saturday mornings

here is a picture of me helping with the laundry:



i like to curl up in the laundry hamper and help "sort" the clothes. mommy and daddy should know by now that all the dark clothes go in with me! i don't understand why the light-colored sheets got tossed in here!

mommy fell asleep on the coutch watching tv last night and i didn't know that this was a sleep-in morning for her so i woke her up at 7:15. after she visited the human litterbox, she grabbed me and went into the bedroom to climb into bed with daddy. i snuggled both of them to make up for waking mommy up early on a day when she could have slept in and snuggled with me. they stayed in bed for a long time this morning -- i think both of them were tired from the week.

daddy left mommy and i around 10 so he could take a shower to get ready for the trip to great falls. mommy and i got an extra 30 minutes of cuddle time before she had to get up and take a shower too. they had to go to great falls to get mommy's sunglasses made and to buy catfood for my brothers and sister and me. they also had lots of human food when they got back. i tried to help put it away but mommy told me that it wasn't in my job description. at least i tried to help!

mommy still has to give me the yucky white medicine but she pets me and loves me up before and after she gives it to me. she also shoots it down my throat so i don't have to taste it too much. she says the lump on my chin is better which i guess is good.

tomorrow, she and daddy have to go to the building where daddy teaches people about Jesus. mommy is singing tomorrow too. they have joked about taking me but i don't think the people at the building would appreciate it. i am a well-behaved panther but some of them don't like panthers, i guess. i hope mommy brings my babysitter back with her so i can cuddle with her too.

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adventures at the vet

this is me in statue pose on mommy's desk when we lived in minnesota.

this morning, daddy brought my carrier down from the guest room and asked me to go in. i didn't really want to go in the first time because my brothers and sister were watching but daddy held me in front, and i decided to be a cooperative panther and go in. he then carried me to the car and seat-belted me in the car. i wanted to look out the window so i asked daddy the whole way there if he could turn me around to face the window. i guess i got a little whiny because daddy turned off the radio to talk to me gently and assure me that it would be ok. i guess he doesn't speak pantherese like mommy does because he didn't understand that i just wanted to be turned around.

we got to the vet and they let me right into the exam room where they took a look at my chin and decided to take some fluid out of it for a biopsy. it hurt but i was good and let daddy just hold me while he did it. he took it to his room and told us a few minutes later that it was just some inflammatory cells and that it was likely just some bad acne that got infected (according to daddy -- he was explaining this to mommy on the cell phone once we were out). i decided to go back in my carrier and hide while he was in there.

the panther doctor decided to check my ears and clean them. i hate having my ears cleaned! i protested greatly but did not bite daddy or the panther doctor. they let me stay in my carrier on my kitty blanket but with the top off which helped a bit because i had something comfortable to lie on. according to the panther doctor, i also have an ear infection. maybe that's why cleaning my ears hurt so much?

the panther doctor decided to give me some clavamox which is yucky-tasting. daddy was holding my back end, the panther doctor was holding my front end, and the panther helper was trying to shoot it down my throat. i would have rather been held lovingly and petted while they medicated me (like mommy does) and i decided to spit it back at them. (mommy was laughing quite hard when daddy told her about it on the cell phone later.) i eventually decided to swallow the second half of the dose.

daddy then put the top back on the carrier, paid the panther doctor, and took me out to the car so he could call mommy. we then drove home with daddy talking to me. i howled at him for the rest of the day, protesting the ear cleaning and the medication because it wasn't fun and mommy would have been gentler with me.

when mommy came home today, she picked me up and snuggled me while walking around finding the medication. we sat down on the couch and she wrapped me in a towel because she has shorts on and didn't want to get claw marks on her legs. she scratched my ears and then stuck the medicine dropper down my throat while petting me. i cooperated because it was mommy and i am a momma's girl at heart. she had to do the medicine in two doses but she was gentle and kissed my head and told me that i was a good panther, so i did cooperate for her. after she was done, she petted me and loved me up.

according to mommy, my chin lump is smaller (probably from the panther doctor removing the fluid) and she says i'll be better in a few days. i hope so. i don't want to go back to the panther doctor again for a long time!

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vet appointments

first... a beautiful picture of me from the archives:



that's me posing for mommy on top of her old desk in minnesota.

mommy got through her two vet appointments this week. one was a vet checking her eyes and she came home with orange stuff around them. (a note from edda's mommy, jen: that was the dye from the glaucoma test. i blinked most of it out with the anesthetizing drops.) yesterday, she and daddy drove 3 1/2 hours to kalispell so another vet could stick sharp and pointy objects up her nose to see if she had recovered from her nose surgery. she says she doesn't have to go back to that vet again and i think she is happy about that. she has her BIG vet appointment on monday and she might have to get shots. (jen's note: no shots -- just unpleasant exams.)

speaking of vets, i have to go see mine tomorrow. i have a lump on my chin that hurts and mommy has had to drain and clean it out every day. she is worried about me getting an abscess (whatever that is) so she called the panther doctor and made an appointment for me tomorrow morning. daddy is going to take me because mommy has to go work to buy me tuna and catnip. (daddy works too but he has some flexible hours.) i helped mommy put my car crate together tonight and she put one of my brothers' kitten blankets from our grandma in there so i will have a panther nest while i ride in the car. i hope my vet visit goes well and the panther doctor can figure out what is on my chin...

