it done, she gave us a skritch, and took her camera and binoculars and set out to find a spot.

I mention mommy's stress only because at 15 minutes to launch they had a "hold" because the range system was off-line. Now the range/tracking system is very important because the computers actually launch and drive the shuttle until it gets into orbit.  So the many steps it takes to get there depend on the tracking system to know when to do everything.  If this system isn't working correctly, it could be very bad.  Some poor-smart-guy, had 5 minutes to get the system fixed, or the mission would be scrubbed for the day. This made mommy laugh at her own small stresses. 

The poor-smart-guy did a good job, and at T -5 minutes, the system was up and running. Now I know he couldn't hear it, but a huge cheer went up for him, where we were. Then they all found a place to see the pad. And the crowd got very quiet as radios followed NASA's transmissions.

Mommy had Auntie SheShe on her phone, who was monitoring the status on the TeeVee.  Now she should have known something was wrong, when they started the final count and she didn't see any venting gases on the pad everyone in our group was watching.  But she figured they were just too far away. That's right, kitties, Discovery was taking off from Pad 39A, and she had her camera on Pad 39B.  The really sad part is that 39A was behind the single palm tree in the southern view. Oh well... 

And then, Discovery was off, for the very last time... (click the photos to enlarge)

 

Rocket booster separation

 Kitties, I know it is impressive, but our mommy's face was leaking when she came back!?!

We had a surprise visitor over the weekend, can you guess who it was?

Our SpaceShuttle adventure- days 3, 4 and 5

 Hello Every Kitty. It's me, Sqaushies with our trip update.

As you can see we're all just chilling and having a great time.  On Monday, we hung out at 'The Home Depot' because they have the best wifi.  We stayed in the parking lot the whole day while mommy worked.  Even though it was very hot outside, we were nice and cool inside.



As you can see from the picture above, we have the bed made up so mommy can store stuff under it.  She leaves the comforter on so we have a place to curl up and sleep during the day.  A kitty has to get her beauty rest.

 This is TK doing what he does, even at home- taking mommy's seat when she gets up. It doesn't matter if mommy is sitting on a hard stool, if she gets up, TK wants to sit there.  "On your feet, loose your seat!"

This is our van in the parking lot of paradise. You can see that mommy is not so good at coloring in the lines!?!

And this is a cow truck that came by to get some stuff at The Home Depot.  TK said I had to get on the truck, because I'm a cow-kitty. But I said "NO!"

So on Tuesday we goes to our camping site. Now we know our furend Daisy is very famous!  And we know that Florida is HER state. But did you know that we are camping on a street named after her?  It is true!

 Mommy forgot to take pictures of our site, but we'll get some when we go back. Because....

Today we are getting ready for the Shuttle launch and our new furends at the campground (they have 3 kitties- we'll get pictures of them too,) said we have to find a place today because their won't be any places tomorrow.  So this is where we are.
 




Not a bad place to have an office!

This is the view out mommy's office window!

Uh-Oh I don't think that birdie can read the sign!

 

 I hope he doesn't get eaten!

 That's our update for today!

We would likes to ask our furends to sends some purrs fur our cousin cat, Riley who is very sick and in the hospital. Get better soon Little Riley, Uncle Tony needs you!

Our SpaceShuttle adventure- days 1 and 2

Hello every kitty, TK here with the news of our aventure!
So we not gets to post yesterday acause some stuff happens. It was all very exciting!
First we gets on the 95 road that goes all the way from our house to where the space shuttle takes off. And we is going along just fine when we sees a big smokes in the air.

 And then we sees this- The big smokes goes right across the 95 road!

 So this where we stays for the first 3 hours of our trips!  We sees all the peoples with their hands all white knuckle on their steering wheels. Mommy says they has a big stressed.  But mommy turn on our generator and makes a pot of coffee and some poppycorms and gives me my brushings while we watch all the goings on like being in a movie. We sees all the firemans (just like our Daddy!) running around trying to puts out the brush fire in the 50+ mpg winds. There was fires on both sides of the 95 road.  They sure had their hands full!  It was a very big aventure!

