I has company!

Hi evfurryone, I has company! Grandma and Grandpa and their pets were in a bad accident while traveling in their RV. Luckily, no one was hurt, but they asked if mom and dad could come pick up the pets and keep them while they sort through the wreckage, deal wiff insurance, and buy a new RV. (They are far from home, they live 8 hours away from us. But the accident was an hour away from our house.) They're not sure how long it will take, so the pets may be here several days or a week.

Dis is Oy. He is a 7 year old long hair dachshund. He is pretty laid back and cool:

Dis is Boomer. (Which is sort of confusing to me because our cat's name is Boomer.)

Boomer is a 1 year old dachshund/golden retriever cross. Grandpa calls her a Golden Wiener, BOL!

Dis is Miss Kitty. She is still kind of scared from the accident and just wants to hang out in her crate most of the time. But she is eating and drinking and using the litter box. She is alright as far as cats go...

And dis is me. You see the look on my face? It says, "what is going on???"

Dis is what Boomer looks like most of the time. She is kind of crazy. Mom says she's just young and full of energy.

Dis picture looks furry much like the picture of me in my header. Dat's weird...

Yeah, she is crazy. Dis picture proves it, BOL!

You can see the golden retriever in her face and ears. It also gave her a pretty coat.

Here is a picture of Oy running. He runs pretty slow, BOL!

He likes to hang out by the back door and watch us run.

Mom says he is cute.

But of course, not as cute as ME!!

We still don't have a lot of time fur blogging right now, but I wanted to say "hi" to my furiends, and "I miss you!" and to show you guys what was going on around here.

Hope evfurryone is well!

Luv,

Cloud

Marfa, Marfa, Marfa!!!

Mom was at Petsmart and saw these Marfa Stewart beds and decided she was tired of me laying on top of the back of the sofa and squishing it into a swaybacked mess, so she got me one.

She knew I would look dashing and oh-so suave in Marfa Stewart Blue. She was right.

Since it's been about 800 degrees here lately, I've been spending a lot of time playing inside and hanging out on my new Marfa bed.

Easy, grrrrrls.....

As you can see in these pictures, mom had to put loud crinkly paper on top of the sofa to keep me off. Dis is because even tho I like my new Marfa bed, I prefer to lie on top of the sofa and squish it, BOL!

Mom got me dis Star Bite thingy:

It was pretty good. I carried it around fur a long time before I ate it.

Mom and I have been furry upset about sad things going on - the deaths of Bear Bear and my good friend Dr. Dre, the TX greyhounds, and close to home, the loss of a friends husband. We found dis on Puddle's site and I'm keeping my paws crossed and thinking pawsitively about a world of love. We know the good things far outweigh the bad, but sometimes it's easy to forget...

Love,

Cloud

PS. Mom is furry busy wiff work right now, so we may not be blogging much, but she says she will try to let me post at least once a week. I miss my furiends!!! :-(

I'm on a boat..!

Dis weekend mom and dad went to a big lake in western Nebraska wiff a bunch of friends. I got to go along!!! OMD, we had so much fun! We slept in a tent, ate wonderful foods, went swimming and boating, and went fur lovely walks, too.

The first morning, mom woke up early to find dis beautiful sunrise:

After breakfast, it was time fur a boat ride! Here I am modeling my life jacket. Safety first!

Me and mom on the boat. We got to watch people put long sticks on their feet and fall down in the water. Mostly they would glide on top of the water. Mostly. It was lots of fun! (No, mom didn't ski. Are you crazy? BOL!)

Later, back at shore, I did some swimming. Mom made me wear my life jacket fur to swim. Because I am such an impressive specimen of masculinity and have like 2% body fat, she was afraid I would sink like a stone.

In the evening I was furry tired from all the fun, and did lots of dis:

I will leave you wiff dis picture of me in all my suave glory, looking furry much like the Old Spice guy...

Pay attention ladies! Look at your dog, now back to me. Now back at your dog, now BACK TO ME!! Here I am, The Dog Your Dog Could Smell Like...

Woof!

Luv,

Cloud

PS. Mom wants to thank evfurryone fur voting in the kitty art show. She will let you know what happens! :-)

Would you like to vote fur kitteh art?

Hi furiends. Mom is in an online art show for the Canine Art Guild. Dis particular show is kitteh art! There is a vote fur People's Choice Award.

Mom would appreciate your vote. Of course, with all the wonderful art entered, if you see one you really love more, mom wants you to vote your conscience, BOL!