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daddy's birthday and other news

this is me at the top of the bookshelf that was in mommy's study in minnesota. i am a literary cat so i used to sleep up there.

my daddy's birthday is today. i don't know how old he would be in cat years but in human years, he is 31. (my mommy just turned 28 in may.) he met with women from the building where he teaches people about Jesus this morning and he went out to dinner with mommy after she finished work and went to her vet appointment to get her eyes checked. tomorrow, they are going to kalispell where mommy has another vet appointment to get her nose checked after she had surgery on the inside of it last month. (i had to take care of her during the week after surgery. she and i watched a lot of tv and took naps together.) i hope they bring me back special tuna or catnip.

they might go see mommy's aunt jean while they are over there if they have time. she has a fluffy cat named tammy and an outside maine coon cat named snooky. i have not met them but mommy says that they are very nice. aunt jean raises chickens though mommy told me that they are not the kind of chickens that i am allowed to eat.

while they are gone tomorrow, i have sentry duty upstairs in mommy's study and downstairs in the living room window. i have to make sure that no trains get in the house and that all the bunnies are accounted for just in case one snuck in the house and my sister freya beat it up.

i saw that huffle got an award for being nice. she is indeed a very nice cat -- she introduced me on the house panthers site.

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mommy and migraines

first, the pre-requisite archived picture:



this is me on an afghan that mommy was making for my aunt joanna (daddy's younger sister). it was three black stripes with two green stripes in between. as you can see, i blended in well.

my mommy gets migraines from time to time and it has been more frequent lately. at 12:45 this morning, she started getting the aura of one but couldn't take her pill because it would have interacted with another one she took. needless to say, she woke up in pain this morning and spent most of the day asleep with a quilt pulled over her head. my brothers cullen and finian and i had to take care of her as daddy was off teaching people about Jesus. cullen curled up on top of her and purred with his jet engine motor while finian and i took turns sleeping on the top of the couch watching her and sitting in the window being sentry kitties. i woke her up several times so she could get a drink of water and use the human litterbox.

when daddy came home, he woke her up and made her eat something. she felt a little better after that. she's helping me blog right now but she'll probably go back downstairs after that because it's hot up in her study and the heat makes her feel worse. (a note from edda's mommy, jen: actually, i'll probably take a shower and cool myself off as it's 90F here in montana and i think that might be part of it.)

mommy has to go to work tomorrow so she can buy me tuna and catnip, so i hope she feels better soon. meanwhile, i need to go make sure she rests well. i am a black cat after all and it is my job to take care of her.

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watching olympics with mommy

here's my archive photo for today.



i'm hiding on an afghan mommy made for a group that sends them to women and children in afghanistan.

mommy insisted on watching the women do flips and jump around tonight instead of admiring my sleek blackness and my wonderful acrocatics. oh well... she says i'd be a rhythmic gymnast anyway and rhythmic gymnastics doesn't start until thursday.

apparently, she was so into what she was watching that she was clenching her fangs and giving herself a headache. she had to put her plastic thing on her teeth to keep from making her headache worse. (jen's note: the plastic thing is a "night guard" and i have it because i have tmj.) she also crocheted a row too much on her afghan patch and had to take it out. i could have taken it out for her but she insisted on doing it herself.

i also came and woke her up this morning at 8:45 and snuggled her. i know she would have liked to sleep in until 10 or so but i am a black cat and i have appointments. it's later than she gets to sleep on weekdays and i thought she would appreciate that! i curled up on her chest which caused her to remind me that she is indeed allergic to me and that i needed to move down lower. i think not!

tomorrow, she has to dress up and go to the building to learn about Jesus so i won't get cuddles until she comes home. i hope she takes a long nap tomorrow so i get lots of cuddle time.

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my job tomorrow

first, a picture that fits into what i will be doing tomorrow.



mommy likes to play with yarn and sticks. this is me helping mommy make a blanket for her evil twin brother, my uncle sean. (his fiancée, my aunt jeanette, is really cool though and appreciates my blackness.) she is wearing her favorite shirt which my sister and i helped shred. it says "slugs for Jesus" which was the group mommy was part of when she was in college. (a note from edda's mommy, jen: the group was the uc santa cruz chapter of intervarsity. our college mascot was the banana slug so our group was "slugs for Jesus".)

mommy has some yarn projects that she never gets to work on because she's gone at least 10 hours a day working to buy me catnip and tuna so tomorrow, she is going to catch up on her olympics viewing and play with some yarn while she watches tv. she has not asked me to help but i am a very helpful panther and i know that she will need help tangling i mean untangling the yarn.

mommy also has a sleep-in day tomorrow so i will get to snuggle tomorrow morning. i am very excited about that.

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