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Mazie Monday: Pumpkin Eatin' Machine

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

Today is Monday and it's time for a long overdue Mazie Monday post!  I am happy to report it is almost time for Thanksgivink!  It's that time of year when my mommy thinks she's Martha Stewart and she tries real hard to cook funky stuff in the kitchen.  This year she has been drivin' us all crazy 'bout pumpkins.  You can read more 'bout that here and here and here.  Most people don't know that pumpkins is real good for kitties!  It's full of lots of good stuff that make you feel good and healthy...and...if you have the poops, it can help clear it up.  And...if you got the opposite problems, it can help you make poop!  It's a miracle!

So kitties like me with inflammatory bowel disease sometimes see lots of benefits to eatin' pumpkins. The problem in our house is that none of us like the canned kind...GROSS!  I mean...how tastey can it be if you can't watch your mommy workin' like a dog to make it for you?  So, over the weekend, mommy roasted a pumpkin and fixed some fresh puree...and peoples, I gots to tell you...it tasted like a little bit of heaven on a plate!   I eated it...and eated it...oh yeah, and then I eated some mores!  It's SO delicious!!!

So nows, mommy is gonna have to grow a GIGANTICAL pumpkin patch next summer so I can watch her work like a dog to fix me my tastey treat!

I guess that's it for now...I hope you all are havin' a good day.  Remember on Mazie Monday, your beans have to stop what they is doin' when you walk into the room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief".

Very truly yours,

Mazie Grace Graves
Social Director & Finn Roseberry's Womans
Whiskers & Purrs Gang 

 

Mazie Monday: My life will never be the sames...EVER.

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin'...and today is Mazie Monday!  It has been quite a while since we last talked.  I had been very real sick and almost dieds.  Remember my feedin' tube?

Well, the feedin' tube is all gones and I've been a very good girl. I take my medicine every single day just like mommy asks me to...and I'm feelin' lots better!

Every day I help mommy waste time on Facebook...

And I take lots of naps on mommy's lap, too!

And, peoples...the most wonnerful thing has happened to me...I just can't believe it is true!  I have meeted the most WONDERFUL manly cat in the whole worlds!  Every mornin' when I wakes up, I'm skeert that it's just a dream but...it's not!  It's for REALS!

His name is Finn Roseberry...ohhh...isn't that a dreamy name???  He is from Hertfordshire, England...oh...how romantical is that???  And, he's the most handsomest mans that has EVER been! See what I means:

And, you know what else?  Finn is blinds, too!  Oh, peoples, he is a real dreamboat!  I never ever thoughted I would ever be lucky enough to have me a boyfriend...what with my eyeballs bein' all busted up and everything...but...Finn likes me just the way I ams...I'm just like Elsie now, with a handsome boyfriend!

Oh, and guess where he taked me on Sunday???

He taked me to the Oskars!..Oh...don't we make a good lookin' couple???  He is so manly and strong and nice and...*whispers* he's a dang good kisser, too!  I didn't think I'd ever be kissed by a boy and ever since me and Finn became a couple...we ain't stopped kissin'!!!

Oh what a whirlwind year this has been already!  From me bein' very sick...mommy was so skeert that I was gonna die...to me meetin' the mans of my dreams and goin' to the Oskars and showin' off my bosomly bosoms in a fancy red dress!

Life.Is.Good.  And, I am very thankfuls!

I guess that's it for now...it's a lot, I know!  I hope you all are havin' a good day.  Remember on Mazie Monday, your beans have to stop what they is doin' when you walk into the room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief".

Very truly yours,

Mazie Grace Graves
Social Director & Finn Roseberry's Womans
Whiskers & Purrs Gang 

Mazie Monday

Mazie Grace chillaxin' after playing with her Christmas Jingle Bell Balls!

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

It's me, Mazie Grace!  It's time for Mazie Monday.  All of us here in the Gang hope that all our dear friends on the innernets had the most wonnerfulest Christmas ever!

First, an update on me...I'm continuin' to heal from my operation.  I still don't particularly want to eat very much...mommy is so thankfuls we have the feedink tube.  I am thankfuls because of how very wonnerfuls it makes my tummy feel...Mmmmm...the warm already been chewed foods...slidin' into my tummy...it makes my belly feel all warms and cozy on the insides! It makes me purr just thinkin' 'bout it!  

And secondly, I got me some real cool presents from Santa Claws!  He bringed me all kinds of jingle bell balls!  Since I am blinds, all of my toys need to make noise so I will know where they is.  I play play played with them jingle bell balls all day yesterday.  I chased 'em, whapped 'em, growled at 'em, meowed at 'em, carried 'em around in my mouths and finally drowneded 'em in the water dish.  I have decided that jingle bell balls are way betterer toys than my former favorite toys...TAMPONS!

And, finallys, I am sad to report that my mommy has suffered a severe attack of them evil, mean boogers! They invaded her head on Christmas Eve night and she is in the fight of her life to git 'em outs of her head.  I know she is sick but she is completely gittin' on my last nerve with all the sneezin' and coughin' and nose blowin'...I sure hope this don't go on longs...I cannot have her upsettin' my sleeps schedule.

That's it for now.  I hope you all are havin' a good day after Christmas and to all of my friends in the UK, I hope your Boxin' Day is rockin'.  Remember on Mazie Monday, your beans have to stop what they is doin' when you walk into the room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief".

