What da Ping Thing was like....

Oops - wrong group!

Great story anyway!

I happen to love Siamese cats. Still can't have one, since I'm allergic and it is getting worse.

Is Ping yours now?

Yup. Never heard anything from the ad we ran in the paper, fliers posted, nor from the local shelter. Of course, he considers his name to be King Ping, and not just plain ol' Ping :)

Can't imagine the house without him! When we took in a trio of 4-week-old kittens, he became their Unka Ping!!!! He doesn't play with them that much any more, now that they are all grown up, since they are now "broken" (meaning that they no longer allow him to win any wrestling match). Sometimes I think he wants us to take in MORE kittens so he will have someone to play with, but then Barney (one of the last trio) pounces him - and a game of chase-tag ensues...

I would think he was yowling because he was hungry and he was warning anyone else away from the bowl. My little rescue dog growled like that until she was with me for a few weeks and understood food was always going to be forthcoming on a regular basis and hey ! she could even afford to be picky and leave some to be eaten at a later time instead of consuming it all in one go lol

Yeahbut, I liked the story and was in need of amusement this morning!

Elizabeth (tenant's puppy romped in my daylilies)

I remember when my eldest daughter was about two we went to visit an aunt who had a beautiful garden in southern England. All the daffodils and narcissi were in bloom. She was in the garden and my aunt and I inside chatting. I went to check and to my dismay she had flitted round, beheaded about sixty daffodils and strewn them on the grass. Thank god my aunt thought it was funny and ever after referred to the burial at sea, it was what it looked like !

Oh no!

BUT, it is fall and as long as everything is back in the ground, all will be well.

(I'll call you later)

Cheryl

Oh dear - I finally convinced DD that flowers were best picked with a pair of clippers and LLLLOOONNNGGG stems so that they could go in vase. And daylilies did not make good cut flowers.

Cheryl

You have to laugh or you'd kill the little monster and ultimately two and four legged creatures have priority over plants in my world. I can always get more daylilies. Besides, they should all be cut back anyway. And he was so adorable just before I yelled at him, surfing back and forth having a grand old romp. He's a handful mostly because he's too darned cute to discipline effectively.

Elizabeth

Yeah, so far he's been saving his digging for the lawn (that we just had put in this summer...).

Elizabeth

And you know where to come ;)

Yes indeed...

Gee, I have a daughter like that....

My granddaughter was round with her two earlier this week and when the 'new' one sat on my lap and did not make a fuss Marley asked me how come she always makes a fuss if anyone picks her up but not with you. So I told her I pinch babies that fuss. She was intrigued then asked if she fussed when she was a baby and sat on my lap, to which I said of course not, I pinched you. She is just not sure whether to believe me or not lol

Miss Kitty thought she fit that category, but she found out last night she was wrong. She's on her best behavior today. :)

Oh and what did Miss Kitty do....

I'll tell you about DD off list - the brat. C

No, no, we all want to hear now !

What did she NOT do

We must run the Kittyanapolis 500 all night with our name tag jingling.

Every 10 minutes we must hop up on the bed and walk across Mom to make sure she's still breathing.

And, of course, we cannot get up/down on the bed directly to/from the floor. We have to gallop across something else first and knock stuff down, and get back down by knocking over the stack of books. Even though it would be ever so much easier to get onto the bed from the long area where there's nothing in the way, it's just more fun to make a mess.

So, last night, I tossed her out of the bedroom and locked the door. It didn't take her long, though, to find the path through the boxes stacked in the guest room, and she came back in the bedroom through the bathroom (which connects the two bedrooms). Tonight I move the pile of laundry so I can close the guest/bath door.

Since I lost Bucket I decided to take in boarders when their owners are away. I had Cleo for a few days and she was a terribly nocturnal cat. She was like that, running all over the bed, up and down, I could hear her moving around the condo all through the hours of darkness. She always seemed to push a paw into my stomach, or neck, somewhere that hurt and I figured she knew exactly what she was doing. Now sadly she and her slaves have moved to Ottawa and she is a high flying political cat.

However, more visitors are on the horizon.

On 10/20/07 5:43 PM, in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, "lucretia borgia" wrote: SNIP

DD knows there are certain rules - the greatest of which thou shalt maintain a B or better in all subject in order to remain on the ice.

Well - 3 weeks she got a study guide for her first social studies test. She never looked at it until the night before and got 48. AND DIDN'T TELL US. She was allowed a retest and still didn't study until the night before. Averaged grade was still failing (only got an 84 on her retest).

SO - totally grounded, no TV, no play time and NO HOCKEY. Missed a dry land session, two practices and two games. No hockey until her next test and she gets at least an 80. (These are pretty easy - list of words and definitions to match)....She does appear to be studying.

Life is not good....

Never mind, Cheryl, they do grow up eventually, thank goodness! Mind you, we have a 50 year old who`s still causing problems! LOL! If we`d known what mayhem she was going to cause all her life I don`t think we`d have dared have two more - but they turned out to be really good people!

I didn`t really settle down to revision until the last minute, by the way - and always came good. Some of us do better that way. Mind you, I`m still like that - I think my middle name should be "Procrastination".

OK - so what should YOUR middle name be? There`s an interesting subject for an OT thread!!! LOL!

Pat P