So then we gets to Washington DeeCee, and we sees 5 more brush fires alongs the way, but none that stops traffic.  At one we has to get diverted to the middle lanes, so we is not near the fires. Mommy sais that is these are for added over-flow durin rush hour and get switched in direction depending if everyone is going to work or coming home.

So then we has dinner at North Caroline welcome center, and we takes a nap, so Sqaushies can digest and not has a sick. We all just piles in the big bed and snoozed away!

So then we gets going again, but when we gets to Fayettesville, NC, mommy has a big tired so we goes to our favorite campground- Walmart!  But at 4am it was 45 degrees in ourVan. Squashies and I were doing our part to keeps mommy warm- I sleeps on mommy's head and Squashies sleeps on her tummy.  When mommy wakes up she laff-n-laff at us cuddled up.

But was too cold for going back to sleeps, so mommy decides the best way to warm up is to drive. So we starts driving again, in the middle of the night!

Then, when it was breakfast times, we stops at a Flying J truckie stop. We had our breakfast, and I gets my diabetes shots, then we goes back to sleep until is real morning.

Then we drives and drives. Does you know they has a race call Daytoona?  I can't imagine racing toona. But they does, and we drives by. They had miles and miles of tents. Peoples were camping to see the toona race!?!  And this just what we can sees from the 95 road.

Anyway, we gets to Florida, safe and sound. We tells you more tomorrow!
Love, TK

Heading out

Hatted By Sammy and Andy's mama!

So we are heading out on our first big solo trip in ourVan.  Hopefully, there will be many pictures to share of our journey!

We are going to Titusville, FL. to see Discovery launch.  Hopefully the shuttle will make her window, so we can see.

The trip will start early tomorrow, and we plan to take 2 days to get there, so we can go at a leisurely pace.  Mommy says she is just going to stop when she doesn't want to drive anymore.

We will post when we gets to our night spot, probably somewhere in North Carolina.

Thank you, and Good Karma!

 So mommy spends lots of time going through our list and making this post. She said she wanted to spend some time with each of you in our thoughts.  So while she looks fur your linkie, she reads us your names, and we things of you and we purrs.  We purrs fur your kindness, your furendship and our shared desire to makes the world a better place fur the animals who are lonely and scared, but who are not without hope as long as we strive on their behalf.

We gives $1 and a big Purr in honor of each kitty listed below.  We are blessed to have such wonderfur furends.

Hannah
Lucy
Annie
Nicki
Derry
Angel Chumley
Casper
Ben
Jimmy
Archie
Tucker
Benny
Sadie
Sammy
Andy
Sadie "Spats"
Sam Sun
Sasquatch "Sassy" Belle
Seaborne Ruskin
Summer Thyme
Caren
Cody
Petey
Jack
Spunky
Tabitha
Madison LaRue
Joanne
Jane
Jill
Johnny
Jay boy
Jasmine
Capu
KonaKitty
The Baby
Grayce
Tiny Johnson
Felix
Rupert
Scouty
CC
Sweet Pea
Maui
May Ling
Salem
Sylvester
Cheysuli
Gemini
Ichiro
Charlie
Cotton
Merci
Buddy
Sam
Rusty
Cyndi
Percy
Cameron
Admiral Hestorb
Aerin
Cassie
Kelly
Lizzie
Caitie
Nicky
Kika
Fuzzy
Patches
Crystal And her shelter- for all her animals!
Empress Bee and Flat Jeter
Brian
Zoe
Sasha
Grace
Dolly
Noll
Luigi
Tiggy
Angel
Kirby
Clooney
Neytir
Samson
Delilah
Bella
Sweet Pea
Random Felines And her foster home, for all her kitties!
Ellie
Allie
Tamir
Clifford
Cubby
Angel Sniffie
Wally
Ernie
Zoey
Rosie
Henry
Artemisia
Socks
Scylla
Garbo the kitty
Sir Thomas of Snuggle
Zaphoid Beeblebrox
StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty
Knives
Lady Audrey Nova StarWatcher
Yuki
Kintaro
Tabbytude Trouble
Au
Target
Boris
Miss Praline
meowmeowmans And the shelter where he is a volunteer. For all his animals!
Junior
Orion
Fin
Samantha
Clementine
Maverick
Edward
Fuzzy
Zoe
Danielle
Attie
Audrey
Connie And her foster home, for all her kitties!
Peter
Tinsel
Simba
Belle
Audrey
Rusty
Little Miss Abby
Eric
Flynn
Huffle Mawson
Teddy Westlife
Madi
Mr. Puddy
Halle
Calle
Sukki
Mommy Cat
Daddy Cat
Tom
Raymond
Busby
Alfie
Milo
Daisy
Harley
Calypso
Zazou
Mandu
Herman
and our furend The Zoo Keeper

