Weekend Cat Blogging: Cozy Sunday with Mom

Since Mom has started blogging again she is going to let me take over the writing duties every once in a while; which means we can participate in Weekend Cat Blogging this week!

And it is a special week for us to come back because our best cat friends, Kashim, Othello, and Salome are hosting and it is their Mom, Astrid's, birthday today!!

Now, that I'm a Southern cat I have gotten used to lazy Sundays around here. Typically, Mom gets up, goes to church and then either goes to the golf course to work on something her instructor wants her to get better at or she goes and plays a round of golf with friends. Then she comes home and makes a really nice Sunday dinner.

Today it is raining and cold and she said all she wanted to do today is cuddle with me! So, I'm very happily snuggled up next to her and we're watching the last round of the Northern Trust Open together.



I'm rooting for Keegan Bradley but Mom is hoping Phil Mickelson wins back to back.

I think Mom is rooting for Phil because Grandma Hunt, Dad's Mom loved Phil and Mom still misses her so much. She is pretty sure last weekend that Grandma Hunt reached down from the 19th Hole in Heaven and pushed some of Phil's putts into the hole so he could beat Tiger at Grandpa Hunt's favorite course.

I hope everyone has a good rest of your weekend and go see what the other kitties are up to by visiting Othello, Kashim, and Salome!

Now, I need to curl up and flick Mom's hand with my tail while she tries to write a long email to her friend Kim.

WCB: A Fond Farewell For A Few

We're hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend and it is a bit of sadness that Mom is letting me announce that this will be the last time that we host WCB for this year.





You see, Mom is getting ready to take a break from blogging for the foreseeable future to pursue an outside venture that doesn't involve food. Don't worry, Mom is really excited and once she is in a place where she can tell you what she is going to be doing, I'm sure she'll be back at The Sour Dough to explain and share her news.

Since I only get to use the computer when she is using the computer, it will be really hard for me to host as Mom isn't going to spend much time on the computer.

Don't worry, our really good friends Othello, Salome and Kashim have offered to take our slots for the rest of the year.

In the mean time, since this is our last hosting, we want to thank all the kitties over the years we've been hosting for all the purrs and friendship.

If you want to join us with this lovely early fall weekend and show us what you've been up to the past week. Leave us a comment and check back on Sunday to see all the kitties in comments.

WCB: Lazy Saturday Morning on the Porch

Guess What! We're hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend and we even remembered we were hosting!! (Thanks Astrid and the kitties for a reminder!)

I know, there was a bit of a snafu last month but don't blame me. Blame Mom. It's her fault.



Stupid work had her so crazy busy last month that besides one post about meatballs that I didn't even get to help with because Mom doesn't let me eat meatballs


(well, she doesn't think she lets me eat meatballs but I snuck one off her plate).

But this month, Mom hasn't been so crazy at work and she has even been home for most of it so far. Which means she has been able to not only spend lots of quality time with me but also spend some time in the kitchen baking.

She baked some cinnamon rolls for a friend at work who was leaving to go to a new job



and she baked some cookies, double chocolate mocha fudge drops and her Arnold Palmer shortbread,



for a friend who is a caddy on the PGA Tour.

Because Mom hasn't been working so much this month, she has gotten to spend more time on the golf course too! Which makes both Mom and me very happy because she isn't cranky.

Mom is going on a special golf trip next month with her friends from The Hackers Paradise at the PGA National Resort. She says there is a really tough golf course there that the PGA pros play a tournament on and that has three really scary holes called "The Bear Trap". So she has been practicing really hard.

Mom is always telling me it isn't just how you golf but also how you look when you golf so got this really pretty hat from The Hackers Paradise



to match her golf bag



She is golfing this afternoon with her upstairs neighbor and said she was going to show off her new hat. The weather is perfectly sunny and nice. Tomorrow she told me she was going to golf early in the morning and then spend the afternoon baking and catching up on laundry.

But morning Mom is sitting out on the back porch reading and working on a few recipes. She is also doing laundry which means I get nap in my favorite place



The laundry basket full of warm clothes!

