Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for August 25, 2018

Cat got your tail, Mousie.

Uh oh……………….

(Love the Orange Blob’s tiny fist)

And the look of doom on his face

Oh I love to eat them mousies

Them mousies I love to eat

I bite their little heads off

And nibble on their tiny feet

Wow! The flooding we got here in my home town on Monday night was far worse than anything we ever had before. Highway 14 is still closed. I take Highway 14 to work, but it will be some time before I do that again. I’m looking at a couple different detours, but so far sticking with County KP. The highway suffered major damage like it has never had before in any other floods. A few miles from my place, a small bridge was washed out. No telling how long before that gets fixed. Further down the highway, water was running under the highway from a pond that overflowed its banks. Officials were worried about the road collapsing. Not a far-fetched idea, since further down the highway, it did just that. Darn, I wish we could post pictures here! All other roads I might choose to take to work are open now (one side road is still closed though). But I count myself so lucky that I had that night off (still on vacation) because listening to the list of roads that were closed, it looks as if every single road I could have taken to try to get home was closed because of high water.

I had no flooding at my house, but places just half a block away were badly flooded. A few houses got it so bad, they shifted off their foundations and will probably have to be torn down. The village has been banding together – so many people are helping with the cleanup and donating things to help the people who lost everything. I took at least 100 pictures and videos over the past few days, showing the worst of the flooding, then showing as the water levels went down to all the clean up the flooded out residents are still doing. I am amazed at how cheerful the flood residents still seem to be. They smile and wave as you go by. There are huge piles of trash all over the place. They even have dumpsters all over which have all been filled several times. I have not been able to help with clean up efforts myself (residents were not allowed in their homes while I was still on vacation and now vacation is over and I’m back at work), but I dug through my closet for a few clothes to donate. Aside from the garbage, everything seems to be pretty much back to normal now, but this is one flood none of us will ever forget.

The mice see Chesney like this:

https://i.imgur.com/sSBPA1n.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xMAKYsw.jpg

Chesney helping to balance things up:

https://i.imgur.com/ue6K98X.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UWNRYyr.jpg

And teaching ’roos to nap:

https://i.imgur.com/5j4SNzv.jpg

(repost from yesterday – couldn’t find a better one)

https://i.imgur.com/oLdzQpd.jpg

Chesney looks nothing like a Platypus!

https://i.imgur.com/ZTH46qK.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zJWsUVi.jpg

But he might have your tongue!

https://i.imgur.com/KavauTi.png

https://i.imgur.com/zdMRMSA.jpg

It was a short trip.

Those mice are going “down under”

Australia wouldn’t take Chesney. They have enough pests already.

Today’s BBEAR posts:

1. Your kitty has a Caturday morning request.

https://i.imgur.com/SpCHqSr.jpg

2. Seen at a local animal shelter.

https://i.imgur.com/qDgxywc.jpg

3. Your cats celebrate another Caturday morning has arrived.

https://i.imgur.com/RR1UWmj.jpg

4. His majesty has a small request for you.

https://i.imgur.com/YZXm1Gq.jpg

5. And then look up at you as if to say, “pay attention to me now!”

https://i.imgur.com/CWluTHb.jpg

6. ADOS: afflicting cats and Millennials everywhere.

https://i.imgur.com/3fJvy75.jpg

7. Ahh, that was the one that did it.

https://i.imgur.com/nf5p8Pu.jpg

8. Why cats get away with what they do. (They can’t be disciplined.)

https://i.imgur.com/SwIbJFH.jpg

9. When the weather turns cold this fall, your cat knows all the best warm places in the house to go to.

https://i.imgur.com/Pctioqc.jpg

10. A Caturday catitude post: cats learn early how to master the Glare of Disapproval.

https://i.imgur.com/YOqWFFu.jpg

11. Kitty is offended.

https://i.imgur.com/0PUIsC2.png

12 pictures and 3 videos were posted to Ten Cats Fan Club this morning

Love those mice! They know Chesney pretty well…………maybe not for long, though.

Repost of Gweedo’s trip link:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gweedo_murray/sets/72157697283719832/

OMG but those are the most sarcastic meece ever….soon to be extinct.

I liked the pictures of BBEAR, GWEEDO, and WHISPLICKA!

;-)))

Great pictures today. :)

Better run, mice!

Thanks Bbear for posting my flood pictures!