Winners! Congratulations to Michaele, Cyn, and V – the random number generator loves ya! (I’m emailing the three of you in order of number selected so you can pick your yarn, so look for emails soon, Cyn and V, after I hear back from Michaele.) Many, many thanks to everyone who left birthday wishes and advice for my contest – your words of friendship, humor, and wisdom were wonderful to read.
W is also for Whiskers! Behold the Whisker Vase, which is actually a sake cup I got in Sante Fe a few years ago. Supposedly finding a cat whisker is good luck…
“Those are, of course, all my lovely whiskers, since someone bit off all of May’s whiskers. Must’ve been Mom!”
eep! Chaos’ whiskers in a vase on your desk? Glad to hear you had a great Thanksgiving 🙂
Hmm, I’ve never heard of a whisker vase! That is kind of a cool idea. Hopefully May will eventually get to contribute too!
You save your cats’ whiskers? Or am I missing something here?
Somethign strange is going on here – your blog is still flying under the Bloglines radar.
Sheesh mom, quite biting off May’s whiskers.
I refused to post what I am thinking. Syd will have to slap me now.
Yay for your winners!
Um, the whisker vase? Uh, ok. Hey, have you noticed if Chaos or May have one white whisker amongst all the black ones? Gandalf has one white, and the rest are ALL black.
I thought it was annoying enough Nutmeg being eyebrowless cos Cheshire bites them off, but you bite off May’s whiskers? Sheesh! 🙂
You are the luckiest! Two black cats and a potful of whiskers 🙂
Chaos looks extremely cute today!
That’s not nice, Chris!
I found a whisker the night before delivery – they ARE great luck!
lol i like to try sock’s whiskers on me when i find then. Pointy things they are!
A cat whisker collection? Behold a couple treasures from another blog I read:
http://www.callalillie.com/archives/2003/05/cat_whiskers.html
http://www.callalillie.com/archives/2005/02/the_whisker_pro.html
“I might look small but I can hold a lot of crazy.”
I’ve never heard that one before!
Chaos is looking on good form, I’m glad he is feeling better 🙂
Chris, you shouldn’t be biting off May’s whiskers! 😉 From the looks of your whisker vase, you should be having lots of good luck. I hadn’t heard about finding a whisker being good luck. I may have to make a whisker vase. I wonder if the same is true for ferret whiskers? It’s good to see Chaos again.
Wow… you KEEP the whiskers you find? I love finding them (kinda morbid, huh?) and playing with them b/c they are so surprisinly sharp. Has Chaos’ rear totally recovered?
ps. your random number generator… seems not so random! The first contest I win, michaele also wins? (is the other gal connected to CO in any way?)
Hehee. May has the tail, Chaos has the whiskers.
Poor whiskerless May!!! Is that a bit of a smirk I detect on Chaos’ face?
I didn’t realize I was supposed to be saving them!!!!
Geez, Chris, quit biting off May’s whiskers. I thought for sure they’d be hers, since they’d be, well, bitten off.
But that’s some good luck you’ve got amassed there!
Cool… obviously with 10 cats in the house I’m always finding whiskers – I knew I was a lucky girl.
Oooooo….I won! Wow! Thanks! I’m so excited! The random number generator never loves me, so this is an exciting first! 🙂
Dang, that’s a lot of whiskers…ar eyou holding out on us? Do you really have 10 cats in that house?
and I’ve been throwing away the wiskers
I save my cats whiskers too. Finding a black one is a rare treat for me.
Heehee! Like Brigitte’s cat, Isis has ONE single white whisker among all her black ones. It’s very funny. (It’s a long one, too)
I also save my cats’ whiskers, in a little ceramic saucer. Two years’ worth of four cats’ whiskers is kind of a lot of whiskers.
Is this an OCD thing? I think I too had an idea that it was good luck to hang onto them. Now I just feel kinda weird…but maybe not as weird as callalillie asking for people to send her *their* cats’ whiskers (who knows where those whiskers have been? lol)
But she can’t have mine. They’re–you know–good luck.