Kilkenny Cat's New Camera

Our dear Kilk is wowing us with her first photographs using her new camera and we took the liberty of cropping her
precious Chloe for an abstracted close-up of one of our favorite friends.
She beautiful, or what?
Check out the way she uses her legs and paws to cover her face and the symmetry of dark markings on her face and tail. You can even see her black paw pads brushed softly by the tip of her tail.
How precious, Little Chloe curled up in dreams, her own dreams...

WeThinks that Kilk and Gizmomma starting a new revolution of Women Visionaries whose perspective of their world
as captured through their lenses and enshrined into our hearts will enrich us all.

Thanks, Kilk, and thanks, Giz, and thanks to all of you photographers out there whose shared vision gives us an extraordinary glimpse into a world we would otherwise never have experienced!
What a gift you and so many other MODS share so generously! Happy Mother's Day!

Mom's Visit to the Doctor Yesterday

Dear friends,

Yesterday, mom drove down to Mt. Vernon to see her favorite rheumatologist in the whole, wide world, who bears a striking resemblance to...well, y'know.

Dr. Wonderful looked straight into her eyes and said three magic words every Southern woman longs her entire life to hear from a man: "You're not crazy."
He actually said: "You are not crazy."
She cried, "You gotta be kidding?! Are you serious? I mean, REALLY, REALLY?"

He said: "You are not crazy. You are doing everything right." And he then informed us that three different classes of medications all of which are contraindicated can make a person feel crazy...but she wasn't! He said other things, too, but she was in Rapture and heard them Not! Few women from the Deep South ever hear those words from a man. What a Mother's Day WE GONNA HAVE NOW!

TODAY: STRUGGLING TO type, read, think, get dressed (underwear, on the inside or the outside? i knew this once, why won't it come back to me?) pain, wondering why bagels have holes in the middle...why is "up" on the top? Who invented "sideways" and why?
We misses our friends and  MODS way bad, but we get her so much more now: got no complaints for Dr. House and we even bathed so he wouldn't be allergic to us. It is Official: NOT CRAZY. Befuddled, but ain't a one of us gonna bring that up before Mother's Day...whaddya think WE are? Crazy?
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, ONE AND ALL!

ME SO PRETTY ONE DAY!

'allo, 'allo!

Friends,

We taking short break because of some stuff, but we'z all GOOD! Mom brain-blitzing: speech, typing, vision, vertigo, etc: Brain done gone South, to play with Meme is what WE figure!
One-Finger typing and migraine auras. To clear up confibrillating confoozion: We is all O.K. just another blip on the radar of life! Still, happy heart.

Love hearing from and about you = cannot easily write back. Good news is migraine pain is LESS but new neuro deficits increasing...and physically weak. Always like an arc. We is taking good care of her, and the "down time" giving US QUALITY Piggy-SNUGGLE TIME, SO WE AIN'T IN NO HURRY. Things come. Thing go.

This, too, shall pass.
Love,
YumYum and more than normally cuddledPies Happy Feet!

P.S. should we share she was so Gonzo she emailed MSNBC to ask Richard Engel
if he minded being...well, can you say: "TRAINWRECK?!" GOOD NEWS: we
think she too stupis to have remembered to press SEND button. Has trouble finding SEND.

OMG! We workz HARD for da money!

YouTube - COOL DANCING DOG

YouTube - COOL DANCING DOG

^^^YOU WILL BE HAPPIER FOR HAVING DANCED WITH THIS!

YA, TRUE, DAT!

Thank you, Marifun, for this, YOU TOTALLY ROCK, Girl-I-Kink~

What to Get Mom for Mother's Day?

Cafe Press - featured here in a design found on a T-shirt, has a gizillion guinea pig thingies so now all
we gotta do is get into mom's wallet, find her credit card, and commence "Operation: SHOPPING WHEEEK-SPREE!"

love,
YumYum

So, maybe some of the presents WILL BE FOR US! Like, we care? Mom'll get what's coming to her, in a good way, O.K. so maybe not, whatEVAH, she loves us no matter what we do!

YumYum commencing "Special Ops Search for Credit Card!" at Zero hundred minutes and counting. Need Intel, Calvin-the-small: "Whatcha got for Headquarters, lil'SneakySmall PiggieSpy?"
Prepare to be de-briefed! (Ooooh, I just LOVES sayin' dat!)

Calvin the small: "YumYum she keeps it frozen in an ice cube in the freezer to keep from impulse shopping."

YumYum: "OH, BLOODY HORK!"
Calvin: "Roger that, Yummy, Roger THAT! But, YumYum, found a frozen cache of Kit-Kat
bars! All is not lost, nor in vain!"
YumYum: "SquEEE! I shall knight thee, Chief of Intelligence Officer for Stealth Scan of Freezer!"

Calvin the small is crying he is so happy. And small. But what is that on his lips, looks like...
chocolate?!

"Oh, That Is Too Funny To Be True! Right?"

