Sad Sunday

Wul...Momma's sad today. This is what she WANTED to fly today, but can't. Her beloved Cubbies losted last nite after having such a promising season. Who sez there's no crying in baseball??

Thoughtful Thursday & sum help

Meeko thinking, "Is that Daddy's metal birdie flying ofur owr howse?"

We need y'alls help. This flutterby has been around owr howse, But we don't know what kind it is. Does anycat else?? We also have Monarchs migrating through heer now.

(Sorry this one is a little blurry, Momma wuz takin' threw the front door window.)

Tummy Tuesday!!

Ummmm....

Hi efurrycat. Lookie what Momma broughted home after day hunting. I'm checking it out. Meeko hasn't been near it yet. We'll *try* to keep y'all posted about owr "progress"

pee ess- Auntie Laura and Uncle Jonah's compartment howse in Houston wuz fine. Only a few trees blown ofur and a fence, too.

pee pee ess- Uncle Dan gets to fly a bigger plane now!! Concats Uncle Dan! Hi Chaos!! (Chaos is his kitty, but he doesn't haf a bloggie...yet!)

Update Sat. AM- Someone used the Breeze a couple of times last night!! Momma wuz way a'cited!

Invasion!!!

Oh, halp us!!! We's been invaded by a *woofie* !!! Auntie Laura & Uncle Jonah hadd to ee-vac-u-ate frum Houston a'cause of Ike, and they broughted their woofie Grace. She's been heer a'fore, but we's still not so keen on the idea of her being heer. Hope efurryone stays safe wif this stupid hurry-cane. We might efun gets lots of rain frum it!!

We STILL Remember ~ Sean Patrick Tallon

Note: This wuz originally posted 9/11/2006....we wanted to repost it. We'll never forget!



When aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, it was New York City's Bravest that did what they did best - head directly in to danger, in order to save lives. Firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs - side by side - as was the case so many times before.

Together with members of that city's Finest, they made their way to the heart of the tragedy. Grabbing their gear, the firefighters began rushing into the gigantic structures to assist with their safe evacuation, while the paramedics and EMTs began tending to the injured below.

It was while doing those jobs - in the kind of rescue that they had performed so well, so many times - that their lives were taken from us. (Taken from here)

Sean Patrick "Charger" Tallon was one of those such men. At 26, he had only a month or so left of being a "probie" (a probationary firefighter). Sean was one of the first responders, along with the other members of Ten House. Their station was right across the street from the World Trade Center. On the way up the stairs of Tower One, Sean helped a fellow firefighter that was having a heart attack, then he continued up with two more of his fellow firemen. They were trapped when Tower One collapsed.

Sean led an active and varied life. He was a Marine Corps Reservist. He also loved Irish music and playing the button accordion. He would practice for an hour or more on many evenings. The steady, easy flow of sweet hornpipes, tasty reels, and lively jigs would fill the house.

This is part of a song that was written for Sean, and was played at his funeral:

"Up the stairs boys, running to the top

Without a thought to slow or stop

Upstairs boys on 9/11 and they kept on going

to the gates of Heaven.

With the men of Ten House was Sean Tallon...

Although he wasn't the first, he wasn't the last...

With love of God and Country he never thought he could

see such acts of hate...

As we remember our Charger and the others

and shed a mournful tear for all his fallen brothers,

Although we didn't know them all,

we knew them well enough to know what they were made of...

And that was hero stuff.

written by Dereen and Marian Griffin

Sean left behind his parents, grandparents, sister and brother-in-law, and extended family in the United States, England, and Ireland, along with many friends. He is greatly missed by all.

May you rest in peace Sean Patrick Tallon. I would like to offer up this blessing:

Traditional Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind always be at your back,

The sun shine warm upon your face,

The rain fall soft upon your fields,

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Thank you for all that you and your brothers do and have sacrificed for all of us! You and yours will be in my prayers. ~Rebecca Buchenot Sain

Check out these cool links (not sure if they're still avail):

2,996 Memorial List ~List of ALL the blog memorials!

Ten House Homepage~ They have an AWSOME site!!

