All Gone Away...

As the maid decided to totally desert us and go spend some time with Dicky Duck in Costa Rica we all accepted Ruis invitation to spend some days with him and the In-Laws in Limburg.
The maid and the butler saw us off, the maid will leave tomorrow and the butler claims he will enjoy the quiet. But we know he will miss us all!!!

Please check at KaTteEnPrAaT's CaTWaLk to see what we are up to!

You Go Girl!

Here is the REAL winner of this contest.
Thank you Skeezix for the graphic!

Apologies and Awards

We would like to apologize for not visiting a lot these days. We wish we could just blame it ALL on the help who is overly busy with their own affairs and don't give us much computer time - but we ARE a bit lazy ourselves...

It's the season, as desert dwellers we always have a hard time with the 30plus night temperatures and the below lizard day temperatures... We do hope to pull ourselves together soon and visit all of you to catch up on what you are doing. Out there in the REAL winter, hahahahahahahahaha!

We did get two awards that we haven't posted about yet!
The Creek Cats gave us the Sweetest Thing Award. Thank you!

Here is the meaning and rules of this award:
"This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."
We will pass it on to:
1. Camie's Kitties
2. Cheysuli
3. Olive Oyl
4. Gattina
5. Siena
6. Angel
7. Grrreta
8. Jake


And Derby gave us the Lemonade Award. Thank you!


The Lemonade Award is given to sites which the giver show either great attitude and or gratitude.
The rules for these awards are:
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 10 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs
And we will pass this one on to:
1. Cory
2. Willow
3. Eric and Flynn
4. Zippie, Sadie and Speedy
5. Shaggy, Scooby and Scout
6. The Meezers
7. Lucy and Trixie
8. Pearl, Bert and Jake
9. Smeagol and Strider
10.Furry Paws

And to all of you who we listed - we hope we will hopefully soon get around to actually let you know about it....
Karl

The Guests Who Stayed Forever...

Maybe some of you might have guessed it already but it is official:
Notty (formerly spelled Naughty) and Luna were upgraded from house guests to forever "Cat Realmer".
Tintin is totally enamored with Luna and Notty loves the staff so Mrs. OZ and I decided to keep them forever. And their former owner can't take care of them the way they deserve, so he agreed too!
The staff just shook their heads and bought more food and litter, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Welcome to The Cat Realm, Notty and Luna!

P.S. These pictures are a couple weeks old - so Luna of course is already a bit bigger!!!
And yes - Anastasia could have been Luna's soul mate.....

Secret Paws - Finally!

Finally we find the time to post about our fabulous Secret Paw!
We received it last year already....
And it came from Jeff, the new guy at The Morning Scratch!

Wonderful things: tartar removing chew toys, noise making toys, catnip stuffed toys, grain free wet food - THANK YOU SO MUCH JEFF!!!
And in case you are wondering where I am - behind the camera of course!
Karl

More news and a couple of awards coming up next.

Behind The Scenes

Sassy has a post up which is dedicated to our sweet Emil, the first paparazzi photographer of the CCSI shows.

"Someone" tried to step into his paws, and with great success, check out the wonderful 'behind the scenes' pictures at Sassy's blog! Here is just one example:

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to all of you and a wonderful New Year!
We don't do holidays here at The Cat Realm so we didn't send out any cards but we very much appreciated and value the cards we received! Many heartfelt thanks to you!

And while the humans will watch "It's A Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" for the gazillions time you know you have your very own X-mas classic: "The Santa Caper", shown in it's entirety at Sassy's blog on X-mas day! Go over there and enjoy!

Emergency Purrs Needed!

Timothy went to the bridge peacefully
last night at 2:30 am EST.
Thank you all for your purrs.

Please purr for our friend Timothy.
He is very very close to our maid's heart - long story -
but he lives in Auburn, Maine now.
He couldn't move his hind legs and in the hospital they found that he has a blood clot in his artery. We need your purrs to help dissolve this a.s.a.p.! There was talk of having to send him to the bridge if this doesn't dissolve within 48 hours...... He is only 10 years old!
Please send you purrs and good energy to Timothy!
Thank you!

The 'After' Party

After the successful run of CCSI IV, "The Momomo Caper", Little Productions (LP) treated all cast and crew members to a special "After Party" at a special place! We rented Shangri La in Honolulu and flew everybody there with the MFV (Magic Flying Van).

picture by Sassy

Actually not everybody - Mrs. OZ used her MU (Magic Umbrella) and Santa Claus - who came on special invitation to hand out some gifts - paddled over.

While the LP executives had a drink at the pool...

picture by Sassy

...Mrs. OZ took the younger actors upstairs where cookies and milk shakes were prepared.

Mrs. OZ also used the opportunity to get rid of her outfit which drew it's share of "Mary Poppins" remarks during the run of the show! Then it was time for gifts! Everybody gathered in the living room and Santa Claus - who tried very hard to blend in with the locals - generously handed out presents for everybody.

Afterwards the executives Asta, Opus, Momo, Ruis, Karl and Sassy had Niptinis in the living room, Santa tried some Hula steps in the garden...

