Happy Veterans Day!!

We want to say thank you & God bless you for keeping us free.

Purring Monday

We are purring for our good friend Tesla to feel better very soon. We are sad that she is sick again.

We are also purring for Monty Q & his family as it's been 3 months since Little Sprout went to Heaven.

And last but not least, we are purring for the Meezers' & Billy Sweetfeets' dad cause he lost his jobbie this morning.

Please keep all our friends in your thoughts & purrayers.

Breezy, Freezy Saturday

Can you believe that Mama got up & went to town today?? After being away from us so much all week, she actually left the house for a few hours!! We all tried sitting on her as Whicky suggested, but she made us get down so she could go.

She did have to pick up her new eye glasses & Auntie Lori asked Mama to take her to get her hair cut........so we aren't too mad at her. At least Mama can see better now & she got her hair cut too. Auntie Lori is doing a little better, the stupid bean v-e-ts still don't know what's wrong with her. They did her lumbar puncture last Tuesday & said it would be 10 days to 2 weeks before they get the results back. Her neuro v-e-t did say that if these tests come back OK, he's sending her to a specialist in St. Louis. At least he's trying, unlike Auntie's other v-e-t.

It is very windy & very cold here now......last weekend & up til Wednesday it was in the middle 70's. Now it's in the 30's.......burrrrrrrrr. All three of us have been sleeping ON Mama the last few nights. We keep her warm & she keeps us warm. She did tell us that in a couple weeks or so that she's gonna buy one of those magic warming blankets, mmmmm, can't wait for that!

A couple weeks ago our good friend Hans tagged us for a meme & Mama is just now getting around to helping us, so here we go.....

Here are the rules:
1. Be honest.
2. Have fun!!

1. How many calenders are in your home? 4, 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the livingroom, 1 in the bedroom & 1 on Mama's desk.

2. What is your fave season? We like when its warm enough to have doors & windows open.....whatever season that is.

3. What is your lucky number? We don't think we have one.....

4. What is your fave month? Whatever month our fave season is in.

5. What do you like best, Planting seeds, Climbing trees, Jumping into a pile of leaves or Building igloos? Well, we've never done any of those things but we can tell you what we'd like least.....building igloos....burrrr!!

Thanks for thinking of us, Hans!! We aren't sure how many kitties have done this already, so if you haven't done it, consider yourself tagged!!

Finally Friday

We are glad it's Friday........this means after tonight Mama gets two days off!! She's ready too! Mama has been getting home between midnight & 1:30 am, then she says she's too tired to read & comment on the bloggies. She's been trying to read the bloggies before she goes to work, but she's just too lazy to comment when she gets home. If she would just come home instead of chatting with the mombean & dadbean forever, she might have more time.
We've been loving on Mama lots when she gets home.....we're not used to her being gone so long every day. So hopefully this weekend we'll be able to comment to all our friends.

Dona Nobis Pacem

Don't forget to vote!!

Mama voted today & got one of those cute stickers like Daisy! Please efurry bean, do you duty & vote today.

Mama's been reading our friends bloggies to us, but she says she hasn't had time to comment. If she can drag herself home at a decent time tonight, she wants to at least go say "Hi" to efurryone.

Mama tricked us!!!

On Friday, Mama told us she had to go to town (about 27 miles away) to get her flu shot, order her new eye glasses & go food shopping. She said she would be home in the afternoon. We waited and waited....... waited some more and finally, around 5:00 Mama's friend came in & gave us more food & water. Mama didn't come home all night!!
Mama usually goes trick-or-treating with Auntie Lori & the kid-beans & stays overnight with them cause she can't see well enough to drive after dark. She left them a message that she wasn't going to do that this year cause she had too much going on. Well..... Auntie Lori called Mama while she was food shopping & talked Mama into coming out for a visit.
When the kid-beans got home from school, they begged & begged Mama to stay to go trick-or-treating with them. She kept telling them no, but then, Auntie Lori held the phone out to her & said that Mama could call her friend to check on us. Mama could resist the kid-beans, but she couldn't resist Auntie Lori.....so she ended up going trick-or-treating & staying overnight like usual.

Auntie Lori & Mama sat in the van & Uncle Phil drove the kid-beams around. Usually Mama & Auntie Lori dress up for Halloween & walk around with the kid-beans. They didn't dress up this time.........Auntie Lori said she was going as a stroke victim this year. She is still really weak on her left side & when she gets tired or agitated, she has a hard time speaking. She goes in Tuesday for her lumbar puncture, so if you could send some extra purrs for her we would appreciate it.

We know our blogging has been sporadic at best, but Mama starts working full-time tomorrow & it make take her awhile to get into a routine. She's been working part-time for a few hours in the afternoon, but now she will be working from 2:00 pm until about 11:45 pm. We don't know why she calls it work cause all she does is play with the sticky-bean & the blurpy baby-bean, but their mama goes back to work tomorrow so Mama's gonna have full care of them. Mama is pretty much a night-owl, but she will need to get up earlier in the mornings to do things around the house before she leaves for work. So she won't probably have as much computer time as she has had. Please bear with us & we'll make Mama blog as much as we can.

