Hello Once Again

We tried to sign on again yesterday and our computer was acting up.  Strange things were blinking at us and we couldn't access anything.  We called the cable company, and their answer was "it's not our problem".  Since mama doesn't have the kind of green papers it costs to fix the puter, we started trying to figure out what to do.  Then mama remembered long ago we had to do something with the history of the puter ??? Anyway, it worked and we are back.
Yesterday was not good anyway, cause we had the parametics here in the early morning.  Since they weren't cute ones, I stayed in my room. The end result is mama is leaving this morning to go to the doctor to have her insulin amounts once again adjusted. Better they take her blood than mine! This will be an all day thing, so anyone want to come over and snuggle in the nice blankies, please do.  We have lots of Denties, but the fridge only has boring stuff in it.  Like left over green beans and stuff. Maybe there's a little cheese, though. The fish (salmon) is in the freezer, though.  Darn. That's harder to open.
love,
brandi

Miss Me?

We had troubles with our blog, like Daisy.  And Huffle's mom helped us out. We are sorry I have been away so long, but that is part of my excuse. So, I got new stuff. A second page with this loonnnngg list of friends.  I know a couple of my woofie friends aren't on there yet, but have patience. You will be! And new pink colors for me. And a few things to take care of.
But being away meant not being able to say how our hearts go out to Sue and Edsel's family, and Beau and Cathy's family. And we didn't get to do Mo Cats Day, or pay tribute to the fallen of 9/11. But in our hearts, we were there.
love and hugs to all,
brandi

Hello Again

Whew! Mama camed back from helping at the food bank with lots of stuff.  They let the volunteers have some of the remainders, and she gotted lots of applesauce (unsweetend) and bread stuff and something called sparegrass. Sparegrass??? Didn't look like grass to me.  And some more stuff, including figs (yuck) and beef stew (yay!).
This is a really hot day here. The food bank was hot, too. Sposed to be around 94 degrees F here. Mama kept the air cooly thingy on for me.
She is doing okay.  I have been extra nice. Oh, except for yesterday morning.
 The great gray predator queen stalked her prey quietly. Quickly she pounced! And when the prey    didn't wake up, she walked right up to its ear and let out a mighty MROW!
You should have seen mama jump.
Yes, we are both okay now. I still have some tricks up my paw....
love,
brandi
ps. Please let us know if you are having problems with my blog.  There have been problems and we hope they are fixed.  If not, we are in deep doodoo. And I'm not talking litterbox here.

Happy Monday

Mommy is sick today. So I gotta keep this short.  She woked up really early this morning and her tummy was upset.  She said something like "I got a bug" but I swear, I never saw her eat it.  She was sleeping!
It was more like a hairball. Or six. I had to keep checking on her (Nursey brandi to the rescue!). I offered to sit on her tummy for her and keep it warm, but she sorta said "Not on your life!"  She kept getting up and running into my litterbox room, so I guess I could'nt have got comfy any way.
She finally kept something down  besides water, and had some chicken soop.  And, ya know, I let her have all of it and didn't complain once! Somebody with that much stuff coming out needs to put something back.
Coming, mama..... (nursey duties never end)
Lets take a nappy now???
love
brandi

National Relaxation Day

My Pet Food Delivery place says this is National Relaxation Day.
Don't we do that every day?? Oh, with the exception of kittens with no off button, of course.
We have not been around lately. Busy stuff and also some medical emergency stuff.  Not me.  Mama. She has been having hypoglycemia problems.  That's low blood sugar.  Today she became semi comatose. BAD.
So I am back to being nursey. Sigh.  An owner's duty to her pet.  Gotta keep them healthy so they remember to FEED ME. SCRITCHY ME. CHANGE THE LITTER BOX.
We really don't want the police or the paramedics to show up at our door AGAIN.
Unless they are cute and like kitties.
love,
brandi

Sad news~Send Prayers

This is Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg. His offices in Oslo were bombed today. Several people were injured. No, I am not making any political statement or anything. I am half Norwegian, and our family still has a farm a little north of Oslo. I merely want to send prayers to the country and to it's people, and hope others will too.
Mama Carol

