What Am I Smelling??

When we were adopting Frankie , we got the blanket from Frankie's pen to bring to us.

I showed it to T and he , was very suspicious, and went in the bag to sniff further.

We took our cats blanket to Frankie to show her, she gave it a sniff, and was not interested any more than that!

Turns out Frankie dislikes all cats anyway, so it did not matter!

Sweet Mieszky did not care if a new old cat blanket came that smelled of a big Maine Coon!

He likes everybody, cat or human!

Mieszky New Year Morning

My Mieszky with me on
New Year's Day 2025,
what a great start of the year. Full of Love.

Always there for me,

Miesky!

Attentive and Gentle.

And we have Bag Princess the Second ,
couple of hours earlier!

Being Able to Take Walks Is Not Normal!

So our Paz who was like a big lion , he used to march around the neighborhood like a prince that he was.
He would follow us and trot next to me
and want to go all the way to the post office or the library.

So I thought, yes maybe we can take our Princess Dragon Lady Frankie out too and because there's snow on the ground, she won't run off, and we will have a nice time!

NOOOO! She freaked out over the snow (even though she had been in the snow outside in our back yard) , and ran into the bushes.

When we went to her, she said, "Kew."
like she was glad to see us.

But when Zum grabbed her and passed her down to me,
she kicked me with her muffin paws and growled at me!
(she did not kick as hard as she normally do, I think she was glad to go home) !

Realizing Mieszky Is a Saint

"How long did it take for Pazzy
to realize that

Mieszky is the sweetest out of all the cats
and became his best
(and only ) friend?"

Says Zum.

"I think it took about 2 years
for Paz to stop hating Mieszk
for no reason at all and hitting him,

and all of the sudden Paz would sit with Mieszky and lick him."

I said.

Yes, sometimes we can change our minds about things,
especially when it comes to people, or cats
who are genuninely kind.
We realize they are very very rare!



"Um, how long has Frankie been with us?"
Zum says.

"Uh , over 2 years."
I tell her.

"uh, Frankie still hates Mieszky for no reason at all."
Zum says.

Ummmmm.....

the only explanation that I can think of is ....

FRANKIE JUST HAS BAD TASTE!!!

"Cats are not real cats if they aren't Fluffy, Brown, and pretty like US!"
Frankie thinks.

She seems to forgive T for being mean to her, but Mieszky has NEVER EVER been mean to her, yet she growls and hits him sometimes.

It does help that Frankie can bully T out of the food when it's FOODTIME even though T normally bullies her the rest of the time.

It's sometimes a blessing if Mieszky can't hear her mean hissing and growling!!
But hitting!???

NO Frankie!!! YOU DO NOT HIT A SAINT!!!

Black Lightning Vs Brown Tornado

Brown Tornado .... she comes in a flash when I'm feeding T

and just because she is big and stealing food from others, it is still done with Class, because Frankie is Miss Classy.

Frankie slowly inches in , she gobbles up T's food.
Normally she's Miss Drama , Hissing, Growling, making a racket, but she is the quietest when she is stealing food.

THIS IS THE Original.
Black Lightining Walter!

He'd camp out upstairs most of the day, and when there's Rustling of the Packets, there is a "THUD" , and he comes running down the stairs.

He's the champion.

No one has much Passion and Speed in snatching other cats' food, Not even Paz, Mieszky, or Frankie.
The Champion! Period!

Strawberry Fairy

Sometimes

Angel from the sky,

Sometimes Dragon Lady.

Sometimes Fairy in the Strawberries.

Frankie !

"Rrrrkewwww!!!"

Frankie Forecast

Frankie gets up and goes outside every single day, wether it it was raining, cloudy, sunny or snowing.

I say to her ,”hi Frankie , you are looking very cute like you normally do !”
And in the winter , fall, the answer is usually “hssssss!!!”

Meaning, “it’s bad weather it’s raining and it’s all your fault!”

Lately it has been , “Hi Frankie, you are looking cute this morning .
” And her answer has been : “Rrrrpeohhh!”
She’s in a good mood because it is going to be a beautiful day.

Very handy to have a weather forecast cat.
Though sometimes she will want to cuddle in the morning, but it’s it because the weather is going to be good….
It’s because she is DRENCHED wet and she wants to put her wet long hair covered in wet leaves on your warm lap!!

Even Angel Kitten Sometimes Stands Her Ground

Indie, like Mieszky is one of the rare cats that never do any bad. The only bad thing that she ever does was maybe climb on the table at night when she knows she is not supposed to!


She is always kind and plays (or tries to play) with her cat siblings equally, even Frankie who always hisses at her!

