Riley & Tiki (& sometimes Kesey)

Tiki

We are very sorry that we haven’t posted for a squillion days. Mommy types for us and she has been LAZY! It is so hard to get good help these days. Thank you to everyone who came back to check on us!

We have been keeping busy by playing Thundering Herd of Elephants (THoE). Kesey wanted to chase me so much yesterday that he used his nose as a pry bar. I was sitting on Mommy’s lap helping her watch the morning news (we like to have special girl time together in the mornings), and Kesey started poking me with his nose. I didn’t move because he can’t scare me with his nose! So then he started trying to pry me off Mommy’s lap with his nose. The nerve! I like to play THoE sometimes, but I was busy! Mommy time is important!

Riley

Mommy has been making salads every day. That means we (Tiki & I) get lettuce every day! Hooray!! We will hop up on the counter and help ourselves if we do not get our lettuce! Lettuce! LETTUCE!! When Mommy brings home the groceries, we ignore everything but the lettuce! We try to steal it out of the bag. Mommy thinks we might be part bunny. What do you think?

Kesey

Lettuce is yucky. It is a vegetable.

These kitties are getting on my nerves. I try to chase them and sometimes they just sit and look at me. So I poke them. Pry bar nose didn’t even work. How do you chase a kitty that won’t move? I think we should play THoE whenever I am awake. They will only play it 5 or 9 or 25 times a day. Not nearly enough!

I have a question. I chase my kitties at full speed up and down the stairs. One flight is even open stairs. I’m still pretty spry at 11 if I do say so myself. But, a couple of times lately I have stumbled when trying to jump up into Mommy’s SUV. Has this happened to any of you doggies out there? Usually it’s easy, but sometimes it feels hard to jump that high.

Kesey

I am a big boy. I am eleven!!

Daddy says I’m old enough to get a job. Boo!!

Vincent & Merlin were best friends, mortal enemies, and great big Mancats. Cousin Merlin has a new friend now, a human baby sister named Bea who has just discovered that swings at the park are fun. Whee!

Bea, where are your shoes?

Two years ago today Vincent went to the Bridge. It is still very hard for Mommy to look at this picture. This is Vince on his favorite chair. It is now our favorite chair. He had good taste in chairs. The back is wide and very comfy and it is near a good viewing window. He looks a little grumpy because he was caught in the middle of grooming, but what he’s really saying is “I’m too sexy for this chair …”

We are also thinking about Smudge who went to the Bridge on Friday.

Another picture of Vincent, just because:

Yes, he actually was that wide. He actually gained weight while getting treated for cancer. He was not impressed by cancer. We think he is saying “feed me now!!”

Griffin tagged us for the middle name meme!

Here are the rules:

1. You have to post the rules before you give your answers.

2. You must list one fact about yourself beginning with each letter of your middle name. (If you don’t have a middle name, use your maiden name or your mother’s maiden name).

3. At the end of your blog post, you need to tag one person (or blogger of another species) for each letter of your middle name. (Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.)

Tiki

Daddy calls me his little Tiki Bird, so I guess Bird is my middle name.

Boss - Riley thinks he’s in charge, but really it’s me!

I am Me! Riley gets into more trouble, but I quietly do what I want. I have the woofie under my paw!

Riled up - Usually Riley is the one chasing me, but sometimes I just have to pounce! He always seems surprised to find me chasing him. I am fast!

Demure - I am the sweet one. Everyone says so.

Riley

Daddy calls me Klugman when I am bad or clumsy.

Klepto - oh wait, that’s Tiki. She steals socks and Daddy’s ties.

Lovebug - I have always snuggled with Mommy, but I have just learned that I also like to snuggle with Daddy. Also, I give the woofie kisses every time I see him! 

Upside down - I like to climb the stairs from the underside (the stairs are open).

Gorgeous - I am quite handsome, if I do say so myself!

Mancat - I am almost 2 years old!!!

Annoying - I like for everyone to get up at 4 am, so I meow as loud as I can and run back and forth from Mommy to the woofie … usually over Daddy.

Naughty - I am the troll under the stairs. I like to pop out and bite Daddy’s feets.

If you haven’t been tagged, consider yourself tagged!!

Riley

Last night I discovered that blackeyed peas are yummy! Mommy got a phone call, so I leaped up and started eating them out of her bowl. Then she was cutting up a red bell pepper to put on top and I wanted to try it too, so I sat on the trash can and tried to steal the inside part with all the seeds. I whapped it with my paw! All she let me do was smell it, then she made me get down off the trash can. Then she was cutting up an onion. I don’t think I want to eat an onion. Then she was cutting up some tomatoes and I wanted some too, but she wouldn’t let me have that either. Mean Mommy!!!!

Tiki

I think Riley might be a vegetarian. I think he is weird. So is Mommy. Who would eat a can of blackeyed peas, drained but not heated, with peppers, onions, and tomatoes on top?

Kesey

Ditto. I like it better when she eats a cheeseburger.

Riley: Mommy cut off all our toes. The horror!!!!!!!!

Tiki: Riley, you’re such a big baby. That was a pawdicure. You had your nose right in there when Kesey & I had our nails done. (Can’t we have any privacy around here?) You could quite easily see that she did not cut off any toes! And we got treats afterward!!

Kesey: We have been very slow to say thank you. Karen Jo wrote limericks for all of us. Now we are famous! Thank you Karen Jo!

We are all mad at Mommy & Daddy. Saturday, they went to Lima Bean. They didn’t visit Parker and they didn’t bring back any Kewpees Hamburgers: Hamburg pickle on top, makes your heart go flippity-flop! They didn’t take us with them either so we didn’t get to see the OSU Lima Campus or Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

Oh wait! We don’t care about those last two things! Where are our Kewpees Hamburgers? Hi Parker! Are the foods any good at Happy Daz? They almost went there, but they closed at 10pm.

Some of our kitty friends are sick, so please purr for them.

It’s hard to get just one!

First of all,  Bean is home!!!!!! Hooray!! She was very tired and hungry, but has been loving the attention and is very happy to be home.

Tiki

So I’m napping on the bed, minding my own business, when Riley jumps on me and bites me on the head! The nerve!  Kesey sees this and he doesn’t like it, so he chases Riley away and comes back and gives me a kiss! Not a puppy kiss, but a kitty kiss! He rubbed his face against my face and then we both went back to napping. I think his kitty training is coming along well!

Holly & Ivy gave us this great award!! They are Tybalt’s sisters and are very cute torties!

This award was started by Chance’s woofie brother Shadow. He is a great woofie!