Upside Down Cats

When you buy a statue to display in your home, it sits where you place it until you move it somewhere else.

That is so old.

Introducing new and improved sculpture for your home...

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Today is our Abbey's birthday. Our eldest turned fourteen today.

Those teenagers sure do sleep a lot!



Here she is celebrating her special day with a Girl's Day Out (of the bedroom where they usually sleep for extended periods). Abbey's the one in the middle flanked by Beemer (top) and Desi (left). It looks as if she is enjoying her birthday, no?

You may not recognize her in this position, but she's the Upside Down star of my header. She's so multifaceted!

Happy Birthday, Special Girl! Your whole family adores you (obviously!).

Sunny Spot...

Here comes the sun...finally!!!

Here's Abbey and Cooper worshiping the Sun King!

And while we're on the subject, (what subject was that, exactly?) let us take a moment to enjoy a very cool musical interlude...

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Welcome, Cooper, to the Upside Down Cat Club! This is the first time I've caught his upside down antics with the camera!

It appears our son has started the weekend early...kickin' back and chillin' out!

Ahh, the life of a cat...well, at least a cat in our house!

I don't think I've ever looked that content in my whole life! ...And they say humans are the more highly evolved species?

I wanna be a cat!

(I hope the cat privates don't offend!)

I've mentioned before that our cats are our kids. As such, they each have their responsibilities to the household, just like the rest of us.

Here is proof that Cooper is officially old enough to pull his own weight.

No one gets a free ride around here!

(psst...I think you missed a spot, Buddy...!)

I took the day off yesterday.

Sure, it was Sunday, but I had things I felt obliged to do...grocery shopping, laundry folding and putting away, pan scrubbing, bill paying, blogging...you know, the essentials to life as we know it... These are also chores I find it difficult to do during the week when my days are busy and my hours run late.

And sure, it was freaking freezing here in Midwest Paradise...The high temperature here was 14 degrees. That's not really inspiring weather to leave the house!

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Our two-year-old cat, Cooper, is one of those cats who retrieves things for his people. He is fond of bringing me a sock, a sweatshirt, (clean or dirty...doesn't seem to matter to him) a shoe or a slipper. He also has an affinity for stuffed animals, which exist in great abundance at this daycare home. It is a common occurrence to awake to find that a Beanie Babies gorilla has mysteriously appeared in the middle of the living room floor...Not particularly harmonious with the rest of our decorating scheme!

Lately, he has become obsessed with a little stuffed blue bear wearing a red sweater. It is a decorative bear that is part of my Winter decor. Or, rather, that's what I thought. Apparently, Cooper has an entirely different idea of where the bear belongs...Several times a day, no matter how many times I return the bear to his basket of pine cones, Cooper drags him out! Sometimes he carries the bear to the middle of the living room, sometimes to the bottom of the stairs and sometimes all the way down to the daycare! One night in the dark my foot brushed against something soft in the middle of the upstairs hallway...the blue bear, of course!

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I was reading a piece on Mr Besilly's One Man's Highway blog today entitled, Kitty Wigs Is Open For Biznazz.

I wholeheartedly agree with Mr Besilly's assessment of the people who advocate these fashion wigs for cats. He accuses those who anthropomorphize cats to this extent of absolute lunacy! Accessorizing your cat as if she/he were a person says far more about your emotional stability - or lack thereof - than it does about your love for your cat!

His post has inspired a mini-rant of my own...

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Here's a sight to make you smile...

If I didn't know better, I would say it was our Desi as a kitten...

Thanks, Cousin Rachel, for sharing the December page of your cat calendar!

This is too cute for words, so I won't detract from your enjoyment of this adorable spectacle with any...

Oh, the things you find when you clean up...!

This was on the front of a card I had received and saved in one of the endless piles in my spare room which I recently decluttered.

Apparently, long before I started Upside Down Cats, The Blog, I was a fan of upside down cats themselves!

I have no idea how many years ago this treasure had been lost in my "walk-in closet," but I'm sure glad I found it!

I just wanted to share it with the class today!