First post wheeeee!!

I love Bob. He reminds me of my big golden boy Bill, who died last year.

Now you have to learn how to crochet to make the wine glass coaster. I know I'm going to make a set.

Carmen in NC

Oh, sweet Bob. Has he tried feline yoga? Heehee...it could help reduce his "man in the house" stress.

The flip-flop coaster maked me want to crochet too. Very cute. So is Bob, he's got the looks so IQ is optional.

My grammar sucks and I don't have the looks. Bimbo here! Made not maked!

I almost choked on my PeanutButter & Gourmet Jelly sammich for lunch! Poor Bob T Cat... But why were you in the guest room while Drew had your bed? I think there's something backwards here????

Oh Bob, what a routine - thank goodness your mama loves you so!

I absolutely love those crocheted coasters. Now if I can just find someone to teach me how to read a crochet pattern (I can do the stitches, a holdover from my youth, but I never learned to decifer the patterns).

Leslie, I couldn't put a guest in the guest room! LOL. That's the scary room. heh heh.

Adorable but dumb, aaaawwwww, he fits right into that LA stereotype, hooray for Bob!

Haha, I was wondering why Drew didn't just shut the door! But wine is a good answer. ;)

CAP, Drew's a cutie. Bob Problem solved had ya BOTH just shared your bed. Just sayin' is all! ;)

(p.s. Sorry Laurie's dad. I was suggesting they just innocently SLEEP, of course!)

Poor Bob. Hey now that you have an office window are we going to see some videos of stuff going on outside?

my bright boy is Leon. I feed my 3 cats on the back step. I feed the neighbor's cat Mimi (the porch squatter) out front. Same food. Every day Leon eats his own food, toddles around the house to the front porch and "discovers....More Food!!" I just shake my head. Bob sounds like a delight.

Laurie, can I just say that you are awesome?! I was wondering how you were going to respond to that nasty comment, and, as always, you handled it perfectly.

Kim, I just deleted it altogether. People are odd, aren't they?

Indeed!

Don'tcha gotta love the dumb ones?

Bonus if they are dumb _and_ gravity-impaired--they fall off the bed while cleaning themselves and get mad at you because they don't remember the whole 'rolling over to get that particularly butt-like spot and falling off the bed' thing.......it happened soooooo long ago, ya know.

My dogs are equally as dumb.

Okay, if'n y'all're gonna talk about deleted comments, y'all should take it to email b/c now I'm going to die of curiosity as to who said what and why and in response to ?what??

i'm with suzie there. i want to read the nasty comment. they're like blog train wrecks. you can't look away.
i can't believe the crochet dude hasn't taught you how to crochet yet.

that's just wrong

I love the Bob! Being a knucklehead is the occupational hazard of being muy cute. To know him is to love him is to know him...

Drew's coaster is cool, too - who woulda thunk wineglasses needed thongs?

Well, I figure I pay the server costs here so if someone wants to post vulgarity they need to do it on their own dime. Besides, good lord, I am a southern woman... don't talk smack about my friends. I am sweet until you mess with my loved ones, then I eat your head. With a smile.

Laurie, I am pretty protective of my crazy aunt purl! Do we need to do some slappin' around?!?!? I really hate it when someone comes into a forum like this and spews! Let us know, we will send the Soba's of the world after them!!

Awwww... your Bob reminds me of my Spike. I love my Spikey. He's big and black and DENSE. In both ways. Literally, if you pick him up it feels like he just ate about 20lbs of lead.
Dense.
And -- he forgets that he's a big ole fat butt and tries to do cute little kitty things like... jump up on tables (which he scratches with his hind legs while scrambling to pull himself up on top of the table) and leaping at my windowscreens to let me know that he wants in. He's much too big to hang from ANYTHING by only his claws - so he goes sliding down little by little, mewing plaintively the whole time.
Dense.
But he's mine... and I love 'em! I love to knock his dense furry butt over and give him tummy love. And whenever I stop petting him and try to walk away he reaches out and grabs me with his dense black paws "Don't go!!!".
Awwww. Love me some Spikey!

I don't know if you have noticed, but you are mentioned on page 33 of the latest issue of Interweave Knits. It's an article about Annie Modesitt.

I love Bob! I've long been of the opinion that with cats, you either get cute, lovable and dumb OR smart, sassy, planning to take over the world. You can't have both in one cat and I'm ok with that. For some reason, my life is filled with the cute lovable dumb ones, including the one who chases his own tail and has yet to figure out that it is attached and OW it hurts when you bite it! He's 8 and still does it.

Hi CAP,

This is a bit of a non-sequiter, but did you know that if you go to the Snakes on a Plane website you can have Samuel L. Jackson make personalized Snakes on a Plane phonecalls to your friends and family? It's pretty awesome!

