Hi. I’m Hannah.
Today the Mother of Cats and I had such a busy day I’m just now getting around to writing my Caturday report. You wouldn’t believe how much stuff we have been doing! The Mother of Cats went crazy last week and ordered all of this stuff, and the boxes started coming a few days ago.
I just love boxes, don’t you? It was really exciting for the CoalBear and me as the Mother of Cats started opening up the boxes today and dragging out the stuff.
She also bought a power shovel to use with the snow this winter, but that isn’t so exciting for us. It was fun helping her put it together, but the best thing was she used the two big boxes that the shovel came in to build a cat fort for me and the CoalBear. There are big doors to zoom through. Little holes that we can use to poke each other, and even tiny holes on the top to let in the light. I spent the afternoon sleeping on top of the biggest box in the sunshine because sometimes that is the best part…
After all the useless boxes (those would be the ones that couldn’t be used in the fort…) were cut into pieces and dragged into the garage the Mother of Cats and I moved upstairs to get serious with the knitting. Do you like this hat that we are working on? It is called the Alpine Bloom Hat, and we made a lot of progress on it this afternoon while listening to a fun book about a cat who lives on a space station protecting the Earth.
This book is great! Look at that cat… she looks a little like me!! She pretty much runs the space station, answers alarms and fires weapons to take care of threats towards humans on the (pretty much ruined) planet below. Her name is Lily (not as nice as Hannah, but still a pretty good name), she is immortal, and she is very smart because she has been uplifted and can talk and has battle armor and everything. Okay, not having thumbs is kind of a problem for her, and it was hard to get everything to work right before she figured out machine assisted speech, but still. How cool would it be to have your very own space station equipped with like a death star type laser weapon, a friend named Sparkles who writes you haikus, and a ghost in the station… oh, wait. Lily is kind of freaked out about the ghost part. The Mother of Cats and I need to listen a little more…
You don’t think that a cat could run a battle station in orbit? Have you met THE MONSTER that comes to visit me sometimes with the Mother of Cat’s son?
Well, that is all for now. I’m going to see if I can talk the Mother of Cats into giving me some tuna for a bedtime snack.
This is Hannah, signing off.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
JONES !!!! 😀
The MONSTER? His name, actually, is Jonesy. He was named after the cat in Alien, and I’m pretty sure he could handle one.
But you must admit my memory is pretty good, Marilyn ! [grin]
Darn excellent!
It’s because my mog before Boodie was a marmalade tabby; and I remember your post about your son having to leave Jonesy with you three .. woo-hoo ! – some time you had !
Wow, you do have a fantastic memory! Yes, he is a handsome young man who DOES NOT LIKE HANNAH!! Like, how is that even possible? He loves Mateo, and I think that the issue is a little about who is going to “own” Mateo and rule the house. Anyway, it was a time!
Your Mother is as good a photographer as she is a knitter, Hannah
Hannah: thank you! She is pretty wicked clever with that phone camera.
I believe cats can do anything, Hannah!
What a fun post! Love the hat you are making ☺️
I follow a group on Facebook called “Stranded Knits” and whoo-boy, has it ever exploded with this hat. It seems like everyone is making one, and I am having so much fun it is tempting to make more.
Hannah: Caturday is for fun!
That’s awesome! It is a popular design right and one I may have to try ☺️
I think cats and kids love boxes more than what’s in them. And why not, for all the reasons you describe.
Big boxes (like refrigerator boxes) were the highlights of our lives!! Boy, did we love boxes when I was little. These days, they put this crunchy paper into the boxes as filler, and the cats get double treats when I open up the boxes. 🙂
What a great idea to turn the boxes into cat towers. Never heard of a power shovel before – a baby snow blower!!
The cats are having a blast with the current tower structure. I’d never heard of a power shovel until this year, but it is exactly what you said: a baby snow blower. We might get more snow than usual this year because of the El Nino that is happening this winter, and my heart isn’t all is used to be, so… power shovel!!
Hannah, you are such a beautiful girl and such a great helper! You and Mother of Cats are making such a beautiful hat 🙂 I think you and Matteo could definitely run a space station.
MOC: Very cool idea to make the cats a fortress!
They’ve been playing in it this evening!