Norway horror: 80 die in camp shooting, 7 in blast

By NILS MYKLEBOST, AP

OSLO, Norway — A homegrown terrorist set off a deadly explosion in downtown Oslo before heading to a summer camp dressed as a police officer to commit one of the deadliest shooting sprees in history, killing at least 80 people as terrified youths ran and even swam for their lives, police said Friday.
Police initially said about 10 were killed at the forested camp on the island of Utoya, but some survivors said they thought the toll was much higher. Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early Saturday they had discovered many more victims.
"It's taken time to search the area. What we know now is that we can say that there are at least 80 killed at Utoya," Maeland said. "It goes without saying that this gives dimensions to this incident that are exceptional."
A suspect in the shootings, and the Oslo explosion that killed seven people, was arrested.
A police official said the suspect appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that "it seems like that this is not linked to any international terrorist organizations at all." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that information had not been officially released by Norway's police.
The official added, however, "it's still just hours since the incident happened. And the investigation is going on with all available resources."
The motive was unknown, but both attacks were in areas connected to the ruling Labor Party government. The youth camp, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northwest of Oslo, is organized by the party's youth wing, and the prime minister had been scheduled to speak there Saturday.
 The blast in Oslo, Norway's capital and the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, left a square covered in twisted metal, shattered glass and documents expelled from surrounding buildings. Most of the windows in the 20-floor high-rise where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his administration work were shattered. Other buildings damaged house government offices and the headquarters of some of Norway's leading newspapers.
Police said the Oslo explosion was caused by "one or more" bombs.
The police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Oslo bombing occurred at 3:26 p.m. local time (1:26 p.m. GMT), and the camp shootings began one to two hours later. The official said the gunman used both automatic weapons and handguns, and that there was at least one unexploded device at the youth camp that a police bomb disposal team and military experts were working on disarming.
National police chief Sveinung Sponheim said seven people were killed by the blast in downtown Oslo, four of whom have been identified, and that nine or 10 people were seriously injured.
Sponheim said a man was arrested in the shooting, and the suspect had been observed in Oslo before the explosion there.
Sponheim said the camp shooter "wore a sweater with a police sign on it. I can confirm that he wasn't a police employee and never has been."
Oslo University Hospital said 12 people were admitted for treatment following the Utoya shooting, and 11 people were taken there from the explosion in Oslo. The hospital asked people to donate blood.
Stoltenberg, who was home when the blast occurred and was not harmed, visited injured people at the hospital late Friday. Earlier he decried what he called "a cowardly attack on young innocent civilians."
"I have message to those who attacked us," he said. "It's a message from all of Norway: You will not destroy our democracy and our commitment to a better world."
The United States, European Union, NATO and the U.K., all quickly condemned the bombing, which Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called "horrific" and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen deemed a "heinous act."
Nobel Peace Prize Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said it appeared the camp attack "was intended to hurt young citizens who actively engage in our democratic and political society. But we must not be intimidated. We need to work for freedom and democracy every day."

Associated Press reporters Bjoern H. Amland in Hoenefoss, Norway, Karl Ritter and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm, Matthew Lee and Rita Foley in Washington, Paisley Dodds in London, and Paul Schemm in Tripoli, Libya, contributed to this report.

Hot Enough for You?

We are certainly getting tired of beans asking us that! But we are eternally grateful for our nice home now.  This place has the air cooly thingy and we are comfortable.  We used to be miserable in our old place without it. I can't even remember how many fans we had on in the place. One to two in every room! And in the winter, it was blankies all over the place! Not here!
We are feeling very sympathetic to beans in the heat wave who don't have air cooly thingies.  We've been there!
Please remember to tell your beans to drink a lot of water and, hey if your place is hot, ask for a couple ice cubes in your water! And tell them to check on you and on baby beans and elderly beans!
Stay as cool and safe as you can!
Mommy is volunteering tomorrow at the food bank, but it is sort of cool there.
love,
brandi
 ps. Today is the anniversary of the first walk on the moon. I think space exploration ends tomorrow.  At least the shuttles are grounded anyway.
Today is also the anniversary of my mommy leaving her house by boat one summer when she was living in Missouri. She said it was pretty bizarre sitting in a boat going by trees in her front yard, and holding on to her woofie. She was young enough to think it was an adventure, but old enough to help clean up after the waters receeded.

Not Fair!

Yesterday mama had to go to the clinic and she was gone a long time.  She had lunch there, and didn't bring me any leftovers!
Well, she did share breakfast and dinner.  But STILL!
And this morning she had crumpets, which I am not that fond of. And she didn't share that.
Then this morning she destroyed my artwork in my bedroom.  It's MY bedroom. All those little footie prints I worked so hard at. Gone.
This is turning out to be a rotten day.
And I even was nice when I woked her up this morning.
Geezz!
Oh, and the 4th was kinda okay this year. Getting used to the noise, I guess.  And that chenile blankie....
love,
brandi

Happy 4th of July!

love,

brandi

&

Mama Carol

I'm still Here!

I know it's been a while.  We took a little break. Really nothing to write about much.... Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Mama has been running the movies for movie night and also puts up on her board free stuff around town, like free concerts and stuff. She is also volunteering to work for the food bank two days a month. She was sick last night after the movie ("the King's Speech") and most of today, so I got to play nursie today, and Traci was warned not to come over so she wouldn't catch whatever it is mom has. She has slept most of the day (always smart) and I curled up on top of her so she wouldn't move (always comfy). And now she feels a little better (you're welcome, mama).
The last time we looked at the temperature today it said 97.  I am Sooooo glad we have the air blowy thing! And mama left it on all night last night! It was 80 when we went to bed!
So, that catches things up pretty much. And here's a picture to remind everyone what I look like in case you forgotted:

Chenille blankies are the best!

love,

brandi