If mommy misses you, misspelted your name or gots your linkie wrong, please let us know, so we can tease her about it!

Thanks to your furendship, a total of $150 was given to Small Miracles Cat Rescue.
Love, TK and Squashies

 edit:fixed some links, added some missed kitties.

Two Fur Toesday- Comment-a-thon continues!

 Hello Bloggie Furends, Squashies here, napping on a cold winter's day!
We wants to thank all the kitties that commented on our blog-post yesterday. We were very warmed to see all the nice comments we got from all the great kitties in the Bloggiesphere! So mommy wants to gives more to our shelter. So she asks that I tell you that she is extending our comment-a-thon for another day.  So if you are a kitty, and you haven't commented yet, could go over to that post, and leave a comment so we can give lots of green-papers?  See our furends over at Small Miracles is having the same hard times a lot of shelters are having with the weather so cold.  Miss Moira has such a big-heart, she can't turn kitties away. So we want to do all we can to help her.

Thanks again, for your comments, we love to read them!
Love, Squashies

Mancat Monday

 Happy Monday, Kitties!  Our very good furend, the great and wonderful Brian, who is a amazing adopshun spokes-cat, tells us today is "ShelterAware" day that is started by our new furend Kiki.  So I wants to talk about that fur my mancat monday post.

Brians sais this day is about sharing!  We needs to heps the kitties what not has homes yet.  So Squashies and me will has a comment-a-thon for the rest of the day to help Small Miracles Cat Rescue.  We gives $1.00 for EVERY comments we gets from every kitty. (So if you has more than one kitty, each should be aloud to makes a comment!)

As most of you knows, Squashies and me was shelter kitties fur a very long time at Small Miracles Cat Rescue. They takes very gud care of us while our mommy has to find us, to take us home.  (You can reads a little bit about our story here.)  It is very scary to be a old kitty in a shelter, acause you has to compete wif the kyoot kittens, who needs furever homes too. Theres just too many kitties.  So we needs more humans!

So we thinks: What if every human that is owned by a kitty takes today to find one other human that not has kitties and tells them how great we is!

So that is our plan. Will you help us?

Mancat Monday

Hi Furrends, TK here with my mancat Monday report.
We had a good weekend. On Friday, Daddy brings home shrimps fur dinner. Nuff said there!

On Saturday, after we hides from the suck-monster for the morning, we all settles in on the couch to watch the Futball game.  Mommy decides me and Squashies gets a treat every time the Ravens scores. We thinks this was going to be pawsome as we gets 3 treats in just a hour.  But then we not gets anymore treats the whole game!?!  We not knows what happens...
 
In other news, we would likes fur our furends to purr for our dear furend Annie over at Fuzzy Tales. She is having a hard time and could use some gud vibs.


So today is Dr. Martin Luther King Day, here in the States.  He was a great man that helps a lot of peoples.  We honors his memory!

