Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A Plea From Isabel, IT Cat Extraordinaire

Good morning, Citizens.  This is Isabel, and as usual, I am freezing to death.  Okay, maybe that's strong, since I'm inside my house.  But just looking out the window makes me cold, and my brothers keep running in and out the cat door and the wind is also making me cold.  I'm sick of it!!!!!  I saw on the Internet where Colonel Meow got all his vet bills paid for through this website Go Fund Me, and I thought it couldn't hurt for me to try to get money too.  Mama Rainy's spreadsheets all say we can't move to Tampa until 2 years of saving, and I am looking at the scar on my side where they took my tumor out and thinking, I don't have that long!!!  My brother Paco just started taking his thyroid medicine, but hopefully he doesn't even have as long to live as me!  And our dogs look old too.  This is not good, people.  We have to move to Florida before I get glaucoma or more cancer, so I can enjoy laying by the pool in the warm sunshine.  Please help me!!!!! Here's my donation site:  http://www.gofundme.com/6u3neg   I can't believe I'm doing this, but if you give me $50, you can rub my belly, and if you give me $100, I'll snuggle with you.  OMG, what have I become????


Love, Isabel

Saturday, February 8, 2014

My Gator Gang

Listen y'all.  This is Simon and I'm hear to tell y'all about my gator gang.  When I move to Florida, I'm gonna have me an intense buncha fellas with me that ain't gonna take no crap from nobody!  That way Mama Rainy can't make me do nothin I don't want to do and also if anyone tries to harass my family, I'll just sic my gators on 'em!

We's gonna be FEROCIOUS!!!






Watch out Mister!

Gators ain't all teeth and craziness though.  Sometimes they like to just take a walk or go fishin with me!  I can't wait until we's all livin in the same spot so we can hang out all the time and not just on my vacations.

My buddy Herbie, just takin a stroll
Me, Ralph and Peanut fishin my last vacation...


Divin with Peanut...

I can't wait to get to Florida!  I'm tired of this snow crap and cold weather.  How's a fella sposed to live like this!!!  I'm gonna call up my buddies and ride them all the way to Tampa, dang it!

Love Simon




Saturday, February 1, 2014

Simon's Weather Report, February 1, 2014

Hey y'all!!!

This is Simon, your very awesome meteorologist at Casa de Tribe Atherton.  I am writin to tell y'all that it is a wonderful day here in Nashville!  It is already 54 degrees outside, and my moms is sayin they're gonna take the puppies to the park.  My puppies really like the park, where they get to commune with the other puppies and run around and try again to take a drink from the scary, noisy water fountain when they's thirsty. Good for them, I say!!

As for me, I'm goin to tell you somethin really wonderful.  People, it is only 58 more days til the openin day of BASEBALL!!!!!!  I am so excited...

Simon Atherton, reportin from Wrigley Field, the greatest place on earth!!!!
My grandpa Jim--that's my mom's dad--was a HUGE baseball fan!  He could tell you statistics about players faster than my Mama Rainy could calculate them from folks in the WAY back time!


Because of my Grandpa Jim, who we all love and miss very much, we is all diehard Chicago Cubs fans, even though they got that ding dang billy goat curse and will likely never ever win a pennant again.







Dang goat.  :(






It don't matter if the Cubs can't win, 'cause it's a whole lotta fun to run around and exclaim that this is the year the Cubs is gonna win--it makes everyone laugh heartily and we all have a good time.  And really, y'all, baseball isn't even about the winnin so much as it's about the shit talkin.  You just ask my Mama Rainy--my mom took her to her first baseball games last year and she said my Mama Rainy was a born heckler!  I'm very proud of my Mama Rainy--I think we's a lot alike.




As you can see, I'm representin for my homeboy Yadier Molina.  He is my very favorite player, and we share Hispanic descent.  I wonder if my Grandpa Sanchez is in HIS family line??  I should ask Cousin Juan Mario next time I see him...

Anyways, today it's gonna be a real nice day in Nashville!  63 degrees for the high and real sunny.  Enjoy the puppy park and wherever else y'all might be headed.  This is Simon, signin out!