Foto Finish Friday

What is it with Tommy and this camera?

Like it is her LIFE-when you know darn well

WE are the reason for Tommy's existence!

But the CAMERA---my goodness! Can it purr?

As much as Tommy traipses round after us--

For that photo of photos, Tommy coulda

Finished scripting a particular tale she mutters about...

HUMANS.

So while Brother Earl Gray and Daddy Peyton

Share special Daddy-Son Man Cat Time-check out their

Pose of emotion for Tommy's lens...

Told ya.

HUMANS.

Happy Friday!

Thursday the 220th

Well, look it here-

It's my 220th blog entry TODAY!

Do I get rewarded with extra treats?!?!?

While I wait for said treats

It's ME along side my BEST girl: Mommy!

Sure-I'm a two year old man cat

Named Noir the Notorious Texas Tiger

But there are those times-

Like on Thursdays when Mommy

Shows how much she IS the Mommy

Come to think of it-

Isn't that pretty much every day?

Life don't get any better than this-

And look forward to the next 220!

Tommy is too! :)

Wordless Wednesday

Me

So Smile

Uncle MaxMaxx-

Just something bout him makes Tommy smile

Like when Uncle doesn't jump just right to make the window

Or when the walls shake as Uncle rumbles through the house

Or when Uncle rubs against Tommy's legs and slides to the floor--head first

And then there's that whole belly thing going on...

Tommy says Uncle MaxMaxx is her 'Big Boy'

And the Human gets it right---for once! .

Uncle MaxMaxx-manliest of tuxie tabby man cats!

Man Cat Monday + 1

For this Man Cat Monday, my Daddy Peyton with his splender ginger gentlemanly-ness and His Royal Orange Sourpuss: Perry, would sparkle in the cat blogosphere.

Then a damsel entered the picture. and got comfy. The damsel announced she had no plans to to budge. What to do?

Not much. What the damsel says is what the damsel does.

So on this Man Cat Monday, this photo includes the real BOSS of our household: Mommy!

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Daddy Peyton and Perry: being all Man Cat tabby-licious as Tommy says!

Easy Just Like Sunday

Me and Brother Earl Gray: together

Just being easy on this Sunday

As we are on this and every day.

You see, we're brothers-

And that's what we do.

Jostle Just

Noir the Notorious Texas Tiger

Conquers his prey as any

Ferocious feline on the savanna would!

Once he bores of the jostle with said prey

Noir the Notorious Texas Tiger

Will rip down and shred the $3.98 price tag

That still hangs on a lamp

Tommy got at a boutique called the GoodWill

Humans = L-A-Z-Y

Turns for Noir the Notorious Texas never cease

Enjoy your Saturday!

Finale Finally

Mommy, why doesn't Uncle MaxMaxx get in the window with Perry?

**Well, maybe your uncle just doesn't want to.

It's because Perry and Uncle MaxMaxx hate each other, right?

**No, baby. They don't really hate each other.

They don't?

**No they don't Noir. You never seen them really fight. They just paw jab--and even those are air jabs!

Hmm. I guess you're right. 'cause Mommy, I've only seen YOU fight Perry! Fur flew and everything! HA! HA!

**Well, that was quite different!

How, Mommy? How was it different?

**Because, you all were bitty babies. Even tho I knew Tommy had us safe. I still made sure nothing would ever happen to my babies. Perry just wanted to look at you. Was curious and meant no harm, yet, I was still the Mommy.

And I remember how you chased Perry down the steps and he hollered and...

**Noir! I told you it all a bit different.

Oh, OK, Mommy. I kinda wish Perry and Uncle MaxMaxx liked each other.

**They do, baby. They do. Just in their own way.

Mommy?

**Yes, Noir?

Am I still your baby?

**Of course you are! I will always make sure nothing happens to you.

You will?

**Yes, Noir. Because I'm STILL the Mommy and that's how we roll!

Me and Mommy flash back to a long time ago

Thursday Turn

Brother Earl Gray looks up

And wonders if Tommy will ever

Remove the cobwebs that grow in the corner...

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What do YOU think?

Humans.

Wordless Wednesday

Being just what is good for this Wednesday...

Tabby Tummy Tuesday More

Oh hum.

After Perry's tummy turn of displeasure

Along comes Brother Earl Gray

Who read what other cats and humans

Commented bout Perry and now demands HIS turn!

Brother says he won't show any displeasure

Since he's quite at ease with his tuxuedo tabby tummy

And WANTS to show it off!

Whatever.

Have at it, dude!

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Then Tommy wants y'all to see a picture of my cousins...

My WHAT?

Turns out Sussers, Tommy's cousin, in a

Far away land called Des Moines, Iowa

Just gave a shelter kitty a forever home.

