new cat behavior

::Meowwww::

Welcome back to my garden!  Seems we had our 2 days of 90 degree weather and now we're right back down in the 70's.  Sigh.  At least the warmer weather did wonders for my tomatoes!

We had bees buzzing in the buddliea.

Our pears are getting ready to eat.  If mom stops being lazy, perhaps she can dry some or make pear sauce.

My brother Figaro was busy trying to look handsome.  Apparently quite a few of you girl kitties...and mothers too (sheesh!!) want to be his girlfurriend.  Figgy is a bit overwhelmed with all of the attention.

I feel I must let you girls know exactly what you are getting into.  I mean when Figgy says he gets a wee bit dirty...::ahem:: LOOK AT THOSE PAWS!!!!

If you biggify the picture below you can see the garden stuff in his furrs!

I tell you he's a regular Pig Pen!

But he's a love...and I think he wants to be boyfriend girlfriend with everyone!!!

He's only 2...what does he know?   He'll have to figure this out on his own. 

In the meantime he needs to help me in the yard!

I'm thinking I need a girlfriend.

Someone who understands that I'm handsome but get scratches on my nose.  I get stuff stuck in my furrs.  I sometimes let my paws stay a tad dirty.  I'm a good provider and can catch birdies and mousies.

What do you meow girls?

Guess what time it is?  It's my sister Cory's favorite time of  year!

The toy cherry tree has lots of toys to play with cherries to eat!

I helped mom pick them so she could carry them inside for Cory.

Cory doesn't understand why she only gets cherries during a short time in the summer. 

When she sees them, her eyes get big and she starts to purr.

All is right again.

pee ess...Cecilia goes in for her dental surgery on Monday morning.  Please purr for her.

I admit I'm glad the 4th of July is all over now.  I lost purrfectly good garden time because of all the kaboomies in the neighborhood.   I wasn't bothered by it...

But mom didn't want me outside. AT ALL.   It didn't matter how much I meowed, I was ignored.

Ha!

::purrr::

Hi there garden pals!  Jonesie gave me the go ahead to say the super secret password and get this meeting started.

We finally got several days in a row of dry weather, so I've been pawing around and checking stuff out.  The garden cart is on it's side for the winter so we can't climb in it and play haul stuff around.

Our next door neighbor, Remington, pals around with me a lot.  He is responsible for the garden next door.  We swap advice and stuff. 

Jonesie has advised me that part of being a garden cat is posing handsomely in front of work that still needs to be done.  Can you believe that mom and dad still have not pulled up these dead corn stalks?  Mom thinks they are cool for photo ops, but I think she's just being lazy.

The grape arbor was trimmed up in preparation for spring.

Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched?

The garden bed that last week was such a mess has now been mostly cleaned out.  This is the hardest job a gardencat must perform...making sure your humans are doing their fair share of the work.

So where you may ask is Jonesie this week? She is still enjoying her vacation from gardening.  She is sleeping and growing her neck floof back.  Mom and dad are still fighting the fleas but for the most part they are winning the battle and Jonesie is healing up.  Thing is...I think she likes knowing that she no longer has to do it all, so she's soaking up lap time waiting for it warm up and dry out.