O.K. YumYum here. Just to clear the air, y'all. We initiated Richard into the herd with a little teasing, like having
Stephen Colbert interview him - not about anything political, we're guinea pigs, who cares? - but to congratulate
him on his recent nuptials and Coconut giving birth to 10 million baby guinea pigs all named after him, but with
numbers: Richard Engel the First, Richard Engel the Second, get it?

At first he laughed in disbelief...but then Colbert had to "go to break" when they both slam-slumped upon the table sobbing...and we feel bad for our misdeeds...especially in front of a live orchestra. Audience, right.

Richard, please forgive us! We don't feel bad at all, in fact, we was laffin' till our little toes wUZ wavin' in the air IN GLEEFUL MERRIMENT!
You have married into a family of bad piggies, bad, bad, piggies and we punked ya, punked ya GOOD!

{EDITOR: ONE bad piggie does not define a herd, YumYum. Please clarify!}

O.K. FINE! I MADE THE WHOLE THING UP SINCE I GOT BORED WITH YOUR STUPIS MIGRAINE AND WE ALL NEEDED A GOOD LAUGH!

{EDITOR: Thank You, YumYum, I think...?}

WHO LOVES YA, RICHARD?
YOU KNOW!

YumYum OUT (to plan our next scandal! Woot! Woot till Toes in de'Air from laffin' so hard!)

O.K.> Who Got Coconut Barefoot and Preggers? Inquiring Minds Want to Know: NOW!

OUR once peaceful Sanctuary is no longer peaceful, no longer a Sanctuary...Coconut was secretly 

"with childs, lot of childs" - (HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY? you CANNOT BE SERIOUS!) -

and here we'd been teasing her about her muffin top all this time...OOPSIE-DOODLE!

Richard, proud of his burgeoning new family, suddenly remembered a BREAKING NEWS story out of
Pakistan so rapidly deployed hisself on jets generously donated by Lori for our wedding:  Giz NAILED this shot of his sorrowful good-bye as the Blue Angels whisked him to the Far Middle East, high into the deep, blue sky. {Featured next post, WHAT A SHOT!}

Leaving us with One Intriguing Question? Who is the "lucky" progenitor, from whose loins so many cavies have spring?
Or:  "O.K. WHO KNOCKED UP OUR COCONUT? YOU ARE SOOO IN TROUBLE!!!"

* Mac the NutPie - after his neuter, yet before his gregarious widdle tadpoles bit the dust?

*Unneutered Calvin, the small, who was imprinted at birth with humans and has no recollection whatsoever of having ever even BEEN a guinea pig?

*Immaculate Conception (Coconut's version, and now she requests being called Coconut, Oil the Virgin!)

We suspect a Royal Intruder  and Our money is on Harry after Pippa ditched him! Not that they were ever
even an "item" but, still...Beatrice's hat blinded all who laid eyes upon its subliminal, hypnotic message to
"Be Fruitful and Multiply Cavies."

YumYum is now AlphaPigChief of No-longer-a-Herd, Yet Not QUITE a Conquering Army of Cavy SEALS! and wethinks he be likin' it!

Who loves ya, Baby?
Apparently we don't have details, but a lot more lovin' going on than anyone imagined!

P.S. Don't even bother to press/click to enlarge THIS photo...the pain just isn't worth it.

Richard Returns to Benghazi In Style!

Thank you, GizMomma, for capturing this once-in-a-lifetime image to etch forever in our memory dear Richard's reaction to our new Piglets...Supportively, he handed us his NBC American Express Card, took one look at his surprised family and - rushing out the door, told us to "knock ourselves out," adding that
"You guys manage to make Libya look good!"

Then, before we even knew it...*poofity-doo* the honeymoon was over...
leaving Coconut barefoot and pregnant...
Well, preggers-NO'MO!
Hmmm..."NoMo" rhymes with something, someone...but WHOM? OR WHO?
Rings a bell., though..whose name resembles "NO-MO?" Oh, nevermind.
Cheerio, Richard, we love that new look: the wind-blown, desert hair you now sport LIVE on
NBC Nightly News...Please give our love to the humpity-backed camels we so adore!

Commencement training for our own CavySEALS starts as soon as their tails have grown sufficiently long. Duh-HUH?

YumYum reporting from The West Wing of Panda Pig's Sanatorium...SANCTUARY, WE MEANT
SANCTUARY!
                                                                               

A BIG ORDER HAS JUST BEEN REQUISITIONED.

And when we say BIG, we actually mean...HOLY MOTHER OF HORKS! big.
Thank you.

"Ripples of Stillness"

Mom is going to bed for awhile and, other than care for us, will be resting...since her version of rest seems to include
lots of getting up and down for ginger ale, crackers, and to check on us, yet she insists she is not moving, we bring you
this image of what "not moving" looks like to us as we observe mom's continuous "not moving..."
We have named it: "The Zen of Illness: Bedridden"
AS IF!
love,
YumYum

Marsha's Hand Made Rattie Cuddles

Marsha donated these rattie-cuddles to a rat rescue to line the shelves so their little feet would not get cold...
And they would feel safe.
Now let's help Marsha rebuild...Read On!