Skeezix and Funny Farmers

This is from our Sept. 4 post. Our prize arrived the day after we wrote "Last Post" and only hours before we became very busy notifying everyone Jan had repented .... uh, we mean, relented about retiring us (thanks, every kitty, woofie, hammie and human).

We, who never win anything, won a prize in Skeezix's Snuzzy comment contest. The Reality TV Handbook. We might give it to Jan for Halloween since we kitties and woofies already know how to do neat things, such as swallow a live bug. But this could be life-changing information for her! What a lovely prize for us to share with Jan. She's gonna love it! We're thinking we should give her a few live bugs with the book, just to start her off. After that, she'll have to catch her own bugs.

Crystal: I was the first to arrive, with Percy hot on my paws. Above the travel odors, I got a slight scent of cat.



Percy: Aha! I deduced this had to be our prize book from Skeezik. The smell of catnip was overpowering, even through the double bubble wrap envelopes. Who would have guessed he would send a book made from catnip?



Cyndi: We laid the items out. The book. (Jan doesn't know yet we're going to give it to her.) A postcard of Skeezix. A Skeezix pin. A Catster pin. (Jan definitely gets both of those! We can't wear pins.) And a decal and bookmark.



Cotton: I could smell the catnip but Crystal wouldn't let me near it.



Crystal: No one thought this old man had it in him but I claimed the entire bag of catnip as my own. And Jan had a time wrestling it away from me, even to take photos.



Cameron, walking away in disgust: Well, no use hanging around. Might as well wait until Crystal's ripped open the bag so we can all have some.



Rusty: Hey, why didn't someone wake me up and let me know you were finally going to open the package? I missed the photo session!

JFF kitties: Thank you, Skeezix. This is really nice. We were just expecting the book.

And now, we're off to catch some crickets to wrap with the book. Boy, is Jan ever going to be surprised. She's going to love this self-help present! She won't have to spend money buying meat at the store any more.

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We were very honored and surprised to find Skeezix declared yesterday Funny Farm Friday.

We hope you will take a minute to stop by and read his post, as he expressed very well one of the major problems of blogging - time constraints. And while you're there, read some more posts, leave a message, donate a ham ... You know, be neighborly.

Skeezy, We all send {{{{hugs}}}} back to you and your mom. And thank you for sharing your own experience us.

(s) "The Funny Farmers" (We kinda like that name, Skeez.)
Crystal, Cotton, Merci, Cyndi, Percy, Cameron, Buddy, Rusty & Samaritan