She lets her siblings eat her food, so she is always the one who gets shooed off...

So it was food time, and Indie actually came, and I was feeding her and Frankie.

Big Forest Fairy Frankie gobbled up all her food.
And she turned to look at Indie's food....

DUHHHH DUHHHH!!! She had the look of the Giant from Jack and The Beanstalk eyeing her prey....

"OF COURSE Indie will surrender her food to me!" and tuned to walk over to Indie's bowl...

Indie put her ears down, cowered down... and gave Frankie two punches with her paw!

Frankie wasn't expecting this at all!

It must have took Indie such courage to do this to her Giant Big sister who is always mean to her!
But sometimes No is a NO!

She went back to being her normal
Sweet Angel Self,
with her Angel Brother Mieszky.

What is that smell???

That is T when we brought back Frankie's blanket from Cats Protection....
he sniffed the blanket in the bag for a looooong time.

"What is that strange cat smell, it must be a girl , and she must be a very bossy one...."

He had no idea, that Bossy Loud Girl cat was going to come live with us!!

I presented our cat blanket to Frankie at Cats Protection
but Frankie got bored of the blanket in 1 minute!!!

"Uh, Frankie, do you not want to smell the new cats you will be friends with soon?"

Nope, Frankie has no interest in other cats, she doesn't want to be friends with them , because she is above all that!!!

So she just turned her bottom towards and walked off.

My Favorite Things in One Place

View of the Garden
with Coffee and Cake,
and my Girls Zumzum, Hime and Frankie!!

Franke says "It's Spring!!"

Hime in her green bin tower.

And of course lots of Hime Hugs!!!

from May 18, 2023

Because My Mommy Told Me I Am Small and Delicate…

My Cat Mommy told me I have to Hiss and make my point so no one would mess with me!

She said I was delicate and tiny

(for a Maine Coon)

so I have to be tough!
Frankie says.

"See, I can fit into many boxes!" says Frankie,

yes you can SOMETIMES fit into large boxes!
...she tries!

Who Can Ride on the Kintoun （筋斗雲）？

This is the question that we have been discussing the last week.
You need a pure heart to ride the Kintoun!

Mieszky DEFINITELY CAN!

He has no bad bone in his body!
I have never seen him be mean to anyone!
He comes and licks me, looks after me.

He even let Indie come sit in his saucer with him when she's scared!
most of the cats in our house would have growled at poor Indie and would have shoo-ed her off.
But Mieszky lets her sit with him!

Uhhhh what about this Forest Fairy here....?
She says she has a pure heart ?

Um,
let's think about it for a moment,
and skip to the next person!!!!

Hime.
She is the Original Guardian Angel Cat, and loved and looked after my kids!

Yes she did "BABABAAAAA!" and hit Thor sometimes, but ,

Hime would be the first person to know if someone was sad.
She would notice, and say "baaawwwnnn! " and come over and shower you with huggies to try to make everything better.

Halloween Cat the Second?

Himepumpkin is the ultimate Halloween Cat.
She is lucky, black,
And she even comes in her own spiderwebs
from going on her nosey adventures.

....and would happily perch on our shoulder
for a broomstick ride like Gigi from "Kiki's Delivery Service"!


What do we do without our Queen?


This Halloween , someone else stepped up to the plate as the other Halloween cat.

Is it Indie, the shy Black Cat with the heart of gold?

"Noooooo Way!!!! You are not allowed to pick me up ,
and I certainly will BoINNNNG off if you try to put me on a broom OR your shoulder!"
Indie says!


Actually,
this Halloween Cat is Huge, Pumpkin Colored,
and goes,
"WHHHOooooooooohhhhhh!!!!"
like a proper ghost!

Yes it is actually Frankie, stepping up to the plate!
in all her Halloween colored coat,
she proves that Black Cats don't dominate Halloweeen,
Evil
Bipolar
Orange
Cats, too, can be the seasonal cat.

"I will do my best to
WHHHHHOooooo!
and scare everyone off like a good Halloween Cat, "
she says.

Frankie at our service.

Great View in the Garden

My favorite things,
Hime and Frankie,
and chocolate cake.

Frankie knows who the true Boss was, and showed Hime respect.
It doesn't matter if the Boss is 1/5 of the size of her, it matters who has the brains and the guts!
Girls are smart! from May16,2023

When the Summer Sun Shows Up

It makes the Fuzzies hang out like friends!!


too bad Indie is still scared to venture out and enjoy the sun...

Frankie almost looks like she's hanging out with T....

T is the same annoying cat who annoys her, but all is forgotten in the sun.

Mieszky looooving it!! He is showing his adorable tummy in the sun!