Have a great Monday!
Love, TK

Happy Birthday, Marilynn! And OurVan Update.

Happy Birthday, Marilynn!

So I know I should tell you about all that we've been up to, but to be honest, we've not been up to much.  We eat, we sleep, we cuddle with mommy, and we sleep some more.

TK has been having some very good V-E-T visits.  His weight loss has steadily increased and is now about 2 ounces per month. He has lost 2lbs. since mommy first came to take us to our furrever home.  He weighs 19lbs 6ozs.  Way-to-go, Big brofur!

OurVan waits, poised to begin our adventures!  Mommy is starting to plan our trip. We are going to Titusville, Florida, on the last week of February, to see a Space Shuttle launch. Originally we were going to see Endevour (STS 134), but now we might get to see Discovery's last launch (STS 133).  Mommy says we are staying until a Shuttle takes-off.  I hope we have lots of food. These things are unpor, unpred, it's very hard to know when it will happen.

After we watch the rocket, we are going down to West Palm Beach to visit our Grandma and Pop-pop!  We are very excited for that part of the trip because we've never seen their snow-bird home!  I wonder if we will be allowed to catch the snow-birds. Mommy always says "Squashies, No-No," when I stalk the birds on our deck.

Anyway, that is all the plans for now. We hope every kitty has a great day!
Love, Squashies

OMG, OMG, OMG! Sparkles gets a furever home!

Sparkles

That's right Kitties, this purrty girl has a new Furrever Home.

Sparkles, who was being cared for by the great and wonderful Cat's with your Coffee, is going to her new furrever home at Kat's Kats!

So Jimmy went to Cat's Cats and Sparkles, who is Jimmy's sisfur, went to Kat's Kats. What do you think of that?  We just loves a happy ending!

In other news, Sammy and Andy flyed over to Auntie Deb's today to gives us the updates on her procedure.   She could really use some purrs.  So if you could stops by and gives a little cheer, it would sure be nice.

We hopes to give you a update on us sometime soon but we wants to share all this important stuff.
Love, TK

Femme Friday

Sammy and Andy's mama makes this hat for me!

Hello Bloggie Furends. It has been a very long time since I've last posted. I'm very sorry about that. We have missed all of you!

So I wanted to fill you in on the goings-on.

We spent the night in ourVan at our Auntie SheShe's house for New Year's Eve.  It was very fun, and we proved that, even though it was very cold outside, we could stay nice and toasty-warm in ourVan.

Our daddy came and slept in ourVan too! It was very neat to have him with us, the whole fambily safe and warm- togefur.



TK does a funny thing when we are in ourVan and it is cold- he sleeps on mommy's head the whole night!  Daddy Laff and Laff the next day because TK was on the whole pillow and mommy only had a tiny sliver to sleep on. Mommy sais she didn't mind because she likes when we are all togefur in a kitty cuddle-puddle. Then, instead of saying "I love you Tiny Kat," like usual, she sais "I love you Tiny Hat" for the whole next Day! We might need to change TK's nickname to TH...,

Anyway, we hopes everyone has a great weekend.

Don't forget that our dear furend Billy SweetFeets is hosting the Carnival of Cats this weekend!
Love, Squashies

Happy Birthday, Auntie Judi!

Today is Sammy and Andy's Mama's birthday.  So we does a speshul post just fur her.  We just loves all of them so much! They has always been so nice to us, even when we just first meeted. They makes everyone feels like they are speshul and includeded in the bloggiesfear.

They gives us hats-

And they lets us join all their clubs-

You are Very Speshul!

The Suprise, at last!

Hi Everybody, TK here.  It has been a very long time since we has been able to post.  Our mommy has a very big busy with work and the 'suprise' we talks about a few months ago.  But we has been keeping up wif our furends on the quiet.

