Good Luck, Grampa!

Owr good Grampa is haffing some surjry today, so we are sending owr bestest purrs & hugs for him. Efurrything will go good and Grampa will be all better afterwards!!

We love you, Grampa!!!!

Purrrrrrrrs,

Finnegan Buddy & Princess Jazzy

Tribute to John Paolillo

Project 2996 is all about honoring and celebrating the lives of those innocent people who were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

John Paolillo was a Battalion Chief with the NY Fire Dept. - killed in the collapse of the North Tower. But more importantly, John was a loving father, brother, son, uncle and a friend to all.

John lived next door to my sister Marjie in Glen Head, NY. I met John once or twice "over the fence" - saying hi, borrowing sugar, neighborhood get-togethers, that kind of thing. The main thing I remember about him is that he would always be out playing in the yard with his kids Jake and Ella anytime I visited. John was very devoted to his kids, his wife, his mom Elizabeth, brother Joe, sister Sheila and their families.

John was a great athlete who loved to run, bicycle and swim - he competed in triathlons on a regular basis and enjoyed sharing his training philosophy with others. He helped Marjie with her cycling when she was getting ready for the MS 150 Bike Tour and an amateur team triathlon that she took part in. Marjie said John didn't understand the kind of mental blocks that held her back from getting up a hill - he just charged on up, knowing he could do it! The first time Marjie went riding after John's death, she took on the toughest hill in town - and made it up for the first time ever -- because she knew that John was there with her, helping her up the hill with a strong hand on her back.

A few months after John's death, his brother Joe, Joe's wife Josephine, friends Gina and Bob, as well as Marjie and her husband Chip, came together with the idea to hold an event that would not only raise money for a scholarship fund at the local high school, but more importantly, honor John's love of life and athleticism.

The John Paolillo Scholarship Fund Memorial 5K race/fundraiser was held at the Glenwood Landing Fire Station. Hundreds of local friends and families, as well as firefighters from John's old stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, ran or walked the route that included one tough hill, some beautiful scenery, the high school cheerleaders and athletic teams, water stops, and lots of fun.

The commemorative T-shirt from the event demands to know "Did you give it your all?", a question that echoes with John's friends and family. When I attended the 5K in 2003, Joe told the story of going running with John one time and feeling that he could have done better. "Did you give it your all? Did you try so hard you threw up after?" asked John. "Well, yeah," answered Joe. "That's all you can ask of yourself," said John.

More than anything, the Run for Heroes is a celebration that brings together a community and helps to remember a wonderful man who was always ready to help others before himself. John Paolillo was an honorable man who will never be forgotten, nor should the rest of the victims of that terrible day.

Call your family, your friends - all the people that you hold dear - and tell them you love them, spend some time with them and whatever you do, remember to always "Give it your all!"

HELP! HELP! HELP!

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wifowt owr good woofie Moji to chase the vishus deers away, they are getting bolder and bolder!

This morning they were rite owtside mom's sleepy room window!!

PLEASE SEND HELP --- DON'T LET THEM GET US!!

Our good woofie Moji

Today our good woofie, Moji, ran off to the Rainbow Bridge. Even though she was a silly woofie, she was trained by the good Cuzzin Dusty, who taught her all about being respektful to cats.

If any cats were fighting she would woof at them and make them stop. Efurry nite when we got owr stinky goodness, Moji got to play wif the can and lick the gravy out. She reely liked that.

She was a good sport when Finny stoled her bed one time, she din't woof at him or anyfing, she just took her nap in a cat bed.

Efurry nite when mom came home from werk, Moji would danse all around and woof reelly happy. Then mom would give her a treat and give us owr treets too.

Moji efen chased vishus deers away from our howse so they woodn't get any of her cats.

Moji was dopted from the North Shore Animal League (neer where Jeter Harris lives) about 13 yeers ago. She reely loved living on the farm and having lots of grassy plases to run and play.

The house is furry empty now wifowt Moji. We will all miss her.

Lots of love & purrs,

Finnegan, Buddy, Jazzy & Cuzzin Cavalli

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

A pink cat?

