Loving my recharge pad

Happy Monday, everycat!

Spring has finally sprung down here in Tasmania. Even though we still have some cold days and some dismal days, the sun is now a regular visitor to my domain.

On sunny mornings, when Kate is making breakfast and pottering around in the kitchen before work, I sit just outside the backdoor on what I call my 'recharge pad'. It's the bestest place to catch some early morning rays to charge me up for the day. Mmmmmm.Ok, now I'm all charged up, it's off to cause some trouble, Pablo-style!

Cheers,
--Pabs

The winter of my discontent

A photo from happier times, when the sun actually shone and the grass wasn't a freezing bog.

Hi everycat.

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. Kate is so tired from brewing a baby bean that she just collapses in front of the TV when she gets home from work. And she has to sit some kind of exam in a few weeks. I think it's a work thing. So she hasn't been available for much blogging help.

Besides, I haven't been up to much lately. The weather is so, so dismal down here, endless days of freezing weather and wind and rain and snow on our mountain*. This morning, I meowed to be let outside about 150 times in the hope that the next time someone opened the door for me, the windy rain would have disappeared. But no. One time, I got so angry that I bit Kate on the foot (well, on the purple fluffy slipper). I was kind of trying to punish her for all this bad weather.

Tomorrow is supposed to be the first day of spring down here. I'll believe it when I see it.

But tomorrow is the first day of September, which can only mean one thing... the Australian Football League finals series! Y'all would know that I usually run an AWESOME Footy Finals Competition each year. I'm currently in negotiations to see if I can run it again this year. Watch this space!

Cheers,
--Pabs


* This is a link to a live webcam of our city, hosted by a local school. We live on the far side of the bridge, on one of those hills in the distance with all the houses on it. Usually this webcam gives you a lovely view of the city and our mountain, Mount Wellington. But the weather is so dismal that when you look at it, the clouds will probably be covering it :(

Blogoversary blossoms

Guess what, everycat? Today is my THIRD blogoversary!

The weather decided to hold an early celebration for my blogoversary yesterday. Poppy Q has been asking me if spring has sprung here in Tasmania yet. Well, until yesterday, it hadn't. We've had dismal, rainy, cold weather for weeks and weeks. But yesterday...

...I could have my first roll of the season! Woo hoo!

Aaaaah. Feeeels gooood.

Check out the lovely blossoms in my backyard! And the blue, blue sky! We haven't seen that in weeks:

And you know what else? All the blossoms in the street decided to have a pink party in honour of my blogoversary:

It's very kind of them. I can't bring myself to tell them that pink is not my favourite colour. It's certainly a great colour for blossoms.

But today, on my actual blogoversary, the weather got it a bit wrong:

Back to dismal winter weather. Kate took this photo at around 9.30am, and you can see from the reflection in the window that it was so dark she had to have the light on.

Oh well. Yesterday was a great reminder that spring is on its way... sometime.

Cheers,
--Pabs

One whisker less Wednesday

Some context:
In order to promote more harmonious sleeping arrangements now that she's got a baby bump to contend with, Kate has put this comfy sweater at the foot of the bed to encourage me to sleep there. (Actually, she put a comfy fleecy old bath robe there, but I barfed on it and so it's going through the wash a few times.)

I like my special spot. But I hafta say I do miss snuggling a little closer on these chilly winter nights.

Cheers,
--Pabs

(P.S. Grammatically, Kate's aware that it should be 'One whisker fewer Wednesday', but went with the more poetic, less correct, version.)

When you don't have your own cat door...

... you gots to improvise!

(Apologies for the darkness of the image. We're not getting a whole lot of sunlight down here at the moment.)

Cheers,
--Pabs

Yawn...

I love a good yawn.
Seriously, is there anything better than a good yawn?
...and that is a good yawn right there.
I'm talking well over 100 degrees of yawnage. Maybe even 120. I don't know, I don't have a protractor handy.

(P.S. How many kitties and peeps yawned while checking out this post? I know someone did when they were helping me write it...)

Cheers,
--Pabs

She's back!

Kate's been back from her trip for over a week now, and life is quickly returning to normal.

This was supposed to be our reunion photo shoot, but what can I say?

I just don't do hugs.

I'm outta here.

Cheers,
--Pabs

While the Kate's away...

...the Pabs will play...

Confession time.

I've been playing Kitty Fight Club outside with my buddies while Kate's been away.

Things got a little out of hand one evening, and I came home with a limp (hey, you should see the other guy!). So the next day, Nick took me you-know-where, and now I'm on 'precautionary antibiotics'. Great.