If you would like to join us this for Weekend Cat Blogging and show us what you are up to or where you are napping or what food you are stealing from your Mom and/or Dad's plates, leave a link in the comments. And, don't forget to check back on Sunday evening and read the comments from all the kitties!

Weekend Cat Blogging: Meatballs and Golf Balls

First, I'm so sorry I had to miss last weekend's host duties. I was asleep for most of the weekend on the pile of pillows and quilts Mom left on the floor



and Mom had to work all weekend on a stupid project. She worked 36 hours last weekend and by the time she got home on Sunday night she was really, really grumpy. So thanks to Othello, Kashim, and Salome for stepping in doing an emergency hosting!

They are hosting a special Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend in memory of Sher. Sher was very good friend of us here at the Sour Dough, a regular host of Weekend Cat Blogging, and one of the original Bread Baking Babes with Mom. (Did you know that one of the newest Babes is Othello, Kashim, and Salome's momma Astrid?)

Mom has many recipes that she uses in her kitchen from Sher but the one recipe she uses almost every month is her recipe for meatballs. Mom has been cleaning out her freezer and found a package of lamb from a local farm. Mom has also been craving a meatball sub like she used to get this little hole in the wall diner in Watertown, MA.

So, last night, she made lamb meatballs using the seasoning from Sher's recipe



and using a sub roll from the bakery down the street, made this wonderful looking meatball sub sandwich.



Speaking of balls, but not meatballs, Mom has been so busy at work she hasn't been on a golf course or a driving range in over 14 days. The last time she golfed was July 5th!! She's going to try and get on the course later this weekend but since it is also the weekend of the British Open or as it is called in the UK, The Open, she may not make it off the couch.

Of course, she cursed her favorite golfer by picking him to win in one of her golf pools and he had a horrible day yesterday and missed the cut. Mom really should know she is a jinx.

If you would like to join our hosts Othello, Kashim, and Salome this weekend in memory of Sher go visit their blog and leave a comment.

Weekend Cat Blogging Flashback for Our Fifth!

Mom's been traveling again the past ten days. She was in Charlotte, NC; Houston, TX; and Las Vegas!

While she was away, she had a birthday too!! Her friends in Vegas took her out and let her have lots of fun.



She said she wasn't feeling very well though after her night out on the town.

Anyways, Mom is still recovering from her birthday bash in Vegas. So, she is having me post a Weekend Cat Blogging Flashback picture with presents since we are hosting this weekend and Weekend Cat Blogging is celebrating our 5th Birthday!



If you want to join the Weekend Cat Blogging Birthday Bash, leave us a link and come back on Sunday to see how we all celebrated Weekend Cat Blogging's Birthday!!

WCB: Mom No Longer Lives Here

Seems like the only time there are every any words or action here is when I take charge.



Mom has all but abandoned this blog. It isn't because Mom doesn't like cooking or baking anymore. Or that Mom doesn't think about her friends in both the food and cat blogging world. It is just that Mom is so busy these days.

You see, Mom's job has her traveling all over. She says it is because the economy is getting better and that is good because it means that there will be more money to buy me all the kitty treats I like but that I had to give up when we economized. Plus all these projects she had last year that go put on hold have all have started up again at the same time and her clients think that just because they put the project on hold Mom kept working on them so she should be able to deliver their sound system designs on the same time schedule as the original schedule. She laughs when they say that.

Anyways, last week Mom was traveling to Charlotte, NC because the NASCAR Hall of Fame opened and she did the audio and video systems for the museum.



It was a really cool project and Mom even got a chance to drive a race car simulator. She didn't do so good though except for crashing the car really spectacularly. When she stepped out of the simulator she said people started clapping because they show the crashes on a big video screen outside and her crashes were so good. That's my Mom!!

When Mom got home on Thursday, I was so happy to see her that when she sat down on the couch to find a recipe to make some pizza dough, I had to sit on her cookbooks.



But Mom found a great pizza dough recipe she had never tried before anyways and made this really great looking pizza.