Fire Store ~ Cool Stuff!

Finally a post!!

Hi y'all!!! No, we didn't fall off the face of the earth.....it just seemed like it! Momma has been crazy busy wif werk. They hadded floor set and inbentory all in one week! She werked 11 days straight after she gotted back home frum Beantown!! Daddy is doing well wif flying. We don't see much of him....he leafs in the morning and then comes home 12 hours later. He DID get to fly solo a couple of weeks ago. Here is a link to all of the pict-shurs (and Momma's trip too!) We'll let them post 2 heer for now....(OK...free so we can haf Auntie Alicia at her skool).

Since that's the update on the beans, now onto US!! We've been napping lots, watchin' the birdies and squirrleys, and keeping an eye on fings around heer. We's been keeping up wif owr friends, efen if we haven't been commenting. Hope efurry is safe wif all of the hurry-canes goin' on.

Now fur sum pict-shurs of us!!!

Meeko missin' Daddy.

Kiara talkin' to Momma.

Solo?!?!

Well, owr Daddy *might* be flying his metal birdie all by himself sometime this week. We say might a'cause the weather hasn't been furry co-operative with flying. Momma is sad that it hasn't happened yet, a'cause she leaves tomorrow to go to Boston to bisit Auntie Alicia. Her wedding shower is this weekend, and since Momma is her Matron-of-Honor, she (momma) really wanted to be there for it. AND Momma's friend Leslie (who wuz momma's maid-of-honor) is getting married this weekend. This wuz just announced, so that's why Momma isn't going to that. Things will be pretty quiet around heer.

Hope y'all are hafing a good week!!

Violette Noelle

Most of y'all haf already heard the mostest terrible news. We have no werds. We just pray that God will comfort the entire fambly during this time. Owr hearts go owt to them. Go wif God little Angel.

~Meeko, Kiara, & Fambly

Bisitors!!!

We's got bisitors again!!! This time it's Grammie and Grampie!! WhooHoo!!!! Momma am all the way a'cited to see them. They are gonna be heer in a couple of hours and stay 'till Tuesday. We's been sleepin' on their bed, so that they won't miss having kitty fur on the bed. They gots 2 kiities too, but they are NOT coming.

Hope efurryone has a great weekend!!

Breaking news & Pic-shurs - Part 1

This just in....Momma gotted a jobbie at Bath & Body Werks!! She's still waiting to heer frum the skool district tho. Whoohoo!! (The only hospital in town isn't hiring fur her position. It's a pretty smallish hospital, and there aren't any surgery centers around.)





This am the birdie that Momma caughted tonight. We're not sure what it is, but it eats nectar frum the hummie bird feeder. Momma wuz sitting in the lifing room when she heard sumfing crash into the front screen door! She wented to 'vestigate, and founded the birdie hanging on to the screen window beside the door. It looked kinda stunned. Momma gotted it off the window, and it perched on her finger. She wented to go get it water frum the birdie bath, 'cause she couldn't get to the nectar that wuz hanging and WUZN'T about to bring it into the howse wif us. After a little water, it chirpped and flew into the tree. Momma is gonna keep a eye owt for it.

This is a different birdie (maybe the male version of the ofur one?) that has been eating wif the hummies. Not sure what it is eifur. Momma finks it's in the oreo family. But none of her birdie books say anyfing about oreo's eating nectar...so we're pretty stumped.

Kiara chillin' in her ham-mick. Sorta doin' the Q (with a twist).

Us sharing a bed. We NEFUR do this. EFUR. Momma wuz shocked.

Momma here: They are always hissing and growling at each other. The ONLY other time they did this was when we were moving and in unfamiliar territory. Kiara was on the bed first. While I was petting her, Meeko decided that she wanted up too. They stayed this way for a couple of hours, even changing positions. I knew no one would believe me if I told them, so I had to get pics.

pee ess- See post below fur more pic-hurs!!!

Pic-shurs -Part 2

This am one of the 6, yes 6, hummie birds that we have. of course, any time Momma tries to get a pic-shur of all of them...they fly off.

