Tuesdays with Tigris - Living Life

 Reader,

I am living my life here. I have some good routines. I climb on my people to wake them up. I eat my food. I have a nap on the table. I then move to another of my favourite sleeping places. If given the chance, I smack Lanie. I like to sleep on the foot of the bed at night to keep my people safe.

One of my routine places to sleep, when the people are downstairs watching TV, so I can be as far from Lanie as possible, but still watch the people, is upstairs outside the bedroom. I have accidentally pulled the quilt rack over and it needs to be put together, so currently I just have a quilt, which is fine. I pulled it over, trying to pull the quilt down more.

Upstairs looking down

Sometimes I get lucky, and Lady leaves the warm laundry and I can sit in it. 

I guess I am lucky to have so many places to sit.

Tigris

Mischief Monday - Outtakes and Other Complaints - by Styxy

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

The mischief this week was really people caused. People make a lot of mischief, more than us animals I think. So much more!

The first mischief of the weekend is on Friday the people left us at 9:30 am and only came back at 1 am. We were alone forever and ever and ever and we didn't think they were ever coming back. Bad, bad people. Dinner was very, very late. Bad people.  Out doing things! First apparently they had family Easter lunch, then they went and saw cousin Emma and Uncle Chris, who they had just seen at family Easter, and hung out before going to hear live music. I am not a dog fan, but I am thinking if the people got a dog, they would not do bad things like this. 

Emma getting love from Lady - she is 15 now

Next on Sunday, for no reason, our power was out. The lights disappear. It seems in April we have an outage Lady says. This was a weird one because no extreme weather and only 59 places affected. So weird, so mischiefy. Lanie really didn't like the generator sound and she hid. Gris and I went about our business.  I tried calling to Lanie, but she didn't want to come out. 

The last mischief for today, is the hat tax outtakes. Lady and her love of hat tax is not good, not good, not good. Lady says it brings joy to others. It does not bring joy to us. We hate it! Lanie is the most cooperative, then Gris, she is pretty cooperative, and I Styxy, do my best to resist. Lady says CRA (Canada IRS) will come after me if I don't cooperate. I don't think the treats are enough of a balance.

Lanie

Gris

Me

                    

I hope your week had less mischief.

your friend, the tax evader, Styxy

Hoppy Easter - Hat Tax Edition

 For those who celebrate, Happy Easter. For those who don't. we hope you enjoy the hat tax.

Lanie

Tigris

Styx

Nature Friday - Goodbye Snow, Goodbye, Contest Update

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

I am so excited. I am the most excited Styx because it is my first contest check in. 

Here is the updated list of the guess. Styxy had made a mistake, (sorry Walter, sorry!) but he fixed it. Our first guess won't be until April 7. Will we still have snow?

Here is the front yard on Monday.

Here is the front yard on Wednesday.

See we still have snow. A lot of snow. We are supposed to get a lot of rain. Lady has booked to the tire changes so she thinks more snow will come soon. 

Come back next week to find out!

Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting this event. 

your pal Styxy who is liking sometimes the window gets open a little

Lanie's Log - -

 It has been 163 days since my capture. This week was a lot like the others, minus being confined to my cell with Tigris and Styx, as Styx mentioned on Monday.  I didn't want to be in my room after this incident for a day or so, but I got over it and got back to routine.

I have only not come up for breakfast one morning since I started this routine a couple of weeks ago. Somedays Lady Warden can put my food near Styxy and Grumpy Gris, and somedays, I am a little jumpier and this is too close.  I am still very jumpy when I am out of my cell. Man Warden calls me "scoot scoot" because I run between places.

Lady Warden says I am not making any friends with Grumpy Gris by eating her food (which is the same as mine, but has soft food that I won't eat if the people put it on my dish).

I will also eat out of Styx's bowl. 

As mentioned I do love to be brushed, and this picture was taken from a video the Lady Warden made. She says it is the happiest I have ever looked. I will have to work on looking more displeased. 

While things continue ok, I am resigned to this life, the challenges remain. A big one being a new holiday hat tax. Here is just a tiny peak at the torture that is to come. 

Lanie, Prisoner #3

Wordless Wednesday - No Fools

 

Tuesdays with Tigris - No Proof

 Lady has accused me of things and she has no proof it was me.

First, someone peed on the bed in Lanie's room. This was before the lock in day.  It is very unlikely this was Man or Lady, but that does leave 3 other beings who may be guilty. Just because Lady has caught me peeing on things in the past (especially since Lanie showed up), doesn't mean this was me. Lady has put a litter box back in Lanie's room for now. 

Also, Lady noticed these marks in her dining room table. Just because I love to sleep up there (as does Styx) and Lady has not seen Lanie on the table, does not mean they are mine. Who is to say a fisher or wolverine didn't break in? There have been a lot of fisher sightings around this spring, maybe one came for dinner. 

Lady can continue to blame me. She has no proof, and I don't really care if she is mad or not. I will continue to do what I want to, when I want to. 

Tigris - Queen of the House