Sissy McGee – one of our hens who regularly escapes the chicken yard to free roam the property ’til it gets close to dark, and then she returns to the chicken yard ’cause she’s no dummy – took it upon herself to jump the fence into the back yard yesterday. Jake, who had never seen a chicken from that close up, was beside himself. He stalked her around the back yard as she explored and scratched and ate bugs.
“What the -?”
He never did attack – just followed her around and watched her. I guess he might be a lunatic, but he’s not CRAZY. She would have kicked his butt.
“NOM NOM NOM, there is NOTHING as tasty as a sock-covered foot! Unless it’s a slipper-covered foot!”
“NO! That are MY foot for chomping on! You go away!”
“Hiiii! I’m Reacher, and I’ll be in charge of eating your foot today!”
Don’t be fooled by the sweet face. Corbett also enjoys chomping on feet.
“So I told her and told her I wasn’t pregnant, and she just kept saying ‘Ha, ha, RIGHT you’re not pregnant. Give me those babies!’ and then she took me to the vet, and the VET told her I wasn’t pregnant, and apparently the VET knows more about my pregnancy or lack thereof than I do, and she was all ‘J’accuse!’, but seriously, what did I need to do, spell it out in poop or something? I TRIED TO TELL HER! And now the halcyon days of eating kitten food and sleeping off 63 snacks a day are OVER, and I ask you – is that fair? Am I to be punished for NOT being a harlot?”
Over the weekend, I spilled half a container of flour on the kitchen floor. Elwood ran right over and started EATING the flour, as if it were the finest cat treat I could have given him. I shooed him away, but not before I got a picture of him. See the coat of flour on his chin? Crazy boy.
Previously
2009: Random things that make me twitch.
2008: She turned and glared her “FUCK YOU” glare at me, and went along her way.
2007: No entry.
2006: You WISH you were me.
2005: Off to Gatlinburg.
2004: Our palates are too immature, I suppose.
2003: Now I know why, when the camera and sound guy were setting up and I chirped “Oh, is this the camera that’s going to make me look like Ashley Judd?”, everyone laughed so hard.
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: Then he and the spud went swimming yesterday, since the pool’s up to a sultry 66.
Hey, I do believe there’s a photo of your fosters in an article for Challenger’s House in todays Huntsville Times. I don’t get the print version, but found the article at the online news site al.com
Here’s the URL: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/04/challengers_house_hopes_to_rai.html
Hope they raise a lot of funds for the kittehs!
I bet as Jake stalked that chicken, he was thinking, “Man, that is one BIG bird!”
Flour? Really? Weirdo. My dad’s cat was obsessed with powdered coffee creamer, but at least that’s milk-ish so that sense.
I always wanted to get two dogs and name them Hoover & Kirby. Yeah, I could name my cats that, they’d eat a button if I dropped it on the floor, friggin goats! Love the flour-chin.
Saw this on the news this morning and thought of Maura!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/pregnant-mother-section-doctors-find-baby/story?id=10262881
Doctors Perform C-Section and Find No Baby
Two North Carolina doctors have been reprimanded for performing a caesarian on a woman, only to discover she wasn’t pregnant at all.
Doctors opened up the woman and found a nonpregnant uterus.
The incident — a rare case of pseudocyesis or a false or hysterical pregnancy — happened at the Cape Fear Medical Center in Fayetteville, N.C.
The woman reportedly appeared at the hospital with her husband asking for a C-section. A resident in charge made the pregnancy diagnosis and doctors agreed to surgery after trying to induce labor for two days.
Re: Reacher. Sooooooo, he’s so cute, which actually has nothing to do with this comment, and they are all so so cute. Starting over.
BECAUSE of Reacher, there we go, actually because of Fred’s naming of Reacher, etc. and so on and Don’t You Fracking Wish I Could Go Online At Work In the Morning and Comment While My Brain Was Still Alive Like I Used To? Oh my dear God.
I am reading the first Jack Reacher book because of Fred. That’s really all I am trying to say.
Also I think June of Bye Bye Pie should adopt Maura because I can’t get to you from NY to get Maura and June’s closer. I have told her this.
Hi,..greetings.. u must be a cat lover.. amazing pics u have captured here..
Ummm?? I think Jake and Elwood are insane. Jake always has that crazy demented smile on and Elwood eats flour?? Holy chit there is some serious backwood inbreeding going on with these 2 crazies!!!