Momma Meezer Monday Book Review

I was thrilled when I was contacted by the publisher of Dewey Readmore Books' newest book.  Not that Dewey himself wrote it because sadly he passed away in November of 2006.  His mom Vicki Myron co-authored it with Bret Witter.  They wanted me to review it.  Being the mom around here I purred at the opportunity. 

Not that I could read it myself, but I knew that it meant lots of quality lap time while our mom read it to us.  I especially wanted my daughter Cory to hear the stories.  Both of us adored the first book.  We loved it because Dewey was a cat, like us, who was abandoned, but found a great life in spite of his rough beginning.

This book included more about Dewey.  It also included stories of other wonderful and amazing kittens and cats that touched the lives of readers who loved Dewey.  I like to think that each of us cats is special.  Each one of us touches the lives of the people who love us.  We form relationships and bonds that transform each other.  This book has 9 chapters, 2 of which focus on Dewey and 7 that feature cats who will be new to you.  I loved each and everyone of them.  They all made me purr. 

Cory, what did you think?

I loved that mom kept reminding us of our own stories.  All of the kittens and cats featured in the book just scratch (hey I like to scratch) the surface of the millions of stories that we know are out there.  So as she read to us, we meowed and purred about our own stories.

And now we get to share this book with others.  The publisher is going to send a copy of Dewey's Nine Lives to the winner of our drawing.  All you have to do is leave a comment saying that you want to enter.  I will limit it to those kitties and woofies who blog.  In addition, the publisher will only ship to the US and Canada.  So because of that, guess what we're going to do?

Yes, because we adore our readers in other countries, we will select 2 winners.  One winner in the US and Canada who will get the book from the publisher and another winner who can't be from the US and Canada (how's that for a change up?!) who will receive the very gently used copy of the book from us.  We'll even leave a few of our furs inside!

So leave a comment on this post and we'll let you know who the 2 winners are by Friday, ok?

You can check out these other links about Dewey and the book:

-I Believe in Dewey’s Magic Contest: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/features/dewey/index.html

-Dewey’s Magic Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Deweys-Magic/111732485524854

-Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb3gcR2emMw&feature=search

 

Grete's News

I feel guilty for looking so happy.  I am an only dog once again.

We started out fostering little Oliver and then grew to love him so we wanted to adopt him forever.  Turns out that I didn't really understand what that meant.  It meant all sorts of things I hadn't considered, most of which is how it impacted my kitties.  Oliver and I played and played and played.  I admit I got him all stirred up.  It created chaos.

Oliver is just about the same size as Nigel, so he could get through every cat door so my kitties had no escape once I stirred him up.

He is now safely back with his rescuers.  They love him and will make sure he gets a wonderful forever home.  I'm proud of my few weeks of fostering the little guy.  I showed him everything I know.  I helped him with housebreaking and walking on a leash.  We let him know he is a good boy who deserves the best.

It just won't be with us.

Society of Feline Gardeners- Thursday in the Garden with Jonesie and Figaro

Meow!  Meow it out loud.  It's ok, I've changed the super secret password.  Say it quietly now.  Shhhhh...

::purr::

Let's see a woofie try and say that!

This weekend my mom and dad tried to salvage the apples that didn't do so well this year.  They were going to press the apples into cider.  Bad news is...the apples were mostly icky...and some had bugs living in them.  Yuck.  They don't look so icky on the outside, but once mom cut them up...ick.

Figaro came by to see if he could help.  There was nothing he could do to salvage the apples.  He purred over the few drops of cider that were created from the few good apples. 

Yes this was it my furry friends and Garden Society members. 

As I've reminded everyone, what grows great one year, has an off year the next.  Mom and dad don't spray for bugs because they don't want me exposed to stuff like that, but after what happened with the apples...I heard dad mutter "this means war"!  

I purred on him and he promised to find something organic and safe so both me and the apples will be fine.

At least our little red peppers are doing well.  They didn't get big, but they are beautiful and they tasted great.  Not that I would eat them.

Please leave a link so everyone can see what's going on in your garden this week!

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