Before we forget, Parker's right, diabetes SUX!!! Our granny had it & our Auntie Lori has it too. We need to find a cure!!

Another Auntie Lori Update.............

Mama is so mad at the bean v-e-ts that she has smoke coming out of her ears!!! They never did get around to doing the lumbar puncture because one of the v-e-ts put Auntie Lori on a blood thinner & the v-e-t that does that sort of procedure said "No way, it's too dangerous until all of that drug is out of her system". Then the first v-e-t told Mama that they would not do surgery to relieve the pressure, that Auntie Lori would just have to watch her blood pressure & lose some more weight. Not that she(the v-e-t) is a neurologist, she's a GP.

Auntie Lori has lost around 45 to 50 lbs in the last 6 months & she just keeps getting sicker, so Mama is fit to be tied with this v-e-t & her solutions. Poor auntie can hardly walk or anything else because she's so weak, but this stupid v-e-t discharged her from the hospital today. She told her that the hospital was a "nice safety net" but she couldn't stay forever. This comment made Mama's blood pressure go through the roof!! So now, Auntie Lori has to go in as an out-patient for the lumbar puncture......sometime when the neurologist has time.

Our Uncle Phil says they better get their sh*t together this week or he's taking her to St. Louis where they have "real" bean v-e-ts. We think she should go to the v-e-t that saved Festus this summer, he knows way more than the bean v-e-ts.

Please continue to purr & purray for Auntie Lori......she needs all the help she can get.

Lazy Saturday

We are just laying around snoozing today. "Daddy" came & put on the storm windows & got the heat-blowy box running, so it's nice & warm now. Emma growled at him when he came in, *snicker, snicker*, she's very protective of Mama.

Mama spent time at the hospital with Auntie Lori yesterday. The ben V-E-Ts still aren't sure what's going on. Poor Auntie had a terrible headache & the nursie had to give her some stuff that knocked her out. She told Mama today that they are going to do something called a Lumbar Puncture (ouchie!) to check the pressure of her cerebral fluid. Apparently if the pressure is too high there can be stroke-like symptoms, very bad headaches & lots of other symptoms that Auntie Lori has been experiencing. What p*sses Mama off about all this is that 6 months ago, when Auntie Lori started having terrible headaches & passing out, none of the bean V-E-Ts around here took her complaints seriously. She ended up going to another V-E-T 100 miles away to be treated. He diagnosed her with a certain type of migraine. She was better for awhile, but now she's very sick again. Mama says she just wants to scream!!!
Hopefully now they will find out for sure what is wrong & fix it. If it is the cerebral pressure thing, then she will have to have brain surgery to have a thing called a shunt put in to drain the fluid. Please keep her in your thoughts & prayers & that they finally figure out the problem & get Auntie Lori healthy again.

Update on Auntie Lori..........

It appears that Auntie Lori had a mild stroke. The bean V-E-Ts haven't confirmed it, but they haven't ruled it out either. She has weakness on her left side & droopiness on the left side of her face, Mama says it sounds like a stroke to her.
Auntie Lori is still in the hospital & has to use a walker to get around. She is having Physical Therapy & is going to start Speech Therapy maybe tomorrow. Auntie Lori is only 39, so she is very young to be going through all of this. Mama is a wreck so we've been purring on her more than ever.
Please continue to keep Auntie Lori in your thoughts & prayers. Thanks to all of you that signed in.....Mama will get around to thanking you personally when things calm down a bit.

Asking for Purrs & Purrayers........

UPDATE: Auntie Lori has been admitted to the hospital, but they still don't know what's wrong with her.



Please send purrs, purrayers & prayers for our Auntie Lori. She is very sick & in the ER right now, the V-E-Ts there don't know yet what's wrong with her. Mama is furry worried. Please keep our Auntie Lori in your thoughts & prayers.

`Tocktober!!

Here we have Emma `tocks.

(Mama says ignore the dirty floor)










Here are Festus `tocks.











And last , but not least, are Sammy `tocks.

We want to wish Derby a very Happy Birthday!!!

That was a close one..........

Mama & Auntie Lori went on the annual Fall Color Drive today. That's where beans drive all around the county looking at the different colored leaves on trees. They also stop at a bunch of small towns to shop at yard sales & flea markets.....although why they'd want to buy fleas is beyond us. Mama spent a fortune this summer trying to get rid of fleas.
Anyway, at one of the yard sales the beans there were giving away baby kitties.....you can probably guess where this is headed. Mama fell in love with one in particular, she kept telling Auntie Lori that she really wanted him. Luckily for us, they still had alot of towns to visit & they didn't want to leave the baby in the van all that time...........whew, that really was a close one!!!

Sad..........

We are very sad that Tiki had to go to the bridge. We're glad he's not sick anymore, but we know it's hard for his family to lose him. We are going to be purring extra hard for them.

Lazy Tuesday

Mama felt crappy so she stayed home with us ALL day! She sat around in her jammies & didn't do a thing......well, she did let us play the Red Dot game a couple of times which was fun for us! Mama must have had fun too cause she did laugh alot.......