Welcome to Mishikoonz!
ConstructionZone!
New Webdesign is begun!
After several years of cobbled-together pages, and a brief foray into outsourcing (Thanks, Susan!), I finally took the plunge and invested in Dreamweaver to update the website. Please excuse the dust of unlinked links and missing pages while Mishi and I figure out the program!
Updated: December 9, 2011
CurrentNews:
Guess who...
is expecting?! Glacier and Camille became best buddies last month, and 1+1 = mmm, 6, maybe? The color ball is rolling on this one, but a silver Christmas is forecast!
Updated: November 21, 2011
RecentEvents:
Kittens Day Out
Jiggy and Honeycomb's seven babies had their first big outing! Last Saturday, we loaded up and visited Helmi for the traditional eight week old 
kitten-shoot. You haven't lived 'til you've seen seven Maine coonlets and their mom in a line-up!
Updated: November 21, 2011
Around the cattery: We're getting a new look!
Mishi's blog
Hi, I'm Mishi......and yes, this is MY cattery!
Don't be fooled by the whole illusion of humans-in-charge... if you look close, you'll see that it's just that cats have delegated the authority. After all, we have better things to do than earn a living or clean up after ourselves!
I'd like to say that my people do a fine job with everything...but frankly, I think they're a little lax at times. With all that's going on, I (the Mishikat) will be taking over the website redesign. It'll take me a while to get everything up to snuff, so patience, please. I'm even slower now that I have extra duties due to KITTENS!
Cari's blog
So, you can see who has top billing by the order of things-- obviously, the cats come first.
I keep protesting that I'm not a crazy cat lady, but I have to admit that even I am beginning to wonder. You see, it takes a broom to manage the masses these days.
Jiggy's beautiful kittens have taken over the living room. There're SEVEN of them, and it's a big room, but...they're EVERYWHERE. Worse, what they want most in life is to be where I least want them to go-- our study. Our study is a room that just drips with electric cords, computer wiring and paperwork piles that I can never seem to get caught up on. When I think of sharp little kitten teeth and busy little kitten paws in this room, I feel faint. We have to go through the living room to get here, and that means thwarting the hopes of seven kittens.
Merlin and Goblin in particular have made it their life's work to run the border. Everytime I open the door, I'm greeted by a kamikaze of flying fur, intent on going where no kitten has gone before. (That's not really true...they were BORN in this room. But all they did THEN was snuggle up to mommy and maybe wiggle around their birthing box. Certainly, they did not fly like trapeze artists over and under and between our limbs to reach their destination).
Even with their persistence, getting in and out of the study is normally not a big deal. We open the door just wide enough to edge through. They make a dash for it. We step through, scoop them up and slide them back in where they belong and close the door.
The problem is that I had surgery last week to remove bone spurs from both my right shoulder and left knee-- a two-fer-one special to finish up my 57,000 mile tuneup after our long hike last year. Right now, I'm not so swift on the scooping part. Actually, even the getting-through-the-door part is a feat to be proud of. Crawling under desks to retrieve wayward kittens from hazardous wiring is just not possible at the moment.
So even if I AM (literally) sweeping kittens out of the way, I really am NOT a crazy cat lady. It's just that the broom works. Really! It's the best answer for all of us!
