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

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

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!

Simon's Weather Report

Hey y'all!

I was readin all my fan posts on Facebook this mornin, and somebody mentioned that you could now get one a them apps called Weather Whiskers where you get a picture of a cat in clothes reportin the weather. But you can't put yourself in the meteorologist role, it's one a them preprogrammed cats, and all it does is look cute.  What a bunch of crap!  I am not about to stand by and let some fake preprogrammed cat take all the glory, even though meteorologists is useless to do anything but stand there and look pretty and say a bunch of crap that may or may not come true.  (I'm sorry Grandpa Jim, but you know it's true! I love you and I miss you.  Love Simon.)

Simon Atherton, reportin for duty!

Hello, TV weather watchers!  This is Simon with your forecast.  It is freakin COLD!!!!!!  It is so cold that I had to put on my warmest sweater and take one a my rabbit pelts I was gonna sell and make a hat out of it, all just to tell y'all how freakin cold it is, and I'm INSIDE!!!!!  It is true that my moms is tryin to save money on electricity, but I ain't never been so cold, not even in the summer when my mom gets one a them pre-hot flashes and goes nuts with the thermostat!  Behind me you will notice all the stats.  But statistics can't tell you that it's gonna feel like you never ever want to get out from under your covers, no matter how much my Mama Rainy dolls it up with her sassy programmin!  You look out the window and see it's nice and sunny, and then you go out the door and get blasted with some crazy frozen tundra arctic nonsense that ain't got no place below the Mason-Dixon line!!!  I am so sick of winter that I just want to puke!  I need warmth!  I can't live like this!!!!  

Well, y'all, I ain't got much more to tell ya.  It's freakin cold and I wish I was in Florida.  I'm goin back under my covers now, WITH my sweater and my rabbit skin hat.  And maybe I ain't got the personality of Lisa Patton or Davis Nolan or all them fancy people over at Channel 2, but it don't take no genius to get up in front of a blue screen and tell y'all it's cold.  I'm just sayin.

Love Simon

A Sad Day

We just got word that Colonel Meow has died.  For those of you who don't know about him, he has been an Internet sensation for quite some time and even holds the Guiness World Record for longest cat hair (9"!!) The only details I know are that he's recently been in the hospital and that he died last night.  His family is obviously distraught and grieving, but I'm sure Anne Marie will let everyone know what happened once she is able to function again.  Here at the Casa, all our hearts go out to her and the rest of the Colonel's family. Rest in peace Colonel Meow.  We loved having you in our lives while you were here.

The Colonel in all his glory:

Here's his collection of videos.  It's not everyone who gets to leave such a cool, fun legacy. http://www.youtube.com/user/ColonelMeow/videos

Love, Julie and the rest of Tribe Atherton

Help Crepes!

Hey y'all!

This is Simon, and I'm here with my "associate" Paulie.

We are writin to you today to tell y'all about Catdance and a very special entry in the film festival called The Inheritance.  My friend Crepes and her folks has made a very wonderful movie about a guy who tricks...  Well, I don't want to give away the plot or punchline or whatever.

What you NEED to do is get on over to https://www.freshstep.com/promotions/catdance-festival-2014/play/the-inheritance/  and watch Crepes in action!  And then most importantly, go VOTE for Crepes's movie!!!  And I mean VOTE!  Make up some email addresses and vote for them!  Do it every day!!! Heck, if you get lucky you might just win you a Catdance tshirt.  My friend Alana calls this "Chicago style votin," and that is no lie!  Everyone knows that my great granddad (that's my mom's grandpa) used to run liquor for Al Capone durin Prohibition, and he had dinner with Al AND the governor AT THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION this one time!  That makes me 1/4 gangster, so I know all about it!  And that's what I'm talkin about--you need to vote with that level of corruption!!!  Vote for Crepes like she's gonna solve all your problems AND be the next American Idol!

And if you try to tell me that ain't right, let me tell you somethin!  Gettin a prize just because you's popular is a CRIME!  Takin a handheld camera and holdin it up to a cat for 4 minutes while he gets his belly scratched and does no actin whatsoever is NOT a reason to get an Oscar!  I am so mad about last year's film festival! Maybe cause I just found out about it last week, but STILL!!!  That shit ain't right!

But Crepes IS right, and talented as all get out, and so is her mom and dad, Alana and Michael.  They worked real, real hard on their movie, and it just ain't right if some other asshole wins.  I'm real passionate about this, sorry bout the cussin.  Anyway, please go vote for Crepes--like A LOT A LOT--and maybe win you a free tshirt.  Oh, and don't bother tryin to get a DVD rental with your Paw Points, cause they's all out of them.  Dang it.

Love Simon

...oh yeah, and Paulie.
(dude, you really should quit smokin!  just sayin...)

https://www.freshstep.com/promotions/catdance-festival-2014/play/the-inheritance/

Dinner with Cousin Juan Mario

As I told you before, I had dinner at Aunt Maria's last night, and it was delicious!  I also got to hang out with my cousin Juan Mario Sanchez, who is my papi's older brother's son, and he knows all the scoop about my Grandpa Sanchez.  Last night he told me about how vital Grandpa Sanchez was to the freein of Mexico, because he was General Zapata's right hand man.  General Zapata trusted my grandpa more than any of his other people, mostly because my grandpa did his drinkin on his own time and didn't show up drunk in battle.  My grandpa was a fierce warrior back in his day, and he almost single handedly took down General Diaz, who was a total motherfucker.  My grandpa was a hero and I am very proud of him and also, I am a lot like him in many awesome ways.  Here is a picture of me and Juan Mario last night before we got too full or too drunk, and also some pictures of my Grandpa Sanchez, who was awesome!

This is my Aunt Maria.  I took this picture right before I went home.  She was real tired from all the cookin she's been doin.

Juan Mario is my very favorite cousin!

This right here is the only picture of my Grandpa Sanchez in battle--he is goin right to the heart of the war, about to pull General Diaz right out of his dang saddle!

        

This is Grandpa Sanchez standin at the right hand of General Zapata.  Note how everyone else is all drunk and carryin on, while my grandpa retains his military bearin!

This is a very rare paintin of my Grandpa Sanchez and General Zapata, back when they was boys together.  Wow!

My grandpa was a true hero, and I am very proud of him.  I told my cousin Juan Mario that I was goin to take the portrait of him and General Zapata and hang it on my wall.  As soon as Mama Rainy comes home, I'm goin to make her and my mom get me a thumb tack.  I can't wait to tell them all about my people.  I tried to tell Mama Rainy a few weeks ago about all the people I met at the reunion, but she said I was totally full of shit and there was no one named Juan Mario except what I made up in my head.  I'll show her!!!  She cannot deny the proof!  Also, she wants me to get her coffee when I go on my Costa Rica adventure, so this is not the time to be all hateful and a nay sayer about my stories.  She burned her last bridge when she yelled at Grandma Christine last time--I told her there was no such thing as enough Costa Rica coffee but I guess she was havin that time of month or whatever ladies call it.  I DOUBT Grandma Christine's going to be bringin her any more coffee presents!

Love Simon