Kiara heer: This am the lizard that I catched in the hall. He had already lost him's tail a'fore I gots ahold of him. Momma tooked him away, tooked his pic-shur, and then SHE LET HIM GO!!! I fought fur sure that I was gonna have a tasty snack! But , NOOOOOO...mean momma!

These are the froggies that live under owr patio. We counted 6 of them! I (Kiara) like to stick my hed down in their hole to say hello! Momma sez that that isn't polite. They might think that you are trying to eat them. Besides she sez, you never know what kind of bad things could be in that hole....like snakes or big, scary spiders!

These are the silly squirrlys trying to eat the bird seed. Nevermind that they've got their own peanuts to eat. One of them was efun eating the hummie birds food!! Momma hadded to move it to the front yard. Momma fought that it wuz funny seeing one squirrl upside down wif anofur one watchin' him! Beans are easily amused sumtimes!

Lookie!!!

This am Momma's ferst attempt to upload a video....be patient. This am Momma & Daddy's niece Hannah. Mimi broughted this bideo in her flashy box when she camed to bisit us this weekend. She just lefted to go back home. Hannah ALMOST gotted to come too. But....Mimi didn't fink she could handle a 2 yeer old in the car, by herself, for 7 hours. Maybe next time. Hope y'all fink Hannah is a adorable as we do!!

Edit after bideo upload: The sound is not synced wif the bideo (at least on owr view). We's not shur why it's nor rite....but, at least y'all get the idea of what she's trying to say.

Bisitor!!!!

Owr Mimi am coming to bisit tommorow!!! SHe am going to stay fur the weekend. She's not bringing Hannah or Caleb tho.(Them is Momma & Daddy's neice & nef-eww). That am a Good Thing. Grammie & Grampie are coming to bisit in a couple of weeks.

Daddy did good on hims test today and only missed one question. He gets to fly wif the birdies in a week!!

Ferst 100!!!

Whoohoo!!! Daddy gotted his ferst 100 on his test today!!! We am all the way proud of him. So is Momma. He starts in the pretend planes tomorrow.

On the "buffet" front, we gots 3 hummingberds!!! Momma saw all 3 of them at once, that's how she know's it not the same one. One of them efun buzzed her while she wuz sitting owtside talking to Grammie on the phone!! (Hi Grammie!!). Momma finks that they were fighting ofur the feeder. There are 2 ofur birds eating owt of the hummybird feeder. We's not shur what they are, but fink that they might be Common Yellowthroat, or a Yellow-headed Blackbird. She needs to get a better view of them to figure it owt. But, she finks that there is a pair. She saw one boldly marked and another not so much. We fink that they all look YUMMY!!!

We'll keep y'all posted. And try to get pic-shurs.

Kiara heer- I gotted to chase a squirrley yesterday!!! I wuz owtside wif Momma when one came frew the yard lookin' fur food. I fink I surprised him!! He ranned up the tree, and then I started to eat the grass instaed. Guess I'm not all that good of a hunter!

Happy Anny-bersary!!!

Today, June 30th, am Momma and Daddy's 1st anny-bersary!! We lufs y'all bof, and wish you many more yeers together! With us, of course!

Purrs and nose kisses,
~Meeko & Kiara

Finally Friday!!! (and a post!!)

Hi y'all!!! Sorry that it's been fur-efur since we posted, but things haf been furry crazy. 'Specially wif Daddy startin' skool, and coming and going odd hours. He's doing well, and passed his ferst MAJOR test!!! Whoohoo!! Momma actually started a blog fur them (so they'll quit hogging owrs!). You can find it heer: www.insainadventures.blogspot.com. Uncle Dan has his own bloggie too. It's heer. The links werk now....hehe. He's doin' the same fing that Daddy is, but he's a little bit ahead of Daddy. In ofur news Momma & Daddy's new nef-eww has arrived!! His name is Caleb (pics to come later).


ENOUGH about them....that's why they have their OWN BLOG!!! Hint, hint....


Lookie at this silly dove. We've nefur seen a dove trying to eat frum a feeder! He's furry entertaining to watch!!