Closer to the ground floor? OH, how I miss that. We don't have many earthquakes here in the Great White North, but when we moved from the 6th to the 63rd (no, that's not a typo) floor, I realized that it takes a very, very long time to wait for that elevator. *sigh*

I plan to take a crochet class this fall. If I do, and I make the coasters, I will send you some.

Now that I think of it, it might be page 32.

My wonderful dumbutt boy cat is 9ish. He still chases his tail and hides from ALL of my company, mostly the men.

My smart girl cat hides from ALL of my company except for two friends and my dad.

My new dumbass kitten can't quite make up his mind on the company issue, he chases his tail and his back feet, he is constantly falling from furniture, hanging from countertops, and riding cardboard tubes (big concrete carrying tubes)and the side of the tub with his belly like a skateboarder.

For pics of my furry family, you can go to www.ssslambo.blogspot.com.

I always envy your close-up shots of your kitty faces.

ahhhh! I LOVE ME SOME BOB! and SOBA TOO! :o)
poor thing...he is just so confused and cabbagey! there is a great picture of the SOBA on Drew's blog--gotta love them kitties!

Thanks Pamela, I have to go buy a copy soon!

Dewey, I definitely need to learn to crochet.

Sioux, I came to work one day and had three messages from Samuel L Jackson!! hahahah my coworkers were very crafty with the snake voicemails ;)

Finnegan & Kristine: I'm glad you know the love of a big dim cat, too. hee

robin I heart you

Hi maryse and everyone, I am way too busy at work to be chatting yet here I am go figure.

Unfortunately, my Thundering Herd is comprised of smarty-pants. Aside from opening doors, peeing in toilets, and raiding the refridgerator, they have also figured out that if I have an overnight guest, they can start to make a LOT of noise (crazy cat races, bed-as-trampoline, sleeping-humans-as-trampolines, bed-as-scratching post etc) at any late hour, and I will get up and feed them to shut them up.

They only so this when someone else is in the house.

If they had opposable digits they would rule the universe.

Hi, silly Bob! Thank goodness you're handsome. I think my senile old Buffy would act just as strange in your situation.

Helen

Aw, poor Bob. I have to close my bedroom door at night with the cats not inside my bedroom. Otherwise, I wake up after maybe an hour of sleep with my 17 lb behemoth lying on my face and my slinky black one holding my feet down.

Not pretty.

But that flip flop wine coaster holder IS pretty! Must go make one right now. :D

That is so funny - my mom has a kitty that does that too. Both of my girls will sleep on top of anyone that will possibly let them take over their face - strangers definitely don't phase them!

What a BEAUTY, that Bob! That's a great picture!

I think Bob was just having a blonde moment...or two...or five.

I feel your pain about the earthquake dealy. I used to work in an old 20 story building downtown (in St. Louis). We, the advertising photo studio, were in the basement. The building had at least 4 sub-basements below us--that I knew of! Rumor had it that the engineers had even built the darn thing on cotton bales. ?

But anyway.

St. Louis is near the New Madrid fault line which is due for a mega-huge-massive-scary earthquake. Like the kind y'all dread, only even bigger.

All I could think of walking out everyday was, "Phew! Another day in the clear!"

The idea of 20 stories plunging down on top of me, and then falling a few more together, was really freaky.

So, happy Tuesday. :-)

My Bob T. Cat is also of the brain-dense uber-loveable variety. He farted outloud once and it scared him into jumping straight up in the air and doing a 180 to check out where the sound came from. Um, that was your butt, Bob.

That crochet pattern rocks! I can not wait to make it!

My cute little Bailey isn't necessarily dumb, but she's maybe not the most feminine thing either. She snores like an old man and farts like a young one.

I just saw the picture of you and Drew! What a shame he doesn't play for our team...you're adorable together!

I just saw the picture of you and Drew! What a shame he doesn't play for our team...you're adorable together!

Awwww cute cabbage head kitty!
But also- Can I say that I just noticed from the post oof yours and Drew's picture what PERFECT skin you have?? I am now in full envy mode of your perfect peaches and cream no-freckle complexion. And Bob too, of course. ;-)

Can't get a word in edgewise around here..Laurie, your voice on the video I could listen to all day. As accents go, we Michiganders are Boring. Learn to crochet! I'm starting, ripping my way through the Corner to Corner blanket (starting as a warshcloth) Expand your horizons! Get your voice back on the blog again soon...

Nuts, double post!

LOL in a public library! Bob sounds like Ed, temperamentally speaking, except Ed is quite smart and will sleep with anybody. Only if he really really loves you will he take over your pillow in the middle of the night, however.

I heart Bob.