... and the young ones went back to their cookies, still supervised by Mrs. OZ.

After all that hula Santa soon enough needed to cool off a bit so he went swimming with Asta while Xing Lu is contemplating if she should join them.

A while later the other actors gathered around the pool too and Tybalt managed to even get Rudolf to take a dip, supposedly with the help of a rubber duck!

Before the party went into it's wild phase after sunset everybody gathered around for a group picture.

The next day the MFV took everybody home again except for Mrs. OZ who changed back into the "Mary Poppins" so she could go by MU.

picture by Sassy

And no - we have NO idea how this place got so messed up.....

A Contest

Before we leave for the "After Party" tomorrow Sassy will have re-runs of The Momomo Caper at her place all day long.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
By the way: you find the true event that inspired The Momomo Caper HERE!

Here is the contest:
Let's see how much CCSI is in each of you!
Here is a picture of the place where the After Party will take place, and a hint: it would have been another perfect place (aside of Cairo) to take Ruis to after his birthday party.

First one to correctly guess where we will go (leave your guess in the comments) will get a cameo appearance on the next show!

+++ update +++
Hawai'i is good! But it is a special place on one of the islands!
Give us the name of the place!

And do not miss to watch our CCSI X-mas episode "The Santa Caper" again!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
This is a holiday classic in the tradition of It's A Beautiful Life, The Bishops Wife and Miracle on 34th Street - to be watched over and over and over again!
Enjoy!

The Momomo Caper, Part 3

Who did it? Any idea?
Find out at Sassy's place
how the story ends!

The Momomo Caper, Part 2

The second part of the exciting new CCSI story is up
and running at Sassy's !!!!

Are you on the edge of your seat yet?
What really happened to Mr. Kroesus?
Will the CCSI detectives be able to find the culprit among so many suspects?
Head over to Sassy's to read on.....

The Momomo Caper, Part 1

The first part of the exciting new CCSI story is up
and running at Sassy's !!!!

And whereas this story was inspired by a true event - which we will not reveal quiet yet as to not spoil the suspense! - all characters are strictly fictional and any resemblance to existing entities is totally coincidental. The ending alone is proof that this story is entirely a work of fiction!!!

All that should really have your curiosity up by now, so head over to Sassy's and enjoy!

What Happens On The Set....

...stays on the set! Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Set designers Karl and Ruis are taking a well deserved break during the making of CCSI IV!

Mysterious Events at CCSI IV Set....

Today acclaimed director Opus, busy directing CCSI IV, The Momomo Caper, was escorted off the set by Sassy and Dr. Tweety while some of the cast looked on.

picture by Sassy

For more information on these groundbreaking news go HERE.


In other news: we entered Charlie's Gilbert and Sullivan contest! Here is our entry picture, go and see more exciting pictures here!

Wordless Wednesday: CCSI IV

Birthday Trip

As you might know we left Ruis surprise birthday party yesterday evening to go to an unknown destination for the weekend. And Sassy was nice enough to pre-pack a suitcase for us - with strict instructions to ONLY open it at our destination....

picture by Opus

We flew all night - it was very comfortable on the nice big carpet - and in the morning we arrived in Cairo!
Our arrival on the flying carpet drew quiet some attention, it seems not many of those are flying around anymore!

We immediately checked into the hotel and inspected our suite. We were very satisfied! They had decorated it and provided a bottle of Dom Niptignon and also two matching outfits with turbans for us to wear so we could "blend" in with the locals, hahahahahahahaha!

Here we are, all dressed up in front of the hotel, ready to explore!

On the first day we decided to go and visit the pyramids and try a camel ride.
Karl was a bit anxious... he thought those camels were REALLY big and he doesn't seem to do so well with heights if it's not connected with trees.

But everything went just fine! Then we came closer to the Spinx and Karl had a somewhat eerie experience which made him decide to take it easy with the hookah in the future....

That evening we stayed in and celebrated Ruis birthday again! Karl had made a heart out of floating rose petals in our private courtyard and put up a Happy Birthday sign..

The next day we went to the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar and did some window shopping. Sorry - no souvenirs this time - we just didn't want to overload the carpet too much!
Little did we know.....

When we got back to the hotel we realized that we had never opened that suitcase that Sassy had given to us! So we finally checked to see what she had packed for us....

suitcase by Sassy

... and you can imagine our surprise when we saw what was hidden in there! Poor Sassy, Momo, Opus and Asta where trapped in the suitcase for two days!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - that'll teach you to try and sneak up on us!
Just imagine how things could have turned out if we'd opened that suitcase right after arrival.....

But by now the bunch was very hungry as they had run out of their travel snacks a day ago so we got some nice outfits from the hotel gift shop for all of them and then went out for some really good Egyptian food!

After dinner we took a group picture in front of the pyramids and couldn't help but wonder as this reminded us of something....

And then it was time to fly home again! Now we were REALLY glad we didn't have any souvenirs!

And here is our postcard for all of you! Please take it!