https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDbYR0ExLw0

The above is a video from the owners of the two Bengal cats, Pixel, and Sushi. When I played this compilation of two year's condensed cat meows, cries, grunts, and warbles, I was hoping to hear and recognize some of Farrah's odd sounds.

The external speaker sits just to the right of the monitor, on top of my computer tower so sounds aren't always connected to what happens on the screen. To make a long story short, Farrah was absolutely galvanized by the sounds.

She jumped up, three or more feet, and totally ignoring the cats moving on the screen, she circled over and around the computer tower and repeatedly sniffed the external speaker. She just knew those cats were somewhere and she was going to ferret them out!

I think she may become like Sarah if she ever connects what's happening on the monitor screen to the sound effects.

Angelface - My daughter's cats make noises sometimes that startle me! I watched the video and also found a video there on how to Bengal-proof your house. I shared it on FB with my daughter. They're in the process of re-doing an 1800s house while living in it

Larry - When he first started walking the cat, it created second looks from some of the neighbors.  The harness he uses looks comfortable, nicely padded and all.

The mowers have been here and also the pest control people. Temp outside is 90 and it's sunny.

One of my smaller gripes with Windows 10.........I can't figure out how to make the degree symbol.

Beverly, press at the same time Alt 0176.  That makes the degree symbol.  °

Mary

º  It worked!

Thanks, Mary.

My old way of doing it (alt 167) came up with a blank.

Wish that was the only problem I have with Win 10!

Tom and I went to the funeral this morning and I saw only one person I knew.  We stayed for lunch, then left.  I don't know what they were going to do after lunch.

I played the Bengal sounds and Kendrick did come into the room and seemed interested  in the sounds, but he did not look at the computer screen.  I saved the link.  I'm going to look for "houseproofing" Bengals.  Kendrick likes to get at the Kleenex boxes when we're not here.  I had one box with the tissues facing the back of the couch and that is the one he went after.  I think he's upset because we both were gone.

It's been quite warm here today and I think we're near 80 degrees now.  I sat on the deck quite a while with the cat.  He wanders around, sometimes stretches out on the deck, sometimes stalks something unknown to me.  I'm not dressed for lounging on the deck yet. 

Mary Ann

Hi all.  We are having cooler weather the last few days, only in the 70's.

Not much news from here so will just leave you all with  HUGS,

Good morning everyone.

Weather should be nice enough today for me to cut some of my  lawn. Ugh, but it has to be done.

Beverly, for a while my best friend walked his first two cats. Orion was especially fond of going for walks. Not long before he got the cats, George moved into a new neighborhood. The walks became a conversation opener which helped him to get to know his neighbors. Because of ill health for about three years, the walks ceased. What amazes me is that George (originally a dog person) now has five cats.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
           to
  MARYPAGE!!!



And many more!
shirleyn.

Thank you, Miss Shirley.  Daughter Anne came by as a huge surprise yesterday.  She brought a humongous bouquet of freshly cut German bearded iris from her garden.  That is my favorite flower, and I miss it so much now that I don't have my own garden.  You cannot grow iris in my blue pots.  She also brought me some special chocolate and caramel cupcakes she made herself and a lovely birthday card with a Barnes & Noble gift certificate in it.  I have also already had quite a few cards in the mail, and more B&N gift cards.  Chip is going to take me on an adventure shopping trip to Wegman's in Gambrills today, which is about half an hour from here.  We will have lunch there, and then stop at Cold Stone Creamery on the way home. 
We had another soppy, rainy day yesterday, but today has dawned full of blazing sunshine.  A glorious day for an adventure. 
Tomorrow is Blue Angels Day, this being Commissioning Week.  That means all the schools let out at noon, and the family here will take the boat out for best viewing.  I will watch what I can from here, as I no longer do the boat thing.  Then Debi, Maria, Kathryn, Ava and Chip will take me to a late lunch at Sam's.  Thursday a friend is coming over from West Virginia to take me to lunch.  Next Thursday son Rob, who is just back from an adventure trip down the Colorado River, will come and show me all his photos of that and take me to lunch.  So I am much indulged.  Son Chip tells everyone:  "Mom is enjoying her Birthday Season!"  True! True!  Zippity Do Dah!

