I know many cats like to sit in washing baskets but Mary’s Cat took the feline laundry fetich thing to a whole new level yesterday morning. Now before you panic. The washing machine was empty and Mary’s Cat had not been locked inside. He had climbed into the clean, open, front loading washing wachine and was sitting perfectly poised, tail coiled just so and very pleased with himself. Just gazing back out at me with a prayerful churchy expression. So I popped him back outside and later I found him with this.
Mary’s Cat has discovered catnip. (Bees love it too. ) The plant had only just cleared the surface of the soil! It’s a slippery slope from now on. The cat is an addict.
Queenie wants some too!
Daisy is just grateful to get her old pen back. The one with the gate she can open herself. 
White Cat says ‘Say No to Drugs!’
This is lettuce growing in the cold frame.
This morning the weather is supposed to get wet, maybe even snowy, so TonTon and I will do the chores early and go over to the Old Folks Home before it gets too mucky. It is an hours drive, down a grid of dead straight country roads, through empty fields. You don’t want to get caught out there in bad weather.
I think TonTon will be fine visiting, I took him to a big feed store yesterday that is dog friendly and he walked up and down the aisles with me like a big dog. He was patted by strangers and behaved beautifully. When we got to the check-out the girl commented on what a good dog he was and with my permission gave him a treat. TonTon laid the little bone shaped dog treat on the floor, looked at it, looked at me, pushed it with his paw, sniffed at it, looked back at me, then reaching down delicately, lips drawn slightly back, picked it up with his teeth (so as not to have to taste it) and silently nudging my leg, popped it into my hand. All very discreetly so as not to seem ungrateful!
I shall make sure Mary’s Cat is outside before I go. Now, we need to get busy and fast this morning, there has been too much time off the farmy this week and I am behind on just about everything.
Oh and I have found some more hay so we are back in the comfortable feed zone! Well, as long as we get decent rain and the grass grows! All that!
Good morning.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
86 responses to “A cat sat in the washing machine”
The sweet image of TonTon delicately picking up the biscuit and placing out in your hand was too adorable to ignore. How did you control yourself from not bending down and hugging him on the spot?
Ronnie
I know,, c
hehe your playful cats made me chuckle this morning 🙂 have a good one!
morning Ksenia! c
White cat just has this look of I’m surrounded by addicts now is my chance to take over the world! t
i think he did take over the world already we are just too stupid to notice!! c
White cat is brilliant – he looks like my prinary school headmaster! Hope the visit goes well today, I have high hopes of TonTon. He may even take up studying medicine.
good bedside manner!!! c
Oh, I was so hoping, expecting, you would show us Mary’s Cat in the washing machine. But your other photos made up for this missing one.
Safe journeys along those country roads. I understand how you don’t want to get caught on the prairie in bad weather. Not good. Not good at all.
You’ve certainly taught TonTon some good manners. He will do just fine at the home.
I went for the camera and he followed me!! oops! c
My Tallulah used to perch in the tiniest pot plants. She was a very small cat, but they were even smaller pots. Little bits of her would hang over the edge.
That is such a sweet image! c
Hope the visit was a great adventure. Have a fantastic weekend 🙂
Cats do love dicing with danger 😉
Good morning, c! I’m looking forward to hearing about the visit. It is great that the catnip is up already! Spring is surely near. (I woke up to 5 inches of snow this morning, so it is headed your way in the nexrt couple of days)
Have a Great Weekend:)
You too.. c
In my garden I have catmint, and I wasn’t sure if this is the same as cat-nip and I discover they are in the same family. My old cat used to love the catmint and would eat it and roll on it, so I used to put small takes in the plant as it grew to stop it being comfortable to lie onand to allow the flowers to grow tall and attract all those bees! Now Old Cat loved cat-mint, but the cat nip you buy in shops for cats had no effect on him!
Now we have Pippi-long-Stocking, and I await with interest to see what she thinks of my catmint. 🙂
Did you get snow?
We have fog!
Pippi Long Stocking – I remember her, what a great name!! c
a) What a GORGEOUS cat!!
b) TonTon is such an absolute sweetheart! And a gentleman to boot! And..
c) Never a dull moment, huh? 🙂
You are right there.. never a dull moment! c
Celi, I have begun to send out blessings to you each Friday as you visit your old folks! I haven’t followed you long enough to yet completely know how this has developed or if there is anyone you are very personally connected to, but my heart fills with admiration that in you prioritize this gift to others. You are very special. Debra
The otrher cat has such a squashed face, it is quite comical. When are the lambs coming?
Well mama is showing signs now so I would say within two or three weeks.. Tho Last time she had them at the end of april so she may drag me out! and then of course Daisy will have her calf end of may! how exciting! c
I love the picture you painted of TonTon with the treat in the big feed store – it made me smile and want to hug him! He has great manners, and will be fine visiting the old folks.
he was too but would not leave the side of his own old fella!! so sweet.. c