Cirque du Soleil Putty

Since the Cirque's latest show is playing in my neighbourhood, I thought they might appreciate a star performer such as myself, so I donned my best costume and enlisted the help of my kitten "Mr Kitty" and his puppy "Cookie" to work out a dazzling routine.

We crept under the big top to join the troupe and took everyone by storm when we upstaged the star act in the middle of their routine. Unfortunately, we weren't appreciated as we were suddenly given the hook and sent packing. All this was accompanied by a whole lot of fist shaking and yelling in some foreign language I didn't understand. What is it with these humans?

Mr Putty Pants Loves To Spy

I was looking for something to do one afternoon when I was visiting my childhood homestead and my human handlers, Girly and New Big Friend, had wandered off leaving me up to my own devices. They should know better by now.

I thought I'd try and pump the old well dry but it proved more difficult than I thought...darn. Maybe I'll take a stroll over to the apple trees and climb up one to see if anythings going on.

I managed to get up the tree carrying some binoculars I found, so I could spy on any activity in the area.

It's tricky getting into position. I hope I don't drop these things.

Ah ha! I see some activity down by the pond...let me get my trusty spyglasses into position.

There are several humans over there pointing and looking at something. I"ll need to get a better view to see what they are up to.

Before I could observe them further, I slipped and fell, snagging my foot and hanging myself up on a branch. All the wool rushed to my head making me feel rather dizzy. I better not have scuffed my stylish shoes.

I hung upside down for quite some time before I could disentangle my shoe. I decided it might be safer on the ground, so I crept into the reeds
to stalk the humans. Shhh....there they are...

....it's Girly's parents and New Big Friend. I was trying to creep closer to see what all the excitement was when I was surprised by Girly as she grabbed me from behind and took "their" binoculars away. She then proceeded to carry me around under her arm like some sort of pet, cruel, cruel humans indeed, spoiling a little fellows fun.

Funny Birds

Stuff that makes me giggle. Poor little fellows.

Mr Putty Pants On Summer Vacation

My humans and I are off to Pointe au Baril in Ontario's Rainbow Country for a few days R&R. Here I am waiting...waiting...waiting, whilst my slow humans get the kayaks on the car...come on will you, I'm an impatient little fellow you know.

Ah finally, as a punishment for making me wait, Girly will have to sit in the back seat...ha, ha to bad! Being a safety conscious fellow I strapped on my seat belt and off we went.

We've arrived at last after a few stop overs at Tim Hortons. I ended up being relegated to the back seat after asking "Are we there yet?" too many times. Sheesh, humans can be so frustrating.

I scampered up the steps of our little cabin...hurry up slow pokes, open the door.

Once inside I clambered around and checked out the view.

Then I secured the area with a fly swat...

...and had a go on the high wire.

Here I am waiting for something to eat. Hurry up, all this fresh air and activity makes for a hungry fellow.

Since it wasn't dinner time they left a few chocolates on the table for me to hunt down. They were yummy and good for my stunning figure.

After rapidly finishing off my snack I grabbed the iPod and mellowed out to some cool tunes much to the relief of my handlers.

After a while New Big Friend and I had time to kick back and relax while waiting for dinner...come on Girly, chop chop with the grub.

After dinner New Big Friend showed me where we are kayaking tomorrow. Too bad Girly is coming with us, it'll spoil this manly bonding activity.

The next morning before everybody was up I wanted to have a better look at were we were going.

I poured over the map just to be sure.

Still no one's up yet! Do they think they are on vacation or something? So...being me, and that's hard to avoid, I took the car for a spin to check out some launch locations for the kayaks.

I parked the car somewhere to take a look around but forgot were I left it. Lucky for me I found my way back to the cabin where I woke up New Big Friend and made him go out and find it. Apparently I'd parked it on a big rock in the bush...oops.

After some finger shaking and threatening gestures in my direction we managed to get going. I ended up having to paddle with Girly since New Big Friend was mad at me...that's him up ahead.

We stopped for lunch at this rocky place...

...which we shared with this lovely snake. Hummm, I wonder if he's poisonous? Maybe I could put him in Girly's kayak.

We paddled all day and checked out some pretty cool spots. I was still stuck on Girly's kayak, so much for male bonding. We spent the rest of our vacation paddling around and relaxing at our cabin.

All good things shouldn't come to an end but here goes our relaxed state of mind as we head home a few days later...urg!

Mr Putty Pants Walk of Fame

The city was redoing the sidewalk in front of Girly's house and had just poured some new concrete. They did a lovely job troweling and smoothing the surface creating a perfect canvas for me to doodle on. I was just putting the last stroke on my name when the contractors came back to check on their work. They spotted me instantly and I ran off into the house leaving Girly to placate the irrate workers. (She was working in the front garden and didn't see me doing this, ha, ha!) Too bad for them because the concrete had finished setting and my name was immortalized.

Here's A Smart Fellow

Now I have to admire this fellows ingenuity. My kind of guy.