With 6 pages of art, mom says it's hard fur her to pick a favorite, and she's honored to be included.

At the bottom of the page you just have to enter your name and email, to make it fair so people don't vote more than once:

http://www.canineartguild.com/gallery/kittykitty-2.php

Mom says thank you fur your consideration.

I say, have a great weekend evfurrybody!!!

Luv,

Cloud and his mom

I went backpacking!

Since we had a little break from the heat wave on Saturday, mom and dad decided to go on an overnight backpacking trip to a nature area not far from our home. We live in the Loess Hills of Western Iowa, which are furry beautiful and furry steep... especially if you have short legs like moi. But mom said I did GREAT!

After we hiked to our campsite and set up the tent, we hiked around some more.

Here I am hiking wiff dad:

We went fur a walk in the clouds, BOL!

Look at the view!

I'm so happy!

After the hike, I rested in the tent. I also learned what a "tick check" is. Boo!

I got a tired and had to take a nap...

Dis was the view from our tent!

And dis was the view on the other side:

Pretty, huh? Mom loves these hills.

Here is a picture mom took the next day:

"Hellooooo ladies..."

BOL!

I had a lot of fun camping. If anyone wants to read more about the Loess Hills, click here. They are furry unique!

Luv,

Cloud

Cloud's Imagination

Come wiff me

And you'll be

In a world

Of Cloud's imagination

Squirrels to chase

Birds that fly

And cats

Bow down whenever dogs walk by...

We'll begin, wiff a spin

In a world

Of Cloud's imagination

Catch your tail,

the first try

Then spin around so fast

You start to fly

If you want to view Paradise

Simply look around and view it

Anything you want to, do it

Want to catch a squirrel? There's nothing to it...

There is no life I know

To compare wiff Cloud's imagination

Living there, you can play

And go fur car rides to the park each day

If you want to view Paradise

Simply look around and view it

Anything you want to, do it

Want steak and peanut butter? There's nothing to it...

By Cloud, (wiff apologies to Willy Wonka, BOL!)

My kitteh sister is 17 years old dis month!

Can you believe my sister Boomer is 17? Mom says she will probably outlive us all because she shows no sign of slowing down. She still gallops around the house, acts like she owns the place and thinks she is the Queen of the Universe.

She commandeered the box in the above photo a few weeks ago when mom re-did her files. She loves that box and lays in it all the time and would be furry sad if mom took it away. So mom let her keep it. It doesn't look furry comfurtable to me, but we all know cats are just weird...

Boomer is a slim and trim 7 pounds, has emerald eyes, and packs a mean right hook. She can bop you on the head like nobodies business! Mom says she is "berry bootiful."

Boomer LOVES to take naps!

When she is awake she is usually giving me dirty looks like dis:

Doesn't she know you catch more flies wiff honey...?

Happy Berfday to Boomer, the Queen of the Universe and Bopper of Heads!

Luv,

Cloud

Three Things...

Three things on dis Monday:

Number One - VIVA ESPANA!!! Mom was sooooo happy when they won the World Cup! It was Spain's first time ever being in the final. You could see how much it meant to them. Mom was all choked up seeing her beloved Iker crying for joy when it was over, and the emotion on his face as he held the gold trophy over his head. What a moment! What a game! What a team!

Some highlight shots. Flying Iker:

Iker makes a huge save:

The winning goal by Iniesta!

Mom has watched dis video of Iker kissing his reporter girlfriend about 100 times dis morning. She keeps saying "awwwww..."

Congrats to the Dutch for their spectacular tournament as well.

And congrats to South Africa, for sharing your beautiful country wiff the world and being such incredible hosts!

The other two things are, the baffroom remodel is going well, but with an older house you always run into problems you didn't expect. But it's coming along and is a little over half way done. Some of you have asked if my pawrents were using the outside fur their baffroom like I do, but no. There is a small baffroom in the basement.

The Third thing is, I don't think Tank's plan to mail all the squirrels to the Squirrel Cage Jail here in town will work. The people in my town are completely crazy. They love their squirrels and the town is somewhat famous for them because a lot of them are black. A black squirrel is the town mascot. It's even against the law to harm or harass a black squirrel here. They would never agree to lock them up, even if the jail clearly says SQUIRREL on it! I'll write a separate post about it soon. From a dogs point of view, it's truly messed up.

Well, that's it fur now. Mom needs the computer back.

Luv,

Cloud