To celebrate Worldwide Knit in Public Day, the Twin Cities’ Knitters (TCKnit) are going to gather (with bag lunches) at the Lake Harriet Rose Garden in Minneapolis on Saturday June 9, 2007, from 11 am – 2 pm. I’m a maybe – vacation prep will be eating my brain at that point!
Karrie is having a contest – if you know anything at all about drum carders, please go share that information with her! If you don’t know anything about drum carders (like me, for example), leave a comment about one of your knitting must-haves. Contest is open until June 9.
Jennifer is having a contest to help her spend her birthday money. Leave her a comment or send her an email recommending an etsy seller that you think she might like and you could win a skein of Duet sock yarn. Contest closes at midnight on her birthday, June 13.
Congrats to Amy, Heather, and Susan, who won Project Spectrum Red/Black/Metallic mix cds! Thanks to everyone who played along. I’ll have another contest at the end of July for Project Spectrum Purple/Orange/Brown mix cds.
Pao and MrsPao sent me a lovely surprise package a week or two ago. Gluten-free goodies (including one of my very favorite treats, dark chocolate covered rice cakes – don’t knock them until you try them!), a cute little wooden vase, a lovely skein of Lisa Souza sock yarn, a sheep magnet, a felted mouse bookmark (that might be a challenge to keep away from Mayhem), a gorgeous black cat card, and an extremely noisy cat toy that babbles. A piece of packing tape toned it down enough that all three of us stopped jumping when it babbled (which I know has amused Pao mightily). Thank you both!
And then Peeve surprised me with a late birthday present. It’s getting close to my half birthday, so maybe it’s an early half birthday present… More gluten free goodies and two stunning skeins of very special yarn, dyed by the late Marta (and the skein on the right will coordinate very nicely with another skein that Peeve gave me during her visit). Thank you so much!!
So after I posted the picture of Mayhem’s fluffy tummy (complete with white bikini “smile”), there was some muttering in the comments about equal time for Chaos’ tummy. Well… funny thing about Chaos’ tummy. I suspect that he’s supposed to have a large white patch, very similar to that of his mother. However, he just has undercoat and a line of scraggly white hairs, leaving several of his poor little boy kitty nipples exposed. Inbreeding is a tragic thing…
“I can’t believe you just told them about the inbreeding. Do they really need to know that my father is probably my uncle, too?!” -Chaos
Good morning!
I love rice cakes. Dark chocolate covered rice cakes sound awesome. YUM.
Chris- What a great haul of loot!
And Chaos, exposing the Kitty nips does not belong on a G-rated blog.
Poor Chaos! The indignity!
Hmmmm, I think it’s time to embarrass Lucy with a tummy shot.
Yum! I love dark chocolate covered rice cakes! They are good.
Awwww, poor Chaos! Gandalf also has just a few little white hairs on his tummy.
NICE swag!
What pretty green eyes you have Sir Chaos…
Hmm. More than once, I’ve needed a vacation after my vacation. Hope it doesn’t work out that way for you Ms Chris
Oh dear! I did ask about your tummy, Chaos, but not the history 😉
I’m beginning to think you survive on nothing but snacks!
LOL Poor Chaos. The things our 4-legged family members endure for entertainment! 🙂
Poor inbred Chaos!
Nice haul! Sounds like they remembered us at the same time! Funny and touching.
Poor Chaos. We’re pretty sure our border collie is inbred too – would explain her nuttiness!
Great packages! MrsPao and Peeve always put together the best stuff.
Poor Chaos. He’s his own grandpaw.
But Chaos has such pretty green eyes that it makes up for the funny tummy fur.
Boy cats have man boobs? *runs to find Tigger* I can’t find them! Am I just an idiot or am I supposed to know this?
More great loot!
Thanks so much for the contest CD … I’ll be haunting the staff at the Post Office :]
Oh, the Chaos tummy is still cute!!!! Give it a rub for me 🙂
Dark chocolate-covered rice cakes, eh? That is very intriguing! I can see how they’d be quite good.
Congrats to the contest CD winners! Great packages of stuff with some pretty yarn. I might have to try chocolate covered rice cakes. It actually sounds good to me.
Poor Chaos. It’s a nice tummy though. Makes me want to rub it.
What great goodies!
Give Chaos some tummy rubs from me.