Hi everyone.  It is another beautiful day with zero chance of rain.  It is to get up to 87 degrees this afternoon.  The schedule today is light as we only have our Senior Luncheon at 11:30 this morning and the rest of the day is clear.

Yesterday turned out to be very busy.  I sprayed the insect barrier around the house and then repotted my front porch flowers, which turned out to be quite a big job.  I found two of the containers that came with the house had no holes in the bottoms of them to let excess water drain out.  So I fixed that and put some rocks in the bottom, then potting soil and took the flowers from the containers they came in and planted them.  It doesn't sound like much but it was almost too much for me as couldn't stay upright by the time I finished and was bent over like a little old man.  However, a few minutes rest restored some of my energy and I was able to make it to my meeting on time.  Scott came over about 5 pm last night and helped his mother fix a surf and turf dinner.  We had a small package of frozen shrimp and also finished up the three steaks we had left from the Omaha Steaks we got at Christmas time.  Pat baked some fresh roles and we also had fresh sweet corn.  It was a delicious meal.  It was a nice evening. 

Mary Ann, I have only been to one Catholic funeral and that was for Pat's grandmother.  It was many years ago but do remember it was pretty long in comparison to most protestant funerals I have attended. 

Enjoyed the discussion of the various cat antics you all shared yesterday. 

Joan, it sounds like a very enjoyable temperature you have been having. 

Sorry I missed sharing a Happy Birthday wish with you yesterday MaryPage.  It sounds like you were well remembered on your Birthday and now can do some serious Barnes and Noble shopping.  Not bad having a Birthday Season!

Nope, you did not miss, Larry.  My birthday is TODAY, May 24th.  It is just that I started celebrating it earlier.  Might as well string out a good thing as long as you can get away with!  Thank you for the greetings.

MaryPage, I wish you a glorious birthday and birthday season although, with that family, it should be a sure thing! If I had my PSP working, you'd see a card but I am getting my new computer tomorrow, or at least new to me, from the local Literacy Council.

So enjoy your day, season and family! Oh, and also the Coldstone creamery! 

Happy Birthday MaryPage,

Bearded Iris and Narcissus/Daffodils are my favorites. I have some tall white Iris that had a scent that when they were originally given to me years ago. When I moved to an apartment while at college, I gave some to my sister and some of my girlfriend who took them back to Colorado with her. When I moved to this house, my girlfriend brought some back for me to plant. Sadly, they no longer have a scent.

Larry, it is.  I know we will be sweltering soon so this is very pleasant for now. 

MaryPage, Happy Birthday Season - and many more.  I think it is fun to stretch birthdays out.

I think we are to get up to the mid 80s today which is quite warm for this time of the year, but I'll take it.  Tom went to the store for me yesterday and I have the perishables put away but there is work to be done in the kitchen so I guess I have my work cut out for me.

Watching the video of the Bengals, Patricia, I could see where Kendrick's part Bengal is - in the stripes on his legs and tail.  But he does not have the circles on the center of his body.  It may have been the camera or lighting, but those cats did not seem as orange as Kendrick is.  His center part of his body is faintly striped.  If I can find the pictures I put on this computer, I'll send one or more to you.  Oh, his head and ears are Bengal.  While we were are the funeral yesterday, he did a number on the Kleenex box and he's done it before.  Temper, temper!

Mary Ann

It's called "Separation Anxiety."  Talk to him before you go out and assure him you will be back.

I had one cat once who would hop up and pee right in the MIDDLE of my bed if I were gone longer than she cared for.  Never had a female cat after that.  In my way of things, all dog pets should be female and all cat pets should be male.  Works for me!

And yes, it WAS anxiety on her part.  She never, ever peed anywhere else.  Never.  Ever.  (except, of course, where she was supposed to)

The Blue Angels are here practicing for their Big Show tomorrow.  Then they will stay here in Patuxent until Friday so they can do a fly over salute to the Naval Academy Class of 2016.  Gorgeous day here today, and supposed to be even better, if that were possible, tomorrow.  So glad for these future admirals, because they were much afraid their week was to be spoiled by a continuation of our month of monsoon.  Well, I tell you this:  that sun is THERE and its shining brightly!

Good afternoon, just a little after 12.  i am waiting for my DIL to come down from Mass. to spend a couple of days.  Of course it is raining. She is taking the 11AM ferry in New London, Conn. takes one hour 40 min. if the weather is nice on the Long Island Sound.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  Mary Page. enjoy your day.