I didn't try any of it because she doesn't like anchovies and didn't put any turkey pepperoni on it for me.

We're hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend and we would love to see what the other kitties are doing. So, leave us a comment with your link and check back at the end of the weekend to read the comments!

Now if you will excuse me, I have some window sitting to do and Mom has a golf game (of course!).

Weekend Cat Blogging: Laundry Day

Once again, Mom is on the road for an extended business trip. She's been gone for almost two weeks today and I sure miss her.




And just to make sure she had a little bit of me with her while she's gone I slept in the laundry basket of warm fresh from the dryer clothes she was getting ready to pack.




I'll just bet Mom sure is happy to have cat hair all over her business clothes!

We're co-hosting Weekend Cat Blogging along with our friends Othello and Salome, who are so excited to be hosting again that they posted a whole week early!! So, go leave a comment there too because between them and us, we'll sure have a party!

And check back here on Sunday or over there to see what all the kitties were up to.

Weekend Cat Blogging: Where Did a Month Go!

OK, so obviously Mom hasn't been here a lot lately because I just had to clear away the cobwebs from the login button. I guess it is a good thing that I came by because we're hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend.

Since Mom last typed any words here quite a few things have been going on for her both at work, on the golf course, and in the kitchen. On the work front, things are a crazy as ever but a few of her jobs are entering the really fun stage of a project where Mom gets to go out to the project and make lots of noise.

On the golf course, Mom has been working really hard this winter to shave strokes off her score.



She has been taking her golf clubs with her on her business trips and hitting local driving ranges and golf courses after finishing her work. She also took a long weekend trip to Florida to meet her parents and golf with her Dad and Uncle at Disney on the Magnolia,



home of the Children's Miracle Network Classic.



She purposely put her ball in the Mickey Mouse Bunker on the 6th Hole because Mom likes to play out of bunkers.



And when she's home, I try to help her with her putting.



On the baking front, Mom has been really busy working on her home baking instruction business she started in the Fall. She has her business cards and is working on updating the website she used when she baked for clients out her home in Cambridge. That hasn't kept her from the kitchen though.

She had a special order from a friend who wanted cinnamon raisin swirl bread to surprise her mom on her birthday



and Mom made two loaves so she could make some bread pudding to take into the office.



She also made two King Cakes for a Super Bowl party complete with hidden Baby Jesus.



Today, she is in the kitchen working on a few new recipes and prepping for a lecture on baking with herbs she is giving at a garden show next weekend.

Me?



I'm napping on the couch listening to the wind howl outside.

If you want to join us for Weekend Cat Blogging leave us a comment and check back at the end of the weekend to see what other kitties have been up to!

Weekend Cat Blogging: For the Love of a Cat

LB is going to take a quick break from hosting to let his mom take over on this Valentine's edition of Weekend Cat Blogging. I'm going to come clean and tell you how much I am a huge anti-Valentines Day person.

When I was in elementary school I was the weird, ugly duckling little girl who would only receive four or five Valentines in her "mailbox" and at least one of those was a nasty Valentine. You know the one where someone signs the name of the cutest boy/girl in the class and then when you go to thank them, they are stunned. I hate the candy hearts with sayings on them unless they are the sweet-tart ones. I've never been big on red roses. Luckily, most the men in my life have felt the same way about a day that makes you feel inadequate as a human being if you aren't part of a couple.

But, as I was packing for a long business trip to Florida that would also give me a few days break from the snowy winter weather to play some golf with my parents, LB, who was sulking because I was leaving again, wandered into the living room where I had the golf club bag spread on the floor and proved to me what unconditional love really is by climbing into the bag and looking up at me with all the love only a pet can give us.



In the mornings, I wake up every day to his little furry face right next to me.



In the evenings, after a long hard day at work, he greets me at the door and after dinner curls up next to me on the couch while I work, read or watch TV.



So, while I may not celebrate Valentine's Day, every day with LB show me the power of love.

Drive-By Weekend Cat Blogging

Happy New Year to all my fans and fellow kitties!