Very beautiful yarn. I see Chaos is continuing his role as Kitty Model quite well – although he missed posing with the loot this time for that belly shot. What a sultry expression!
My parents used to breed Siamese. Problem is, if you don’t separate the males from the females all the time, then you don’t realize a female has gone into heat until it’s too late. We had lots of mom-and-son breeding, brother-and-sister breeding, and soon daughter/cousin/granddaughter on father/cousin/grandfather breeding. Not so good.
Grady has the same problem on his tummy, but he doesn’t seem to mind anyone seeing his business. He’s a little fluffier though.
What lovely things you got! The dark burgundy yarn from Peeve is really beautiful!
Chaos is a product of inbreeding!? Well, we won’t hold it against you Chaos, as you didn’t really have any say in the matter. But maybe this explains some of your idiosyncrasies.
I hope you had a good weekend, Chris!
heheh 🙂 pao laughed like mad when I jumped the first, second, third, etc times when I walked past that toy so it was a given that you needed to have one 🙂
Aww, Chaos, you’re gaw-jus! My Evangeline has a white triangular “naughty-spot” just there – is that a common trait for these Most Beautiful Children of Bast? Of course it says something for YOU that your kitties sprawl all over on their backs, because my book says that “cats who do that are offering their Total Vulnerability to the humans they trust without reservation.” (My Lilliane, a brown tabby, does it to say “rub me rub me pet me gimme more more more”, nothing elegant about her at all.)
Hey, point me in the direction of those rice cakes! And Chaos, I think you have a very cute tummy.
If it soothes Chaos’ ruffled fur, we would never have suspected inbreeding. His wundertwin, Cosmo, also just has sprinklin’s of white hair on the underbelly.
Lots of “awws!” over here while looking at Chaos’ kitten photos. Great story!
Inbreeding? I didn’t know he was a southern kitty. heehee
pssst, Chaos….I can see your nipples.
Chaos: inbreeding is supposed to bring out the best traits in a species. So, after seeing your tummy, inbreedng was a good thing.
Inbreeding? Poor Chaos, you just can’t keep your secrets to yourself, huh?
THAT’s why we said the BB was a cat of “VERY LITTLE BRAIN!” lololol
Inbreeding is a serious issue in cat progeny…
lolol
Ok. Great laugh!
(poor Chaos!)
And WHAT a haul you have had the past few days…
(Thank you for my package…again! I’ll post photos! Promise!)
(((hugs)))
Tee hee hee. Boy nipples. Hee, hee!
Aw, I’m going to miss the Lake Harriet gathering! Have FUN!
Lovely goodies! The noisy cat figure sounds hilarious…we’ve taped down noisy kid toys too. Poor Chaos. You could’ve told people the nips are his extra sensory portals or something.
Lucky you! And I love the sweet little cat tummy—-Zorro likes to have he tummy scratched (sometimes).
*Gasp* Naked pictures of your kitties! What has this blog been reduced to Chris? 😉
Um, didn’t you pass your half-birthday a couple weeks ago?
so many contests, so many posts, so little time!
I can’t believe May is a year old. It doesn’t seem possible.
thanks for the kitty break. always a highlight to my day is when I see their pictures.
Heehee. Dorian has the same problem – his mummy and daddy were brother and sister. And it explains a LOT. Glad you like the package!
Great packages. Poor Chaos, his Mom embarrassing him like that.
Oooh, lovely packages! and one that babbles too!
Aw, Chaos. Don’t feel bad. All royalty has some inbreeding in it. And I got to look at your baby pix again, you handsome devil, you.
The dark chocolate rice cakes sound great to me!
what a great haul!! the yarn all looks so lovely!
Tell Chaos not to worry, we all have skeletons in the closet. My lambs’ father is also their grandfather and uncle.
TOWEL
I HAZ IT
Oh Chaos, your tummy is cute even if it is the result of inbreeding 🙂
Haha! Chaos has a treasure trail like a kitty porn star :o)
Last night at dinner #1 was telling us the story about his friend Liam. In 5th grade they had an assignment to draw a family tree of a family of their choice. Liam, always an original, chose to depict the lineage of their cats. Whereas most family trees are more-or-less linear, this one had lines going every which way. Inbreeding, indeed!
Liam also had a kitten named Whiskey. Guess what was its favorite beverage?