When I drove to work this morning at 6:15 am, it was -15°F, with a windchill of -30°F (-26.1°C and -34.4°C respectively). Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Just in case you missed it, Friday’s post contained links to a lot of contests. Here are a few more:
Wen is having a contest for Knit From Your Stash participants – take a picture of a “crime against yarn” that you committed, post it to your blog, and leave a comment with the link for Wen before February 9 at midnight PST. She has some lovely yarny prizes for you to win!
Julie’s having a two-part contest. For the first, leave a caption for a very cute picture of her cat, Mr. Mugatoo. For the second, guess how much Mr. Mugatoo weighed when he went to the vet Friday. Prizes include a skein of STR, Fred Flintstone colorway. She’ll take entries until February 8.
Limedragon reviewed various bookholders last week, with a particular eye to how well they would work for reading and knitting. Her summary with links is a valuable resource for knitting readers and reading knitters alike!
So, if Mayhem had a superpower (as the amazing Kitten Girl), it would be making everything into a dangerous toy.* I am sure many children also have this superpower.
Behold the seemingly innocuous knitting bag, perfect for a sock project…
“Mom, there are other kitties on this bag!!! Is there something you’ve been meaning to tell us?!” -M
Now somehow turned into a tourniquet around May’s middle!
“Well, if that doesn’t beat all…” -M
“Help! Help! I’m hit!” -M
“Melodramatic much, May?” -C
“Tell Mom I love her…” -M
“Sheesh, May, tell her yourself, since she’s standing right there taking pictures of you in your shame!” -C
*For the curious, Chaos’ superpower is meowing.
I’m trying to decide which of you is crazier…May, Chaos, Chris? Hmmmmm;-)
“Crime against yarn”… Oh, I’ve done that!
Heh heh, baby May! How did kittens manage these things? Chaos is meower, huh? So is Gandalf…
Those pictures are too funny!
Aww, poor May! She still has a lot of growing up to do!
Hee hee! “When Bags Attack”- story at 11.
LOL at the above commenter. “When Bags Attack.” *snort*
It’s -30 here today too. It’s FREAKIN’ COLD. I sent Julia to school with just a small portion of her face exposed. And I’m dreading having to go and pick her up…it’s just too cold to be outside.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ahem!
You are out early in the cold!! Love the kitty pictures.
10° here and -10° with wind chill factored into the equation. Brr – I’m staying inside as much as possible today.
Woo! That’s cold! I’m going to have to knit a new hat!
Wow – that is COLD! Here, it was 39 degrees Saturday morning when I walked, and yesterday afternoon it was 91…. that’s a 52 degrees difference! We never know whether we’re coming or going out here :o)
looks a lot like my boys. and I’ve been thinking. it’s time I actually participate in one of those contests…
*snork* I’ll have to tell my chronicles of the Plastic Bag of Doom someday.
Tig to May – “Big deal – I can do that with the handles of those bags from Target and Cub too. You know the ones that say they are not toys for children or animals! Guess what – they really are!!”
Brrr! Hope it warms up soon.
My boy cat, Ziggy has the super power of missing the cat door and headbutting the door to the utility room. He does this late at night and then lets out a “Mraooarr?”
His brilliance is something we just can’t comprehend.
Poor traumatized May. I’ll be Chaos was laughing the whole time too!
Poor May.
(((hugs)))
Once you untangled her, I bet she gave you a look like “I meant to do that.”
What a drama queen! 🙂
Oh, LOL! Poor May!
Chaos is totally like, “neener neener, I told you not to play with that!”
My cats do that with grocery bags all the time, May. One of my kitties shares Chaos’ super power and she reminds us of it constantly 🙂
She’s totally living up to her name!
Can Chaos speak? Like say actual words? Isis can. Isis freaked the heck out of my mom-in-law by saying, clear as day, ‘mama’ one time when they were watching her for us. And she says no, too.
Yes. That’s my cat. Talking back to me. 😉
Br-r-r-r-r! Today our predicted high is +68F. That must be because we’re expecting rain soon.
hmmmm…… why do I think I want to move back to the midwest? It’s 65 here right now — that’s about normal for now, although it’s been a relatively cold winter for us, with a whole streak of days with highs around 40.
And I never thought about meowing as a superpower….
Brrr… It’s 37 here right now, which will probably be our high.
LOL at May the drama queen and the “When bags attack” comment.
Awww, poor May! Hee.
Poor little May! We’re cold, but not so cold as you! I think we’re up to a high of 10, but very windy. You all get that canadian cold dip thing!
Isn’t it funny that when are animals are in peril (well non-life threatening peril) before we assist them we take their picture! I’ve had Basil hanging off something scared and I run for the camera instead of helping him. Sad, so sad. Although I know had she been in true peril she would have been helped first. And then a reenactment later for the photo shoot.
Aww, poor May! But love the captions. That happens with Munchkin too. So cold, will it ever warm up? (PS, thanks for the plug, preciate it!)
May is killing me. My cat Zoe does the same thing!
Such talent! I can’t blame Chaos for his disdain, being an older sibling myself. The youngsters have to learn everything on their own the hard way.
Oh, they are both “On the list!” I’m quite sure that they have superpowers.
LOL…
naps will turn any collar into a dangerous weapon… against himself. if it’s on him for longer than five minutes he gets his jaw stuck and freaks out….
that and anything that can be knocked off a shelf becomes a projectile.
cats! gotta love them…
beware sylar though. it’s a good power to get your hands on…
Oh, that’s hilarious! Poor Mayhem. And Mom there, all concerned with the camera…….
I thought Chaos’ superpower was being able to capture and relocate SRM 🙂
*laugh* Poor May.
Hee. Lucy’s superpower is pestering me in the middle of tne night until I get up and give her what she wants. She does it in a quiet way though, so as not to really make me mad. Brat.
Go May! You kick bag butt, and make sure that EVERYONE knows your in trouble. She’s good at the damsell is distress thing. Chaos, quick! Sound the Super Sonic Meow Alert!
Oh too funny and poor May having her shame and humiliation seen not only by her Big Kitty Brother but also the world ;o) Did that bag end up with a hole in it later when she got her sneaky revenge?
Yes; kids, cats and puppies all have this super power.
Ok, that that temperature is waaaay below the legal limit.
don’t miss the cold–the day I moved out of MN it was -33 degrees! Of course, when I moved in at TX, it was 108.