And Nick won't let me snuggle with him in bed the way that Kate does. Awesome.

Kate, if you're reading this, come home! I, um, need you.

Just a bit.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Bachelor boys

Hi everycat,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive and actually having a pretty good time at home with Nick while Kate is away. We're enjoying some quality man time together, as you can see: chilling out, eating food, watching DVDs... it's a pretty good life. (BTW, sorry for the poor quality photo... it's from the camera in our Macbook. Of course, Kate has the real camera with her!)

I am missing Kate, and get a bit meowy at night, singing songs that remind me of her. But I'm pleased that she got to visit Faz and her human, and that she could pass on my cat-sized Richmond Tigers football to Faz.

Kate is in Germany now, and is enjoying some lovely summer weather. Her blurp-in-utero is still making her feel pretty sick, and she's done a couple of spectacular voms at two of her hosts' houses. Ew!

Sorry that I haven't been able to visit you all... I'm feeling very cut off from all my blogosphere buddies. I PROMISE I'll visit as normal when Kate returns in a few weeks.

Until then, purrrs to you all!

Cheers,
--Pabs

On paws

...or should that be pause?

Kate is in Europe on holiday with her mum, so I'm out of action for awhile. Hope you're all having an awesome time.

Cheers,
--Pabs

WHO IS THIS???

I've seen these pictures before somewhere. Hendrix, you posted one on your blog a few months back... why have my people got one of these pictures? What does this mean? Who is it?

I don't like the look of it.

I think it looks like trouble.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Still dismal

Oh, hi. I'm just sitting at the back door, checking to see if it's stopped raining yet. Think I might need to take a closer look...

Ugh. Still dismal. It's been raining for, like, a week. Can everycat please send me just a little bit of your sunshines? I've kind of forgotten what the sun looks like.

Cheers,
--Pabs

Dismal

All the leaves are brown (well, most of them are)... and the sky is grey...

Yesterday marked the official first day of winter here in Australia (we go by the calendar, not the solstices and equinoxes. Don't ask me why) and boy, has it been cold. And dismal. Especially last weekend, when these photos were taken.
Kate was going to do some much-needed gardening outside, and I was going to help her. I love helping Kate in the garden. But she said that the weather was 'too dismal'. So I went inside and sulked. I felt like this:

dismal.

Hope things are sunnier where you're at!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Baby remember my name (re-mem-ber, re-mem-ber...)

My geek buddy Jason sent me an email yesterday with this screen shot attached. It's his Google Reader page. He wanted to show me which page came #1 in his top recommendations... mine! Can you see it there? I circled it for you.

Kate tried to tell me it was randomly generated, but I know better.  It's a sign of my super-stardom.

For sure.

Cheers,

--Pabs

Hibernation

Hi everycat.

It's been two weeks since I last posted on this blog. People have been stopping Kate in the street and asking her when she's going to help me post again. Not quite, but people have noticed.

Sorry. (Especially to you, Original Grandma Chris).

We've kind of been in hibernation down here. It's almost winter, and it's cold, dark and rainy. Nick and Kate get home from work when it's dark and I've been spending most of my time in or under the bed.

But that's no excuse. We've missed y'all and will try and be more organised and post more often.

For now, though, it's back to bed.

Cheers,

--Pabs

P.S. Happy wedding day to Adan and Lego's mum, Michico and her almost-husband, Arion! Wishing you double happiness today and always.

Ahhhh...

Chin scritches on my chair from Nick. That's what I'm talking about!

Happy Friday, everycat. (And a BIG happy birthday to my beanfriend Alexander up there in Sydney. I got you a present: Geelong v Melbourne.)

Cheers,
--Pabs

Easy like Sunday morning...

...and afternoon
...and evening.

Hope your Sunday is as snuggly as mine!

Cheers,
--Pabs

Wordless Wednesday

Cheers,
--Pabs

Thanks, Easter Bunny!

Hey, look at what the Easter Bunny left for me at the front door!

Yup, a juicy, fresh, home grown tomato! Thanks, Easter Bunny! I hope that the Easter Bunny left you a delicious, juicy, fresh, home-grown tomato, too...

...hang on, does he normally give tomatoes? Hmmm. Oh well. Happy Easter anyway!

Cheers,

--Pabs
(P.S. Don't worry, I didn't eat the tomato. I know that tomatoes can be very bad for cats and dogs to eat. Like chocolate...)

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Let it roll, baby, roll!

You gotta roll with it...

This is just how I roll...

Cheers,
--Pabs