Patricia, I see your ketty is getting you well trained.

MaryPage, have a very Happy Birthday dear. I know it will be grand, you have such a loving family. CHEERS !

Now my friend had a dog that would do that. Pee in the middle of her bed if she left it.

Now my one dog. He knew better. His trick was to take every throw rug in the house.( We just had hardwood floors with these rugs everywhere. Had to be at least a dozen. Even did the bathrooms. All piled up in the living room. He would even be sitting on them when we got back.
I suppose like what your children did we thought cute. So same with the dog. Now I have a parrot that just spits all the Sunflower seeds through the cage bars. Hard to find food with none in there. Fixed cloths pins all down that side so at least it is not smart enough to go to one of the other sides. Just the one next to my chair.  Not so cute.....

Happy Birthday, MaryPage.  These birthdays come around too often, don't they?

I have quite a peeing in the bed story to relate!

We had this small, miniature Schnauzer, Wirehair terrier mix. An extremely bright dog. One time we stayed an unplanned overnight at friends and when we returned, Maggie had dug through the bedspread, two sheets and a mattress pad, into the mattress itself and then pooped precisely in that small hole she'd made.

Another time, she had fallen, (or dashed?); out the window, we were on the second floor, and we rushed her to the vet only to find a number of scratches and just a small amount of being banged up. The vet gave her medication so she would sleep and all the way home and later, she stubbornly stood and shook until that medication was totally out of her system!

She never gave in or gave up. I would recommend terriers to active folks, families and those who didn't mind their dog being perhaps smarter than they were!

Happy Birthday MaryPage.

I do tell Kendrick that "I will be back" when I leave my bedroom if he is on my bed.  Of course, he is not there when I return.  Talk about peeing in the bed - he hasn't tried that yet, but he did leave a little poop by the toilet in my bathroom.  I don't go downstairs so I had Tom check the litter box to see what condition it was in.  Annie is supposed to come once a week to change the litter but she doesn't always make it.  Tom is really good about doing it, but I think it needed changing and the cat let me know!  At least he used the bathroom. 

In 1935 we were at a cottage on Lake Ripley near Cambridge WI and my folks let friends use our house.  They had a cat who one time used the bathroom to do its business.  Mother always got a kick out of telling about that cat.

It is quite warm here today, in the 80s.  I sat on the deck for some time and the cat was out with me and rested in the shade.  The sun was getting near where I sat so we came back in.  I think a storm is headed this way, maybe tomorrow.

Mary Ann

What a fine morning for mowing. Yuck! This afternoon will be up around 85 and we have an air quality alert in place. Super!

As I type I am being visited by Squirrel Nutcase who is busy running across the porch roof and climbing my window screens. I reported this strangeness to Oscar, who has been following the action from inside. Squirrel on the outside, cat on the inside, back and forth, back and forth.

Hi everyone on another beautiful day.  I should have a pretty quiet day today with just my usual morning chores of tending my flowers and plants and doing my Internet reading of discussions and the email.  I didn't even have to empty the dishwasher as we ate at the church yesterday for a large noon meal.  We had a delicious quiche made with a grits crust, a cheese feeling topped with the egg mixture and another later of cheese.  We had a nice salad and roll to go with it and a thin slice of mixed berry pie.  It was a large meal.  This evening is our last Wednesday night dinner until the fall and is the traditional hamburgers, hot dogs and all the fixings with dessert. 

Patricia, have fun with your new computer today. 

MaryPage, can you view the Blue Angels show from your patio or home?  Glad the weather is now nice for the graduation. 

deAngel, glad you will have your DIL visiting. 

JeanneP, it sounds like your dog knew how to get your attention.  I take it your parrot doesn't like Sunflower seeds.  At least the Sunflower seeds should be fairly easy to clean up. 

MarsGal, it sounds like the squirrel is just taunting your cat to come out and chase him.  We saw the first squirrel we have seen since moving here.  He was sitting on top of our wooden fence in back but didn't get into our yard and jumped back down on the other side of the fence.  While squirrels can be fun to watch they can also do a lot of damage as I know from experience.

