Whiskers & Purrs

Mazie Monday

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

Today is Mazie Monday! And, it's also Halloweens!!! I am so exciteds 'cause I have adopterated me three new baby spiders! I cannot unnerstand why mommy gits so upsetted 'bout it...I loves my baby spiders. I have named them Larry, Curly and Moe. I do not unnerstand why all of my childrens are so
misunnerstoods...Joey, Buddy Holly, Holly Berry and the newest baby, Harry Connick Junior Graves III. I guess I just loves the unnerdogs.

I hope everybody has a safe and quiet Halloweens...Beans, please keep your kitties INDOORS tonights...there are evil mean peoples in this world that do awful things every day of the week...but especially on Halloween nights.

Remember, on Mazie Monday's, all beans must stop what they is doin' when their kitties walk in the room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief"!

Very truly yours,
Mazie Grace...along with Larry, Curly and Moe

Meet the Senator Sunday: The BOO Edition

Dearest peoples,

It is now times for "Meet the Senator Sunday"...'cept for the fact that I ain't feelink so goods. Mommy is a little bit worrieds 'bout me...I am kinda "droopy"...that's a technical term for "I feel like craps". I really don't feel like doink my regularly scheduled "Meet the Senator Sunday" edition...so...I'm gonna scare the bejeezuz outs of you instead.

We is all very real aciteds 'bout tomorrow beink Halloweens. I hope all of our friends will be safe and git lots of treats. Please remember, keep your kitties on the insides tonight and tomorrow nights...our prayer is that everybody would always keep their pets indoors. But...the days leadink up to Halloweens are aspecially dangerous since there are so many mean and evil people in the world that likes to do bad things to us little people. So...please...promise you will keep your little ones safely indoors.

Very truly yours,
Senator Henry Jackson Edward Graves III

Gittin' ready for Halloweens!

Freddy Astaire Graves III & Little Joey Cartwright Graves III

Flashback Friday: July 11, 2008 - Coco's Busy Friday

To all the peoples on the innernets, this is Mademoiselle Coco Chanel speakin'. Today has been busy. Here is some of the things I has done today:

1. Eated my Fancy Feast
2. Peed on some stuff
3. Flirted with Felix
4. Eated some crunchies...mmmm...crunchies are good!
5. Peed on some more stuff
6. Taked a nap
7. Chased Mazie Grace up and down the steps 'bout 47 times
8. Flirted with Senator Henry Jackson Edward Graves III
9. Eated some more Fancy Feast
10. Peed on even more stuff

I am tired now and must take a nap after this very busy and important day.

Very truly yours,
Mademoiselle Coco Chanel

Can you guess who...???

Can you guess who this is watchin' for mommy to git home from work? The picture ain't much good 'cause it was taken just as it was gittin' darks...but...can you tell which Gang member it is??? We might just have a little surprise for the first person who guesses right! Leave us a comment...first correct answer wins!

Wordless Wednesday

Mrs. Lilly White & Fergie the Duchess of Huntsmoor

Top Cat Tuesday

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Elsie Fallulah Graves checkin' ins with our Top Cat Tuesday report. Last night mommy had to go by the vet's office to pick up some medicines. She talked with the vet that actually got our sweet Jimmy ready to send to the crematorium. She said when she took one look at Jimmy, her first thought was "Oh no...this is a heart disease kitty."

She seems to believe that our Jimmy died of "acute massive heart failure due to heart disease". Apparently, heart disease can be sneaky...a kitty can have it and the vet not be able to pick it ups. And, it don't have nothin' to do with diet or exercise in us kitties the way it does with humans...it's
primarily hereditary and tends to strike male cats between the ages of 5 - 7 years old. The vet says Jimmy more than likely just up and died 'cause his heart just stopped.

That helped mommy to feel a little better...she has been so worried that she just somehow missed some symptoms from Jimmy...but the vet says there was probably no way to tell this was agoin' to happens. Mommy picked out Jimmy's urn yesterday...and he should be comin' back home to the Whiskers & Purrs House in a week or so...well...it's not really Jimmy...he's still with us...we just can't always see him. But he's watchin' over us from heaven and knows how very much we loves him...and always will.

Everything else is goin' okay...we are all very busy eatin' suppers, makin' sleeps, purrin', kissin each other and tryin' to take care of mommy. I hope all of our friends on the innernets has a wonnerful week and comes to visit us as much as possible.

Very truly yours,

Miss Elsie Fallulah Graves
Top Cat
Whiskers & Purrs Gang

Mazie Monday: The Messenger Visits Again

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin'. Today is Mazie Monday. I was so excited 'bout gittin' to write my Mazie Monday post that I almost couldn't make sleeps last night...I've got somethin' big to tell our friends on the innernets!