Her name is Onyx and is 9 months old

I think she's the prettiest panther!

Sussers also has a hound named Diamond

Who barked at Tommy ---alot---last Summer

This pictures proves peace does reign

On a Tuesday with a Tabby's Tummy and More

Nice cousins.

Man Cat Monday

Perry was an outside cat longer than any body else-

Five months old, the vet said when Tommy caught him

So Tommy thinks that's why Perry still has some feral in him-

Perry doesn't like to stay on the patio and lounge

His tail always flips and flaps-like he's about to dash-

And Perry tries, but Tommy is on to him and catches him

Perry hisses while he puts up a good feral fight, alas

Tommy just carries Perry inside in mid hiss

After Tommy sets Perry down there is a pose of displeasure

Man cat indeed.

Easy Just Like Sunday

Mommy got to chew on natural green

Tommy says she amazed how Mommy

Is so serene while outside-

Mommy doesn't dart here or there or anywhere

Always close to Tommy

Whether in or out or just about-

As Mommy looks to take it all easy

On this day and everyday

Just like Sunday

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See Me Saturday

How I spend some of Saturday
First my toy-
The one Tommy and I sometimes play fetch with

Then ME with a dash of color

Toy kinda blurry but right where I want it!

Now Me ALL over being tiger with my toy.

Look close and see my claw!

Then I show toy how I am King of the savannah!

Then I get done with toy

Because something else has caught my eye

To entertain me on this adventure

Called Saturday!

Hey, I'm a cat. This is how we roll!

Friday Feline Frolic

Me and Brother Earl Gray have some fun-.

OK, so maybe I am, but he's not!

Just 'cuz Brother Earl Gray washes his tail

While I chose to protect our savannah

From an invasion of a fur covered serpant

Too bad Brother Earl Gray

Doesn't share my realm of imagination-

Brother really needs to work on that!

And besides I didn't nip his tail.....too hard!

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Me with the itty bitty blue lasers of a tabby tiger...

Ginger Thursday with Tabby

My Daddy Peyton is such a quiet man cat.

He does hang with us but doesn't always rough and tumble

With us like Mommy and Uncle MaxMaxx do

He'll run though the house doing the crazy dash, but mostly

Daddy Peyton always seems to stand guard

Since he's so quiet that could be why I don't mee-yow much

Hey, I did mee-yow this morning as Tommy combed her hair

Then her jaw dropped as looked at me: "Noir?"

I just stared at Tommy then looked my toy I lugged in.

"Noir, I gotta get ready for work! Can't play fetch right now!"

That's what Tommy said we played a couple rounds of fetch.

Daddy Peyton sat and watched the whole time

Just like he does when Tommy gets up in the morning-

Daddy Peyton is curled by Tommy's side

When Tommy rubs under his chin and says: My sweet boy

He says it's his job to make sure Tommy and all of us are OK.

'cause he's the daddy...MY Daddy Peyton

Me going nose to nose with my Daddy Peyton

Wordless Wednesday

Mommy, ME and Brother Earl Gray

Wrestlin' wordless on this Wedneday

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>Brother Earl Gray gets wordless ear wash as Mommy watches

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>Us being just wordless on this Wednesday

Together

Just like we like it.

Tuesday Teach

"Mommy?"

"Yes, my baby Noir."

"Why do you and Tommy call me baby? I'm a MAN CAT!"

"Yes, dear, you try to make we don't forget!"

"So why you call me that?"

"Because Tommy and I remember when you were our baby!"

Mommy smiles so I know I can ask her.

"K. Why did you tell Earl Gray you would head bop me if I didn't let him blog?"

Mommy still smiles. "Because you ARE a man cat, but sometimes you' act like a kitten."

"Huh?"

"Kittens need to be told things a time or two. You are a man cat, Noir. And you needed to remember that too."

"You mean I gotta share the PC. Mommy?"

"Well, yes dear, with everybody-even Tommy."

"Tommy? She has her own blog--this is MINE!"

"Noir, Tommy feeds you. Puts a roof over head. Not all kitties have that."

I sighed. "Oh, all right. If I gotta."

"No, Noir you don't 'gotta,' you must want to. Man cats know right from wrong."

"They do, Mommy?"

Yes, like Perry who still doesn't like me 100%- let me share a window with him."

"Because Perry is a man cat?"

Mommy nodded. "And during International Box Day, you shared with your Uncle!"

"I did, Mommy?"

"Yes Noir, you did. All man cat even as you both played like kittens with the box!"

"WOW!"

"Now, come here Noir. You've learned a good lesson today."

"MOMMY! You're giving me a bath! You said I was a man cat!"

