Emmy Cleans

Miss Emmy is a very fastidious young lady.  In fact, she spends much of her day grooming, which is partly why she has been extensively assisting her human (see here) in revamping and organizing the grooming zones of her abode.

But being fastidious with one's grooming also means being fastidious with one's home . . . that is if one is TRULY discriminating.

Over the years Miss Emmy has observed how humans clean themselves (the process is truly terrifrurring, and none of it involves licking the back of one's leg) and their homes.  While she can do nothing about human aversion to the superior technique of feline grooming, she can certainly assist in advising how to clean one's home.

After all, the royal litter box is an item of concern to both felines AND humans, and keeping IT clean is an absolute MUST.  It is perhaps the one area where both species are intimately involved (apart from feline-feeding), and it must be maintained in a way that is agreeable to both.

Miss Emmy should also mention the bird cage, which also requires maintenance.  The budgerigar of the household, Miss Guinevere, is a very messy individual who scatters her feathers and food in all directions, and who has no idea how to use a litterbox (enough said on that topic).  It is our considered opinion that this disorderly individual should be served with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, but for some reason our human discourages this route.

Therefore Miss Emmy has advised her human how to keep this cage clean AND do it easily. (After all, the less time our staff spend on maintaining other creatures, the more time it has to spend on US).

So in the next several days, Miss Emmy will advise humans on some basic cleaning steps related to these two items . . . and will quickly move on to other topics and challenges.  I am very busy here thinking in my retreat under the bed, and have much information to share.

Do you have any advice to share with my staff on creating a more fastidious and discriminating environment for its CEF (Chief Executive Feline)? If so, please comment below!


(As always, Miss Emmy is grateful to the Graphics Fairy for her elegant images.  The silhouette of the human cleaning and the bird cage are both here courtesy of Miss Fairy.)

Emmy's human speaks

Occasionally Emmy must allow her human to speak.  Emmy knows that this intrusion must be jarring to her many legions of fans and followers, but sometimes we must allow the "help" a little latitude.

I appreciate Emmy for allowing me to step into her space this morning.  I just wanted to write about how grateful I am for my friend Gayle, and for my daughter Jennifer.  They visited me for critique group yesterday, and we had a wonderful, productive session.  Gayle's writing is ethereal, enchanting, haunting.  Jennifer's writing is so good and so promising, and she endures critique from two "old hands" (or old "paws" as Emmy would say, possibly), like a pro (visit Jennifer's blog, "Just a Girl in the World" here).

Further, they both stepped in and counseled me to get to the heart of what was stalling me in my blog, Addicted2ContainersAndSpaces.  I realized I had so much more to say, and did not know how to fit that into the constraining "space" of containers and spaces, even though there was much to say there as well.

We finally determined that a new "space" was necessary to "contain" these additional thoughts (much as I have dreamed of finding a new closet or room in my home), and then brainstormed together what this space should be.  My new inspiration, Emmy Dickins (who is settling in to managing her home and her humans very nicely) channeled her thoughts and made her desires clearly known.  Each of us realized that Emmy ultimately had a lot to say, and much advice to give.

With delight and excitement, we began exploring titles and domains, and noted that Emmy has many recommendations, or proposals (purrposals, as she would say -- thank you Gayle!) for crafters, cooks, homekeepers, petkeepers, and more.  We consulted her and she agreed that Emmy Dickins Purr-poses was her blog title of choice -- and things immediately got rolling.

Emmy created two pages last night and has been mulling topics and organization.  The two of us must leave you for now while we go back to our project of this morning -- creating never-ending Christmas cards.  Emmy plans to document this process for her readers, and we will tell you more about this on her crafting page.

But before we close, we both wish to say how grateful and thankful we are that Gayle is with us today.  She went from being the most accomplished and energetic outdoorslady this time last year to suffering the most life-threatening and deadly illness you can imagine.  There were weeks and weeks through last spring that we feared she wouldn't be with us past summer.  But she is -- she has scored a magnificent victory, and is well on her way back to being the inveterate hiker, cyclist, cook, and entertainer she has always been.  And she has done so with the most excellent form of Grace.

God bless you, my friend!

Emmy's Human

Note from Emmy:  Although I spend my time snoozing under the bed when my human has any company, I am also delighted at Gayle's miraculous recovery.  

 

Emmy appreciates Cathe Holden at Just Something I Made

  for sharing this purrfectly delightful button with her readers.  

Emmy knows with great certainty that because 

she is an artist, Cathe Holden is a svelte Abyssinian,  

the noble cats depicted in ancient Egyptian statues.