Happy Birthday Sasha!

Sometime about this date, is Sasha's 20th birthday!  Mom bean says he came to live with her and our fur-sibs in mid-July 2000.  He was adopted from the local Humane Society and his age was approximately 7 weeks.  The mom bean did some math and working backwards she decided that May 25, 2000 would be the date...mostly because that was the day they had moved into their house.

To celebrate this milestone, Sasha will likely sleep much of the day away.  Since that would be mostly boring, mom bean went into her stash of photos to find some more lively to share.

Well, this isn't very lively but is the first photo she could find of Sasha.  It was taken in 2007...about the time she got a digital camera.

This is the first photo of the original 3 S's, Silver on the left, Sasha, and Sami to the right.  

Sasha's favorite bean was (and still is) our bean brofur.  Here he is wearing C's toque - no one else could have put it on his head.

Sasha has always been the tolerant cat. He put up with the continual addition of other cats, Silver, then Sami, next up were the twins Shady and Silas, and then the biggest pest of all, Saku. 

This photo is proof that at one time the two of them actually shared a cat tree!  (Mom bean can't remember this at all and if there wasn't photographic proof she wouldn't have believed it.)

More proof, here's Silas squished into a cat bed with Sasha! For those who haven't met Silas before, he weighed in at 22 lbs. at his heaviest.  Sasha, on the other hand has never weighed more than 10 lbs.

This kitty pile made mom bean smile.  She never could make her bed back then.  Clockwise from the top left are Sasha, Shady, Sami, and Saku.

Okay, this still hasn't been furry lively has it?  

Is this better?  It's Sasha playing with a kicking toy...we think Saku was waiting his turn.

When we moved to this house in 2010, there were four kitties, Sasha, Sami, Silas, and Saku.  The sunny room became Sasha's favorite place to hang out.  He loves the sun on his furs and if mom bean gives him a bit of nip, he's even happier! (This photo is from 2013 which is the year we started this blog.)

Another photo from December 2013.  Sasha is the only kitty who didn't mind the Santa hat, and he never efur tried to take an ornament off the tree.

Sasha also loves to be able to get outside in the summer time, and he especially likes to eat grass.  One year the mom bean even grew grass in the house.

In 2017, Sheldon came to live with us for a little while with his sticky bean and his mom.  Poor Sasha, the kitten loved him too!

These days Sasha spends a fair amount of time sleeping. He's gotten skinny though he hollers like crazy when he wants to be fed.  He's become a fan of the new water fountain - before he would only drink out of bowl in the sink.  Mom bean thinks he's deaf, but his eyesight seems to be good. His favorite person is still the bean brofur with mom bean coming in second.  Sasha doesn't much care for the sticky bean, but like the kittens before him, the sticky bean loves Sasha.

We hope you've enjoyed the trip down memory lane with Sasha.  There won't be any big pawty, Sasha would probably sleep right through it!  But we appawciate our furriends who we know will drop by to wish our special boy a happy day.

Mom bean says every day with Sasha is a blessing.  He's simply a sweet boy, and while she would prefer if he didn't wake her before 6 a.m. (and he does frequently), she's grateful he's been part of our lives for nearly 20 years.  Happy Birthday Sasha!

Happy Birthday Sami!

Hi efurrybody, Sami here today!

It's my 15th birthday today.  Or pretty darn close to it.  The mom bean counted backwards from when I was 'dopted.  She's says I'm pretty lucky, cuz I share my birthday with Canada.  I'm okay with that as long as I get all the nip. 

Did you know I almost didn't get 'dopted by the mom bean?  When she went to the shelter, she was looking for an older kitty but her bean kids convinced her to go into the kitten room.  There I was, hopping up and down, climbing the bars of the cage and yelling "Pick me, pick me!!!"  AND she did. 

I'm a little kitty, more round than long though mom bean says I have lost a pound or so in the last year. My favorite bean is mom, but my bean brofur comes a close second.  They call me the Walmart greeter because everyone who comes to the house gets to meet me.  I haven't met a bean I didn't like.  Now Saku is another matter.

Same goes for laundry baskets.  I lub me a fresh load of laundry right out of the dryer.  

Mom bean appawciates my efforts too.  She'll be all "Oh Sami, you've done it again.  You've furred up my black pants."  Glad to do it for you mom. 

Today, we has sun with some clouds coming.  It's a nice day so I'm going to hang out with my favorite brofur, Sasha. 

Have a great day, efurrybody!  

Some of our favorite boxes - for International Box Day!

Who knew?  We sure didn't but the Trout Talkin' tabbies did.  Mom bean was reading their post and told us about it.  

So then, of course, we told the mom bean we wanted to pawticipate.  It took some convincing since she's been incredibly lazy lately!  

But I (Saku) sat on her on Caturday and helped her go through some pictures on her 'puter.  Just look what we found!!!

This is from July 2010 when we moved into our house.  Sami was helping to hold down the boxes until the mom bean got them unpacked.

Here is Sasha in a box from March 2013.  Sasha doesn't often sit in boxes so this is a rare thing.

Obviously the mom bean was excited about getting the picture 'cuz she cut Sasha's ears off.

Here I am in the same box in July 2013.  I really, really liked that box!

Mom bean had it in front of the window on a little table.  This was before the cat tree so it was a purrfect place to watch cat television.

Sheesh mom bean, did you really have to share this one?  It's not a box...well, tecknically it is a litter box.  Kitties, please disregard the mom bean's attempt a humor.  Since I have no thumbs I am unable to remove it.

Sami loves boxes too. In fact she had two boxes  to hang out in, back in February 2015.

The bottom box was a great box, cuz it held lots of toys.  But mom bean says it was too big to keep in the noisy box room.  Sigh...no appawciation.

Mom bean says this is what happens when a kitty gets too big for his box. 

Can you believe she threw this box away?  It was just purrfect in July 2015.

Christmas 2016 was a great time for boxes under the tree.  The sticky bean wasn't even born yet but he had lots of presents under the tree.

I kept them safe (and furred up) for him.

Finally, here we are in February 2017.  The sisfur brought home this cool box.  I was the only one to really check it out, but it sure made Sami and Sasha take notice too.  

I am sad to say that all of the boxes here have gone to...wherever it is that boxes go when the mom bean takes them away.  But not to worry, there are still boxes for us to enjoy in our home.  At least for Sami and me.

Have a great week efurrbody!  Hope you get a chance to hang out in one of your favorite boxes.

Pee Ess:  Thanks to the Tabbies for letting us know about this impawtent event.