This is owr backyard buffet!! Y'all are all welcome to come and enjoy. There's usually more, but Momma couldn't get them all in one shot!

THIS wuz in OWR backyard yesterday!! Can you 'alieve it?!?! Not one, but three woofies!!! AND another one came later!! They're Momma's friends dogs, and the ladies were all in their kiddie pool and brought the dogs ofur. The woofies wented in their little pool. You can see it in the background. Momma sed that two of the woofies gotted in the "big" pool wif them!

Haf a grate weekend efurryone!!!

Yay Daddy!!!

Today, after 1 yeer of prep skool, 4 yeers at the Academy, and 1 MORE yeer of waiting...it's finally heer! Daddy is starting pilot skool today!!!! Whoohooooo! We am all the way proud of Daddy and love him lots!! Good luck Daddy!

Random Pic-shurs

This is Meeko..."helping" Momma unpack.

This am Grace, Auntie Lauras' woofie.
She's purrty nice....fur a woofie!

Who'da thunk that a go-fur liked ham-burgers??

We's not shur what kinda birdie this is....any ideas?

They're heeerrree!!!!

Owr ham-micks frum Forty Paws gotted heer on Saturday!!!
Meeko's checkin' owt the box...

Kiara wanted to take a peek too...

It's furry comfy!

I agree!!!

Fanks Forty Paws...we luf owr new ham-micks!!!

Bisitors!!!!

We's gonna haf bisitors this weekend!!! Auntie Alicia is coming to town (her fiance Jon lives heer, but not wif us). And....Auntie Laura and Jonah and their little dog Grace are comig too. They are staying wif us. Momma sez that it's gonna be like living in Colorado again having efurryone together. Only Uncle Dan, Chuck, & TJ won't be here. Oh yeah, and Meghan, Trent's wife. They live heer too. And so does Scott (Katie the woofies Dad). Momma hasn't seen Auntie Alicia or Laura since she and Daddy lefted from their wedding almost a year ago! They are all the way 'acitied 'bout this weekend. So...that means that Momma is runnin' 'round the howse trying to get it "presentable". She's got most efurrything unpacked, just not all put away.

Trouble?!?

Rutruh....Kiara heer. I finks that I might be in trouble. Last night Momma and Daddy hadded their friends ofur and one of them brought his woofie wif him. Katie (the woofie) wuz in the backyard fur awhile., but since we wuz hidin' Momma closed the door where we were and letted Katie in. After a little bit, I wanted owt to 'vestigate. Well, I gotted all halloween-catish on Katie and she hid. But then she started walking towards me and Momma scooped me up to put me back in my room. But....I kinda gotted all freaked owt and climbed/clawed my way ofur Mommas hed! She hadded blood running down her face!! Then I went a hid under the bed. Momma sed that it wuz OK , she didn't blame me fur what happened, but I still feel bad.

Mom here: Kiara was really brave, more so than I anticipated. I ended up with scratches on my hands, chest, 8 on my face, and 2 good size ones on my scalp (which explains all the blood.) I feel bad for putting her in that position. I just wasn't quick enough to get her back in her "safe room".

We're back!!

Hi efurryone!! We'd maded it down to Del Rio just fine. It took fur-efur in the metal monster to get here. The ride wuzn't too bad. And we only gotted pulled ofur by one police-dude. He just letted us off wif a written warning. Heehee! We's in temp housing fur now, hopefully get a real howse today. Gotta run!

Whoohoooooo!!!

Hi efurryone!! We's back in Texas again!! We're all the a'citied 'bout that. Moving hasnt' been bad...so far. We were in Momma's metal monster fur 3 hours, but when we leaf heer on Tues. it will be 7 hours! Oh..we hadded sum HUGE thunderboomies last night. Rocks camed owt of the sky and efurrything!!! It wuz all the way scary! Momma & Daddy's monsters gotted damaged and the windshield on Momma's gotted cracked. They joke that it wuz Oklahoma getting back at them for being frum Texas!! We'll keep y'all posted on the going's on and hopefully post sum pict-shurs soon!