I just have to tell you that "Snakes on a plane" is sweeping the country. Regis and Kelly have stolen your catchphrase and tried to make it their own. Also, Samuel L. Jackson was on the show this morning. I think I'm going to see the movie just to here him say, "get these m--f--in' snakes off my m--f--in' plane!"

Hi Drew!

Well, I haven't decided which variety my cat is yet. Just when I think she's brilliant, she'll follow me into my tiny bathroom and commence rubbing herself on the edge of my open door, thus pushing the door closed. Oh my God! What happened? I'm trapped! Get me out of here!

She stares at the crack in the door, looks up at me, stares at the door, and mewls in a sad sad way...

I was wondering why you didn't just shut the door... lol the dumbness of booze combined with the early, early hours!

That cat is CUTE!

Poor Bob. I near peed my pants laughing!

Looks like a nice view. You need a better zoom lens on your camera then you can take license plate pictures from your office and from traffic.

You already had that thought, didn't you?

Dorothy: I was on a d-a-t-e with Somewhat Promising Candidate recently and I whipped out my camera to photograph the bumper sticker of the car in front of me, without even thinking.

He looked at me real quiet for a minute.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Um," I hesitated. "Uh... TOP SECRET BUMPERSTICKER ART PROJECT!"

heheheheh

We'll see if he ever asks me out again ;)

If he doesn't ask you out, he's a fool.

Poor, sweet Bob. At least he means well by sounding the alarm. My Bucket spent the last FOUR DAYS out on the balcony where House Guest Lucy couldn't get him. Family be damned, it's every cat for hisself!

I actually managed to get the cute one with brains, but I think she's the only one around.

9 years old and she still looks like a kitten, which I'm convinced is just to get people to go gushy over her while she plans how to take over the world.

She does love a good tummy rub though... I think they must help her think.

My "Bob-equivalent" Purrcy helped me caulk the bathroom tub over the weekend. First, he tried to eat all of the old caulk bits that I scraped off of the walls. When I wouldn't let him do that, he tried to distract me by bringing about 5 or 6 toys and dropping them into the tub.

I read somewhere that before you apply new caulk, you are supposed to fill your tub with water to weigh it down. Dutifully, I did so, but unfortunately while Purrcy was out of the room.

Purrcy came back and jumped into the tub without looking. Of course, he then scrambled out of the tub and landed in a section of fresh caulk. He ended up with a long toweling off, much reassurance that no, I wasn't laughing at him, and a slight trim where some of the caulk stuck in his fur.

(Of course, I really WAS laughing at him.)

Marcia, your cats pee in the toilet??!!??

Bob is one handsome little dude! Sweet is much more important than smart (trust me....just don't tell my husband I said that!) My Basil (RIP) was a dog in a Maine Coon cat suit. He didn't take any IQ tests but I suspect he wouldn't have done well. I had to close the toilet seat all the time when he just didn't seem to get(after the hundreth time) that jumping on that white thing in the bathroom meant falling face first into that weird blue water pond.

I whipped my camera out at a yarn sale I went to on Saturday and my husband freaked out. "What are you doing??" he said. "Uh....nothing.....!" I said. He just wouldn't understand.

Is that a CHRISTMAS TREE in that photo of the film crew???

Bob is too cute. And maybe a bit slow. But too cute! Drew's flipflop is also too cute...I will be crocheting me some of those! And some for my best friend, who also likes the wine! :)

Next visit, get Drew to teach you how to crochet!

I love that Bob. Nothing wrong with pretty and dim.

And it's nice to know I'm not the only one taking pictures at weird times. *L*

HOLY CANNOLI, the youtube videos from Stitch 'n Bitch yesterday? Were in the top 100 most linked! And top 100 most viewed in that category!

OH! The video of Ellen is in the TOP TEN! On you tube!!!!

That is so exciting. I hope knitting takes over the whole innernets.

hehehehehe one crazy redneck with a camera? come to the innerts! we have an opening for you!

gotta love technology, ya'll.

Did you know that dear, dim Bob holds the solution to the Mr. X photos ---> Patsy Cline + Cheeto-chest issue you mentioned on Aug. 4? I discovered this solution on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68317814@N00/215569126/ Now just imagine the guy on the left is Mr. X (heh heh), set up Photoshop to do a "Find and Replace All" on your travel photos, and there you go -- *Fabulous*!

Well, I had thought that Roy was my man, but this Bob, brainless or not, is begging for a scrubby huggy face-mushing affection attack. Ditto the coasters--now absolutely inspired to learn to crochet. Woulda said "re-learn," but alas, the many initial attempts never took. Drew rocks and the two of you will be the only reason I'll attempt the former trauma of crochet. Tried to see the videos, but for some reason they're not showing up at the moment, unless the techmology at my end is possessed. Do we have to go to youtube to see 'em?