I know everybody knows that we had to say goodbye to our sweet Jimmy last week...he went to heaven very real unexpectedly. Mommy had no idea he was even sick...he was playin' and eatin' real good...and gived no indication that somethin' was even wrongs. We is all terribly sads but mommy is particularly sads. She feels so guilty...like she shoulda picked up that somethink was wrongs. She cried almost the whole dang weekends even though we was all on our bestest behaviours and gived her lotsa headbonks.

She was out in the back yard rakin' leafs and mowin' on Sunday. Somethin' 'caughted her eye...our backyard looks pretty much like crap 'cause mommy just did not have times to work on it this summer since she had to go to West Virginia to take care of her parents and her Aunt almost every weekend. The ivy has taked overs and weeds is everywheres. But she saw this...



See, back when our dear sweet Ricky Eugene Graves went to heaven (2004), lotsa mommy's friends gived her flower bulbs to plant a memory garden. Her sister gived her some real exotical bulbs called a Spider Lily. Mommy planted it when Ricky passed but then it didn't come up...until...2 years laters...it popped outs of the ground on the very day our sweet sister, Lucy Margarite Graves, went to heaven. Mommy had been so upset when Lucy died...her passin' kinda came up outta the blue, too...we knowed she had been sick but...we didn't think it would cause her to go to heaven. Mommy thought maybe them flowers bloomin' was a sign... a message from Lucy and God that everything would be okay...that she was happy and gonna watch over us. You can read all 'bout the dramatical event of how mommy found the spider lily bloomin' the first time here.

So...back to yesterday...mommy was workin' and cryin' in the backyard...she looked up and saw in all the dead weeds and the nasty ivy, bright green spikey leafs...she cleared away all of the cruddy stuff and there she saw the spider lillies poppin' up from the grounds. Mommy thought them bulbs had done gone and dried up or somethin' 'cause they haven't popped up outs of the ground one time since Lucy passed away...that was all the way back in 2007...



Now some people will say it was just a coincidence...but don't you think it's kinda odd that them bulbs didn't bloom for 2 years when we first planted them and then popped up when we was all so shocked and hurt 'bout our Lucy passin'...and then they didn't pop up agains until we was all upsets 'bout our Jimmy passin' so surprisingly...4 years later? We is all thinkin' it's poor little Jimmy lettin' us know that he loves us and knows that we loves him. We are hopin' it's Jimmy and God lettin' us know that we'll all be together agains one day...one big gigantical family. We are grateful for them Spider Lillies...and we are grateful that God lets us all have this time together...as a big furry family.

So that's my big news. We are still sads but it did make us feel a little better!

I guess that is it for today's edition of Mazie Monday! Please remember that on Mazie Monday your beans have to stop what they is doin' whenever you walks into a room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief".

Very truly yours,

Mazie Grace
Social Director
Whiskers & Purrs Gang

The Senator Says A Prayer

We innerupt today's "Meet the Senator Sunday" post for the Senator to say a prayer.

Dearest God,
On Monday night, you decided it was time for our gentle Jimmy Durante Graves III to come live with you. We knows he is in good hands now but, God...we sure do miss him. We wanted to do a memorial post for him today but we was all just too sads...mommy can't stop cryin' when she thinks 'bout Jimmy and how much she misses and loves him.

God, we sure would appreciate it if you could give Jimmy a message for us...can you tell him that we love him and always will...and that we is so sorry he had to leave us. Please tell him that we miss his soft headbutts and all them wonnerful baths he would give each of us all the times. Mommy misses how he would come and lick the juice off of all the Fancy Feast as she would open up each can...she misses watchin' him sleeps and smilin' at how much he enjoyed takin' his wonnerful day-long naps...be sure to tell him that mommy is just busted up 'cause she feels like she must've missed some sign that he was sick...and if that was the case, that it wasn't 'cause she didn't love him...it was 'cause she just has too much stuff goin' on in tryin' to take care of her parents and sick aunt.

Oh, and God? Please tell him that as far as we is concerned, he is right here with us and always will be...it's just that we can't see him. Please let him be our very special angel to watch over us and help us git through each day. And tell him to wait for us along with Ricky, Lucy and Felix...we will all be together again one day.

Thank you, God.

Very truly yours,
Senator Henry Jackson Edward Graves III

Sleepin'-In-Late Saturday

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Miss Elizabeth Taylor speakin'. We have had a long, hard week and we are still very real sads. Today is goin' to be a sleepin'-in-late Saturday...we just wants to snuggle with our mommy and take care of each other.

I hope all of our innernet friends have a nice relaxamicatin' weekend.

Very truly yours,
Miss Elizabeth Taylor