Yes, I can see the Blue Angels from my home, Larry, but not their entire detailed show.  Their show centers on the Naval Academy right where it borders on Annapolis Harbor, but of course, because it is up there in the sky and because they are jets zooming across the broad blue skies at incredible speeds, they have a very wide range for their act.  I should say acts, because if you have seen a Blue Angels performance, you know that they come in all six in tight and unbelievable formation, and then two of them split off.  We never know which direction of the compass they will choose to enter the space above us and start showing off.  Thousands of boats, little dinghies to grand yachts, fill up the harbor and the mouth of the Severn River where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay, for this is the very best place from which to view the entire circumference of their aerial gymnastics.  From my deck/balcony I can see these watercraft pouring in from every direction.  I can also see heaps of my neighbors sitting out in yard chairs down at our beach or on the green, green grass next to the heap of rocks down there;  from there you can see just about everything.
So the bottom line is, yes:  first I HEAR them, and if you have never heard them, I must tell you the noise is deafening.  And I can see them from my front, kitchen deck/balcony, but only because they have to fly that far and further in order to circle around and back to the focus of their audience.  I see more from the back deck which faces the water and the humongous fleet of boats anchored there to catch the Blue Angels.  I see a lot of their maneuvers in the sky from there, but most definitely not the whole show.  After the six come in together, four of the planes stay together and perform marvelous tricks;  but two take off on their own, sometimes doing 2 plane tricks and, more often, totally on their own and doing simply unbelievable stuff.  They perform for about an hour, and then all of a sudden they are tight together again in their six plane formation and heading way, way off into the distance.  And they are gone.  And a silence is left behind.  Then everyone emits a collective sigh, and the little to large boats gather themselves and toot all manner of horns by way of clapping and turn around, many saying goodbyes to their neighbor boats, and take off in the directions from which they came.  Until another year.  Until another Naval Academy graduation week.

MaryPage, I love to watch them on TV but I don't think I could take all the noise in person.

Mom

I hope that you had a great time
celebrating your Birthday!! 

All is well here on the rocky coast
of Maine.    Summer is coming but
has not landed,   so far (when it lands
it gets HOT)!   

I am enjoying the wonderful weather
we are having.

Have a great day,
EVERYONE!

Sandy

Good morning from a foggy, rainy Interior again....  Hi Sandy!

The Blue Angels perform here infrequently and also another troupe, the Thunderbirds I believe? I agree the noise is tremendous, but the show is worth it!

Farrah stayed out all day and last night, a new high, and this morning has yet to disappear or become at all skittish. She has even decided that the bathroom holds no terrors here, she is not immediately locked in as she was at the foster home. I've eliminated the wooden bowl that I kept the toys in for Sarah as Farrah simply goes and digs them all out again. She ignores the toys that Sarah enjoyed and plays with the ones that Sarah would have ignored.

She is always very alert and pays particular attention to voices and movements outside in the hallway or the birds in the trees or  in the sky, not fearful of them as Sarah. She also jumps with a lot of power, a long leap and "thump" whereas Sarah, with her amputated tail, could not. I have barricaded the plant table with large items at the edge. The one time she attempted a jump, I sprayed her with the combo of water laced with a fourth cup of vinegar. This is a trick I learned years ago from Pet Pride and the vinegar is good for their coats. The trick is not to soak but to ambush quickly and stop, a deternent.

Farrah is not affectionate, Sarah loved and needed close contact, I think it helped allay all that she experienced outdoors, where Farrah seems to need activity and sometimes a pal. She purrs when her back is rubbed and comes for that, but do not attempt to pick her up as she digs in her claws to the carpet and whines. In any case, Sarah was eight or older and we know from her chip that Farrah is four.

I think, MarsGal, that she would join Oscar as here she sees the squirrels using the phone or electrical  wires as a convenient highway.

MaryAnn, Farrah also has the large wider stripes on her thighs and belly, but her facial markings are very similar to an Abysinnian. Her behavior also tends to what I've read about Abysinnian. Her jumps are from simple curiosity whereas Bengals, from what I understand, love and seek heights. Her coat along the back has several thin regimented stripes set closely together, with her lower belly orange and chest pure white but her overall coloring is a grey tabby.

I'm hoping that everyone has a sunny day if only in their enjoyment and heres wishing Joan and MaryPage are still enjoying the fallout from their birthdays!

Thanks Angel, tis well over for another year.