Very truly yours,

Mazie Grace Graves
Social Director
Whiskers & Purrs Gang 

Mazie Monday: I am sick

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin'.  Today is Mazie Monday.  Peoples, I'm afraid I gots bad news...there's somethin' wrongs...mommy is afraid it's bad wrongs...I am sick.  I don't wants to eat no more and I have loosed lots of weights.  I'm still real actives but...I do sleep a lot more now and I have gone from 9 lbs down to 7 lbs and 7 ounces...in a very short period of times.  

See, our vet retireds.  The vets that are left at the hospital are these goofy prissy snotty vets.  They think they know everything...mommy has told 'em and told 'em that somethin' is wrongs but they keep sayin' "her blood work is normal, there's nothing wrong"...well why am I loosin' weights and don't feel so goods?

So, tomorrow mornin' we is tryin' out another vet and hospital.  Mommy knowed this vet many many years ago when she first moved to Richmond.  He worked in a vet practice that mommy taked Ricky & Lucy to.  We are hopin' he can help me...

Mommy is real skeert...and I am, too.  I don't wants to be sick.  And after we just lost Jimmy so suddenly...well...mommy just can't take none of us bein' sick...it might just send her over the deep end, peoples.

So, please say a prayer for all of us.  And, if you wouldn't mind, please ask God to help this new vet to be able to help me.  I've got lots of Social Directin' I need to be doin' in the Whiskers & Purrs House...I'm really needed here.

Very truly yours,

Mazie Grace Graves
Social Director
The Whiskers & Purrs Gang 

Mazie Monday

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin'.  It is now times for Mazie Monday!  We have all been kinda sads over the weekend.  The vet's office called mommy on Friday and said our sweet Jimmy's remains was back from the crematoriums.  This is the hardest part for mommy...she says it's almost like havin' the kitty die all over agains.

Mommy bringed Jimmy home Friday night after work...

(You can click to biggify.  The engravin' says "Sweet Jimmy")

Mommy cried when she saw the urn...she said it was quite fittin' for this to be Jimmy's final restin' place...he loved sleepin' more than anybody we have ever meeted.  And...he drove mommy nutso tryin' to play with the string when she would nit.  So...havin' a sleepin' kitty layin' on a ball of yarn was perfect for Jimmy.

For those of you that watched us on The Learning Channel (TLC) special we was on, you know that we have a special place in our house for the urns to be placed...it's mommy's Grandma's antique cabinet.  It is real old and real pritty with shelves behind glass doors.  Jimmy is now next to Ricky, Lucy and Felix.

We is all so relieved to have Jimmy home...but so sad he can't play with us anymores.  But he is watchin' over us from heaven, along with the others, and we know that he knows we love him and always will.

That's it for today.  Remember on Mazie Monday your beans have to stop what they is doin' when you walk into the room and start hummin' "Hail to the Chief"!

Very truly yours,
Mazie Grace 

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

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

Mazie Monday!

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

SURPRISE!!! I'm BACK!!! It's time for Mazie Monday! Oh peoples, so much has been goin' ons...I think it's most importants that I let you know that every single one of us is doin' real goods! Me, my adopterated babies and the rest of the Gang are all fat and happy in the Whiskers & Purrs House.

It has been such a long time since we has visited with our friends on the bloggy...I guess I should update you on my busted up eyeballs. They is still busted up. I pretty much am totally blinds now...but don't be sads...I mean, what with it bein' the first Mazie Monday in MONTHS you can't be sads. I git around GREAT and stay very busy and happy tendin' to my adopterated babies...me, Joey, Buddy and Holly all rassle and play and chase each other all over the place. You would never be able to tell that I am blinds if it wasn't for my busted up eyeballs.

I hope you all is doin' real goods, too, and have had a real good summer. I was very busy bein' the Social Director for the Whiskers & Purrs Gang. That is a full time job, for sure! I think it's time I sit mommy down and talk to her about me gittin' a raise...she would be lost without me...I think I've got pritty good job security.

That's it for now. Remember, today is 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

Mazie Monday: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin' and today is Mazie Monday! Well, my dearest peoples, there's reasons to rejoice every which way I turns around! First of alls...the Royal Weddink was wonnerfuls. I only gotted losted once. And, we all had us a good time!

Secondly, last nights the US of America opened up a can of whoop ass on Osama bin Laden. He was a bad bad man that killeded thousands of innocent peoples. I gots a very special message for Osama....

"Mr. Osama bin Laden, sir, you didn't think us dumb ol' infadels would ever be smart enough to find your sorry behind, now did you? You thoughted we was only lookin' for you unnerneath flat rocks and caves and stuff. Karma can be a biotch, Mr. Osama bin Laden, sir...you finally climbed all over Miss Karma's last nerve and she showed you who the real boss is. You is now swimmin' with the fishes and have gone to meet your maker. Justice is sweet."

Okay, I'm gonna go take me a naps 'cause I'm weared out from all the weddink and whoop ass can openin' from the last 48 hours. Remember, today is 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

Mazie Monday!

Dearest peoples on the innernets,

This is Mazie Grace speakin' and today is Mazie Monday!  Peoples...I only gots one thing to say...there's only TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!  Woo Hoo! I can hardly waits!  I git to spend the WHOLE day with all of my adopterated babies...Little Joey, Buddy and Holly!  Plus, I git to eats all the tunas, Temptations and Fancy Feets that I wants!  And...mommy is gonna be availables to scratch and rub everything I gots!  I am SO exciteds!

Now, don't let all this excitements cause you to forgits that on Mazie Monday, your beans have to stop what they is doin' when you walk into the room and hum "Hail to the Chief".

Very truly yours,
Mazie Grace