This is my first time this year that Mom has let me have the computer and I know it will come as no surprise to you but she is no where to be found this morning to help me with this post for our first hosting of Weekend Cat Blogging for 2010.

You will also be further non-amazed that she is out on the golf course this morning.


(10th Tee Box a Royal Oak Golf Resort in Titusville, FL)

Yes, you read that right. Mom is out golfing. In the winter. In the cold. She has completely lost it I tell you.

You see Mom, despite her best efforts to not travel in January has been informed she is leaving on Wednesday to go spend a few days in Las Vegas on that project and she is planning on taking her clubs with her and since it has been several weeks since she has been on the course, she decided she better get back out there before going and playing with some business people. Besides, she wanted to show off her brand new pink golf bag



that my Grandma, her MIL, gave her for Christmas.

Grandma also sent back from Tennessee a box of kittie treats, a funny ball that I've already batted under the china cabinet to lose sight of God and man, and a can of tuna for me. I got one more Christmas present from Grandma that Mom didn't know about.

Her pink and purple warm socks!



You see she took them off and set them next to her one night two weeks ago and they were so soft and warm, I decided she didn't really need them anymore and I've taken for myself.


Right before Mom left for Christmas in Florida and Tennessee, she decided to join the 21st Century with her cellphone. She had a seven year old Nokia phone that she was loathe to give up but it finally stopped working right and she was forced to give it up and bought herself this



Yup, that would be an I-phone



with it's golf ball skin.

She downloaded a bunch of cool audio, golf and cooking apps and has fun playing with them and getting to know her phone. She even found out that the phone takes really good food pictures



and pictures of dough.



Now if she would just quit taking pictures of me all the time with it!



I'd be happy.

If you want to tell me what you or your humans have been up to this week for Weekend Cat Blogging, leave a comment. If you want to find out what all the kitties and humans have been up to, check back on Sunday evening to see the comments.

Now, I have to go sleep in the sun


before Mom comes home and makes me pose for more pictures...

Weekend Cat Blogging Replay

I'm hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend again because Mom isn't here to help.

Mom is stuck at the airport in Atlanta because stupid Delta Airlines made her miss her connection because they didn't have the gate for her airplane ready and they made her sit on the tarmac of the airport for over 50 minutes while there were other empty gates. She was madder than a wet cat I tell you. And I know something about being a wet cat!



Since Mom hasn't been home to take any new pictures of me and it is getting really close to Christmas, I decided to post two of my favorite pictures of me at Christmas time.

The first one was of me in a box that some Christmas presents came in one year.



Mom put the box on Dad and her's bed and I decided to hop right into it. It was a good spot to hide and pounce on clean laundry.

The other was taken the first year I came to live with Mom. She got me a cat nip mouse for Christmas and I had to snoop before Christmas and got my head stuck in the bag hiding the cat nip mouse.




I knew I never wanted to be a Tom Cat again when she let me keep the mouse.

If you want to show us what you are doing to get ready for the Holiday season or just want to join us for Weekend Cat Blogging, leave a link in our comments! Check back on Sunday evening to see all the fun pictures of kitties.

Weekend Cat Blogging: Life is a Bowl of Tuna

I know it comes as no surprise that Mom is nowhere to be found and there hasn't been any typing here at The Sour Dough since the end of last month.

Further, I know it won't surprise you at all when I tell you that since Mom last visited these dusty and musty webpages, that she has been home for less than three days. It seems that Mom is on her end of the year world wide tour of projects and conferences. I'm calling it Red-Eyeapollza in honor of her bloodshot eyes from all those late night flights.

When Mom does come home, she barely has time to restock the cat food and do her laundry let alone cook or bake anything. She is even scraping the bottom of the normally well stocked pantry when she does make an appearance.

For example, on Wednesday night this week, she showed up on the doorstep at 11:30pm after a flight back from LA starving. After dumping her luggage, starting a load of laundry, and feeding me a bonus can of cat food she scrounged around the pantry and came up with a bag of instant brown rice, a can of Rotel tomatoes, and a travel container of tuna fish for a late night dinner.

