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FIRST THINGS FIRST: I am going out of town on vacation for a week, and I am taking the entire time off not only from the blog, but also from social media. There will be no posts here or on social media until I get back – hopefully there’ll be a post next Monday, BUT I am getting home late on Sunday, so if there isn’t a post on Monday, there will definitely be one on Tuesday!
In the meantime, there are 5,500+ posts on this here blog. Have you seen them all?… Are you SURE? This button below (there’s another one just like it over there in the sidebar) will take you to a random blog post.
Be good while I’m gone, and if you can’t be good then remember all the details and tell me about it when I get back. See you next week!
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Reminder: 2027 Calendars are available! Click on the image below or right here to see them all.
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Two little pumpkins. If you haven’t looked at the Permanent Residents calendar, you may not have seen this picture of Smitty and Pete. I thought it was perfect for next October!
Then they were like “Yeah, we’re done posing lady.”
Pete was slacking on top of the taco truck, and Smitty was off playing.
Then District Manager Charlie showed up and was like “THIS IS NOT HOW YOU RUN A TACO TRUCK. Let me show you!” He sat and waited for customers, but alas.
Smitty and Pete snuggle with Magoo. (Actually, I think they were there first, and then Magoo joined them.)
Smitty, Charlie and Magoo enjoy some fresh catnip.
A shot of all five permanent residents! Pete and Magoo are out past the concrete.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky/Threads) this weekend.
Smitty’s rolling around on the new rug under Khal’s watchful gaze.
Smitty and Pete are still loving the tall cat tree.
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⏪ THE DAILY REWIND⏪ From 2020, the Vittles kittens were playing – and if you turn up the sound, you can hear Charlie – who was still a kitten – wailing at the door to be let in.
I bought this rug at Costco a couple of weeks ago and of course at first the cats ignored it. But in the last few days they’ve decided it’s pretty comfy! (It’s machine washable, or else I wouldn’t have bought it. There’s no place in this house for rugs that can’t go through the washer.)
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Is Khal Da BAYbee? I think we’re a multi-BAYbee family, is what I think.
Good night innernets. (Pete & Smitty)
Happy Halloween, from Pumpkin Pete! (And welcome to the 24 hours when I flood your social media with a kitty Halloween picture every hour. You’re welcome!)
Happy Halloween! (Chicken Jake, 2010.)
Happy Halloween, from little ray of sun(flower) ChaCha.
Happy Halloween, from Tina, who we fostered in 2024 and was, indeed, a lil devil (but the BEST poser who would cheerfully put up with ALL of my nonsense.)
“Moo.” Happy Halloween! (Sugarbutt, 2014)
Happy Halloween! (Sydney, 2024. The kitten didn’t take kindly to strangers.)
Here he comes to save the day! Mighty Rhus is on his way! (Rochefort, 2020 – he’s now Rhus, which works better in this instance.) Happy Halloween!
Happy bunny Calliope, wishing you a Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Calamity Jane (2020) has some cattle to round up, so git along little dogies.
Happy Halloween! Tom Cullen (2012) always did like to dress up fancy and party the night away.
Flamenco (2025) wishes you a Happy Halloween from the pumpkin patch.
Happy Halloween! Tater Tot – 2020 – says “Don’t make me get out my wand, lady.”
Hi ho, it’s Alice the Frog (2010), and she hopes you have a Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! 2020 fosters Porthos (left) and D’Artagnan were the BEST little posers.
Happy Halloween from punkinheads Mambo (left) and Tango (2025)!
“Meowdy and Happy Halloween!” (Buffalo Bill, 2020)
Happy Halloween from Super Smitty, who’s getting ready to leave his Fortress of Solitude and kick some butt.
“Sounds like someone’s got a case of the Halloweens!” Kirk (2023) wishes you a Happy Halloween (and is gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday and if you could finish those TPS reports, that’d be just great, thanks.)
Happy Halloween! The Flamenco (2025) Rat-tini is the signature cocktail for Halloween 2026. Better grab yours!
Little Stefan on the Prairie’s gonna go churn that butter, but is pausing to wish you a Happy Halloween! (2016)
Happy Halloween! Smitty says “I might not be orange, but I’m orange at heart. I can be a pumpkin too!”
Happy Halloween from Sashay (2025)!
Happy Halloween! Porthos (2020) is waiting for the bat signal. Or maybe he IS the bat signal!
Finishing off this crazy day of posting Halloween(ish) pics is my very favorite: our sweet boy Dennis from 2016. He was the BEST, and I miss him every day. Hope your Halloween was as wonderful as you are. ❤️ Thanks for letting me flood your timeline!
Rabbit rabbit rabbit. (Smitty) Wikipedia: “Rabbit rabbit rabbit” – a superstition in Britain & North America wherein a person says/repeats the words “rabbit”, “rabbits” and/or “white rabbits” aloud upon waking on the 1st day of a month, ensuring good luck for the rest of it.
I went out to grab the mail and turned around to see Pete all “Where ya going?!”
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⏪ THE DAILY REWIND ⏪ In September 2024, I was in bed when I heard Tina yelling at the top of her lungs. After a minute of it I got up and went in to see what was going on. As you’ll see in the video, when I walked in there were kittens everywhere, and everyone was confused. I assumed that they’d all wandered away from the crate and she was upset because she wanted them IN the crate. I helped her corral them back into the general area of the crate, and finally she went into the crate and they followed her in.
I went back to bed and decided I’d look on the Nest camera to see what had happened just before she started yelling at them, and IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when what I saw was that all the kittens had been in the crate asleep, then Tina went over and started yelling at them until they woke up and came out and followed her, and then she ran off and left them milling about until I came in, whereupon she was like “These kittens! I want them to stay in the crate, but they never listen to me!” I don’t know if her plan was to run a fire drill or “lose” them on the other side of the room or what, but it was certainly an interesting evening.
Magoo and Smitty were hanging out having a snuggle, when along came Petey Floofypants to see what was going on. I think we’re gonna need a bigger bed!
🎵 JUST HEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS JINGLING RING-TING-TINGLING TOOOOO. 🎵 (Picture is from 2022 – those are then-fosters Nacho (the leaper) and Gus)
Good night innernets. (Pete)
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Previously
2025: No entry.
2024: No entry.
2023: The default googly-eyed amazement.
2022: Lalo’s got a lights-on-no-one-home situation going on here.
2021: Sammy didn’t floof until he realized that Nikki and Barry had floofed, and then he was all “Oh man, I didn’t realize this was a formal occasion!” and quickly put on his suit.
2020: Annie Oakley always looks so SUSPICIOUS.
2019: No entry.
2018: “LOOKIT MY TEEF AND FEAR ME.”
2017: Hubble looks at me and asks “HOW is this HAPPENING?!”
2016: Kittens from above.
2015: No entry.
2014: No entry.
2013: HATurday.
2012: Fred laughed and said “God, he was SO UGLY.” Which, exCUSE me, offensive! Hmph.
2011: Alice may be all grown up, but she still plays like a kitten!
2010: Please do not be jealous of my fancy photo studio.
2009: “I heard they was servin’ chocolate pudding at the Senior Center. Outta my WAY!”
2008: No entry.
2007: “Um, NO. There is NO ROOM on the platform, so move away. MOVE AWAY, I say!”
2006: No entry.
2005: Tragic.