Friday, August 3, 2012

Balance Beam Medals Ceremony


Bennette here!  I have the honor of presenting the medals to the winners of the Balance Beam Competition.  This is based on my deep experience in the sport and to cover for the brewing international scandal!  Where is Ginger when I need him?

 It has come to our attention that the poll my lame mom set up didn't work for everyone.  So all the kind kitties and woofies trying to vote didn't all get equal chances.  We took votes on the blog via comments and we also got lots of nice emails.

In the end, I decided to take over the decisions from Cory (for reasons that will become clear later) and declare the winners...yes winners of each of the medals.   Based on percentage of votes received, the gold medal goes to:


 The silver medal goes to:


 The bronze medal goes to:

Roo

 All the finalists were so spectacular they all deserved to be medalists.  As for Cory...rumors were swirling that she had teleported across the pond to hang out with Alfie Marshall, one of the finalists.  I thought that was innocent enough, I mean, they are both sports fans.

 But then, the international committee for the PetBlogging games saw pictures like this...and it was obvious that Cory was up to more than watching sports with her young man friend...and impartiality could not be guaranteed.

So to ensure a fair competition, I took over and fairness prevailed.

No one messes with Bennette!

Concats to all the medalists and to all that participated.  It was an amazing event and the talent in the Blogosphere is inspiring me to take on balancing challenges beyond my deck.

See you at the Winter Games in 2014!

Thank you to Domino's mom for supplying the spy photos of Alfie and Cory!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Balance Beam- The Finalists Revealed and Voting Begins

::drumroll::

The Balance Beam competition is concluded.  Results and medal ceremony will be posted on Friday August 3rd.

Our panel of esteemed judges poured over the eleventybillion entries. All of the entries are wonderful and amazing.  The competition was fierce.  In the end, each judge independently picked their top 10-15.   Once they were finished, the finalists were the ones that ALL judges independently agreed upon! 

The criteria that mattered to most of the judges were (and in no particular order):  degree of difficulty, style, originality.   If you made the judges have a bit of a heart attack...you got a big thumbs up for that.

So...on with the big reveal.  Mom used random.org to help put the entries in order so there would be no tip of the paw to the judges favorites.  We will put the competitors on the poll in the same order as below.

The finalists in your 2012 Balance Beam are....

Cathy Keisha

Allie

Ben

Teddy

Mirksu

Faraday

Truffle

Nicki

Coco

Archie

Roo

Guido

Charli

Alfie

Bibi

Voting begins now!  We will leave the poll open for 1 week and then we'll announce the winners!

**having technical difficulties getting the poll on blogger to work**

Please leave a comment to vote...will keep trying to get the poll up and running.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

Society of Feline Gardeners- Thursday in the Garden with Jonesie

 ::Meowwww::

Hi there furriends!  Today I'm teaching my brother Figaro important gardening lessons.  The fine art of watching lettuce grow is fairly simple.  Lettuce does well in our garden but the weeds grow up around it.  Here I am demonstrating how to use my body as a physical barrier to the weeds.  They won't dare grow up around my belly furs.

 As always, purring for your plants makes all the difference.  As you can see below, we have more flowers blooming right now.  Our cone flower is just getting started.

 More daisies for mom!  She adores them.
 The buddliea bush is going to be attracting butterflies soon!  I can hardly wait.
 Now, you all know that being a garden cat means that I get dirt and leaves in my furs.  Even though I get a bit messy, I am a ladycat and I like to look my best.
Mom Furminated me and got my coat all soft and silky.

And after she was done, I finished up with a nice paw and face wash.

I hope you are enjoying your gardens!


**breaking news**

Little did you all know that gardening is not my only job.  I now have another important job to add to my resume.  Matchmaker!  Oh yeah!  See my sister Cory has been heartbroken since her beloved Whitey went to the Rainbow Bridge earlier this year.  Just last week I heard my bestest furriend in the whole world, Alfie Marshall, was looking for a new girlfurriend.   It didn't take long for me to realize...hey this just may work!  Maybe then I'll get to see my pal Alfie more often too.  Win win win for all!

I'll give you a sneak peek at their first picnic date earlier this week....