Purrrrs needed for Ant Ree bean pleez!

Ant Ree bean, who is mom & Ant Marjie's sisfur and the good mom bean to Cuzzins Grady & Gilmore, was riding her bicycle yesterday on a bizzy rode, and a bad bean driving a car knocked her rite off her bike!

Pore Ant Ree is furry herted, her collar is broken and one of her ribs too. And she has lots of brooses and scrapes where she slid on the rode.

Rite now Ant Ree is in Dook hospittle, but they hope to bring her home to Grady and Gilmore this afternoon so they can start taking care of her

We wood appresheate lots of purrs and purrayers for the good Ant Ree to help her get better wifowt lots of herty times

Fank you!

--Finny, Buddy & Princess Jazzy for Grady & Gilmore

Ant Marjie makes a GRATE Pillo!

ALL Cats are Byootiful!!

A man-bean who works wif mom came to visit us at the farm.

Do you know what he sed when he saw me (Finny)?

"That's the UGLIEST cat I've ever seen!"

Maybe I don't sit up in a chair like a human bean like Cuzzin Grady,

but all my paws and my tummy are white, just like his....

...and maybe I don't have byootiful floof like Cuzzin Gilmore,

but some of my furs are gray and my tummy is floofy...

...and I don't have purrfect tabby stripes and

a M on my face like Buddy

and Jazzy, but I do have some tabby marks on my hed

that make haff of an M...

...and my tale has efen niser racoon stripes

than Cuzzin Dusty's!

So, duzzin't that add up to a byootiful cat???

Wordless Wednesday

Daisy

Happy Birthday at the Bridge, Daisy. We miss you.

Love Mama & Finny

Keeping us safe

As efurry cat knows, ther are menny danjers to puddy cats. Cuzzin Cavalli's mishun is to keep us all safe from the horrors of paper towels!

Good job, Cavalli!

Bunnies!!!!

We have baby bunnies!!!!!

Ant Marjie was weeding in the garden when she pulled some weeds wif white fluff on them. She thot it was cat furrs from brushing Finny, but she was rong! There is two baby bunnies!!

We hope some bunny furends will come by and tell us if there's ennyfing speshul we shood do for the mama bun. Like does she need some extra waters or speshul leefy stuffs so she can feed the babies reely good?

What if the mama bun doesn't come bak? What will we do?

Finny Buddy Jasmine

I am the Mightiest Hunter!

--Buddy

I PROTEST!!

Some of you may know that there is an interloper heer at Happy Fields.

Mom and Ant Marjie and Jackie the Horsey Girl call it Ruffian the Barn Kitty.

I don't know what Barn Kitty means. It looks like an INTRUDER to me. I am the alfa cat arownd heer and I am sposed to come first in efurrything.

Well. Last nite, my furry own mombean, that I picked owt at the shelter, that I have owned and trained for TEN YEARS....last nite, MY mom came home from work and IGNORED ME to pay attention to that stoopid intruder.

She SAID she had to go up to the horsey barn and feed the horsies, but I saw her petting and CARRYING that INTRUDER. When she came back to the house, FINALLY, she picked me up and sed she was sorry, blah blah blah... she had to feed the horsies becos Ant Marjie was getting Jackie from collij...blah blah blah.

And now do you kno wat they want to do??? They want to let that INTRUDER post on MY blog!!!!!

We'll just see abowt that!

--Finnegan, the Alfa Cat

Tummy Tuesday

Princess Jazzy's funny black & orange tummy

Cuzzin Grady's trying to hide his tummy but laffing & laffing

Buddy showing off his tummy to Finnegan

Finny snoozing and lettin' it all hang owt

Sisfur Daisy who came befor...

Silly Buddy!

Grampa!!

Hot Hot Hots in Norf Carolina...

It's so h-o-o-o-o-o-t heer in Norf Carolina. Efurry cat is spred owt on the cool portch flore ....

or the cool tableclof....

Except....ummmm, Cuzzin Cavalli?

Why are you curled up in the londry baskit like it's cold owt??