Simon's Blog

Holiday Time

  I am so remiss in keeping up on this blog. My companion and I have been so busy, then we had terrible storms and lost our power and phone for four days. My companions daughter is going into the second week with no power and she is not a happy cammper at all since she has a dressage farm with 36 horses. But we forge ahead. My companion is designing new things and has finally gotten the Rescue Me-ow kitties on the website. I am a little miffed there is not one who looks like me yet but she says it is coming.
  I want to post a picture here of a friend of mine named Mango. He is one of my companions friends kitties and he is a very special little man. My companion's friend runs Harbor Hope Cat Rescue in Gig Harbor , Wa. They specialize in really challenging cases. Mango was presented to her by another Rescue that could not care for him. He has cerebellar hypoplasia so is neurologically challenged. He has a very hard time walking but he gets where he is going in a roundabout way and he is so sweet and charming. Mango is a real inspiration, as is his Meowm, proving purr-serverance futhers and a great attitude will get you a long way in the world. My companion keeps his picture on her desk to remind her that , though the path may be roundabout, difficult to manuver, and you may fall a few times, you can still get where you want to go with purr-serverance. And, if you smile when you get there someone will pet you.

Rainy rainy days....

  Today it is raining. Yesterday it was raning. It will no doubt rain tomorrow. We have a record for rain ....oh goody. This means I sit in the house instead of on the deck. My companion is working on her website today putting some new mugs on there but she keeps fussing that she should be in her studio painting dogs. DOGS...why in the world would she paint dogs. It mystifies me.
  I heard her laughing and asked her what it was all about. Her partner , Cat, the photoghrapher, who lives in TN sent this picture of my friends Tybolt , Torque and Twist . They were playing dressup like the Red Hat society so she took their picture. Aren't they just wonderful. who but Cat could get three kittens to sit in feather boas and smile?(click on picture to make it bigger)
   My companion has her website hooked up to the google adwords and anylytics so she can see all the people in the world who are looking at her website. It is amazing . She tells me when two people in Athens are looking or four people in Cairo, Egypt. We have no idea who they are unless they write to us, which of course she wishes they would . She is so funny, she will sit here and just fuss "12 people or one person 12 times  from Vashon Island is looking...who are they? Why don't they write to me...it makes me crazy!" ( She says that a lot... about things making her crazy...mostly it is me who does it to her...well I have to keep her entertained don't I?) Anyway, you people in Egypt and France and Norway and Texas and Winnipeg and on Vashon Island...let's hear from you...tell us who you are...send us pictures of your pets. We love to hear from you.

  So, it is still raining. My companion went to visit her daughter in Duval , north of Seattle last week and she got stranded there because the Snohomish river rose so high it covered all the roads into this very populated area. She said it was very strange to be trapped in that way. Luckily they are on very high ground. Her daughter had ten evacuee horses come to her stable because the flooding had risen up to their bellies in their own barn. I guess it happened to many many horses and cows and people and cats too. She told me when she finally could drive out it was like driving across a moving lake. Sounds eerie to me.

Anyway, I hope you people and cats and dogs are busy getting your holiday shopping done here on the website. The sweatshirts with the holiday designs on are really wonderful, I have seen them but they don't fit me so I can't model. Cat has some fabulous new cards...have you checked those out. And the new dog mugs are great (if you like dogs) and she tells me Golden Retreivers and dachshunds are coming as well as bulldogs and french bulldogs and beagles and chihuahuas. gads...I just think she should do more cats myself. But nobody listens to me....sigh. Guess I will go take a nap. The rain on the roof is very soothing and the woodstove is very warm.

Autumm

  I go out everyday it isn't raining, right after breakfast, for just a couple hours. Actually, if it is raining I sometimes go out on the deck and sit under the table and watch the rain. I do love a warm day when I can spend a couple hours in the garden watching the birds eat fallen berries and seeds . They bathe in the big porcelain pedestal bowl my companion's companion made. He is an artist too  www.halfmoonstudio.com  and though he works with my companion he also makes these beautiful hand built porcelain things which they eat and drink out of, and sometimes I do too. We cats and dogs have a huge pedestal drinking bowl of our own in our in the house garden by the window. But, back outside in the garden, I try to only watch the birds. My companion tends to yell very loudly if I take her a bird but she does praise me if I take her a mouse or mole. She must like to eat those instead of birds. Myself, I would rather eat a bird but I do try to please her. My companion and her companion have three huge birds, bigger than I am , in a big  pen with a big big big tub of water (pond). They call the birds geese and they fuss over them like they were cats. I have no idea why. Their names are Milton, Millie and Billie but they are all lady geese. Their purpose eludes me but my companions seem to enjoy them and they do not eat them so I guess they pets.  I am not a pet , I am family.
  My housemate cat  ,Jacquelyn, is driving me crazy. Both she and Marybeth like to cuddle with my companion and I would much prefer to have her for myself. Sometimes I have to bite them  .
  My companion is very excited and busy with all her new products in her store. And, she is very busy in her studio painting dogs. Why dogs I do not know - but she says people want them.
  I am going to go pose elegantly in the morning sun. Perhaps she will paint me today. She tells me I am her mews , or did she mean muse?

Beginnings.....

  She is my companion. I am her companion, as well, and also her confidant. She says I amuse her. I also inspire her in her artistic endeavors. Myself, I am very creative....ahhhh ,but it is so much easier to stretch out in the sun and just inspire and channel my ideas to her. Here now, look at this flower - no no  - really look at this flower. Watch that butterfly on the lily; the way the light makes it glow. See with your eyes, with your emotion, the way the sun glistens on my coat. Feel the warmth. Do you like this pose? Shall I close my eyes a little? Get that pencil to the paper and get this down.
  We do  necessary things for each other. I wind around her feet first thing when she gets up - and for me there is a stroke, a smile. I accompany her on the early morning journey to awareness. I purr very loudly while she brushes her teeth - with the hum - above the hum of the toothbrush. Are not humans strange? Why they persist in using so much water to clean themselves is beyond me, but I won't dwell. She brushes and tells me I am handsome and strong , which is true.
  Sometimes she is larger than I am and sometimes I am larger than she is. Such is the way of cats. I am Simon. I am a Cat.

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