Rain! Rain and fog and just gloominess. "So?" you may ask. "Just cuddle with your Mommy and stay cozy in bed!" you may say. We thought that too. And we did snuggle up until Mommy heard a noise. DRIP DRIP DRIP! "What is that?" she asked as she jumped up and followed the sound.
Yes, our bedroom window sprung a leak!! Mommy stopped the leak with a towel but was awake by the time she had it temporarily fixed so all of our cuddling time was over. Sigh. So we decided we would make the most of the situation and nap on the bed. But.....
No Mommy, we don't. We want to nap; not have the flashy box in our face. Geez woman, you are still too close up and we are all fuzzy anyway. Put the camera down and walk away before we show you why we are pirate kitties!!
Sigh. At least Daddy is on his way home to take Mommy shopping for a new living room suite. We are promised that they will only buy furnishings that are befitting of our royal pirate kittyness. Maybe she'll take the camera with her and leave us alone so we can sleep!!!
Temptashions and treats and toys!! WOW! Dante was kind enough to play spokesmodel in this picture to show you our presents. Do you see the teaser with the fish on it?! We love fishes and toys and treats!!
Dante loved the ribbon too!
Oh no, a new flashy box. ACK!!! Yep, Santa has punished our kitty indiscretions and brought our Mommy a new flashy box. And she says she is trying to learn how to use it so she keeps chasing us around with it. Sigh. 
We had started a list to wish all of our friends individually a Merry Christmas, but it go so long and we were afraid we would accidently leave someone off, so we had Mommy delete that so we could just tell everyone here - We love you guys. Thanks for letting us into the Cat Blogosphere family. We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and that Santa Paws brings everyone everything that they ask for - cat nip, toys, cat trees, fountains, toys for all the woofies, gifts for the beans, everything. We will be thinking of you, and of our friends that have gone ahead of us to the Rainbow Bridge this year, throughout the holidays. 
The last two weeks, we each taken a turn listing what we want from Santa Paws this year. This week, we have decided to list the 13 things we want Santa Paws to bring for Mommy and Daddy - cause our beans are very very special - they love us an give us nummies. Since they work hard all year, we think they deserve these things:
1. New living room furniture - something not hand-me-down that we can get our furrs all over.
Here I am standing on our Secret Paws, telling Beaux to hurry up so we can open our present!
Even Captain Jack wanted to see our Secret Paws presents!
Mommy read our card to us. You can see our new bandanas on the floor by me. I was looking in the present box and Beaux was being a good boy and looking at the card while Mommy read it.
Because of this I say, "All mancats must make fun of their brothers when they are sickeningly sweet in love!!" BTW, Hi Pearl! How are you?!?! Did you have a lovely weekend?
You cannot really see but only some of the lights work, they are falling off of the house and some blink and others do not. Apparently Mikey was so shocked when he pulled up last night that he was certain it was not his house, but a neighbor's house. The moral of this story is "Do not go off to the Carribean for a week and leave my beans at home in the cold. Weird things will be done to your house if you do!"
Mommy, however, forgot all of the pictures but this one so they doggies will post all of their pics tommorow. Their Secret Paw was 
Samwise is our 6 year old doggie brother. He is part Sheltland Sheepdog, part Border Collie, and part Spaniel. He was found by our favorite neighborhood child, D'Andre. Sadly, he was found on the day that Daddy and Mommy buried Daddy's brother after he died from a heart attack at age 40. Anyway, D'Andre did as anyone would expect and brought the doggie he had found to Aunt Susan's house (as we've said before Aunt Susan is our honorary Aunt and our V-E-T as well). D'Andre wanted to keep Samwise, but his Mom didn't think this was a good idea. Uncle Dave wanted to keep Samwise too, but he and Aunt Susan agreed that they had one very old and set in her ways dog that didn't need a youngster (Sam was only about 1 at the time). So they put up pictures of Sam and "Found Dog" posters at local businesses hoping to find his parents. No one ever called. 
Well, as it turned out Daddy was spending a lot of time at Dave and Susan's (he and Mommy were not married yet) trying to get over his brother's death so he wound up spending a lot of time with Sam too. It took less than a week for Daddy to decide to adopt Sam and give him a forever home. Aunt Susan made sure Sam was healthy and had all of his shots and Daddy brought Sam home to live with him. Mommy has always said that Samwise was a gift - that the Fates knew that Daddy was going to have a lot to go through and since his brother was gone, they wanted to make sure Daddy was not alone - so they gifted him with a wonderful dog. Daddy gifted him with the name Samwise because, as he put it - "Samwise the hobbit went through hell and back with his best friend Frodo. Right now I am going through a rather hellish time so I cannot think of a better name for him."
Mommy and Daddy were afraid that Samwise was getting lonely because at the time he was the only pet. They talked to Aunt Susan and she suggested that the get a kitty to keep Sam company, because he loved her kitties so much. They thought this was a good idea. Not long after that they heard a knock on the door after a horrible spring thunderstorm. Daddy opened it and discovered about 10 children on the doorstep surronding a little girl holding a black and white kitten. They had found the kitten in a storm drain and were trying to find him a home. Yes, as you might have guessed, that kitten was our own Captain Jack. Sam was just beside himself over having his own "kitten son." The first night, Samwise groomed and bathed Jack for three whole hours! As Jack grew, Sam taught him many things and never ever minded when Jack clawed him or pounced on him wanting to play. Samwise raised Captain Jack and definately contributed to Jack being the handsome and wonderful pirate kitty that he is today! He is the eldest in our household and most loved by Captain Jack - Jack has even been known to beat up Dante when he tries to attack Sam. Samwise was love unlooked for at a time when Daddy really needed him and he was a father to a homeless kitten. Samwise is the most wonderful doggie ever and because of this, we nominate Samwise "The Brave" Gamgee as the Best Fur Sibling of the Year!!!
All mancats must also have a mean look for times such as these - Dante had an entire load of firewood delivered on Saturday and now its going to be over 75 degrees all week so no Fire Cat for him for a while.
This is why Mommy can never put presents under the tree before Christmas Eve - we kitties love to lay around on the skirt and bunny kick presents if she does put them on our holiday "bed." Tree skirts are comfy! Dante's been laying on it ever since the tree went up. This picture was taken while Mommy was still decorating the tree and Dante began claiming the skirt as his!!
Mommy: Mommy is not very domestic - she does not cook ever (Daddy does and loves it - he dreams of being a chef) and she hates to clean so much that she hires someone to do it (which we like because we adore our cleaning lady. We call her Miss Betty and she loves us too! She even taught us Spanish so we are bilingual but we will not teach Mommy and Daddy - they have to learn on their own!).
Should I believe her kitties? Sigh. Sometimes its hard being me....
My straws (and apparently a medicine syringe too from the last time one of us was on antibiotics)!! They were discovered! Dante had been on the desk batting Dad's cell phone around and it fell between the couch and the desk. I thought I was safe when a few days went by and no human really looked for it - until last night! Mommy called the phone, it rang, and yes, it was under the couch - where the treasure was hidden!
Look, I had not even told Dante where our straw bounty was hidden and here he is looking it over!!