Long time no post....again

Hi efurryone!! WOW! It's been a REALLY long time since we blogger last. Of course, it's all Momma's fault. It's been crazy around heer. We wented to TX, Momma and Daddy wented on a cruise, and now we're getting ready to moove. We's not looking forward to that. Momma's startin' to get stressed owt a little. The moovers come on Monday to start packing all of owr stuff and Momma has to go get anofur root canal in her toofs. She's REALLY not happy 'bout that. We gots to go help Momma clean now.

Have a grate weekend!

pee ess: Tomorrow is Daddy's purfday!!!

A'citing news!!!

We's got sum a'citing news!!! Auntie Alicia gotted engaged!!! WHOOHOOOOO!!!!!! It happened last week, but Momma's just NOW helpin' us post about it. Sorry!~Momma And...Momma is going to be Matron-of-Honor! Her eyes gotted all leaky when Auntie Alicia asked her. That's the two of them at Momma's bachelorette party. Momma's on the right. This ofur one is Daddy, Momma, Auntie Alicia, and Jon (her fiance). The guys and Auntie Alicia all wented to the Air Force Academy together.

In ofur news...we's gonna be bisiting wif Grammie and Grampie fur a whole week coming up. Momma and Daddy are going on a cruise (wifowt us!) and we get to stay wif Grammie. We're going there 'cause Ms. Sandy, who used to feed us, moved to Germany.

In more ofur news....we fink that the "M" werd is going to be implemented furry soon. Momma's bringing in sum boxes and talking about "movers", "loading the truck", and "inspections". We'll keep y'all posted, but it doesn't sound good at all.

Hope y'all haf a grate week!!

Weekend Update

Hello efurryone!!! Hope y'all are hafing a grate weekend! Spring has finally spung heer!! Whoohoo! Momma's flowers are all startin' ta come up. Sorry fur y'all that are getting *MORE* snow.

On a sadder note....Mimi called yesterday to tell us that Miss Kitty (the owtside kitty) wented to the Rainbow Bridge on Fursday. Momma and Grammie's eyes were leakin' last nite. But...Miss Kitty hadded a FURRY long life, 'specially fur an owtside only kitty living in a crowded place.

On a happy note....Grammie and Grampie came up to bisit us fur Easter!! We's furry happy to see them. Daddy and Grampie are owt smacking the little white ball all ofur the place.

That's about it fur now.

From all of us to all y'all,
Happy Easter! He is Risen!!

Eggs-sitement!!!

Kiara heer.

I did somfing furry eggs-siting today!! Momma taked us owtside in the back yard when she gotted home frum hunting 'cause it wuz sooooo nice owt today. Well, while we wuz owt there....I tried climbing the pine tree!!! Momma wuzn't too happy 'bout it. In fact, she didn't realize that that's where I wuz 'till she heared my claws on the tree! (She wuz pulling sum weeds up). Boy...did she yell when she saw me!!! I wuz a squillion feet off the ground!!! Momma's note- only about five feet. There were birdies up there that I wuz tryin' to "bisit" wif. No biggie. But, the birdies DID come to eat while we wuz owt there. That wuz fury cool too. I may haf to try the tree thing again next time we go owt. I don't think so, missy. Dang it!!! BTW....Meeko hadded fun owtside too. Just not as much fun as me! Momma did laugh at us when we gotted scareded by the HUGE metal birdie that wuz landing in owr backyard. We were tripping ofur each ofur getting into the howse! It was an E-3 (airline-sized plane), not IN our yard, but a couple hundred yards away. It is pretty close though...they do startle me sometimes. One of the "benefits" of living on an Air Force base!

Purfday.

Today (3/11) am Grampie's 60th purfday!!!! Momma wented down to Texas this weekend to sur-prise him and to sell-y-brate. It werked!!! We luf you Grampie! So do Momma and Daddy. We'll see you in a few weeks!!

This am Grampie coming home frum the hospital. (He's the tiny thing you can barely see)

This am Momma and Grampie dancin' at the wedding this summer.

pee ess- Momma sed, "Holy crap....I actually got pictures to post right the FIRST time tonight!!"