"Yes, you are. I'm proud of you, Noir. You're still my baby and I'm the Mommy."

"But Mommy! You said..."

"And I also say Noir, we're cats. And this is how we roll."

ManCat Monday

"Noir?"

"Yes, little Brother Earl Gray?"

"Why do you you call me 'little'?"

"You were born after me-like three itty bitty cats later-so you're little."

"But, oh-never mind. Noir, uh can I write on your blog again?"

I squint at my Brother Earl Gray. "I don't think so."

"W-why not, Noir?"

Is that a cat tear I see? "Because, it's MY blog!"

"But, Noir, Mama told you to share! She bopped you in the head..."

He had me there, but-"Look, it's MY blog. I started it and what I say goes!"

"Then OK-I'll start my own! You'll see. I'm gonna tell Mama!"

I can't have that. Mommy bops heads HARD.

Gotta make the baby of the family happy. "Ya know what, Earl Gray?"

"What?" Brother Earl Gray looks at me with his big eyes. "What?"

"Well, Brother, you'll be Mancat for Monday today! How's that?"

My Brother Earl Gray smiles. "Really, Noir? Me--Mancat for Monday!"

"Yep, you're THE mancat. Make sure you tell Mommy I shared and-"

Brother Earl Gray's smile gets bigger. "Oh, she already knows!"

"Huh?"

"I threw in the tear and Mama said to tell you about the head bop."

"WHAT?"

"Share your blog more or we start our own! Tommy ain't gonna buy a PC just for YOU! So you'll hafta share!"

The baby of the family was smarter than I thought!

After his smirks of the smirks-Brother Earl Gray does his best cat nap impression.

Brother Earl Gray-yes I still love him!

Easy Just Like Sunday

Me.
I look fat --er---'big boned' in this photo.
Tommy says I was all scrunched up
Instead of all stretched out like usual
When I do my cat nap thing
Hmm.
Tommy says she likes to
See my pink paw pads
Plus my perfect pink nose
'Cause they makes me all the more cute-
Whatever.
Hey, I'm as I am on this day and every day
Being always cute and easy just like Sunday.

Do U See What I See?

A few weeks ago new bird landed in our back yard

A pigeon with a speckled face. Just him for a long time

Even to the point when Tommy put out food, he

stayed his distance, yet sat and waited for Tommy

To pour the food. He's been showing up about

Every morning and some evenings

Ate with the other birds, yet he always came: ALONE

Until now.

Perry and Mommy took great notice.

Tommy wonders how many more pigeons?

One moved fast enough his photo got blurred

I wonder if the pigeons know how much

Windows screens save them-

After all-they are nice and plump and.......

Window Weekend Woo

Friday and.....

Tommy forever likes to take our photos

Why? Gonna sell em underground?

Tommy was outside and caught

Brother Gray gaze back out at her

From behind glass and screen

Interesting look Tommy got

Or maybe just needs to clean the window...

Then you have Uncle MaxMaxx

Who peeks from behind a curtain

Like The Wizard of Oz Tommy says

--who?--

Anyway, Uncle stakes his window whim

As a mysterious, marvelous looking mancat

Then I overhear Tommy tell humans

She's gonna be some old lady with

Lemonade, rocking in some chair,

With 80 cats. How can THAT be?

Tommy is old, does drink lemonade

Rocks in a chair, but don't have 80 cats...yet

Windows are your friends

We're cats. That's how we roll. Happy Friday Friends!

Thursday Cat Tuff

Ha! I love it when Tommy says

That when I was itty bitty, she can't

Believe she ever tried to find

Me another forever home!

Loves ME: Her Baby Noir!

Sounds mushy like cream of wheat--but I love IT!

Then there comes a time like now-

Where this human oughta KNOW I love

My stuffed moose toy and it's MINE!

Sometimes I bring it to Tommy so we play fetch

Really it's my prey caught on the savanna!

Anyway-Tommy complains I never meow-

Then she tries to pull the prey from my jaws of death-

Growl. Hiss. FANGS!

Ms. Kodak Moment tries to snap away--but this

Ferocious Tuxie Tabby Tiger is TOO fast

And photos aren't as crisp as should be!

Serves Tommy right-

Of course the pout and whine: "Ah, Baby Noir!"

Whatever.

So I kinda pose-not quite all cutesy kitty like Tommy wants.

Hey--she messed with stuff!

Doesn't Tommy get miffed when I drag her

Smelly ol' tennis shoe by the string?

Tommy thinks I'm trying to play with it--

The shoe STINKS so to drag it by the

String is the only way I can get the shoe to the TRASH!

Face the consequences (I Google'd that word) for your deeds!

Humans.

They gottta get with the program!