The best part of that impromptu meal?



Mom let me lick the tuna fish container...

We're hosting Weekend Cat Blogging here at the Sour Dough this weekend. We're hoping all the other kitties in the blogosphere get as nice a treat as I had. So, stop by, leave a comment and let us know what you are up to!

Weekend Cat Blogging: Mom's Whizzing Around the Kitchen

Can you believe it? There is a second post this week here.

Of course, Mom isn't writing it because she is too busy in the kitchen playing around with puff pastry dough for some cherry turnovers she's taking to some friend's tonight and the golf course tomorrow, prepping for a marathon night baking session with Sara and Stephanie, and carving up the corned beef she got up at 3am this morning



so she could make some corned beef hash for brunch tomorrow.

Then there were the maple scones she made for a client.



All that running around made Mom really thirsty and she said something about it didn't matter that it was only 39 degrees outside, she was going to have gin and tonic. Then I heard lots of "adult" words coming from the kitchen. It seems Mom had to get the tools out from under the sink to get the bottle of gin open.



Maybe that was telling her something...

Me?

I've been laying around the house trying to be a speed bump between the kitchen and the front room.



I figure the way Mom's scurrying around back and forth, this may the only way I get any attention today!

Our good friend, Kashim is hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend. It's pretty lonely around there so go over and even you don't have a cat who can type and blog like me, you can still say "hi"!

Weekend Cat Blogging: Where in the World Is Mom This Week?!

I'm hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this weekend. I use the word "I" because I've given up on including Mom in this whole venture of Weekend Cat Blogging.

Not only does she ignore her normal blogging duties lately because of that stupid game of golf but now she is off galavanting around the countryside for her job. And when she isn't off at some exotic location like Minot, ND or Lincoln, NB she is working until Eight or Nine O'Clock at night and coming home in time to feed me, clean out the litter box and the crash in bed.

Well, I'm mad and I'm not going to take it anymore.



I've decided I'm taking over this blog. I'm pretty handy in the kitchen too!

Like when Mom made homemade turkey Italian sausage late last month with her new meat stuffer attachment for Isabelle, I helped by making sure any little drops of meat didn't dirty the floor. And I batted at this long piece of sausage that missed the pan on the floor Mom was using to catch the filled sausage skins. Mom cooked that little piece up for me and then made her self this dish of oven roasted summer squash, onions and sausage over rice.



Then there was the Smith Island Cake disaster. Mom got it in her head to get rid of the huge boxes of magazines and only keep the recipes that interested her. I sat next to Mom while she ripped out pages of cooking magazines like Gourmet (Mom is sick about that now that Gourmet is closing), Bon Appetit, and Sauver before taking the parts of the magazines she didn't want to the recycling bins.

One of the recipes that caught Mom's eye was the recipe for Smith Island Cake from Savuer. Mom wanted to make something fun and chocolatey to take to her friends at Bogeys Grille and Tap Room, where Mom has become a regular. I told Mom that the recipe for the frosting didn't sound right and that if she wasn't careful, she would be channeling her good friend Lisa from La Mia Cucina's Chocolate Cake Disaster. But she didn't listen to me and look at what that got her.



She said her friends still loved the cake but I can't believe I let her take it out of the house and into a public place. Not that I could or would want to eat chocolate but really, I have a reputation here to protect.


Well, look at what Mom dragged out from under the bed last night.



Yup, that would be the suitcase. She said something about a trip to Charlotte, NC she has to go on and then muttered something about having to get the golf clubs ready to go with her because if she was going to have to go work on a project for a few days, then by golly she was going to get a few holes of golf in.

I think I'll just pack myself in with the golf shirts. I'll bet she won't even notice the cat hair.

If you want to join us in this installment of Weekend Cat Blogging, leave a comment with a link to your post and check back later on in the weekend to see how all the other kitties of the blogosphere are doing with their staff.

Now, where did I put my zip lock baggie with my catnip flavored toothpaste in it...