Oh my god, laurie - that photo of Bob is so fricking cute that I just had to go take my anti-cute pills. Holy fuzzy cat smile, batman!

Look at those cheeks!

That picture should be on cuteoverload.com. Really. Submit it!

Cam

Bob looks like Drew. Is there something you're not telling us?

Maybe Bob was pathetically whining, "Daddeeeeeee"

Poor Bob. It's hard to be the watch cat. Change is bad in cat world. Here's something I wonder. How bad do you want to work in movies to be the guy who holds up the big, ol' white sheet thingy over your head? This seems like the least glamorous job of all the crap jobs on a movie production. My arms hurt just thinking about it.

I think Bob is the male equivalent of my Ali-cat, who just might be the dumbest female cat there ever was. Perhaps we should get these two geniuses together so that they can meet and fall in love and make babies....

Oh, wait. Not a good idea to purposely put MORE dumb cats in the world. (Plus, they're both fixed).

Never mind....

Hey Laurie, did you know there's a whole mess of knitting videos out on YouTube? I discovered this after clicking on the "knitting" tag associated with your video. Hours of entertainment - strangers knitting! One more reason to spend hours on the internet! Congrats on being in the top 10! :-)

You just gotta love that Bob T. Cat

Awwww... Poor Bob! It's not easy having a twenty second memory span! Also, it's not easy having a cat with a twenty second memory span.

Honey, you need lots of help. I adore you. And Milo, Purl and Pookie adore Bob and Soba and the other cats too, and want to know if we can plan any kind of a catnip-exchange...you know, some good organic stuff for some of the West Coast special. (Really. Milo is sitting over my shoulder and when he sees Bob on the screen he says MROW and then paws at him.)

Bob looks so adorable. I can't help but think that he and Boris are from the same gene pool though. And I bet you forgot the crochet lessons because you were sleep deprived.

If videos posted on your blog hit the top 10 on youtube, then honey, what are you waiting for? Write that book, make a million, and retire! For real, Laurie, what are you waiting for?

Speaking of snakes on a plane, new movie! You gonne go see it? And the snakes on a plane??

Hi Barbara from Nova Scotia! It's Jeannie from New Brunswick!

Laurie...I just watched the YouTube thingeys...you said "Y'all!" If you moved here, you'd be very popular with all the boys, with that accent!

Just watched the stuff on youtube!! Pleeeeaasse do some cat videos!! Roy, Bob, Frankie all in action. Soba, statue like, glaring. I can just see it now!!

Oh you take the best kitty pictures!

I second the YouTube idea!

Annie said:

"Bob looks like Drew. Is there something you're not telling us? Maybe Bob was pathetically whining, 'Daddeeeeeee'"

ROFLMAO!!!! That's funny on so. many. levels! :b

LOL!!!!! My Bob is just as much of a goober! I call him ShortBus an awful lot.

Awww--Poor Bob Kitty! Confirms we should "rock" the cats world! He needed Kitty Prozac!

Bob is Beautiful! I love his color. Is it natural or from a box? Tee hee hee

Didn't have anything to really discuss per se, but I had to comment that the perspective of the photo is PERFECT for Bob. He just LOOKS so simple and sweet. I love simple cats. I had the most loving, adorable and fairly dumb "Morris." I will miss him til I die.

I so love Bob. What a sweetie he is. And remember, we don't love them for their brains...

I just love this picture of Bob.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was in L.A. this weekend for work AND I DROVE PAST THAT FILM CREW!!! I was totally annoyed by them to as I was trying to get on Wilshire and they were blocking me!!!! You probably saw my rental SUV drive right past as you cursed out the window!!!!!!!!!!
I would have stopped by to say hi but I didn't actually get any alone time..... Minou wasn't along either - next time!

Wow, is Bob one handsome cat! Thank you for cheering me up. I was having a totally crap day and then I read the line of "having an IQ of a cabbage" and I laughed very hard. I'm feeling better now. :-)

I forgot to write that to me Bob has a Winnie the Pooh like quality. Winnie isn't smart either but he is Zen-like. The book "The Tao of Pooh" writes about that. Bob ought to have his own book too. He looks very soulfoul in that photo.

I forgot to write that to me Bob has a Winnie the Pooh like quality. Winnie isn't smart either but he is Zen-like. The book "The Tao of Pooh" writes about that. Bob ought to have his own book too something entitled, "Life lessons according to Bob" or something like that.

Sabeine -- Bob is indeed very pooh-like :)

Minou's mom was in town and I missed her!! Well, next time :)

Bob is exactly like my Jack.

Finds himself in a room, something is not right, and has to wake the entire household with his wailing woe...

Bob is one beautiful cat! If he ever needs a vacay, sent him to me!