So here is what happens for the last 3 months:

We gets a wonderfur pressant frum our Auntie Deb, who gives us TWO munkeys from Sammy and Andy's auction acause me and Squashies was trying out-bid each ofur. Then she also gives mommy a beautifur kitty bracelet and earrings too! Mommy actually squealed when she sees them. Auntie Deb is really speshul to takes such good care of all our furends with her's auctions and to gives our mommy such a wonderful gifts.

I gets hatted by Sammy and Andy's mama! Thank you Mama, I loves my new hat!

So we also buys Attie's Shmarshmellows for a Christmas party that mommy goes to. (We were not invited...humph!)  She also not gets Audrey's Kitteh Krak Treats, so we were not impurressed.  Mommy promises to buys the kitteh treats after Christmas when she gots time to cooks fur us. Anyways, Mommy sais I should tells you that the Shmarshmellows are delishus and that everyone should try them.

On to the surprise that you all has been waiting for furever....

This is it:

our Van

That's right kitties, Mommy buys us a Van! Is for us! She sais if we not likes it, she would sell it acause she not wants to go anywheres wifout us, eber.

Here we are exploring our Van for the first time!

See Mommy has this dream to takes-off across the country and sees the sites.  For a job my mommy writes computer code from home for a company all the way up in Canada. So one day she thinks "With the innernets, I can writes code from anywhere!"  (She thinks it juss like that- plural verbses and everyfing!)  For a long time she not thinks this will work, acause we not likes to even get in the car, and she not wants to go without us. But then she sees that little Emily thinks living in a van is fine. So she decides she will try.

So when Mommy first gets our van, we goes on a weekend Halloween camping trip wif our Auntie SheShe and Gramma and Pop-Pop to Gettysburg. Is not very far, and Squashies and I cries and cries when we was driving.  And Squashies has such ascairt that she has a pukes. But once we gets there and sees that all our foods and toys and treats comes too, we decides we likes to camp.  Ebery night mommy makes the big bed and we all piles on juss like at home!

During Saturday I gots to wear my harness and helps mommy hand out cannies to all the ghosts and goblins that comes to our campsite and yells "tricks or treats".  Of course, everybody was petting me and saying how handsome I am.  And there was a lady who was camping next to us that has a kitty too!  Her kitteh had a costume and everything.  She has a hissy, (the kitty, not the lady) when I goes over to sais "hi", so I leaves her alone and sits with my mommy.

Then I gots to get in Gramma and Pop-Pop's camper to bisit, and they has a doggie and we gets along very well cept once when she tries to sniff my Spot #13, then I had to gives her the hissy-swippy. But I not uses my claws, I just pat-pat her nose. She not tries that again!

When we goes home from Gettysburg, we not cries after the first five minutes. Mommy seemed happy about that.

So then Mommy does lots of things in our van to makes us more comfortable. She makes a fense to goes around the awning outside so we can get in and out of our Van to has lots of roorm to play when she has the door open (and she can watch us.) Then she takes out the little night stand thingie and makes us a cat tree that hooks to the frame of our van by metal brakets. It also comes out and has little feets so she can put it outsides when we are in our fense. She works with lots of power-tools we not even knows she knows how to use!  She worked and worked for lots of hours.

The night table that gotted removed



our Cat Tree

Then we all goes down to Huntsville AL, to bisit our Auntie Bethie in Novermber! This was a very long drive, but we not cries at all, we juss sleeps in our cat tree.
 
We has a week long bisit.  We gots walks in the morning then mommy worked during the days and then she and Auntie Bethie has a bisit in the nights. Some nights we went sight-seeing in our Van; Huntsville is a very purrty town. Then mommy sleeps with us in the van. Uncle Mike has a lergic to us so we not gets to go in the house. But we not minds acause mommy sais this was our 'shake-down trip' so we can sees if we can do this, so is best if we pretends we not has a house to go in anyway.
 
So we will shows you more about our Van in the coming months, acause we are going to blog about our trabels. Maybe we can even bisit some of our bloggie furends along the way!