Happy Easter everyone!

I decided to wake mommy up before the sun this morning.  She spent the next elebenty hours blowing her nose (she now has a cold). Then she visited the litterbox room and and and went back to bed!
Was I mad? No, of course not.  I got denties in bed this morning!
Poor mama, though. She has avoided colds aaalllll winter. She thought she would make it to summer without having a cold. Ha!
But with all the coughing and sneezing and nose blowing I really don't want to cuddle with her.
She's way too loud and the ride is way too bumpy! I'll take a safe corner of the bed, instead.
So Happy Easter everyone. 
Bless you each and everyone, no matter what your faith.
love
bunnybrandi

It's Sunny!

It's finally sunny! And a whole 40 degrees F!
A Sunny Sunday!
I've been basking in the warmth from the sun coming in the windows ALL morning.
There's something about morning sun....
zzzzzzzzzz
brandi

Hello Again

Mama wented to the bean vet today about her leg. She still hurties, but it is not broke.  It still is infected though.
We cuddled for a couple hours this afternoon.
She goes to another doctor Friday, but I PROMISE it has nothing to do  with me.  It's about her toofies. So there.
Tomorrow night she is showing the Blues Brothers at movie night. They don't show a lot of new movies cause of all the older people who live here. But once in a while they do. They showed the newer version of True Grit. And the movie Red. So far. 
Tracie is coming to see us on Saturday. Yea!
That's what's happening.  You are all caught up.
Oh, yeah.  They said something about snow again but I think they are lies.
Rain to make the flowers grow and the grass get green. NOT SNOW!
love
brandi

Remember Me?

Spring has poked through the winter dirty white snow banks. Mommy fell yet again only this time I had nothing to do with it. Really. She fell last week in the community room.  I am not allowed in there. No furries are. So there!
She attended the resident council meeting last week and agreed to chair Movie Night. And promptly fell off the little stage area on Movie Night. . She ended up going to the bean vet Saturday cause of her leg.  I think my pee and her leg didn't agree with each other, cause her leg is all infected now and she was running a fever.  But she's, yes, taking yet another pill. And tomorrow she goes to the bone vet about her leg and the arthur itis. And she feels better.
But her knee is still hurtie and her leg is still too warm.
And yes, children,
she still loves me....
brandi

I hurtied mama

Yesterday I kinda peed outside the box.  And when mama walked by the litterbox she fell. And so mama got hurtied.
I am sorry, mama. Really I am. 
She hurtied her knee and her foot and her ankle and fell in my pee.  Her leg went way back under her and I thought she broked it, but she didn't.
I am sorry, mama. Really I am.
She was very upset. Specially since when she tried to get up she fell again.
Traci camed over and she helped mama clean everything up.
But mama really hurtied.
She took some pain pills and slept a lot. She also iced her knee. And now she limps.
I am sorry, mama.  Really I am.
And thank you for giving me my denties anyway.
I gotta be really nice for a while.
love
brandi

An Important Note from Mama Carol

I just read Mr. Hendrix's last comment to brandi. Just take it slow and I'll be there like when daddy takes mama's arm when her back is hurty. I have just finished reading Making Rounds with Oscar by Dr. David Dosa, and that comment really got to me. As Oscar visits each dementia patient before they pass over and offers purrs and comfort to them, even if they don't really understand or know, it is also important for us to do the same for our animals and other loved ones before they pass over the rainbow bridge. Be there. Remember all the times they were here for us, and be there.
Our animals are family to us. Brandi is getting older. She's already 18. I love her til death parts us and will remember her til I can no longer remember.
This is very important for everyone in the cat blogosphere to do for our animals and our other loved ones.
love,
Mama Carol
and purrs for all from brandi
next entry on this blog will be from brandi, I hope and promise.

Uh oh

Last night the rain was coming down and smashing into the windows hard.  The wind was howling. It was a perfect night for mama to crawl into bed and me to jump on top of her!
And when we got up this morning? Snow. Snow. And more snow!
And so we both went back to bed.
What happened to Spring is Coming? Remember, this is Minnesnowta!
Crap.
I was done with winter.
love,
brandi

Tuesday Stuff

The last couple of days it has been really foggy here. I mean deadly foggy! I mean we couldn't see anything out the window except white. Now the wind is howling, its raining, and *meow* they say there is snow in the forcast. So much for spring for awhile!
I have been kind of  "under the weather", but relax.  It's just my age. It creeps up on all of us. I just take life a little slower now.
My mama has been doing well. She's still doing the Thursday night at the movies thing in the community room.
I haven't seen Traci in a while.  She was sick last week.
That about sums it up.  I curl up a lot and sleep.  But that's my job, right?
That and testing Denties.
So far I haven't found any bad Denties.  They've been doing a good job.
The daybed is still comfy.
A + for both.
love
brandi

Furrizens! Spring is coming!

This morning the sun shone bright on my daybed and it felt a little odd. A little too warm. Then I knew! Spring!
Open the windows, it's 50 degrees out! The snow is melting! Sniff that breeze!  It's saying spring is almost here!
Now, when the snow melts the grass will begin to green and the trees begin to bud. Spring!
It better not snow again!
Oh, wait.  This is Minnesnowta.
Cross your paws, efurryone! Let's all wish for SPRING.
love,
brandi

Friday Stuff

The doctor was happy with mommy's A1C test.  It was two whole points lower than last time (that's good). The "team" has told her to lower her insulin. And remember to eat.
Mama made a casserole last night and guess what. It had tunies in it. And I gotted some! And I still got my sammon Temptations!
Mama says I am very spoiled.
Mama goes back to the doctors Monday, but it is a different kind, and they don't take blood. And she better take something with her to eat!
Since she has been eating healthier she doesn't need as much insulin, but she can't forget about eating or making sure she eats enough carbs.
Don't worry. Mommy has been a diabetic for many years.  It's just that eating healthier changes things.
And I have a secret. Mama's birthday is Saturday!  Don't tell. She's old.
love,
brandi
ps. What the heck is a carb and does it taste good????